Nightly News Roundup for April 8, 2026

Donald Trump threatened to erase Iranian civilization on Tuesday, brokered a ceasefire by Tuesday night that doesn't cover Lebanon, and Pete Hegseth and Iran both declared victory over the same deal that got worse the closer you looked — no inspectors, no enrichment caps, a $2 million toll booth where a free strait used to be, and Barack Obama's verified nuclear freeze traded for a handshake and a prayer; NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte called Trump "daddy," ran a year-long charm offensive that saved nothing, and now watches an alliance Trump hollowed out blame him for not joining an illegal war; former Attorney General Pam Bondi argued her subpoena died with her job title and declined to testify about the Epstein files she buried on the way out; Iranian state-linked hackers broke into the computers controlling American power plants and water systems, scrambled the controls, blinded the operators, and Trump brokered a ceasefire with those same people and called it decisive; ICE confirmed it's running Graphite, Israeli zero-click spyware that reads encrypted messages without a touch, aimed at fentanyl traffickers and also apparently journalists, aid workers, and U.S. citizens protesting ICE; and Rep. John Larson filed impeachment articles, seventy Democrats invoked the 25th Amendment, and Tucker Carlson, Alex Jones, and Megyn Kelly all said Trump went too far — which is the political equivalent of your getaway driver calling the cops. Tape rolls. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.