As Missiles Rain Down, Trump Weighs Options

The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer

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🗓️ 19 June 2025

⏱️ 78 minutes

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A source tells CNN that President Trump has reviewed various attack plans for Iran, but he is holding off, at least for now, to see if Tehran will back away from its nuclear program. This, as Israel says a major hospital was struck by Iran and suffered extensive damage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	happening now breaking news as you hear right there sirens just went off across northern
0:13.2	israel the idf says iran is launching a 10 to 15 missile barrage toward israel plus new CNN reporting on President Trump's thinking as he weighs weather to strike Iran.
0:26.6	Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world.
0:30.6	I'm Wolf Blitzer with Pamela Brown and you're in the situation room.
0:45.3	This is CNN breaking news. Breaking news, a source tells CNN that President Trump has reviewed
0:49.3	various attack plans for Iran, but he is holding off, at least for now,
0:53.3	to see if Tehran will back away
0:56.0	from its nuclear program. This, as Israel says, a major hospital in the southern part of Israel
1:03.0	was struck by Iran. Israel says this hospital suffered extensive damage. Just moments ago,
1:10.1	just moments ago, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke with the reporters.
1:13.6	Listen to this.
1:15.6	I think it says everything about Israel and about Iran. Israel is fighting to remove the nuclear missile threat
1:24.6	aimed at our annihilation. We're targeting military sites.
1:28.3	We're targeting nuclear sites.
1:30.3	We're targeting missile sites.
1:32.3	They're targeting a hospital.
1:34.3	In this hospital, there are patients who are immobile.
1:37.3	They can't even move.
1:38.3	Right next to it is a children's ward, a baby's ward, infants.
1:42.3	They target it.
1:43.3	They can give this nonsense that they're targeting military sites.
1:47.4	What military sites?
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