Trump: “I Expect to Be Bombing” if No Progress in Iran Talks
The Lead with Jake Tapper
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🗓️ 22 April 2026
⏱️ 81 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Trump's ceasefire with Iran has been suspended the deadline for it. |
| 0:09.0 | Indefinitely, the lead starts right now. |
| 0:13.0 | Breaking news with a ceasefire that was said to expire in exactly 24 hours, President Trump is now ordering the U.S. military to hold off on any |
| 0:23.2 | attacks, keep up the blockade on Iranian ports, but he's going to wait until the Iranians are |
| 0:28.8 | ready to respond. We're going to sort out where this unstable situation stands right now. |
| 0:33.8 | Plus, it's just a few minutes before hearing about her alleged corruption, Democrat |
| 0:39.9 | Sheila Scherfellus, McCormick. Just before that was supposed to happen, she resigned from Congress, |
| 0:46.0 | and she's not the only high-profile woman in politics being shown the exit. And, grilled on the hill, Trump's pick to lead the Federal Reserve, Kevin Warsh. He insists he will not be a, quote, sock puppet for President Trump. But his sketchy answer, when asked straight up, did Donald Trump lose the 2020 election, has some people concerned. |
| 1:18.5 | Welcome to the lead. I'm Jake Tapper. We're going to start with breaking news in our world lead. A short time ago, President Trump announced that he is no longer imposing a deadline |
| 1:24.3 | for the Iranians to respond. He is extending the ceasefire that was set to expire |
| 1:29.3 | tomorrow at this time. He's extending it again. It sounds like indefinitely. He posted on |
| 1:36.8 | truth social, quote, we have been asked to hold our attack on the country of Iran until such time |
| 1:41.7 | as their leaders and representatives can come up with a unified proposal |
| 1:44.9 | I have therefore directed our military to continue the blockade and in all other respects |
| 1:51.0 | remain ready and able and will therefore extend the ceasefire until such time as their proposal |
| 1:55.8 | is submitted and discussions are concluded one way or another unquote in other words, the deadline has been replaced with what sounds a lot like the opposite of a deadline, |
| 2:08.3 | an indefinite time period. |
| 2:10.8 | The ceasefire extension comes just one day before it was set to expire tomorrow, 5 p.m. |
| 2:14.8 | Eastern, and amidst a muddle of mixed messages from President Trump and his |
| 2:19.8 | team about this war. The second round of peace talks with Iran were supposed to have started yesterday. |
| 2:27.2 | President Trump told ABC News on Sunday morning that Vice President J.D. Vance was not going to head to |
| 2:32.9 | Pakistan to do the peace talks. Then Trump |
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