Morning Joe: 'Trump should make a good-faith effort at diplomacy in Iran': Richard Haass

Morning Joe

Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, MS NOW, Willie Geist

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

3.9 • 8.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he was still considering a U.S. military strike on Iran’s nuclear sites. “I may do it. I may not do it,” he said. “Nobody knows what I’m going to do.” The Morning Joe panel discusses the president's options in the region. This episode aired June 19, 2025, from 6-10 AM

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0:00.0	How many people live in Iran, by the way?
0:02.9	I don't know the population.
0:04.6	At all?
0:05.5	No, I don't know the population.
0:07.6	You don't know the population in the country you seek to topple?
0:10.3	Why is that relevant?
0:11.0	Because if you don't know anything about the country.
0:12.3	I didn't say I don't know anything about that.
0:13.4	Okay, what's the ethnic mix of Iran?
0:16.5	They are Persians and predominantly Shia.
0:19.3	Okay. No, it's not even, you don't know anything about Iran.
0:22.8	So, actually the country.
0:23.9	Okay, I am not the Tucker Carlson expert on Iran.
0:26.8	You're a senator who's calling to the overthrow in the government.
0:29.6	You're the one who plays.
0:31.6	No, you don't know anything about the country.
0:34.6	The rift between Republicans over Iran on full display right there, as Senator Ted Cruz of Texas,
0:42.5	who has been a strong supporter of military action, and Tucker Carlson, who has been very much opposed,
0:49.3	sparring during an interview there. That went on for quite some time.
0:52.6	Well, as you know, though, I mean,
0:58.7	there is, there's precedent to this because, you know, before Jonathan Lemire, you will remember that before Dwight Eisenhower launched the D-Day attacks on June 6th, 1944, Ike got him
1:08.6	on a transatlantic phone call and was actually peppering him with trivial
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