00:00President Trump spoke to the press for more than 90 minutes at the start of his cabinet
00:03meeting on Thursday. He addressed many issues, like Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's
00:09court appearance in New York. Trump said he expects more charges to be filed against the
00:13ousted dictator. To the nation's capital, where the president said that he hopes to keep the
00:17National Guard deployed because he says, quote, they're so nice, they help. On the topic of the
00:22government shutdown, he threatened to use, quote, very drastic measures if Democrats refuse to
00:27budge on funding DHS. And he railed against Fed Chair Jerome Powell, as well as critics of his
00:33big, beautiful ballroom going up in the White House. But as you'd expect, Iran took center stage.
00:38President Trump bashed the UK for not helping more in the conflict. Treasury Secretary Scott
00:43Besson said Americans are willing to trade short-term volatility for, in his words, 50 years
00:47of safety. When the president was asked about the are they or aren't they negotiations with Iran,
00:53he said this. They said yesterday that we weren't negotiating with them and now they admit that we
00:58were negotiating with them. So they want to make a deal. The reason they want to make a deal is
01:03they
01:03have been just beat to shit. Later in the day, some indication that things do seem to be progressing.
01:11The president took to social media to announce he was extending the deadline for Iran to reopen the
01:15Strait of Hormuz to April 6th. And he noted that it was, quote, per Iranian government request
01:20and added that talks between the two countries are ongoing.
01:24The second part of Savannah Guthrie's tearful interview airs today. But part one was quite
01:28revealing, offering fresh details about what she, her brother and her sister found when they went to
01:33her mom's house looking for her. And we thought that she must have had like some kind of medical
01:41episode in the night and that somehow, you know, the paramedics had come
01:47because the back doors were propped open, you know, and that didn't make any sense.
01:53We thought maybe they came and there was a stretcher and they took her out the back,
01:57but her phone was there and her purse was there and all her things. And it just didn't make any
02:04sense.
02:05For more on what Savannah revealed in the interview, as well as what she had to say
02:08about the ongoing investigation, here's the Post's deputy managing editor, Michael Zenni.
02:12So she really leaned into her anguish, right? As a daughter whose mother was taken from her
02:20and who has no idea what's happened. You know, she's been very heartfelt and very sincere.
02:27These are all things that regular viewers of the Today Show and the Olympics sort of have come to
02:33understand about who she is on air. And she very much is continuing much deeper. Like you can really
02:39tell she's struggling with this. But the other side of this is that she also revealed a couple
02:45of small details. The fact that the back door was propped open at her mother's house. The fact that
02:51there were her mother's keys and purse were still in the house. And these were things that had been
03:00reported previously, but she really confirmed them. The other thing that was notable here is what she
03:06didn't do, which was criticize the local investigators and especially Sheriff Nanos, the Pima County
03:14Sheriff, who really has come in for a ton of criticism, including a recall effort that he's under and a
03:21vote
03:21of no confidence from his own deputies. She really leaned into the fact that, you know, how grateful she is
03:29for the investigators, how grateful she is for the technology companies like Google that have been involved in
03:35uncovering evidence and really left it at that. She also was, you know, very upset with a lot of the
03:43speculation, a lot of the online rumor mongering, such as claims that her brother-in-law, her sister's
03:52husband might have somehow been involved. Of course, investigators ruled that out several weeks ago,
03:57but she also expressed a lot of frustration about that. And she used her platform once again to ask
04:04anyone who might know anything to come forward. City of brotherly love? Not this week. A conservative
04:11activist in Philadelphia named Frankie Scales managed to capture a truly disturbing pro-Iranian protest
04:17where attendees cheered as a masked ringleader celebrated the death of American service members
04:22before calling for Hamas rockets to blow up American homes, right there in the cradle of
04:27American democracy. Until we have done everything in our power to bring the United States to its knees,
04:33let us not lose sight of the enemy. For every U.S. military base that crumbles, and for every U
04:41.S.
04:41soldier who returns home in the casket, we cheer! Scales asked the protester if he hated America,
04:48and he responded by saying, quote, may a Hamas rocket blow up your family's home.
04:53Pennsylvania's Democratic Senator John Fetterman reposted the clip on X and called for others in
04:57his party to speak out. He summed it up succinctly, writing, quote, these a-holes chanting for the
05:03death of our service members? Where's the Dem outrage and condemnation? I'm sure you're curious as to
05:10what is going on with that government shutdown, and I will have some answers for you after this quick
05:14break. But before we get to that, let's start your weekend off right. Take a thing off the to-do
05:19list.
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