2025-06-23
20 分钟It's Monday, June 23rd.
I'm Jane Koston, and this is What A Day,
the show that says break out your System of a Down albums and Juicy Couture sweatpants.
It's the early 2000s, and we're doing regime change in the Middle East again.
On today's show,
a federal appeals court sides with the Trump administration over the deployment of National Guard troops in Los Angeles.
And Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil is released from federal detention.
But first, let's talk about the United States going to war in the Middle East.
Again, maybe.
On Saturday night, Americans learned via social media, in this case,
Truth Social, that the United States had bombed three Iranian nuclear facilities.
President Donald Trump posted, quote, He also spoke in a televised address later that evening.
Our objective was the destruction of Iran's nuclear enrichment capacity and a stop to the nuclear threat posed by the world's number one state sponsor of terror.
Tonight, I can report to the world that the strikes were a spectacular military success.
The massive strikes, dubbed Operation Midnight Hammer,
included the use of seven B-2 bombers carrying massive ordnance penetrators.
so-called bunker buster bombs,
capable of reaching underground targets, like Iran's uranium enrichment facilities.
The strikes came after Trump's announcement Thursday that he would take two weeks, you know,
that demarcation of time that means nothing to Trump, to decide whether to strike Iran.