Trump: Firefight with Iran was a ‘Love Tap’

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🗓️ 8 May 2026

⏱️ 30 minutes

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The U.S. fires on military targets along the Iranian coast after a firefight at sea. Health workers conduct contact tracing to monitor whether passengers left a ship with hantavirus. And the Justice Department investigates lucrative oil trades just before key decisions in Iran. (Photo: U.S. Navy) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Right, home from work, walk the dog, kids are back.
0:05.0	Mom!
0:06.0	Up the stairs for something.
0:08.0	Ugh, back down, no idea what I went up for.
0:12.0	Mom, what's for dinner?
0:14.0	Chop, sizzle, done.
0:17.0	Hello Fresh can't slow life down, but it makes bringing everyone together around the table a whole lot easier.
0:23.4	So its phones down, forks up.
0:25.5	Hello Fresh. Bring back dinner time.
0:29.8	It's Friday, May 8th. The war had shifted away from land, then this happened.
0:35.5	We start here.
0:38.1	The Pentagon confirms it's fired on Iranian military targets.
0:42.7	They trifled with us today.
0:44.9	We blew them away.
0:46.1	The President Trump is describing this as just a love tap.
0:49.0	The race is on to hunt down passengers who might have the haunt a virus.
0:52.9	Investigators essentially reconstruct where infected individuals were, who they spent time with.
0:58.4	Experts say, no, this is not the next COVID. We'll hear why. And did you notice that all these big
1:03.5	announcements about Iran were making people rich? Traders bet almost a billion dollars that oil prices
1:09.9	would fall. The Justice Department says something looks off here.
1:13.4	Now they're investigating.
1:15.8	From ABC News, this is Start Here.
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