Soon: Trump Speaks As He Weighs Iran Strikes, Military Buildup Expands
Erin Burnett OutFront
CNN
3.9 • 715 Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Out front next, the breaking news. President Trump about to deliver his state of the union |
| 0:06.6 | address to his biggest audience this year, as Democrats prepare to fight back, the Minneapolis |
| 0:11.9 | Mayor, Jacob Fry, who will be responding to Trump tonight as our guest, plus Savannah |
| 0:16.5 | Guthrie, making her first public plea in more than a week, offering now a reward of up to $1 million. |
| 0:23.4 | CNN tonight will be inside the room where officials are getting the tip calls. |
| 0:28.1 | And why is Mexico's president threatening to sue Elon Musk? |
| 0:32.1 | Let's go out front. |
| 0:35.9 | And good evening, I'm Aaron Burnett, and welcome to a special edition of Outfront. We begin with the |
| 0:40.2 | breaking news this hour, and that is President Trump is set to address his largest audience of the year. |
| 0:45.6 | It is State of the Union night. And mistakes for Trump could not be higher because it comes as he has amassed, |
| 0:51.2 | the biggest military buildup in the Middle East since the Iraq war, |
| 0:54.8 | with threats to attack Iran imminently. And it also comes, as Trump was handed, the biggest defeat |
| 0:59.6 | of his presidency by the Supreme Court, over his executive power on tariffs, which, of course, |
| 1:04.2 | has been a centerpiece of his second term. And then there is the political context, the growing |
| 1:09.3 | cracks within MAGA, and a country, when you look at independence, that is incredibly frustrated with Trump's priorities. |
| 1:15.6 | According to the latest CNN poll, we'll show you these numbers. |
| 1:18.5 | Right now, only 32% of Americans say that Trump is focusing on the country's most pressing problems and 68% say his priorities are wrong. |
| 1:26.3 | Those are pretty stunning numbers, and that means that there is a lot riding on how Trump chooses |
| 1:30.7 | to handle tonight. |
| 1:32.2 | We have an incredible team of reporters standing by. |
| 1:34.3 | Kristen Holmes, of course, at the White House. |
| 1:36.5 | David Culver is in Mexico, a country obviously erupting in violence in the past few days |
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