Trump has lost the Iran war hawks
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🗓️ 28 March 2026
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| 0:35.4 | So for 20 years, there's basically been one guy who was always known as the Iran war guy in Republican politics. |
| 0:42.3 | For years, even decades, Ambassador John Bolton has argued that America needs to push for regime change in Iran and take an active military role in making it happen. |
| 0:51.8 | But now that Trump is doing just that. |
| 0:54.0 | Ambassador Bolton says he's |
| 0:55.1 | actually going about it all wrong and making a big mistake. So how did Trump lose the Republican |
| 1:00.8 | Party's biggest Iran Warhawk? Let's find out. |
| 1:15.1 | Ambassador Bolton, thank you so much for joining us. |
| 1:16.2 | Well, thanks for having me. |
| 1:16.8 | Glad to be here. |
| 1:20.8 | Ambassador, I would love for you to just run through your credentials for a second. |
| 1:24.8 | We're going to be talking about, obviously, the growing war in Iran. |
| 1:28.6 | But I wanted for you to give our audience just a sense of how closely you've been tied to this for a while. Well, I've had the privilege to serve a number of |
| 1:33.4 | senior U.S. government officials going back to the Reagan and first Bush administration, second |
| 1:39.2 | Bush administration. I was under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International |
| 1:43.8 | Security. Then I was U.S. ambassador to the U.N., and I served in the first Trump term as a national security advisor for 17 months. I was his longest serving national security advisor. |
| 1:56.3 | Yeah, and obviously that's the part that we really want to focus on. I think you've become known as one of the most prominent American advocates for military action in Iran over a set of decades. |
| 2:05.0 | And this war is a sense, something that you've argued for long through your career. |
| 2:09.2 | But in recent weeks, you've emerged as one of the sharpest critics of the Trump administration's actions and how it's conducting this war. |
| 2:14.9 | I wanted you to walk me through your critiques. |
| 2:18.1 | Where do you think they went wrong from the perspective of someone who wanted to see this happen? Well, what I support |
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