David Ignatius: Trump doesn’t have anybody he can settle this war with yet
Morning Joe
Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, MS NOW, Willie Geist
3.9 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | On Iran, you called it an excursion. You said it would be over soon. Are you thinking this week |
| 0:07.2 | it will be over? No, but soon. I think so. Okay. And with respect to- Very soon. Look, everything |
| 0:13.5 | they have is gone, including their leadership. In fact, there are two levels of leadership, |
| 0:18.8 | and even actually, as it turns out, more than that, but two levels of leadership are gone. |
| 0:23.4 | Most people have never even heard about the leaders that they're talking about. |
| 0:26.8 | So it's obviously been very, very powerful, very effective. |
| 0:32.2 | That was presidential yesterday. |
| 0:34.8 | Hello, Joe. |
| 0:35.7 | Telling reporters, the war with Iran could end soon while touting the |
| 0:40.1 | success of the U.S. military. But during that news conference, he gave conflicting statements |
| 0:45.4 | about the future of the conflict that do not align with messaging from his administration. |
| 0:51.3 | That's just one of the several angles we'll following this morning, |
| 0:54.9 | including new reporting that the president would support the killing of Iran's new leader, |
| 0:59.6 | if he doesn't agree to the administration's demands, plus the dramatic impact on the global economy, |
| 1:06.2 | with oil prices spiking at one point yesterday to the highest level in four years. And the growing |
| 1:12.4 | questions, Joe, about the deadly strike on an elementary school in Iran. Your thoughts? |
| 1:20.1 | Well, I mean, you know, we're different from other countries. We're supposed to be different |
| 1:24.5 | from other countries. When we make horrible mistakes in warfare, |
| 1:28.2 | we admit it. We need to admit it. And this is a situation where it certainly looks like all the evidence |
| 1:32.8 | suggests that it was an American tomahawk missile. Iranians don't have it as far as I'm, |
| 1:39.3 | as far as anything I've ever read. And so yeah, we were we were aiming at a naval base. There was, uh, tragically a school |
| 1:47.2 | nearby there. And, and that missile got guided in. And the intel must have had that as one of |
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