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Richard Haass: There is no argument for attacking Iran's bridges and power plants

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Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, MS NOW, Willie Geist

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

3.98.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2026

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Richard Haass: There is no argument for attacking Iran's bridges and power plants

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What about the rescue that took place yesterday?

0:04.0

What about that?

0:06.0

And something that you rarely see, you know, they were giving me a briefing about that.

0:12.0

And they said, normally when you're in very hostile territory, and I don't think it gets much more hostile than Iran.

0:18.0

They're capable fighters. They're very tough people. And there are

0:22.6

others like that. You don't mind when the enemy is weak, but that enemy is strong. Not so strong

0:28.0

like they were about a month ago. I can tell you, in fact, right now they're not too strong at all,

0:32.9

in my opinion, but we're soon going to find out, aren't we? President Trump.

0:38.4

So, Richard, I don't know what you're life about Richard.

0:40.2

There were many times when Richard was in Northern Ireland negotiating who would have

0:44.4

that same exact money.

0:45.9

It was a furry.

0:47.0

That is called the diplomatic, the bunny of peace.

0:51.0

That's very touching.

0:52.3

President Trump yesterday threatening major attacks on Iran flanked by the Easter bunny while hosting children at the White House for the Easter egg roll. Happy Easter, everybody. Good morning. And welcome to Morning Joe. It is Tuesday, April 7th. With us, we have the co-host of her 9 a.m. hour, staff writer at the Atlantic, Jonathan Lemire.

1:11.8

President Emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, Richard Haas, co-host of the Restis

1:17.3

Politics Podcast, Caddy Kay, managing editor at the bulwark, Sam Stein, doing way too early for us this morning.

1:24.5

Thank you. And former national security advisor under President Biden,

1:29.5

Jake Sullivan, joins us. We weren't going to talk about sports, but just very quickly. Okay,

1:33.9

Michigan won, right? There. It's done. Yeah, it was a grind of a game. Neither team could

1:39.3

shoot very well. They played it to more Yukon's pace, but Michigan just had a little too much

1:43.9

at the end. They made their free throws. We should give even more credit to Sam Stein for doing way too early. He's a diehard Yukon fan. Oh, sorry, Sam. In morning this morning. Playing hurt. That's a gamer. At least Sam is not a Red Sox fan because if you were a Red Sox fan, oh, wait a second. Red Sox and Yukon fan. Guys, it's even worse. Last night, under a dark star for Sam Stein. Guys, it's even worse. I was in the Easter egg outfit. Easter bunny outfit from Trump. It's been a long day, okay? That's funny. I like that a lot. We had a very, very busy day. There I am. A member of the cabinet. Ladies and gentlemen, there's Sam Stein. You did a good job. The guy is a tireless reporter. He'll do anything to get this story behind this story. All right. Let's get to the news. President Trump is once again threatening to devastate Iran's infrastructure

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