Has Iran found Trump's pressure point to end the war?

The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle

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🗓️ 11 March 2026

⏱️ 42 minutes

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New reporting on Trump’s advisers pushing him to find an exit ramp in Iran as U.S. casualties rise and airstrikes ramp up. Then, another volatile day for stocks and oil as the Energy Secretary posts incorrect information on the Strait of Hormuz. Plus, Ali Velshi joins to break down the results of Georgia's special election to replace Marjorie Taylor Greene as two candidates advance to the April 7 runoff. Alex Ward, Daniella Diaz, Dave Weigel, Brendan Greeley, Dan Nathan, Ali Velshi, and Ken Vogel join The 11th Hour this Tuesday night.

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0:00.0	Tonight, America's war in Iran enters day 12, as new reporting shows Trump's advisors are pushing
0:07.0	him to find an exit ramp, where things stand as U.S. casualties rise.
0:12.0	Then money power politics, another volatile day for stocks, as new reports surfaced that Iran
0:18.0	may be mining the Strait of Mamm's. Plus, election night in Georgia.
0:22.0	Ali Belchie is here with results from the race to fill Marjorie Taylor Green's seat
0:26.6	as the 11th hour gets underway on this Tuesday night. Good evening once again. I am Stephanie Ruhl, and today the Pentagon confirmed that about 140 U.S. service members have been wounded in the Iran war.
0:46.4	Eight of them are still seriously hurt. That is on top of the seven service members who have been killed in action.
0:52.2	Today, Pentagon officials said they're ramping up
0:54.5	strikes and moving further into Iran.
0:58.3	We continue to start working on and going deeper into Iran's military and industrial base in order
1:05.5	to prevent the regime from being able to attack Americans, our interests, and our partners for years to come
1:13.4	and project power outside their borders. This means servicing production facilities,
1:18.8	research and development sites, and infrastructure. Today will be, yet again, our most intense
1:25.2	day of strikes inside Iran.
1:27.7	The most fighters, the most bombers, the most strikes.
1:33.0	Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth also talked about what this war is not.
1:38.1	And when you listen to this, remember that the president said he should be involved in picking Iran's next leader and that America would, quote, work tirelessly to bring Iran back from the brink of destruction, making it economically bigger, better, and stronger than ever before. Watch this.
1:57.1	This is not 2003. This is not endless nation building under those types of quagmires we saw under Bush or Obama.
2:07.6	It's not even close.
2:09.6	I've heard from a lot of people who went through, I went through 20 years of those wars myself,
2:15.6	worried about getting dragged in, worried about mission creep,
2:18.0	worried about nation building, or democracy expansion. That's never the perspective the president
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