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All In with Chris Hayes

‘Massive political failure’: Hayes, Wallace react to Trump prime-time address

All In with Chris Hayes

MS NOW, Chris Hayes

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4.55.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2026

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Chris Hayes and Nicolle Wallace give their immediate reactions to Donald Trump’s address to the nation on the Iran war.

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0:00.0

That was the President of the United States with a 19-minute address from the blue room there in the White House addressing the war with Iran.

0:08.4

If you were expecting something new, you did not get it.

0:11.8

It was a litany of lies that he's told before about facts of the matter that Barack Obama gave the Iranians billions of dollars. He didn't.

0:22.4

It was repatriated assets that had been seized by the United States pursuant to that negotiated

0:27.0

deal, that Iran was on the doorstep of nuclear weapon. There is literally no one who says they were.

0:32.4

In fact, he himself said that the program had been obliterated, that there was a desire perhaps to

0:37.8

rebuild it, but there was no doorstep that it was on.

0:40.7

He said that 45,000 Iranians have been killed by the regime in the latest Iran of protest.

0:44.7

That is an estimate that I have heard nowhere.

0:47.7

The highest estimate I've heard is 35,000 that is contested, very difficult to ascertain.

0:53.3

There were many, many people killed by this regime, but 45,000 is passed even the most aggressive

1:00.1

estimates I've seen about that.

1:02.6

He then basically said what he has been saying, that the objectives have been accomplished,

1:09.2

that they have been decimated, that they will continue

1:12.2

to pursue for two or three weeks, that they didn't seek regime change, but the regime has changed,

1:18.3

that if there are no negotiations, they will, the United States will send Iran they, Iran is a

1:24.1

country, meaning it's 90 million people, back to the Stone Age where they belong,

1:28.9

and will commence in the absence of negotiations bombing electric plants, which would be a war crime,

1:34.8

those are civilian infrastructure, and oil installments, which he said they have not done.

1:42.0

Two to three weeks was the timeline he gave for that. He reminded everyone with a very

1:46.5

long litany of other wars the U.S. had been involved in, including World War II, where I think

1:50.8

the reasons and objectives that were pretty clear that they were longer than the 33 days that

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