CENTCOM: U.S. Military Responded to “Unprovoked Iranian Attacks”

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 8 May 2026

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Multiple states are now monitoring Americans who may have been exposed to the hantavirus. Plus, the United States confirmed Iranian attacks in the Strait of Hormuz. A look at what it means for the ceasefire and negotiations to end the war. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:31.7	The White House insists it has good reasons
0:34.7	to keep the cameras and reporters away today.
0:37.1	The lead starts right now.
0:39.8	From a man hardly shy of a TV camera or reporters, today the opposite, the White House, shoeing
0:46.7	reporters away from a chance to ask the president questions and to hear from him directly
0:51.7	on the war with Iran. And now we're hearing the White House's reasoning as to why.
0:56.0	And as the President keeps up the tension,
1:00.0	today it is Secretary of State Marco Rubio facing the Pope Leo in a meeting.
1:06.0	I'm going to talk about it with a man who came to the U.S.
1:09.0	hidden in the trunk of a car and is soon to be bishop of a state that Trump won three times. Plus, is there even a slight chance of the Hanta virus coming to the U.S.? The state's tracking the risk as Americans who were on the cruise ship before the outbreak, return home.
1:28.3	Welcome to the lead.
1:32.3	I'm Jake Tapper.
1:33.3	We're going to start in our world lead.
1:34.3	It's strangely silent at the White House today.
1:37.3	That's the prospect of a deal to end the war between the U.S. and Iran is hanging in the balance.
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