'One step away': Escalating hostilities test U.S.-Iran truce
The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle
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🗓️ 5 May 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Tonight, the U.S. and Iran are back on the brink of an all-out war. |
| 0:05.0 | New attacks are calling the ceasefire into question, while gas prices surge and the President's |
| 0:10.0 | approval rating tanks. |
| 0:11.0 | Then, the coming gas crunch in California, as the last oil tanker from the Persian Gulf reaches |
| 0:17.0 | the West Coast. |
| 0:18.0 | Plus, two of the biggest leaders in artificial intelligence are |
| 0:21.7 | facing off in a trial, while fear of the industry's growing power gets Washington's attention |
| 0:27.2 | as the 11th hour gets underway on this Monday night. |
| 0:33.5 | Good evening once again. I am Stephanie Ruhl. Joining you live from L.A., I am out here for the Milken Institute Global Conference. |
| 0:40.5 | It has been more than two months at this point since the war in Iran began. And in that time, |
| 0:46.1 | Uniwick gas prices have done soared. Gone up nearly 50%. The national average is now $4.46 a gallon. |
| 0:53.1 | And the American people, no surprise, are not happy. |
| 0:56.4 | A new Washington Post poll shows that only 33% support President Trump's handling of the war in Iran, |
| 1:02.5 | only 34% approve of his handling of the economy, and is even lower when it comes to the cost of living. |
| 1:08.5 | How about his job approval overall has reached an all-time low, |
| 1:12.4 | now sitting at 37 percent. But the president, he doesn't believe it. Or at least that is not what he is |
| 1:18.0 | telling you. Watch this. They said 32 percent of the people are against President Trump. Well, when you |
| 1:25.2 | explain it, like, is it okay for Iran to have a nuclear |
| 1:29.9 | weapons? It wouldn't be 32%. But even if you said that, there'd be a 32% because the polls are fake. |
| 1:36.4 | They said, what's taking so long? We were in Vietnam, 19 years. We're in Iraq for many years, |
| 1:48.7 | 10 years, 12 years. We're in all these different wars. But you had the wrong person up here? You'll be in World War III. If that was hard to follow, don't feel bad, |
| 1:58.0 | because the president was not any clearer when asked whether the ceasefire between |
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