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Jen Psaki

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  1. “Yeah, Israel attacking Iran and then Iran retaliating against us. Then there's Trump saying, no, no, we made Israel do it in the first several hours after the attack. Trump said the purpose was for the freedom of the Iranian people. Then he said it wasn't regime change. Then it was two weeks. It could last 30 days. It could last longer. It's just there's no story. I think there was a lot to criticize in their communications here in their messaging here. This is ultimately...”

    2026-03-22 · Pod Save America · Trump’s Wartime Messaging Disaster (feat. Jen Psaki) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “For sure, like with, I think without a question, it's their worst message because they don't actually have a message. It's just they're a rotating series of rates that are often in conflict with each other, right? It's Rubio saying the imminent threat was not, first it's Trump saying there was an Iran was going to attack us or there's imminent threat. Then Rubio says the imminent threat is actually”

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  3. “But as a communications professional who's worked on not, but worked on high national security issues, what's your sort of take on what's been happening here?”

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  4. “It is a little excursion, and you said. Well, it's both. I think that was your old sparring partner, Peter Ducy, at the end, asking that question.”

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  5. “Enjoy life in the high country. Let's come back to Supplemental Funny because I do want to get to Trump's messaging. The war because I think that is the precursor to the larger political conversation about how it's going. And also, I think the messaging is also a proxy for the entirely messed up policy process. Brought us to this because if you can't explain why you did it, it's possible you didn't know why you were doing it. But let's take a listen to some of the varying Trump administration explanations. We're doing in Iran.”

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  15. “Because if something different than Trump, he's never going to be the purest version of something different than Trump. And so the worst thing that can happen to him is being seen as so disloyal by Trump that Trump does not back him because he needs Trump to back him to win.”

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  16. “Yeah, that's having to balance that loyalty to the president with their future political ambitions. And so we're seeing that with. I think he's handling this incredibly poorly. And it just shows a very simplistic view of politics. Like just imagine the world where JD Vance is running in the Republican primary, right? So Donald Trump serves his full term, doesn't go to prison. JD Vance is running. Other people will run, right? And that one of those, the most likely candidate who is not JD Vance is someone who is running against Trump, either from the right or the left, or maybe both. And so JD Vance wins by being the Trump candidate, not by splitting the difference between the Trump candidate and the non-Trump candidate.”

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  17. “And that was the first, like, I almost fell out of my chair. Because I was surprised. But why that matters it? And then you had Cheney for eight years, who was never running president. So we haven't had a presidential candidate in waiting in the vice president's office since Al Gore.”

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  18. “The JD Vance thing is interesting because this doesn't make a lot of sense because Joe Biden actually ran for president and became president. But for the almost the entirety of the eight years of the Obama administration, no one thought Joe Biden was running for president. And he wasn't doing a single thing to prepare himself running for president. He wasn't forming a pack. He wasn't going to early states. It honestly wasn't until... Early 2015 When we were in a meeting in the situation room, and the vice then vice president pulled me aside and told me that he was thinking of running for president and he wanted that he would definitely, he had not fully ruled it out yet and that he wanted to sit down and talk about it.”

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  19. “and that the party could look very differently after Trump. Now, I am not arguing that all of a sudden like our friends of the bulwark are going to be, like the bulwark Republicanism or, you know, or Mitt Romney Republicanism is coming back. I don't think that, but that it is a very open question about the Republican Party looks like going forward once Donald Trump is sort of out of politics per se. So that's sort of my take on it.”

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  20. “What we care about are independents who voted for Trump and Republicans who do not identify as MAGA. Because I think we've all in the sort of political conversation post-2024 convinced ourselves that MAGA is a movement based on a set of views, right? That it is anti-immigration. It is anti-trade. We believed it was America First Nationalism. Smaller government, those sorts of things, it is not those things MAGA is another way of saying Trump. What Trump is for, they are for. And that is just that we have to accept when you accept that reality, you start then realizing two things. One, those people are not leaving Donald Trump anytime soon, if ever.”

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  21. “From a purely political perspective, and I'm going to get us to the messaging around this thing in a minute, but from a purely political perspective, in terms of like winning races, taking the majority Winning the electoral college. We do not care that much that 85% of self-identified MAGA Republicans are with Trump. Like that is not the issue now. If we all of a sudden we want to start competing in North Dakota, we got to get the number to like 65. But in terms of winning, even winning in Texas, Alaska, Iowa, Ohio, that is a sustainable number.”

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  22. “Yeah, so I think there are a couple things going on here. I think These are hardcore Trump voters. They're going to be for whatever Trump is for, right? And there's a, and they're look. We should also have hardcore voters on our side, right? Like if you look, we have. Is not the same thing, it's not going to stipulate this before I get destroyed for saying it's not the same thing, but that we had people who like of hardcore, supportive number of Democrats refuse to acknowledge that Joe Biden was too old, right? Like we had that too, right? Despite that. We're for our team, whoever our team is, right? I think there is a much greater set of hypocrisy in what's happening on the Republican side here. Yes. But like the thing that”

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  23. “The thing is really interesting. That part is really interesting because you have the high profile people like Megan Kelly and Tucker Carlson and Sean Ryan, who's the very prominent podcaster, the former Navy SEAL, who he put out an Instagram TikTok post about just running through the quotes of all the people who said this would not happen, JD Vance, Steven Miller, et cetera. But at the same time, you have the 85 to 90% of self-identified MAGA voters. Okay with, approve of the war with Iran. And that is a very interesting divide. I'm sort of curious what you make of that divide. And whether that's sustainable or”

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  24. “Yeah, it's obviously no one voted for Donald Trump for the goal of going to war with Iran. In fact, people probably voted for the, if they voted on war at all, they voted for the opposite of that.”

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  25. “Seems we're now three weeks into the war. Things are seem to be getting worse, not better. They are expanding, not contracting. We seem to be further away from extricating ourselves than we were three weeks ago. And as we sit here recording this on Friday morning, there is reporting that the White House is getting closer to using ground troops. There were some White House aides quoted on backgrounds saying how ground troops have been used in every war. Why wouldn't they be used here, that it's not that big a deal? Just help us understand both the substantive and political impact of putting ground troops either in Iran proper or in the islands like Carg Island in the middle of the Strait of Hormuz.”

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  26. “Yes, yes. Please emphasize are sold out for everyone to know. There's always a good time to talk to Jensaki, but this is a particularly good time given what's happening in the world. And before you were a cable news star and a White House press secretary, you also very specifically worked at the State Department as a spokesperson. And people may not know this at the outset of the Obama administration, you were the person in charge of economic messenger during the financial crisis. We're now in the middle of a war and a emerging global economic crisis because of said war. And so you have a lot of expertise to bring this. And I want to have a conversation here that takes a little bit of a step back and looks at, of course, what's happening in the world, but also like your perspective on how Trump is selling this war. But before we get to that, what's just your reaction to, what was your reaction when you woke up that Saturday morning to discover that we had gone to war with Iran? But your reaction is a person, an American, and a member of the media would have to cover said war.”

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  27. “Okay, we'll take that. That's a caveated good in Donald Trump's America. I could talk to you anytime, and unfortunately, because we live on other sides of the country, we only get to talk to each other on podcasts mostly. Or when you buy.”

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  28. “And subscribe. And while you're feeling good about supporting independent media, hope you will consider subscribing to message box. My newsletter that gives you in-depth political analysis to cut through the BS and helps you understand what you can do to defeat MAGA in this election and beyond. I have a special deal for Crooked fans. Go to crooked.com slash Yesweedan for 20% off of your subscription. Here's my conversation with Gen Soki. Chensaki, welcome back to Potsave America.”

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  29. “Welcome to Pod Safe America. I'm Dan Pfeiffer. You're about to hear my conversation with my good friend Jen Soki, former White House Press Secretary for Joe Biden, and host of MS NAL's The Briefing with Gen Saki. Jen is one of those folks I can talk to for hours about anything, but this week I invited her on because I wanted to talk to her, one former White House com staffer to another, about how the Trump administration is trying to sell its war in Iran to the American people and how the media has covered it. We also talked a bit about the midterms, including how important democratic primaries in Maine, Michigan, and elsewhere are shaping the future of the party. Hope you enjoy it. And if you do, I hope you will consider subscribing to Friends of the Pod. Friends of the Pod subscribers get our new extra episode of Pod Save America called Podsave America Only Friends. Other subscriber only shows like my show Polar Coaster, access to all of our excellent substack newsletters like PodSave America, OpenTabs, add free episodes of all of your favorite Crooked Pods, and you get to feel good about supporting independent pro-democracy media. So head to crooked.com slash friends.”

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