“The United States’ allies refuse to be bullied”
Deadline: White House
Nicolle Wallace, MS NOW
4.5 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there, everyone. It's 4 o'clock in New York, day 17 of the war with Iran, and here's where things stand. |
| 0:12.3 | 13 U.S. service members have lost their lives. More than 140 have been injured. On the unintended |
| 0:18.8 | consequences side of the House, Donald Trump is trying and failing to bully |
| 0:22.7 | our allies into helping him break Iran's stranglehold on the Strait of Hormuz, through which |
| 0:27.7 | one-fifth of the world's oil supply travels. The price of gas continues to soar, and Donald |
| 0:33.2 | Trump's energy secretary admits that there is no guarantee, the prices will come down soon. Facing a mountain of bad headlines, team Trump's energy secretary admits that there is no guarantee, the prices will come down soon. |
| 0:39.0 | Facing a mountain of bad headlines, team Trump's response to threaten to revoke the broadcast |
| 0:44.4 | licenses of networks who dare to report the truth. Now in its third week, and the war with Iran |
| 0:50.3 | does not look anything like the, quote, little excursion Trump claimed. Today, an Iranian drone |
| 0:55.4 | struck Dubai's airport. That is one of the busiest in the world, causing a new round of disruptions. |
| 1:01.6 | Israel is expanding its operations in southern Lebanon to fight Hezbollah. Here at home, oil prices now |
| 1:07.8 | average $3.71 a gallon. That is up almost 25 cents from one week ago. |
| 1:14.4 | Pressed about the spike in prices, Trump's Energy Secretary, that's Chris Wright, tried to say |
| 1:19.7 | that this is a case of short-term pain for long-term gain before backing off that claim in a matter |
| 1:24.4 | of seconds. This is why President Trump needed to act now before to stop the killing of American soldiers, |
| 1:32.3 | to stop the destabilization in the region, and to end Iran's ability to threaten energy markets. |
| 1:39.3 | Yes, we go through this period of short-term disruption, but better to do it now than to have a nuclear |
| 1:44.6 | armed Iran. Are you really sure it's going to be short-term? Can you guarantee it'll just be weeks |
| 1:51.5 | before prices go down? Hey, there's no guarantees in wars at all. I can guarantee this situation |
| 1:59.7 | would be dramatically worse without this military |
| 2:03.3 | operation to defang the Iranian regime. Now the Trump administration is asking for help to solve |
| 2:10.9 | the oil supply crisis. It created the Wall Street Journal reports that the administration wants |
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