On today's podcast:

1) Iran sought to distance itself from a deadly attack on a US base in Jordan by a Tehran-backed militia, as President Joe Biden faced mounting pressure to order a harsh response against the Islamic Republic.

2) China Evergrande Group received a liquidation order from a Hong Kong court, setting off a daunting process to carve up the biggest casualty of a property crisis that’s upending the world’s second-largest economy.

3) Nikki Haley vowed to stay in the Republican presidential primary race at least through Super Tuesday while chiding a tabled plan by the Republican National Committee that called for the party to coalesce around Donald Trump.