{"podcast":{"title":"The Beat with Ari Melber","slug":"the-beat-with-ari-melber-743451","podcast_index_feed_id":743451,"rss_url":"https://podcastfeeds.nbcnews.com/the-beat-with-ari-melber","website_url":"https://www.ms.now/","image_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/bac1b529-5924-47d7-a26e-2bb1c59c1103/74d0c257-fe33-4fb8-958a-b992b3d3dfc5/3000x3000/ms-20now-20rebrand-tb-3000x3000.jpg?aid=rss_feed","author":"Ari Melber, MS NOW","episode_count":1146,"summary":"Ari Melber delivers the biggest political and news stories of the day, with interviews and original reporting from around the nation. An Emmy-winning journalist, attorney and former Senate staffer, Melber cuts through the spin and the noise to tell you what's really happening. Real news, every night.","last_synced_at":"2026-08-01T10:20:46.746896+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-beat-with-ari-melber-743451"},"episode":{"title":"Trump WH Fears Iran War is \"Consuming\" his Presidency","slug":"trump-wh-fears-iran-war-is-consuming-his-presidency","published_at":"2026-07-24T23:18:15+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-beat-with-ari-melber-743451/trump-wh-fears-iran-war-is-consuming-his-presidency","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-beat-with-ari-melber-743451","url":"https://www.ms.now/","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/injector.simplecastaudio.com/d41147e2-9082-47cd-909a-165d88b1e209/episodes/79828336-3de4-462d-bb3d-763763315adb/audio/128/default.mp3?aid=rss_feed&awCollectionId=d41147e2-9082-47cd-909a-165d88b1e209&awEpisodeId=79828336-3de4-462d-bb3d-763763315adb&feed=TA5rXVG0","summary":"Melissa Murray reports on new Wall Street Journal reporting detailing President Trump’s fury in the Oval Office over the Iran war. Former Obama speechwriter David Litt and MS NOW political analyst Michelle Goldberg join the discussion. Plus, Murray reports on troubling new questions about whether President Trump’s Pentagon is trying to hide and distort information about the Iran war.","meta_description":"Melissa Murray reports on new Wall Street Journal reporting detailing President Trump’s fury in the Oval Office over the Iran war. Former Obama speechwrit…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2509,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-beat-with-ari-melber-743451/episodes/trump-wh-fears-iran-war-is-consuming-his-presidency/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-beat-with-ari-melber-743451/trump-wh-fears-iran-war-is-consuming-his-presidency.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}