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'I don't think it was a sell': Richard Haass on why Trump didn't make the case for war in Iran

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Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, MS NOW, Willie Geist

Issues, Washington, Politics, President, Campaign, Scarboro, Brezinski, News, Giest, Ms Now, Congress, Government, Election

3.98.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2026

⏱️ 54 minutes

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'I don't think it was a sell': Richard Haass on why Trump didn't make the case for war in Iran

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0:00.0

They had some weapons that nobody believed they had. We just learned that out. We took them out.

0:06.3

We took them all out so that no one would really dare stop them. And they raised for a nuclear bomb, a nuclear weapon, a nuclear weapon like nobody's ever seen before.

0:16.9

They were right at the doorstep. We are going to finish the job, and we're going to finish it very fast. We're getting very close.

0:23.1

The United States has never been better prepared economically to confront this threat. You all know that.

0:28.7

They were the bully of the Middle East, but they're the bully no longer.

0:32.5

This is a true investment in your children and your grandchildren's future.

0:38.8

Small sample of President Trump's address to the nation last night, trying to sell

0:44.0

Americans on the war in Iran, will have much more from that speech.

0:49.3

Earlier in the day, the president briefly attended a Supreme Court hearing on his executive

0:53.9

order to limit

0:55.5

birthright citizenship. The justices seem just a tad skeptical about the arguments against

1:02.5

the 14th Amendment as demonstrated by this short exchange.

1:08.8

Eight billion people are one plane right away from having a child as a U.S. citizen.

1:13.8

Well, it's a new world. It's the same constitution. Yeah, we'll talk more about that.

1:20.7

Can we just stop? Can we just stop for one second and just say when you hear the quote of the year,

1:26.7

you just want you just you just you just

1:30.3

want to just stop willie and you want it to wash over you you want it to wash over you

1:35.1

proud to be american this is what we this is what this is what this is what we've been hearing

1:38.7

willie for oh so so so long now oh this is a new world we have new child it's never been this bad we've got a shred

1:47.7

and so yesterday this poor john sour guy who we're going to get to the point where he's trying

1:53.5

to explain to nil gorsuch why native americans don't have birthright citizenship.

2:01.2

Or maybe he just doesn't know.

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