In a surreal collision of pop culture and national security, Alex Wagner sits down with Nancy Youssef to unpack one of the stranger moments out of the Pentagon this week: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth presenting a line from Pulp Fiction as scripture during a prayer service. Then, turning to far more serious questions on breaking news in Iran, the country has now declared the Strait of Hormuz open to commercial shipping while Trump's naval blockade remains firmly in place, raising the stakes over whether this signals real de-escalation or just a temporary shift in a much larger and still unresolved geopolitical standoff.

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