Nightly News Roundup for Mar. 4, 2026

Tonight: Mike Johnson stands before reporters and announces the United States is not at war with Iran four days after the president named the operation, promised American casualties, and the Defense Secretary used the word "war" on camera twice before lunch, Pete Hegseth screens periscope footage of a torpedo splitting a ship carrying 180 people and describes the 148 deaths as a "quiet death" because that is the man running the Pentagon, the Justice Department releases 2.7 million Epstein documents and quietly pulls the 47,635 pages involving the sitting president for "further review" on a deadline that keeps sliding, Republicans subpoena their own attorney general for hiding files their own president's law required her to release and Pam Bondi responds by offering to brief a few of them at a time in a room with no cameras, the United States bombs Latin America for the 44th time and marks the occasion with a Pentagon hype video and no congressional authorization, Penn Wharton puts the Iran war tab at $115 billion and climbing toward $275 billion for a conflict the president describes as lasting "a little while," and Thomas Fugate — 23 years old, former grocery clerk, one year removed from college — runs domestic terrorism prevention at the Department of Homeland Security while the country is four days into a war that everyone but the Speaker is willing to name. Tape rolls. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.