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Laura Coates Live

Iran: Strait of Hormuz Closed Amid Israeli Strikes on Lebanon

Laura Coates Live

CNN

News

3.92.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2026

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claimed shipping through the critical Strait of Hormuz stopped following what it said was an Israeli ceasefire violation in Lebanon. The White House previously said the ceasefire would continue if the strait stays open. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I want to bring in CNN's Ed Levindera at Johnson Space Center in Houston and former Navy SEAL and NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy.

0:08.5

He knows all four of the Artemis two crew members.

0:11.8

That was really so interesting to hear them share that powerful, the emotional reflections about their flight.

0:18.6

Ed talked to me a little bit about what were the takeaways from this mission.

0:22.8

They listed a number of things in terms of setting the future teams up for success.

0:30.1

I think one of the things I took away the most is that this is a crew of astronauts that is still trying to figure out the magnitude and the profound experience

0:40.7

that they've been through, trying to process all of that, make sense of it, figure out how

0:46.0

it's changed them or will change them in the future.

0:49.5

You almost had a chance here in the last 25 minutes to get a sense of how they're going through that process,

0:55.2

even as they've been on this long journey back from the moon, still almost 48 hours away from being here.

1:02.4

So that was really striking to me. And what really also stood out, Laura, is that before the event started,

1:08.4

we could see on the feed the astronauts getting ready for this.

1:12.9

They seemed to be in such amazing spirits.

1:15.9

We saw Reed Wiseman just laughing.

1:18.4

You can't hear them, but you can just hear them.

1:20.5

Something funny was going on inside that capsule,

1:22.9

but you could hear them just laughing or feel them just laughing really intensely.

1:27.3

You know, so you can just tell that they're having the absolute time of their lives up there.

1:32.7

But, you know, they are getting ready, Laura, for the most difficult part of this, the most

1:36.7

risky part of this, and that is the reentry coming back to Earth.

1:40.2

Remember, this is a test mission.

1:42.9

And they're obviously the reentryentry considering they're going to be

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