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Join Us LIVE, TODAY March 5th, 11am Eastern, 8am Pacific, 4pm UK
Today we're going LIVE to break it all down.
Susan Kokinda and Barbara Boyd will cover:
The war — What Trump's next move looks like, and why Bolton and Chatham House are standing outside the room
The "special relationship" — It's over. What replaces it?
Midterms & the economy — How the Democrats plan to weaponize the war, and why Trump's economic revolution is the real 2026 story
The "Special Relationship" In Jeopardy?
In back-to-back interviews with The Daily Telegraph on Monday and The Sun on Tuesday, the President declared the US-UK relationship is "obviously not what it was."
He called Starmer "not helpful."
He said he never thought he'd see Britain refuse to stand with America.
Then he went further — singling out France and Germany as more reliable partners than Britain.
Read that again. The President publicly demoted the "special relationship." The 118-year arrangement we've been documenting is cracking apart in real time.
Meanwhile in Iran, things are moving fast.
Sunday: Trump said Iran's new leadership called Washington. He agreed to talk.
"Their air defense, Air Force, Navy, and Leadership is gone. They want to talk. I said 'Too Late!'"
This is not Iraq 2.0. Trump isn't dismantling a state to install puppets. He's clearing the last obstacle to the Board of Peace — the $2 trillion Gulf investment, the Abraham Accords expansion, the rebuilding of Gaza. The Mullahs were the final piece on the British chessboard, and they're being removed.
Trump revealed a month of secret tanker escorts through Hormuz, named Kharg Island as next — then tied the Save America Act to the defense bill. Barbara and Mike connect the war abroad to the lawfare at home.
Iran, Ukraine, Israel, a primary shock in California — the map looked like it was burning everywhere at once. Barbara and Susan stop counting the fires and name the arsonist: one imperial machine, and a president who won't take the bait.