Trump claims Iranians 'want to hear bombs' because they want to be free
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🗓️ 6 April 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Our White House correspondent, Liz Landers, was in the briefing room for President Trump's press conference today, and she joins us now. |
| 0:06.2 | So, Liz, let's talk more about that 48-hour timeline the president has given Iran. |
| 0:09.8 | What more do we know about that? |
| 0:11.0 | That latest deadline is at 8 p.m. Eastern tomorrow. |
| 0:14.6 | And the president set this yesterday. |
| 0:16.4 | So we're about 24 hours from when that deadline is going to be reached. |
| 0:19.9 | And that is when the president is |
| 0:21.1 | threatening to bomb power plants, bridges, other sites across Iran. He, though, Jeff, has extended |
| 0:29.0 | some of these timelines, these self-imposed timelines throughout the last month or so of this |
| 0:34.2 | conflict. So that could change tomorrow. And I think we should be on the lookout for |
| 0:38.4 | that. And he was asked today by a reporter in that press conference about the shifting messaging |
| 0:43.3 | throughout this war. Take a listen to what he said. Your messaging on the war has moved from the war is |
| 0:50.0 | coming to an end to war going to be bombing Iran to the Stone Ages. And we've heard a range of those kind of messages. So are you, so which is it? Are you winding this down? Can't tell you. I can't tell you. I don't know. I can't tell you. It depends what they do. This is a critical period. They have a period of, well, till tomorrow at 8 o'clock, I gave them an extension. They asked for an extension |
| 1:13.1 | of seven days, right? I said, Steve, give them 10 days. The president was asked if those |
| 1:21.3 | threats to bomb energy infrastructure amounted to a war crime. And he said that he's not concerned about that and that he |
| 1:29.1 | hopes that he doesn't have to do that. But he says, no, no, I'm not concerned, Jeff. |
| 1:33.1 | The president also said he was upset about what he called a leaker in the government who told |
| 1:37.9 | members of the media about the second missing airmen. Tell us more about that. Last week, there was |
| 1:43.1 | enormous interest around what happened |
| 1:45.2 | with this aircraft that went down in Iran. Of course, news outlets were reporting on this, and in particular, |
| 1:51.2 | the missing second airman. President today said that he's going to pursue whoever leaked that |
| 1:55.8 | information and threatened both the leaker, but he also made a point of threatening the journalists that reported this last week. |
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