Washington Today

In this weekend's episode, three segments from this past week's Washington Journal.

First: a conversation with journalist Avi Mayer - founder of the Jerusalem Journal – discusses ongoing U-S and Israeli combat operations against Iran.

Then: the first primaries of Campaign 2026 kicked off this week. We read the tea leaves with National Journal's "Hotline" Editor Kirk Bado.

Plus: the video depositions of former President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton went public this week. We'll discuss the fallout and what's next in the Epstein files investigation with Ken Thomas of the Wall Street Journal.

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President Donald Trump says he will accept only 'unconditional surrender' from Iran and there are reports Russia is providing intelligence to Iran to target U.S. military positions in the Middle East; Jobs report from the Labor Department shows the U.S. lost 92,000 jobs in February and the unemployment rate went up from 4.3% to 4.4%. We will talk about the jobs report and the effect of the war with Iran on the economy with Courtenay Brown, Axios Senior Economics reporter (18); former Presidents Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Bill Clinton pay tribute to the late Rev. Jesse Jackson at his funeral in Chicago; Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) tells C-SPAN about a late night phone call he had with President Trump; 2026 Paralympics open in Italy with some European countries boycotting because athletes from Russia & Belarus are being allowed to compete.

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President Donald Trump says he is removing Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and nominating Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) as the new Secretary; House votes down a War Powers Act resolution to restrict President Trump's ability to wage war on Iran; Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX) admits he had an affair with a staff member who later committed suicide. House Republicans leaders call on him to no longer seek reelection; Health

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Senate defeats a War Powers Act resolution to prohibit President Donald Trump from launching further military attacks on Iran without Congressional authorization; Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says of the operations against Iran, “More and larger waves are coming. We are just getting started"; President Trump says the U.S. had to strike Iran because, “if we waited any longer – if we didn’t hit within two weeks – they would have had a nuclear weapon”; Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem

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Former President Bill Clinton testifies at a closed-door deposition on the Jeffrey Epstein investigation before the House Oversight Committee in Chappaqua, New York.

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Next, the full audio recording from former first lady and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. She testified before the House Oversight Committee as part of its investigation of convicted financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. She told House lawmakers that she had no knowledge of Jeffrey Epstein's or Ghislaine Maxwell's crimes and had never met Epstein.

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio says his department is helping evacuate Americans in the Middle East in countries caught up in the war with Iran where commercial flights are not available; President Donald Trump meets German Chancellor Friedrich Merz at the White House, where the president suggests the U.S. & Israel attacked Iran because Iran was about to attack first; House & Senate will vote in the next few days on a War Powers Resolution that, if it became law, would limit President Trump's authority to conduct military operations against Iran; Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee

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President Donald Trump talks about U.S. attacks on Iran.

House Oversight Committee releases recordings of former President Bill Clinton & former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's testimony in the Jeffrey Epstein investigation.

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This week in Washington, former President Bill Clinton testified before House lawmakers, answering questions about his past ties to Jeffrey Epstein in a rare and politically charged deposition.

President Trump delivered his State of the Union address, laying out his administration’s priorities at home while striking a forceful tone on national security.

And overseas, tensions with Iran remain front and center, as nuclear negotiations continue and debate grows in Washington over what comes next.

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In this weekend's episode, three segments from this past week's Washington Journal.

First: U-S- Iran nuclear talks continue –as the U-S continues its military buildup in the Persian Gulf. We talk about where things stand and the risks of an all-out war with Rose Kelanic of Defense Priorities & Danielle Pletka of the American Enterprise Institute.

Then: This year's tax filing system is well underway. We speak with former IRS Taxpayer Advocate Nina Olsen about what you need to know -- including changes from the passage of the "Big Beautiful Bill."

And finally: author & English professor Dan Chiasson discusses his new book on Sen. Bernie Sanders' early political life, titled "Bernie for Burlington."

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