Washington Journal (03/04/2026) dissects Trump’s Iran war, where 14K+ U.S. deaths and $8.2T spent clash with his anti-war campaign promises, as six service members—Cody Cork, Noah Teethens, Nicole Amore, Declund Cody—die amid Senate war powers votes failing. Callers split: Republicans praise Trump’s strikes, Democrats call it reckless; Frank Birmingham (AL) highlights media bias over Black reservists’ deaths. Midterm primaries show Texas’s Cornyn-Paxton runoff and North Carolina’s Cooper-Watley nominations, while Iran’s nuclear threats and 92M citizens loom as the conflict escalates. [Automatically generated summary]
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And then the Minnesota Star Tribune's Allison Kite on the House Oversight Committee hearing featuring Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and State Attorney General Keith Ellison.
Also, the American Enterprise Institute's Michael Rubin on the latest on U.S. and Israeli combat operations against Iran, as well as the future of the Iranian regime.
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Ending Wars: Resolution Drawn?00:15:35
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Good morning.
It's Wednesday, March 4th, 2026.
The House and Senate are both in at 10 a.m. Eastern after the first primaries of the 2026 midterms took place last night in Texas, North Carolina, and Arkansas.
On Iran, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs Chairman General Dan Kaine will give a briefing in less than an hour on day five of U.S. combat operations.
And in the Senate, a congressional war powers vote is expected this afternoon in an effort to rein in the military campaign in Iran.
And that's where we'll begin on the Washington Journal this morning.
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We're expecting a vote in the U.S. Senate and on a resolution to rein in President Trump's warfighting powers when it comes to Iran.
That bipartisan resolution is being sponsored by Democrat Tim Kaine of Virginia, by Republican Ram Paugh of Kentucky.
Yesterday it was Tim Kaine speaking to reporters about the president's powers when it comes to attacking Iran.
The question that Virginians and I think Americans are asking is, haven't we learned anything?
Haven't we learned anything from 25 years in the wars in the Middle East?
More than 14,000 U.S. troops and contractors killed, more than 65,000 troops and contractors injured, hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths, $8.2 trillion that could have been spent here at home, spent in wars in the Middle East, and what did we get out of it?
That's what my military state is asking me.
They're asking me about their kids who were deployed on the Ford Carrier Strike Group overseas.
They went to the Mideast.
They then were told by the President to go to the Caribbean, now back to the Mideast.
It's going to be the longest carrier deployment, likely in recent history.
These sailors who haven't seen their families on a ship that is not in great shape, that needs to get back in port.
President Trump is breaking his promises.
He campaigned as an end war president, as a peace president.
Less than six weeks ago, the Pentagon put out a national defense strategy under the name of the Secretary with the approval of Donald Trump.
Here was the promise.
No longer will the Department be distracted by interventionism, endless wars, regime change, and nation building.
What?
Toppled one government to arrest their leader, assassinated the leader of another government.
That's not intervention.
That's not regime change.
That's not nation building.
They're breaking their promises, just like they're breaking their promises as Senator Murray and Senator Schumer talked about to bring costs down for everyday folks.
Senator Tim Kaine, that was yesterday on Capitol Hill.
Again, that war powers resolution vote expected around 4 p.m. today, although it is also expected to go down in defeat.
Punchbowl News with a preview of that vote in their morning newsletter today.
They write that a handful of undecided Republican senators, including Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski and Todd Young, have refused to tip their hand ahead of time about how they'll vote.
But it's clear that there won't be enough GOP support for the measure to pass.
They go on to say, even as the scale and scope of the Iran campaigns is still unclear, lawmakers are beginning to grapple with the potential supplemental funding package needed to pay for it.
Plus, there are questions about whether Congress will need to replenish U.S. munitions stockpiles or provide additional assistance to evacuate Americans from the region.
Punchbowl News writing about it this morning.
Also, yesterday on Capitol Hill, Senate Majority Leader John Thune was asked about the president's warfighting, war-making powers here.
this is what he had to say well congress obviously we as we as you know has the power of the purse The president has broad authorities under Article II of the Constitution when it comes to defending America's national security interests.
And the authority that he is using is very similar to that used by President Obama in Libya, going back prior to that, previous administrations.
So, you know, obviously, I don't think the president probably is going to take options off the table.
You don't want to telegraph to your enemies what you will or will not do.
But I think that they are achieving great success with what they've done so far.
And it's targeted, of course, at naval and air assets in that region that the Iranians currently possess, ballistic missiles that could do great damage to Americans and to our allies in the region.
And so I think once that has been achieved, once those objectives have been achieved, there are a lot of questions about what happens next.
And I think, frankly, that's going to be largely up to the Iranian people.
But this will eliminate the threat that is posed that could kill countless numbers of Americans.
There is no country in the world that has more American blood on its hands than Iran.
So I think the president was perfectly within his rights to take the steps that he took.
I think it was a necessary step in order to protect American lives.
John Thune talking about protecting American lives there.
Six Americans, at least so far, have died when it comes to combat operations in Iran.
And the Pentagon yesterday releasing the names of four of those six.
They include Captain Cody Cork, 35 of Winter Haven, Florida, Sergeant First Class Noah Teethens, 42 of Bellevue, Nebraska, Sergeant First Class Nicole Amore, 39 years old of White Bear Lake, Minnesota, and Sergeant Declund Cody 20 of West Des Moines, Iowa.
Their pictures there appearing in the pages of major American newspapers today.
We're taking your phone calls as we await this briefing from Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.
Again, that's expected to start at 8 a.m. Eastern.
We're going to show you some of it here.
We're going to show you all of it on C-SPAN 2.
You can stick with us on the Washington Journal afterwards.
You can watch it and come back.
Whatever you want to do, it's your choice.
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Taking your phone calls, though.
Joe's up first in Georgia, Republican.
Joe, good morning.
John, love C-SPAN.
Been calling your great network for 30 years.
And in my opinion, I totally support what Trump's doing.
I think he's by far the best leader in American history.
I'm a big stock market guy.
And as you know, the stock market is breaking every record in history.
So thank God for Donald Trump and thank God for C-SPAN.
And John, you do a great job right now.
Joe, what do you think about this day five now of combat operations in Iran?
Well, I think it needed to be done.
I think it's great.
I think Trump, of course, they've killed the Alatolla.
I support everything Trump is doing.
I think it needed to be done.
I think Iran, I think the Middle East will become a safe place now, thanks to the great Donald John Trump.
And I love C-SPAN.
John, keep up your great work.
That's Joe McCutcheon, LAJ, Georgia, one of our monthly callers here on the Washington Journal.
This is Essie in Texas, Democrat.
Good morning.
Good morning.
I was calling you to make my comment about the war.
I don't feel, I know that the Ayatollah was evil, the country's evil, but at the time that the war is happening, Donald Trump ran on ending wars, not starting wars.
Good morning.
And Essie, I heard you, Donald Trump ran on ending wars.
Where do you think we are today when it comes to ending wars and endless wars?
As long as he's president, we won't be ending wars.
I know that the Ayatollah was an evil man and a lot of evil in that country, but I think at the time right now is kind of off to be starting this war when there's so much going on in America, but you know, prices going up, and surely all prices will go up.
Gas is going to go up.
Already the price, like in the state I live in, if you want to buy like a brisket, you know what a brisket is, it's cost you $100 to buy one slab of meat.
Everything is going up except for people's wages.
So we have a lot to contend with in America other than him starting a war.
And I can't believe that the other night he was having a party in Mar-a-Lago, and we got our servicemen and children being killed in Iran fighting the war, I think, could have been put off.
And I think it seems like all presidents should have to go through Congress before they can start a war.
That's Essie in Texas this morning.
Michelle Goldberg, with her column today in the New York Times, the president was never anti-war, is what she writes, saying the idea was always delusional.
The notion that Trump is a promoter of peace rests on a misreading of his record.
If you want to hear, if you want to see and read her column, New York Times today.
This is Tanya in Florida, Independent.
Good morning.
Yes, good morning.
I'm looking at this as a biblical, with a biblical point of view.
I see it as we are in the end times.
God is using King Cyrus, which is Trump, literally, crazy, doing things that we don't see or some might not see as normal, but it's supposed to happen.
The soldiers, I've had plenty in my family.
They sign a blank check, laid life down for us for freedom, for us to just get three days off in one year, barbecue, enjoy the day, and the sales.
They sign a blank check knowing what they're in for.
My nephew, the latest one, was in Kabul.
He was a medic.
13 of his buddies died in the front line.
Yes, he came back with PTSD, but now the veterans are treated differently.
He already signed up for another four years in Germany.
And I see this very biblical.
It's supposed to happen if you believe in the scriptures.
And yes, life will be lost.
So, Tanya, you think things are going to get a lot worse before they get better?
Of course.
This is, from my point of view, the beginning of the pangs of labor.
Okay, this is going to get worse.
I see that people, innocent United States citizens, are in Israel.
I have family members in Syria in the underground church.
So we are going to, you know, it's casualties of war that happen.
We don't understand why.
There's a reason.
And I see it as getting worse.
Yes, getting worse.
All right, that's Tanya in Florida.
This is Lynn in Oregon, Republican.
Lynn, good morning.
I am hoping that this vote today does not limit his powers.
You can't have a president have power and not be able to act.
If he had telegraphed what he was going to do to the Congress beforehand, we would not have taken out the leadership that needed to be taken out, and we wouldn't be where we are.
I'm hoping this isn't a long-drawn out affair.
And I don't believe he wants as president to have a long-drawn out war because they don't really benefit our country.
And I believe that that is what he's trying to do is benefit our country because over the past two decades and more, we have seen that when given the opportunity, this Ayatollah was intent on hurting Americans.
And if he could, he would have expanded his program to do so.
So I am happy we are where we're at.
I am extremely sad for the life lost and hopeful that it can be drawn to a close as far as the combat operations quickly.
That's Lynn in Oregon.
You start by mentioning the war powers resolution vote that's taking place today in the Senate.
The Washington Times also noting that that resolution expected to be headed for defeat.
It's about 4 p.m. today in the Senate.
There's going to be a war powers vote in the House as well Thursday tomorrow.
This was yesterday.
Democratic Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, who's expected to join Republicans in opposing that war powers vote measure.
This is what he had to say.
What does the War Powers Resolution 73 say?
It says that the president has to provide 48 hours of notification, and he's done that.
And then they have up to 60 days, perhaps a 30 days extension.
And there's no boots on the ground, and it's been into 100 hours so far.
So where has anything been broken or they haven't made every standard?
How do you describe the fact that it's just, how do you describe the fact that you're the only Senate Democrat, though, with that position?
Because maybe I'm the Democrat.
I'm aware that it's, you know, it's pretty toxic for a Democrat to say, I happen to agree with the president on really anything at this point.
But again, find someone that opposes this, saying, they've all said you're not, we can never allow Iran to acquire a nuclear bomb.
Then what's your, you know, and that seems like that's happening.
Why can't you just acknowledge that's a good thing?
Why not?
No, Why can't?
Why can't you just say that?
You know, it's like, you know, this is 47 years.
It's like sanctions and treaties and all kinds of other negotiations and everything.
Nothing's worked, and that's clearly that's the case.
So why can't we all just say the world is safer and it's more just now because of what this happens?
You don't have to agree on everything, but it's like, yes, I'm the only Democrat because I'm not afraid of my base to just say, you know what, this was overall a good thing.
You don't have to agree on everything.
So I'm going to be honest.
So like, why can't you just acknowledge that one of the most evil people on the face of the earth was erased?
Forced Into Conflict00:04:01
Senator John Fetterman, Democrat of Pennsylvania, that was yesterday.
We'll see the vote on C-SPAN 2 today.
Again, it's expected around 4 p.m. Eastern Time, a busy day on Capitol Hill at 8 a.m. Eastern.
We're expecting a briefing from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
Dan Kaine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, as well as expected to brief Americans on the latest on day five of combat operations.
Also some high-profile hearings on Capitol Hill.
9 a.m. Eastern, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and the state's Attorney General Keith Ellison will testify at an oversight hearing on the alleged misuse of federal funds for social programs in Minnesota.
We're airing that one on C-SPAN 3 today.
So a busy morning throughout the morning, we'll be here from 7 a.m. Eastern to 10 a.m. Eastern on the Washington Journal, taking your phone calls, and then we'll all head over to the House and Senate together.
They come in at 10 a.m. Eastern time.
Taking your phone calls this morning.
This is Kwame in Stone Mountain, Georgia.
Democrat, good morning.
I would like to ask the question to Americans: why is it okay for the United States to bomb another country?
And the question, other question I would have, is why is it okay that the United States and Israel both have nuclear weapons?
They simply just not have the moral authority to tell others they cannot acquire nuclear weapons.
It is an illegal act, in my opinion, that the United States has actually performed.
In the Oval Office yesterday, President Trump justifying his decision to strike Iran with questions from reporters.
This is some of what he had to say.
Mr. President, did Israel forced your hand to launch these strikes against Iran?
Did anyone hold the United States into this war?
No, I might have forced their hand.
You see, we were having negotiations with these lunatics, and it was my opinion that they were going to attack first.
They were going to attack.
If we didn't do it, they were going to attack first.
I felt strongly about that.
And we have great negotiators, great people, people that do this very successfully and have done it all their lives very successfully.
And based on the way the negotiation was going, I think they were going to attack first.
And I didn't want that to happen.
So, if anything, I might have forced Israel's hand.
But Israel was ready, and we were ready.
And we've had a very, very powerful impact because virtually everything they have has been knocked out now.
Their missile count is going way down.
Amazingly, they're hitting countries that were, you know, let's call them neutral, right?
They lived together for a long time.
I think they were surprised.
I was surprised.
I think it, and now those countries are all fighting against them and fighting strongly against them.
Someday they'll write a story and they'll say why they did that, but they hit countries that had nothing to do with what's going on.
They were sort of leaving everything alone.
All of a sudden, they had missiles shot in, which shows you the level of evil that we're dealing with.
They'll hit people that were actually at least somewhat friendly, and they had no problems with it.
Also, hitting only civilian places, hotels and apartment buildings, and we're hitting them where it is much more appropriate.
We're hitting them very hard.
And the big scale hitting goes now: they no longer have air protection, they no longer have any detection facilities at all left.
And so they're going to be in for a lot of hurt.
Situation And Solutions00:11:06
I was President Trump yesterday in the Oval Office.
If you want to watch that entire briefing, it's available on our website at cspan.org.
Sarah is next out of North Carolina Independent.
Sarah, good morning.
Yes, good morning.
Good morning.
My thoughts are: American people stand behind our troops, our men and women.
Do not treat them like they did Vietnam veterans because they got a job to do.
They're protecting my freedom.
That's all I've got to say: pray for those men and women.
That's Sarah.
That's all I've got to say about it.
That's Sarah in North Carolina, North Carolina.
One of three states holding the first midterms of the first primaries of the midterms.
Those primaries taking place last night in North Carolina, in Texas, and in Arkansas in the state of North Carolina.
As expected, Roy Cooper, the Democrat, and Michael Watley, the Republican, clinched the U.S. Senate nomination, setting up a high-stakes fall fight there.
As the Associated Press notes, still the race to be decided when it comes to the Senate in Texas.
John Cornyn trying to hold on to his seat, headed to a runoff against Republican Ken Paxton.
The Associated Press on the Democratic side calling the Democratic Senate primary for James Tallarico, the state representative, against Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett.
We're going to talk a lot more about what happened last night in those three primaries in about 10 minutes or so this morning on the Washington Journal.
But back to your phone calls in this opening segment.
This is Yared in Maryland, Republican.
Good morning.
Good morning.
We just need to put as an American politics aside because what the president is doing is the right thing.
This is about terrorists.
This is the most dangerous place.
So I hope that this Congress, they don't vote against the president.
They need to let him do his job.
America is getting greater and greater again.
So I just want to say they need to stop doing that.
It's going to be a disgrace around the world.
America is back now.
That's all I want to say.
Yared, this is Mark, also in Maryland, line for Democrats.
Good morning.
Yes, hi.
My commentary is about the fact that, I mean, the Ayatollah was over 80 years old, and you don't really hear much about that fact and just the objects of resting kind of like the military might of the U.S. on taking out a leader who's already in his 80s.
And, you know, people in their 80s don't live that long anyway.
You know, you probably could have popped out behind the corner and scared him to death.
You know, so, you know, I kind of tend to think that all they really did was just sort of in his last years of his life, kind of enshrine him as a perpetual symbol for, you know, his cause.
And it wasn't really necessary.
And it almost seems like it plays into their hands.
You think that America made a martyr out of him, Mark?
Well, I, you know, without being an expert, that's what it seems to me because he was a, it seems like as an 84-year-old or 80-something year-old leader for 30 plus years, I mean, he's probably just a symbolic leader anyway.
So why in his last years of his life do you sort of martyr him and then, yeah, it almost seems like you're playing it into their hands because for all we know, they did that on purpose.
They put themselves in that situation.
So, you know, to be martyred, you know, so you just never know with these types of situations.
That's Mark in Maryland.
This is Frank Birmingham, Alabama, Independent.
Morning, Frank.
Good morning, my great friend.
I'm glad they're dealing with this War Power Act.
That's what it's for, them to come together and reason together among themselves and not just pull up on a country and start blasting them like Trump has done.
And these people that are talking about how he's doing his job, how can you do your job unsolicited and just attack another country like that?
But, you know, I just want things to be right in America.
And it's nothing right about America.
It's nothing right about having legislation called the War Power Act.
And then don't use it.
But let me just say this for Gojohn.
Let me say this.
I'm disturbed.
The first three people was three black people from Georgia that was killed in this debacle.
And they were African Americans.
And they haven't put their names up.
They haven't really talked about them.
But they got four others that was killed.
And they all white.
They had them on TV and all this.
None from the parents of these, and they were reservists.
They all were young, one black female, two black males.
And that family is disrespected.
I'm disrespected.
And let me leave this with you, John, because I might not get the call again.
But I'm going to get out here and I'm going to really protest and try everything I can.
And I'm moving there to try my best to get Jacob Fry to run for president of the United States.
I think he's the only quantifiable and has proved who he is and know how to do things in that young age.
Three times a mayor there and handled the George Floyd situation.
He handled this other situation.
And that's where we got to have a stern young man that cares like he does.
And that's what I'm looking for.
Not these runaway politicians and this debacle of what they did and pretty much assassinated the character of another Charlie Chisholm and also Miss Jackson, two great Texans that they got out of the course of the situation.
And I hope that since some of the Supreme Court in Texas is talking about kind of looking at it again, I hope they do because I can't see anywhere where she should have lost to this young man.
He's an outstanding person, not get me wrong.
You're talking about Jasmine Crockett.
Jasmine Crockett last night.
You know, they had to stop it.
And then they said the Supreme Court said, well, we're not going to do that.
And then they came back and said the people that was in line can't vote.
I'm like, people that are in line to vote, okay, you want somebody to get a card and validate who they are as an American citizen.
And they're standing in America's most hardest time.
There's so much individuality and everybody can start a protest.
Everybody can do that.
So if person is standing in line to vote, my people stood in line to vote.
And they didn't stand in line to vote for three black people from Georgia, young and reserved.
Now, all six of them was killed within reserve.
And you know, reserves is not that quantifiable as the regular soldiers that are on duty and are not just reserved.
All right, Frank, got your point.
Birmingham, Alabama.
We're going to talk more in a few minutes about last night's midterms.
But speaking about voting issues in Dallas, the Associated Press story notes that Crockett's campaign said last night that she planned to sue over voting issues in the Dallas area.
She spoke briefly Tuesday night, warning that people have been disenfranchised.
The Associated Press, though, calling that race for State Representative Tallarico.
And again, more on your phone calls on the midterm primary results in just a few minutes here.
Let me get to JR in Virginia, Republican.
JR, thanks for waiting.
Good morning, everybody.
I watch a show just about every morning.
And some of the people that calls in is crazy.
Touch on the War Powers Act.
What are the Democrats going to do?
Vote to have him taken away from Trump.
And then, if they get a Democratic president in, they're going to want to vote it back in.
And who in the world would want to take any advice from Tin King?
It is beyond me.
Now, the war in Iraq, it needed been done decades ago.
They have been born and decided in the Middle East over there.
You're talking about Iran?
That's right.
Iran.
Now, look at what they've done because they were attacked.
Even the people, the countries that were neutral over there to them, they even attacked them.
So that shows you what kind of leaders they had over there.
And now the son somehow is still alive.
They need to take him out and free the people over there.
But there's still a lot, just like on TV this morning, I've seen over in Iraq where the streets are loaded with protesters mourning the Hyato.
Now, how ridiculous is that?
That's JR in Virginia.
This is Roj in Naperville, Illinois.
Democrat, good morning.
Yes, good morning.
First of all, all the misinformation that's coming out, callers calling and saying, okay, let President do what he wants to do.
First of all, you have to listen to what's going on.
Witkoff stating that Iran is ready to build 11 nuclear bombs in a false.
And who's Witkoff?
He's just a realtor.
And you have his son-in-law as negotiating.
What is that?
That does not make sense.
People don't understand.
You have a country of 92 million.
This is not like 1 million, 2 million, or you can go to Venezuela or whatever.
And also, remember, the CIA is talking to the Kurds.
You want to arm the Kurds and go after the fight next to USA?
What is that?
You're going to create a havoc.
What this man has done, I'm talking about the President of the United States.
He has created something.
He can't even figure out what's going to happen.
And you're right.
If you look at what Ben, whatever his name is, Prime Minister of Israel, he baited him in.
And, you know, they are doing his work.
And you don't just think that the people, they don't think clearly, oh, we're going to go kill his son.
Are you naive?
A New Interview with David Sirota00:02:28
You know, they just are not understanding what's going on.
We have going to war again.
Haven't we learned our lesson?
You know, this is not going to be ending in four days, five days.
You have 92 million people.
Come on, America.
Wake up.
You are going to be in this war for the next 10, 15 years.
That's Roge in Illinois, our last caller in this first segment of the Washington Journal.
Stick around, plenty more to talk about.
A little later today, we'll be joined by American Enterprise Institute's Michael Rubin.
We'll discuss the latest when it comes to U.S. and Israeli combat operations.
But after the break, we'll be joined by Kirk Beto, editor of the National Journal's political newsletter, The Hotline.
We'll talk about yesterday's midterm election primaries.
Stick around.
We'll be right back on this episode of Book Notes Plus with our host, Brian Lamb.
David Sirota, who is based in Denver, Colorado, has some very strong views about money and politics.
His book is called Master Plan: The Hidden Plot to Legalize Corruption in America.
There are 11 chapters which reflect the 11 episodes of his podcast, Master Plan.
In order to tell his story, he points his finger at the 1971 Powell Secret Memo.
That's former U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Lewis Powell, who served on the Supreme Court from 1972 to 1987.
He died in 1998 at age 90.
Author Sirota, who is 50, writes that the Powell memo laid out a comprehensive step-by-step strategy for corporate America to regain control, protect its interests, and reshape the political and legal system of the United States to favor business.
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Well, the first primaries of election 2026 are in the books.
Joining us to break down the results in Texas and North Carolina and Arkansas is Kirk Beto.
He's editor of National Journal's hotline political newsletter.
Kirk Beto, start with those marquee races in the Lone Star State.
Yeah, I think the first big picture takeaway I have from this tonight is that it was a bad night to be an incumbent.
Not only in the five races with endangered incumbents we were watching, the top of the marquee was the Senate race with Senator John Cornyn, all five of those are going to a runoff.
And if they're not going to a runoff, they lost like Dan Crenshaw.
He's the first incumbent to lose renomination so far this cycle.
And if this trend continues, he won't be the last.
Why did John Cornyn want to go to a runoff?
What was that race setting up to look like?
He's trying to hold on to that seed against Ken Paxson.