Hegseth: War With Iran Has “Only Just Begun”
Anderson Cooper 360
CNN
3.7 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening today. President Trump calls the war against Iran an amazing thing. |
| 0:12.6 | And Israel launches a new war strikes. Take a look at a new video from the Israeli military. |
| 0:16.7 | The Pentagon says it will be hitting deeper into Iran and says American forces have now substantially |
| 0:22.3 | degraded Tehran's capability to retaliate like they did yesterday in a drone strike on the U.S. |
| 0:27.8 | consulate in Dubai. We have Consulate compound in Dubai yesterday. |
| 0:48.8 | Today, Joint Chiefs Chairman Dan Kane said that attacks like that are down 73 percent, |
| 0:54.4 | though shortly before airtime Iran's state-run news agency reported that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps hit an Amazon data center in Bahrain. |
| 1:02.2 | We haven't independently confirmed that. |
| 1:04.3 | It was General Kane who told reporters that American forces will start, quote, striking progressively deeper into Iran while cautioning that military |
| 1:12.3 | operations were still at a very early stage. And Defense Secretary Hegstad said the effort to |
| 1:17.4 | dismantle Iran's military has, in his words, only just begun. |
| 1:22.9 | Death and destruction from the sky all day long. We're playing for keeps. Our warfighters have |
| 1:32.5 | maximum authorities granted personally by the president and yours truly. Our rules of engagement |
| 1:38.0 | are bold, precise, and designed to unleash American power, not shackle it. This was never meant to be a fair |
| 1:46.8 | fight, and it is not a fair fight. We are punching them while they're down, which is exactly |
| 1:54.2 | how it should be. The Pentagon also released this video, and what it shows is remarkable. |
| 2:05.6 | You're looking through the periscope, an American attack sub at the Iranian warship it has just torpedoed as it sinks off the coast of Sri Lanka. |
| 2:08.6 | The Sri Lankan Navy says it rescued 35 sailors from the sea, later telling the Associated |
| 2:13.6 | Press it also recovered 87 bodies. |
| 2:15.6 | The President, meantime, had this to say about how things are going, |
| 2:18.7 | in his opinion. |
| 2:19.6 | We're doing very well on the war front, to put it mildly, I would say. Somebody said, on a scale |
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