Iranian leader: Enemies’ security must be taken away
Morning Joe
Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, MS NOW, Willie Geist
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🗓️ 20 March 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | To be clear on the Mojtabha, the son, who has been named to replace him, it is unclear of his |
| 0:07.2 | status or his involvement. He was injured very severely through one of the Israeli strikes. |
| 0:14.5 | And so the decision making is unclear about what's happening in the Iranian leadership. |
| 0:18.9 | So we're less certain of the |
| 0:21.3 | positions of Iranian leadership and their intentions than we were 60 days ago, correct? That's an |
| 0:27.0 | accurate assessment. What does the intelligence community assess Israel's goals in this war to be, |
| 0:32.4 | and are those goals aligned with the goals of the United States? |
| 0:46.0 | Yeah. are those goals aligned with the goals of the United States? I'm thinking carefully here about what can be said in this open setting versus a closed setting. |
| 0:51.8 | Are the goals aligned? |
| 0:58.8 | The objectives that have been laid out by the president are different from the objectives that have been laid out by the Israeli government. And how do they |
| 1:04.2 | differ? We can see through the operations that the Israeli government has been focused on disabling |
| 1:13.0 | the Iranian leadership. |
| 1:16.8 | Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, back on Capitol Hill yesterday, facing |
| 1:21.7 | more questions about the war in Iraq. |
| 1:24.4 | It comes as U.S. allies are signaling more support, but not necessarily |
| 1:29.5 | in the way that President Trump wants. We'll explain that. Meanwhile, the Trump administration is |
| 1:35.3 | considering lifting sanctions on Iranian oil already at sea as gas prices continue to spike. |
| 1:42.4 | Plus, we will fact-checked claims from President Trump and |
| 1:47.2 | Defense Secretary Pete Hexeth about U.S. aid to Ukraine and how it is factoring into this war. |
| 1:54.9 | Also ahead, an update on Senator Mark Wayne Mullen's nomination for DHS Secretary, |
| 1:59.7 | with the Republican receiving support from a colleague on the other side of the aisle. |
| 2:04.6 | We'll tell you who that is. |
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