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An interview on MS NOW with a Florida man caused alarm on social media after he urged Donald Trump to “push the button” and kill everyone in Iran.Speaking on the street in front of a Starbucks in Boca Raton, Dale Hershman told MS NOW’s Alex Tabet that he wants Trump’s war to continue and that the president has not gone far enough as far as he is concerned."The ceasefire isn't an end of a war to me, I hope it falls apart, the job's not done,” he stated. “I think we should finish the job.”“So you hope that the war continues in Iran?” Tabet asked.“I hope it continues to completion; it could be over in a week, Donald Trump said,” he replied. "So it can be; it's just a push of a button.”“And what does completion mean for you? What is the goal that you're hoping to be achieved?” the MS NOW reporter pressed. “Completion means we've destroyed Iran to the point where they cannot harm other people. The well-being of their own citizens is of no concern at all to me,” Hershman said.After the clip ended, Tabet told host Anna Cabrera, “And Anna, later on in that interview, I asked about what's happening in Lebanon. He asked, or he called for the annexation and the absorption of southern Lebanon into Israel.”Tabet added the caveat, ”Now, of the three interviews that we've conducted so far this morning, that man was perhaps the most extreme. But the man who we interviewed right after him, the first words that he said when I when I said I was going to ask about the war in Iran, the first words that he said was ‘kill them all,’ Anna.”Not long after the interview was broadcast, there was stunned outrage on X.Journalist Leslie Abravanel wrote, “To anyone anywhere in the world who just saw that vile @MSNOW interview with a neighbor of mine in Boca Raton, Florida, who said he has no concern for the well-being of Iranian citizens and hopes 'they kill them all,' please know that this Jewess is appalled, disgusted, and completely embarrassed by such grotesque, ghoulish rhetoric. This is not my brand of Judaism or Americana. This is purely hateful Trumpism and extremist behavior. But you see what we are dealing with here?”“What is wrong with our politicians! I just saw a reporter interviewing Israeli Americans about the war, and unanimous responses were ‘kill them all’! This is why we shouldn't get involved in Middle East affairs. Especially when we don't understand their world,” lamented viewer Andrew Miller. - YouTube youtu.be

Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) accused Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) of not following the teachings of Jesus Christ because he had supported President Donald Trump after a threat to destroy Iran's entire civilization in one night.During an interview with CNN on Thursday, Greene called Trump's apocalyptic threat "insanity.""I really hope to see people in leadership in Washington, D.C., get back on track and care about regular Americans," Greene said. "I think I'm one of the few honest Republicans willing to talk about it. Everyone else is just afraid to speak out against the president because they're terrified of having an ugly Truth Social post dropped on them or a primary challenge.""They're cowards. And I really have to call out the speaker, Mike Johnson, who calls himself a Christian," she added. "I don't know how he can stand by those words. That's what was so offensive to me. Any Christian serving in Congress or serving in the Senate and serving in the administration really needs to take pause and ask themselves, as a Christian, do you really support the president calling for the annihilation, calling to wipe out an entire civilization of people? And I don't think you should because that's not what Jesus said and that's not what Christianity is all about."

U.S. military service members claimed the Pentagon was not telling the truth about Iran's deadliest attack on America's troops during President Donald Trump's most recent war.CBS News reported that survivors of the attack that killed six and wounded 20 were "left dangerously exposed" when they were attacked in Kuwait.According to the surviving members, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was wrong when he said they were attacked by a drone "squirter," which squirted through defense systems."Painting a picture that 'one squeaked through' is a falsehood," one injured soldier told the network. "I want people to know the unit … was unprepared to provide any defense for itself. It was not a fortified position."Before the March 1 attack, soldiers said they received an all-clear alert declaring that there were no incoming attacks. Only 30 minutes later, "everything shook," one service member recalled. "And it's something like what you see in the movies. Your ears are ringing. Everything's fuzzy. Your vision is blurry. You're dizzy. There's dust and smoke everywhere," the soldier said. According to CBS, the soldiers were stationed at an older-style base that offered "no protection from aerial attacks."A soldier described being in a "deeply unsafe area that was a known target.""From a bunker standpoint, that's about as weak as one gets," he added. In a response on X, the Pentagon did not deny the soldiers' version of events.Assistant Secretary of Defense Sean Parnell insisted that "every possible measure has been taken to safeguard our troops — at every level" and that "[t]he secure facility was fortified with 6-foot walls."

An interview with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) got off to a ragged start on Thursday morning when MS NOW regular Katty Kay accused him of being ineffective.Brought on to promote an Iran war resolution vote to be held Thursday morning at the request of his office, Kay immediately charged ahead with, “It doesn't have really very much chance of passing at all. So is this just performative on your part?”“Well, good morning,“ the New York Democrat replied. “We're going to make sure that we provide our Republican colleagues with every single opportunity to do the right thing on behalf of the American people, which means bringing an immediate end to Donald Trump's reckless and costly failed war of choice against Iran. So we're going to proceed at 11:30 today through what's called a pro forma session, and demand that the legislation that has been previously introduced by Representative Greg Meeks (D-NY) that would end the hostilities immediately in the Middle East in the absence, of course, of congressional authorization, which was never obtained.”“But the truth is, there really isn't very much you can do, is there?” Kay shot back. “Because these resolutions are not passing; they're not going to pass even if you introduce them every day, they're not going to pass because you're not going to get the Republican votes to have them passed. So what else?”Appearing unsettled by the question, Jeffries complained, “I disagree with that. I disagree with that. We've seen repeatedly Democratic efforts in the House be successful. We successfully extended the Affordable Care Act tax credits. We successfully advanced [Jeffrey ] Epstein legislation in order to force transparency –– so far, the disclosure of 3 million documents. We're working on the other 3 million. We've successfully passed legislation to overturn the Trump tariffs as it relates to Canada, and we're going to successfully move a war powers resolution.”“All we need are a handful of Republicans,” he admitted. “Two have already joined us; we just need 1 or 2 more. And if we get that, when we get that, we're going to be able to successfully move this in the House simultaneously. We know that Leader [Chuck] Schumer and Senate Democrats are advancing a war powers resolution in the Senate, and the American people are with us.” - YouTube youtu.be

MB Ghalibaf, the speaker of Iran's Parliament, declared a ceasefire and upcoming negotiations "unreasonable" after he accused the U.S. of violating a newly minted agreement.On Wednesday, Iran reportedly again shut down the Strait of Hormuz after Israel attacked Lebanon. For his part, President Donald Trump insisted that Lebanon had never been part of the ceasefire agreement. The U.S. president also said he had not agreed to a 10-point Iranian plan for peace as a framework for further negotiations.Ghalibaf posted a statement to X accusing the U.S. of violating the 10-point plan."As the President of the United States has clearly stated in his Truth, the Islamic Republic of Iran's 10-Point Proposal is a 'workable basis on which to negotiate' and the main framework for these talks," the statement said. "However, 3 clauses of this proposal have been violated so far."The speaker pointed to attacks on Lebanon, an alleged drone intrusion into Iran's airspace, and a denial of Iran's "right" to nuclear enrichment."Now, the very 'workable basis on which to negotiate' has been openly and clearly violated, even before the negotiations began," Ghalibaf wrote. "In such situation, a bilateral ceasefire or negotiations is unreasonable."

Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones declared President Donald Trump's war in Iran to be a "fiasco" after concluding that a ceasefire was "falling apart."During a Wednesday interview with conservative author Michael Savage, Jones noted that Trump's approval ratings were plunging amid the war in Iran."But admitting this is a big defeat so far for the U.S. The problem is we keep staying in there, in my view, it only gets worse," Jones noted. "And they've got thousands of people that are related to Muhammad that can be the mullah. And each one you get worse than the next. And Trump keeps saying, oh, I've got people I can work with now.""And then, of course, he can't. And now the ceasefire is falling apart. And so this is a disaster in my view," he added. "Now they've closed this [Strait of Hormuz] again. As I predicted this morning, it's all off, and just — this is a fiasco. It's like watching a Three Stooges movie, but they got nuclear weapons. So that's my take."

Analysts say Pakistani officials’ efforts led to breakthrough that has helped avert catastrophe, at least for nowMiddle East crisis – live updatesPakistan’s leaders had almost lost hope. After more than two weeks of frantic negotiations, phonecalls and diplomatic summits to try to end the US-Israeli war with Iran, it looked like the conflict might instead be escalating into Islamabad’s worst nightmare.In a cabinet meeting held at about 5pm on Tuesday, Pakistan’s prime minister, Shehbaz Sharif, was morose. “We should brace ourselves for the impact of the war,” he told his cabinet ministers. “The situation has really become very bleak. The chance of peace has become dim.” Continue reading...

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt pushed back after a reporter wondered how the U.S. could claim the moral high ground after President Donald Trump threatened to eliminate Iran's entire civilization."So, regarding the President's rhetoric, when the U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003, George W. Bush said in a message to the Iraqi people that the military campaign was directed, quote, against the lawless men who rule your country and not against you," the reporter noted during Wednesday's White House press briefing. "Yesterday, the President threatened to destroy Iran's civilization, the entire civilization, not the Iranian government, but the Iranian civilization, the Iranian people.""The U.S. has been a moral leader for most of its history by fighting wars against other governments, not against civilizations," he continued. "How can the president claim that America can ever have the moral high ground if he's threatening to destroy civilizations and not casting wars as fights against other governments?""I think you should take a look at the actions of this president," Leavitt replied without addressing Trump's threat. "A rogue Islamic regime that has chanted death to America for 47 years, that has killed and maimed thousands of American soldiers over the course of the last five decades.""The president absolutely has the moral high ground over the Iranian terrorist regime," she added. "And for you to even suggest otherwise is frankly insulting."With that, Leavitt cut the reporter off and moved on to the next question.