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Deadline: White House

"A presidency engulfed in twin crises"

Deadline: White House

Nicolle Wallace, MS NOW

Politics, News, Ms Now, Msnbc, Daily News, The White House, Nicolle Wallace, Versant, Washington Dc, Government

4.56.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Trump’s presidency is now engulfed in twin crises -- a ballooning national security crisis and an unprecedented political civil war within his political movement.

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0:00.0

Hi there, everyone. It's 4 o'clock in New York. Donald Trump's presidency is right now

0:10.7

engulfed in twin crises, a ballooning national security crisis and an unprecedented political

0:16.8

civil war within his own political movement. having plunged the United States of America

0:22.1

into a war with Iran without speaking to the country directly or honestly about that war's

0:27.6

objectives or the war's timeline or how it would be measured for success.

0:33.6

Donald Trump's own Secretary of State has revealed that the United States of America was essentially dragged into war by Israel.

0:42.6

We knew that there was going to be an Israeli action. We knew that that would precipitate an attack against American forces.

0:48.8

And we knew that if we didn't preemptively go after them before they launched those attacks, we would suffer higher casualties

0:54.4

and perhaps even higher those killed. And then we would all be here answering questions about

0:58.8

why we knew that and didn't act. Rubio's comments right there sent shockwaves across the political

1:05.3

spectrum. Here's how the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, Mark Warner, summed it up.

1:11.7

There was no imminent threat to the United States of America by the Iranians.

1:22.4

There was a threat to Israel.

1:27.1

And if we equate a threat to Israel as the equivalent of an imminent threat

1:32.3

to the United States, then we are in uncharted territory. Now, as I said, the reaction

1:42.1

is not tied up in the typical partisan confines of our normal political debates.

1:48.1

On the right, the reaction was more swift and more furious.

1:52.0

Even Steve Bannon has questions.

1:53.5

Watch.

1:55.6

If we knew they were going to be, that Iran was going to be attacked and they would attack us,

2:01.2

is there no coordination in this? I think that has to be explained. Our government's job is not to

2:05.7

look out for Iran or for Israel. It's to look out for us. What is happening to the man that I

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