Amy Walter and Jasmine Wright on the Iran war's lasting impact on midterm politics

By — William Brangham William Brangham By — Kyle Midura Kyle Midura By — Leila Jackson Leila Jackson Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/amy-walter-and-jasmine-wright-on-the-iran-wars-lasting-impact-on-midterm-politics Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Transcript Audio Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter and Jasmine Wright of NOTUS join William Brangham to discuss the latest political news, including President Trump's deal with Iran and Vice President Vance's promotion of it, the war's potential impact on the midterm elections and California Gov. Gavin Newsom saying he's being investigated by Trump's Justice Department. Read the Full Transcript Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors. William Brangham: As President Trump promotes his so-called deal with Iran, he's threatening to derail congressional efforts to renew a key spy power. And yet another of his foes says they are being investigated by his Justice Department. It is Politics Monday. And Amy Walter of The Cook Political Report With Amy Walter and Jasmine Wright of NOTUS are both here to break it all down. Tamara Keith is away today. So nice to see you both. Hi. Jasmine Wright, NOTUS: Hello. Amy Walter, The Cook Political Report: Hello. William Brangham: Jasmine, about this Iran deal, we still don't know all the details, critical things, about what happens with Iran's nuclear material, whether the strait really does reopen. Is the U.S. really going to give over hundreds of billions of dollars to the Iranians? That said, is the White House just going to declare victory and hope that the details work out fine later? Jasmine Wright: I think you're seeing them start that process now, William. You have seen J.D. Vance, the vice president, who is leading these negotiations. You have already seen him on CBS, ABC, CNN, maybe by the end of the week, we will see him on PBS, going out and setting the narrative of what the deal is before the text actually comes out, because you're right. We haven't seen the text. We haven't seen what this memorandum of understanding is that even gets you to the next phase of technical talks that U.S. officials say will last for 60 days, where they nail out all of those really hard details. I have talked to experts who say that that is actually, those critical conversations are going to be the hard part, not what they have gotten here. Now, when it comes to the Strait of Hormuz, obviously, that has been something that the White House has been focused on and talking a lot about. They say that it's going to open somewhere between Friday and two weeks from then. We may not have the full amount of ships that have been going through since then. But that really has been, I think, the number one thing that they have been focused on. Yes, they have been talking about Iran's nuclear ambition, but they need th