The Morning Dispatch: An Inside Look at the Tense Iran Briefing on Capitol Hill

Plus, Trump addresses the nation, and are impeachment articles finally headed to the Senate?

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Happy Thursday! We’re grateful for all of our regular Morning Dispatch readers, who obviously made up the 28 percent in this survey who can accurately identify Iran on a map.

Quick Hits: What You Need to Know

  • Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg declared Wednesday that she is “cancer free” heading into 2020. 

  • Nancy Pelosi announced the House will vote today on a War Powers resolution designed to inhibit any military action against Iran.

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    Henry Clemens

    Happy to see you up and running. But could you PLEASE provide transcripts of the podcasts? Many of us do not have the time to listen to these emissions, and if they are worth your doing them, surely they are worth transcribing for the benefit of your subscribers.

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      Steve Hayes

      Hi Henry. That's for joining us. We're looking at ways to provide accurate, searchable transcripts of the podcasts for members later this spring. Stay tuned.

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    Kevin Durant?

    Rep. Mike Gallagher, Marine veteran and member of the House Armed Services Committee tells The Dispatch, “It's hard for me to interpret this as anything other than a massive win for the Trump administration.”
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    I just saw Adam Smith (D) on CNN explain how killing Suleimani HELPS Iran because Suleimani didn’t matter and now (as opposed to before) Iran is angry

    Adam Smith is my Congressman and he is one of the moderate ones (although you could argue that acting insane is not moderate) Anyways, they will have no problem AT ALL describing this as a failure for Trump

    Also, what will happen now, is that every single act of Iranian aggression which the media previously ignored because they were busy sifting through Paul Manafort’s mortgage application, will be attributed to “Orange bad man kills Austere wise man”

    All they have to do is wait patiently for something bad to happen in the Middle East, which will take 4 seconds. It literally does not matter where. The answer to “why do they hate us/each other/anyone/everyone” now has an easy answer: Trump

    Oh and the next terror attack in the west will be blamed on Trump’s decision to kill Suleimani. Iran and their terrorist proxies play the long game. So does CNN

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    Ralph Alderson

    Mr. Hayes - I applaud the Dispatch commitment to changing some bad habits of the media, including your decision to avoid chasing the news cycle and to abjure click bait. That's the primary reason I joined. However, you should also kick one other bad media habit while you're at it. Please avoid providing aid and comfort to an enemy by NOT purveying leaked military information such as this line from your latest Morning Dispatch: "Sources familiar with White House discussions on Iran tell The Dispatch that potential targets include..." I'm very disappointed, but I hope that this area will join your other major advances in the future.

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    CynthiaW

    The map regarding "locating Iran" is clearly garbage: it has points in bodies of water. No serious adult (or teenager) asked to indicate a country would stick a pin in a body of water. Why was this silly thing in this piece, taking up a lot of space?

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      Declan Garvey staff-badge Staff

      Thanks for reading, Cynthia. We like to begin and end these newsletters everyday with something more lighthearted and fun. Agree plenty of respondents probably weren't taking that survey too seriously!

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        CynthiaW

        Thank you for your reply, Mr. Garvey. That item seemed, to me, to be more like a silly meme from Twitter. I did not expect to have to ask, "Are they being ironic, or are they being dishonest?" regarding something presented as real on The Dispatch.

        If the map had appeared on the Babylon Bee, with quotes from "participants" explaining why they sincerely believed Iran to be located in the North Atlantic, that could have been super funny, rather than either (if you'll pardon my saying so) lazy or deceptive.

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