David Ignatius: A longer, wider war than was expected
Morning Joe
Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, MS NOW, Willie Geist
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🗓️ 3 March 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Our objectives are clear. First, we're destroying Iran's missile capabilities, and you see that |
| 0:08.8 | happening on an hourly basis and their capacity to produce brand new ones and pretty good ones |
| 0:14.6 | they make. Second, we're annihilating their navy. We've knocked out already 10 ships. They're at the bottom of the sea. |
| 0:23.5 | Third, we're ensuring that the world's number one sponsor of terror can never obtain a nuclear weapon. |
| 0:32.7 | President Trump speaking yesterday about the strikes against Iran will have the very latest on the attacks throughout the region and the reasoning from the administration on why it took action in the first place. |
| 0:45.3 | That's moving a little bit. |
| 0:46.8 | Well, the reasoning is, has continues to change. And Marco Rubio yesterday gave one of the kind of craziest reasons that I've heard yet. |
| 0:57.9 | We'll play that for you. Also this morning, the House Oversight Committee released his video of |
| 1:02.1 | former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former President Bill Clinton's depositions |
| 1:06.6 | in the Jeffrey Epstein investigation. |
| 1:12.2 | Excuse me, can I interrupt? |
| 1:14.8 | There are photos that are being released of the secretary as she is testifying from inside this room. |
| 1:21.7 | Can you please advise me as to whether or not that's permissible and consistent with the rules, |
| 1:26.2 | particularly given that we have asked |
| 1:28.4 | for public hearing. If there are photos that are being released of the secretary as she is testifying, |
| 1:33.3 | can you please explain how that can occur? I'm done with this. If you guys are doing that, |
| 1:36.4 | I am done. You can hold me in contempt from now until the cows come home. This is just typical |
| 1:41.0 | behavior. We will go off the record. Oh, for heaven's sake. |
| 1:44.8 | So I would like to understand how that's permissible. |
| 1:48.4 | It doesn't matter. |
| 1:49.8 | We all are abiding by the same rules. |
| 1:52.3 | I will take that down. |
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