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To the Point

President Trump is trapped in history

To the Point

KCRW

News

4.4583 Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

President Trump and Iran’s Ayatollah brushed with armed conflict this week. Did it all begin with the U.S. embassy takeover in 1979 or the violent replacement of Iran’s elected president in 1953? What will killing an Iranian general mean for America’s third president to face impeachment?

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0:00.0

Mother, Mother, there's too many of you cry.

0:04.0

Brother, brother, there's far too many of you cry. There's far too many of you die.

0:26.6

Hello again, I'm Orman Alney, and this is To the Point.

0:29.9

As long as I'm president of the United States, Iran will never be allowed to have a nuclear weapon.

0:39.3

Good morning.

0:41.0

Even before he said good morning, President Trump began his statement responding to Iranian missile attacks in Iran by saying Iran's not going to have a nuclear weapon.

0:50.6

The attacks, of course, were themselves a response by Iran to America's killing of Iranian general

0:56.2

Harsim Soleimani.

0:58.4

Jennifer Rubin is a conservative blogger for The Washington Post.

1:01.5

Thanks for joining us.

1:02.4

Nice to be here.

1:03.5

How do you see this whole situation, and what do you think it has to do with the presidential campaign?

1:08.5

Well, I think what we saw today was the president and his advisors and even some Republicans

1:14.3

in the Senate say, you know, I think Iran has given us an off-lamp here.

1:19.4

Let's take it.

1:20.3

In other words, their missile response to the killing of General Soleimani did not kill any Americans. It was limited. And they put it out

1:30.8

with a message that essentially said, if you stop, we'll stop. And thankfully, the president,

1:36.7

who is often quite reckless and creates these crises, really doesn't have a stomach to take

1:42.9

it the next step, thank goodness, and therefore

1:45.4

seem to have backed down.

1:47.3

I would caution, I don't think we've seen the end of Iran's response.

1:51.2

A very common pattern for them is not to necessarily send a rocket directly from Tehran,

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