Jessica Tarlov

I mean, I would like to talk axis of evil with you and talk about the lessons that we, and you especially, having been part of the Bush administration, you know, gleaned from that.

Welcome to Raging Moderates.

I'm Jessica Tarlow.

And my guest today is David Frum from The Atlantic.

He's the host of The David Frum Show podcast, as well as, are you contributing editor or senior editor?

What's the right title for The Atlantic?

Staff writer extraordinaire.

Thank you for being here.

It's great to see you again.

Lots of news.

Everything's moving quickly, as usual, in Trump 2.0.

And I want to start with the latest in Iran.

The stock market had its worst day since the start of the war yesterday.

President Trump wrote that he was extending the deadline for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz until April 6th, though we have no reason to believe that they actually care about any of his deadlines.

He is threatening to mount new attacks on Iran's energy infrastructure if they do not comply.

We had a peace plan exchange.

The U.S.

sent a 15-point peace plan to the Iranians via Pakistan.

Iran rejected, came back with their own requests that were non-starters for us.

We have very few allies willing to help fight the Iranian attacks in the Strait with us.