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Deadline: White House

"Here is where things stand"

Deadline: White House

Nicolle Wallace, MS NOW

Daily News, Msnbc, Government, News, Politics, Washington Dc, Versant, The White House, Nicolle Wallace, Ms Now

4.56.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Nicolle Wallace on a series of retaliatory strikes by Iran on oil and gas facilities across the Middle East -- adding fuel to the fire that is the worst oil supply crisis in history.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi there, everyone. It's 4 o'clock in New York. It is day 20 of the war with Iran.

0:10.6

And here's where things stand. A series of retaliatory strikes by Iran on oil and gas facilities across the Middle East is adding fuel to the fire that is the worst oil supply crisis in history.

0:23.0

It is so bad, in fact, that Donald Trump's own Treasury Secretary, Scott Besant, says they're

0:28.3

considering lifting sanctions on oil from Iran.

0:32.0

That is, of course, the country that we are at war with.

0:35.3

Here at home, Donald Trump's top national security officials left us all with more questions

0:39.8

and answers in a series of briefings.

0:42.1

Speaking before the House Intel Committee, Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard,

0:46.8

repeated a line she first trotted out yesterday to much criticism that a, quote, imminent threat

0:52.5

to our country is whatever Donald Trump says it is. Take a listen to this line of

0:57.4

questioning and answering by Congressman Jason Crowe. If you or the IC make any assessments as to the

1:05.5

timing of potential threats facing the United States from Iran in the last 90 days.

1:12.9

I'm sure there was timelines factored into the intelligence assessments that were delivered.

1:19.3

Did any of them show imminence?

1:21.9

The imminent nature of a threat is provided, is determined by the president based on a totality of the intelligence

1:28.9

and information provided to him. Okay. Her former deputy, Joe Kent, didn't agree and didn't

1:38.1

leave it to Donald Trump to tell us what the meaning of imminent is. Here he is in no uncertain terms

1:43.3

saying that there was, in fact, no imminent threat posed by Iran. Here he is, in no uncertain terms, saying that there was, in fact,

1:44.7

no imminent threat posed by Iran. The argument that there was an imminent threat, as in Iran was

1:51.7

planning to attack us immediately, that just simply did not exist. There was no intelligence that

1:57.6

said, hey, on whatever day it was, March 1st, the Iranians are going to launch

2:01.9

this big sneak attack. They're going to do some kind of a 9-11 Pearl Harbor, et cetera. They're

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