Jen Psaki took on the Trump administration’s continually fumbled messaging around the Iran War on Monday, highlighting that “Trump’s most loyal pundits seem to be losing the thread” and even teasing Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo for her on-air bafflement over President Trump’s lies.

“Trump said this war was about regime change. He has failed at that. Trump said this war was about Iran’s missile capabilities, then he reversed course. Trump said the war was about knocking out Iran’s nuclear capabilities, but he already said he obliterated those back last year,” Psaki said on Monday’s “The Briefing” on MS NOW. “In reality, U.S. intelligence says we haven’t even set Iran’s nuclear ambitions back a day.”

She lamented that despite Trump claiming that he destroyed all of Iran’s military capabilities in recent months, “here we are again targeting Iranian military targets 142 days into this war.”

Pair that with the three active duty American soldiers killed in the war just since Friday, and Psaki argued that Trump’s messaging and the reality of the war just aren’t adding up.

“The White House’s narrative around this war is all so misleading that even Trump’s most loyal pundits seem to be losing the thread here,” she said. “I mean, even they seem to not understand or be able to explain how this all could possibly add up.”

That’s when “The Briefing” pulled up a clip from Bartiromo’s Sunday broadcast on Fox News, showing the conservative host report on the continued “outsized action” in the Iran war despite the president saying there’s no military threat to fight anymore.

“You know, CENTCOM says that there will be outsized action in retaliation, but I don’t understand how it’s possible that Iran has the capabilities to fight this way and continue to try to lash out at Gulf countries and U.S. military bases because the U.S. has obliterated Iran’s military,” Bartiromo said. “And the president continues to reiterate that.”

“It’s almost — almost, not quite — like she gets it,” Psaki said back in her MS NOW studio. “It’s almost like she is starting to realize that the White House is lying about this war, that these things can’t all be true at the same time.

“And as offensive as it is for the president to be lying about this war to the American public, it is even more offensive to the families of the Americans actually fighting it,” Psaki emphasized.

Watch the full “The Briefing With Jen Psaki” segment in the video below.

The future of the long-closed Cinerama Dome and its adjacent multiplex formerly known as ArcLight Hollywood has taken a new turn as Sony is in talks for a potential lease and reopening with the Robertson Properties Group, TheWrap has learned.

Once among the highest grossing theaters in Los Angeles and a popular gathering place for cinephiles and industry insiders, the Cinerama Dome has remained closed since the COVID pandemic, as ArcLight Cinemas announced that it would not reopen in 2021.

According to Deadline, which first reported the talks, premium theater chain Alamo Drafthouse, which Sony acquired in 2024, would likely be involved in operating the chain should an agreement be reached on the lease. Sony declined TheWrap’s request for comment.

The majority of the former chain’s other locations have been taken over by new tenants, including its Sherman Oaks Galleria location, which now has new seats and an Imax auditorium after an extensive refurbishment by Regal, and its Culver City location, which is now operated by Amazon.

The Cinerama Dome was opened in 1963 by William R. Forman, the founder of ArcLight’s parent company, Pacific Theaters, and is still owned by Forman’s grandson, Chris Forman, CEO of the Decurion Corporation.

While insiders have told TheWrap that other theater chains like AMC and Regal have at least approached Decurion and Robertson Properties Group about leasing ArcLight Hollywood and the Cinerama Dome, talks have never significantly progressed.

Insiders also told TheWrap last year that any reopening of the multiplex would require a costly refurbishment that would involve new seats, concessions equipment, sound and picture upgrades, new fire alarms and accessibility lifts to meet building codes, and if the new owners so chose, major changes to the Dome’s interior to make it more suitable for 70mm screenings.

But Sony may be the company willing to foot that bill, as the company housed Alamo Drafthouse in a new division called Sony Pictures Experiences led by Alamo CEO Michael Kustermann.

While the chain has been criticized by longtime patrons over its recent change to a mobile ordering system despite its “no phones” policy, Alamo was the sixth highest-grossing theater chain for the opening weekend of Universal’s “The Odyssey” and the only chain in the top 10 to not have an Imax screen, instead screening the film in 35mm and 70mm across its locations nationwide.

Decurion, meanwhile, has been very secretive about any potential reopening plans for the Cinerama Dome, which has drawn the ire of Los Angeles’ cinephile community. Film student Ben Steinberg, who has organized the “Save the Cinerama Dome” grassroots campaign, has drawn more than 12,000 followers on social media with his updates on the closed theater and protests against Forman and Decurion.

After a protest in which Steinberg projected Forman’s face onto the Dome itself in April until ordered to turn off the projector by police, Steinberg announced that he would put his organizing on hold to avoid legal action from Decurion and Robertson Properties Group.

A month later, representatives for Robertson told local officials at a zoning board meeting that the company was working “to ensure the Cinerama Dome and the Dome Theater Complex can reopen in the future,” during a hearing to renew the building’s conditional use permit to serve alcohol. Robertson has made similar promises at past zoning board meetings to renew the permit but has never provided a timetable for reopening.

Pete Hegseth accused Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.) and his peers of having “Trump Derangement Syndrome” while being grilled over funding for the Iran War.

On Tuesday, the secretary of defense appeared before the Senate Appropriations Committee to address the White House’s supplemental funding request for the ongoing military operation in the Middle East. Hegseth was grilled at-length by lawmakers, with many calling into question his leadership and whether the Trump administration had a strategy to win the Iran War.

“If you listen to my comments, you would have heard me say how amazing our fighters are,” Peters said before Hegseth accused the senator of throwing the word “failure” around.

“I will tell you how I used the word failure, ’cause I used the word failure to their leaders,” Peters continued. “You, sir, are the failure. Not the men and women who are on that frontline. Not the men and women who hold up their honor with distinction. But if there’s a lack of a winning strategy, they’re in harm’s way, their leaders have failed them. And that’s what’s happening … You don’t have a strategy. You don’t have a long-term plan to win this war. Win this war!”

As Peters repeatedly asked Hegseth when he planned to “show leadership,” the secretary of defense hit back, suggesting the Democrats’ disapproval of the funding request was politically motivated.

“Why don’t you show some leadership and stand up for your fellow Democrats, who won’t fund the troops,” he snapped. “Who stand and play partisan politics, while you don’t give us the money. You want to stand up here and talk about the troops? You won’t show any political courage to actually fund our department, because you have Trump Derangement Syndrome and can’t actually commit to anything meaningful.”

He added: “So, I put this on you senator.”

Peters responded by fighting back a laugh and reiterating that his objection “was not a question of money,” but “a question of leadership.”

Watch the heated exchange above.

This was not the only tense moment to occur during Hegseth’s testimony, as the secretary of defense also found himself sparring with Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY).

“You are asking for unlimited money for bombs when people can’t feed their families,” Gillibrand said. “And I don’t know how this administration intends to defend those decisions to the American people.”

Hegseth defended that he was looking for “the right bombs at the right time,” claiming that the funding request was a “generational investment.”

“The reason why they’re so upset with you and this administration is because the words you have used in the past don’t add up. About Iran specifically, you said that we had ‘obliterated’ Iran’s ability to create nuclear weapons. The president made the same claim. Yet, eight months later in February 2026, the president launched an active war, claiming Iran was within of two weeks of having a weapon.”

She added: “So, when you say two very different things, the American people don’t know who to believe or what to believe. They just know they can’t afford their healthcare, they can’t afford their food, they can’t afford housing and our farmers are continuing to suffer.”

Gillibrand then asked Hegseth point-blank to answer “Which is true: Was it obliterated or wasn’t it? What’s the status?”

GIllibrand: Was it obliterated or wasn’t it?

Hegseth: The nuclear sites were obliterated, but Iranians foolishly continued to attempt to pursue nuclear capabilities pic.twitter.com/sVOBp5pYvu

— Acyn (@Acyn) July 21, 2026

Per Hegseth, Iran’s nuclear sites were “obliterated,” but that the country had “foolishly continued to attempt to pursue nuclear capabilities.”

Watch their exchange above.