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John Dickerson: When the Media Helps Rewrite Reality

Explore episode Jun 29, 2026

Was it worth tearing up the Obama-era JCPOA? You measure the war against the JCPOA, you measure it against where things were before the bombing started, and then you measure against what President Trump said this war was about. Keeping those three things in mind every time there's a development — like the hotline — great, okay, hotline's a development, but if you measure that against all the previous situations, a hotline's a meaningless development.

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