1,000 U.S. Soldiers From 82nd Airborne Preparing To Deploy
Laura Coates Live
CNN
3.9 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Tonight, the 82nd Airborne, expected to deploy, just as Trump claims the war is won, and a deal is near. |
| 0:11.0 | Plus, Mar-a-Lago goes blue? |
| 0:15.0 | The election upset that has Democrats giddy about November. |
| 0:19.0 | And shady or just lucky? |
| 0:22.4 | The suspicious trades being made on the prediction markets, |
| 0:25.7 | but as Congress suddenly paying attention? |
| 0:28.3 | Tonight on Laura Coates Live. |
| 0:36.4 | My opening statement tonight, you know, you don't usually send more firepower into a war that you say you've already won. |
| 0:43.6 | That's exactly what President Trump seems to be preparing for with Iran. |
| 0:47.9 | Our sources tell us about 1,000 soldiers with the Army's 82nd Airborne Division are getting ready to be deployed to the Middle East. |
| 0:55.3 | And that's on top of the thousands of Marines and sailors who are already on their way. |
| 1:00.3 | So the U.S. military is doing one thing, and Trump is saying something else. |
| 1:08.4 | You know, I don't like to say this. We've won this. This war has been won. |
| 1:13.4 | But a war isn't really over if the attacks are still happening. Dron attacks hit a city in |
| 1:19.4 | Iraq a short time ago and a fuel tag at Kuwait's international airport. And the United States is |
| 1:25.3 | still striking targets in Iran. If there really is any off-ramp here, |
| 1:29.5 | the diplomacy behind it is still pretty murky. Now, Trump is optimistic that a deal is in sight. |
| 1:36.4 | But how far any talks have actually gone? Well, that's still unclear. Now, publicly, Iran says |
| 1:42.3 | nothing is happening. |
| 1:44.2 | But one Iranian source is telling CNN that there has been outreach through intermediaries |
| 1:49.7 | and that they're willing to listen to sustainable proposals. |
| 1:54.7 | Now, the president is outright declaring Iran's already agreed to not having a nuclear weapon, |
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