Washington Edition: Mixed messages
Trump touts both talks and threats on Iran Read in browser This is Washington Edition, the newsletter about money, power and politics in the nation's capital. Nancy Cook is off this week. Today, senior domestic policy reporter Ted Mann looks at the president's messaging on the war with Iran. Sign up here . Email our editors here . Carrots and Sticks In his approach to the war with Iran, President Donald Trump is trying to have it both ways, which is confounding voters and markets. This morning, before financial markets opened in the US, he announced on Truth Social that the US was negotiating with " A NEW, AND MORE REASONABLE, REGIME " to bring an end to the conflict followed quickly by the threat to destroy Iran's power infrastructure, oil wells and desalination p...