Newscast Discussing Trump and Iran

Kerry told MS NOW’s Jen Psaki on “The Briefing” that the president’s Truth Social posts –– an expletive-laden post on Sunday and a Tuesday threat that Iran’s “whole civilization will die” –– left him “as shocked as I’ve been by anything that I have seen or read by this administration, in the first administration and now in the second.”

“We’re the place that, you know, worked so hard to liberate Europe or free Europe from fascism and so many other contributions we’ve made around the world,” he continued. “And you step up and not only use language like that, but say a whole civilization is going to die. That sounds to me like it’s a prelude to becoming one of the greatest war criminals in history.”

The former secretary added that when “you kill a civilization, you are doing something precisely against all of the international norms, standards, values and hopes and aspirations.” Kerry then referenced his time protesting the Vietnam War after he served as a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy, saying that “when life and death is involved, and war is involved … you really need to tell the truth.”

Kerry dismissed the Trump administration’s claim that there was an “imminent nuclear threat” from Iran.

And John Kerry’s talk with Stephen Colbert.

We may have a war yet . . .