Hegseth: Iran ‘Desperate’ and ‘Scrambling’
The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown
CNN
3.2 • 865 Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2026
⏱️ 89 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Happening now, breaking news, the Defense Secretary, saying Iran's leaders are, quote, |
| 0:07.0 | desperate and scrambling, the latest reporting from the Pentagon. |
| 0:11.0 | Plus, war timeline changing definitions from the White House on when the war with Iran will be considered over. |
| 0:19.0 | Catastrophic consequences, the world's top oil exporter, and its dire warning this morning |
| 0:24.3 | if the Strait of Hormuz disruptions continue. |
| 0:27.9 | Also, new video just coming into the Situation Room, Iranian missile launchers targeted by |
| 0:33.7 | U.S. forces. |
| 0:34.5 | The U.S. Military Central Command releases a video showing three |
| 0:38.7 | strikes on what it says were Iranian missile launchers. And late breaking news, a new threat |
| 0:44.5 | to America from a top Iranian official. We'll have the latest reporting. |
| 0:49.4 | Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. I'm Wolf Blitzer. Pamela Brown is off today. |
| 0:55.0 | You're in the Situation Room. |
| 0:57.0 | This is CNN breaking news. |
| 1:07.0 | We're following multiple breaking news stories this morning. |
| 1:10.0 | Right now, the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee is being briefed on the war with Iran. |
| 1:15.3 | CNN is just outside that meeting, and we will bring you all the late breaking developments. |
| 1:19.9 | Plus, President Trump says Iran has been, quote, trying to activate sleeper cells here |
| 1:26.3 | inside the United States, but says the U.S. government, quote, is watching every single one of them. |
| 1:32.3 | And five Iranian women's soccer players now have asylum in Australia. |
| 1:37.2 | They had been labeled, quote, traitors by Iranian state media for standing silently during the national anthem just before a game. And now, even more |
| 1:46.1 | team members are trying to get asylum as deep concerns for their safety grow. We have a team of |
| 1:52.3 | our correspondents and reporters fanned out across the globe with all the late-breaking reporting |
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