This does not scare the Iranians: Joe reacts to Hegseth's 'We negotiate with bombs' remarks
Morning Joe
Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, MS NOW, Willie Geist
3.9 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | We have a president of the United States that when he sends his warfighters out to fight, |
| 0:05.0 | he unties their hands to actually go out and close with and destroy the enemy as viciously as possible from moment one. |
| 0:11.0 | And that's why we see ourselves as part of this negotiation as well. |
| 0:15.0 | We negotiate with bombs. You have a choice as we loiter over the top of Tehran, as the president talked about, |
| 0:22.0 | about your future. The president has made it clear that you will not have a nuclear weapon. |
| 0:26.5 | The War Department agrees. Our job is to ensure that. And so we're keeping our hand on that |
| 0:31.0 | throttle as long as as as is hard as is necessary to ensure the interest of the United States |
| 0:36.6 | of America are achieved on that battlefield. As long as it's hard. Yeah. You know, it's eyebrows. Like, yeah, okay. Well, I guess, you know, with the throttle down, right? Go like that. You know, it's very interesting to me that, you know, Donald Trump, any minute has ever talked to him while he's He always talks about Central Chemistry. |
| 0:55.6 | Okay. |
| 0:57.4 | This guy, I was uncomfortable. |
| 1:00.1 | This guy, about the throttle? |
| 1:02.6 | This guy is the opposite of Central Cassidy. |
| 1:07.5 | Like, he's a kid. |
| 1:09.8 | We negotiate with bombs. I mean, do do you think an Iranian like a member of the |
| 1:14.8 | revolutionary guards go oh this scares me very much no you're gonna what a clown you put the |
| 1:20.7 | generals up with all this yeah medals and they talk about it we're gonna i just but what was he |
| 1:26.6 | saying i don't know i don't know we'll talk about that later We're going to... I just... But what was he saying? I don't know. |
| 1:28.5 | I don't know. |
| 1:29.2 | We'll talk about that later. |
| 1:30.4 | Okay. |
| 1:30.9 | But do you get what I'm saying? This guy is the opposite of Central... This guy isn't Norm... Norman Swartz cough. Oh. Right? Oh, no. This guy isn't like... Those guys that were up in the Gulf War, the first Gulf War, |
| 1:44.0 | we've degraded. |
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