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Trump: “I Guess” Americans Should Be Concerned About Iranian Attacks Inside U.S.

Anderson Cooper 360

CNN

News

3.73.8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

American forces have now hit more than 3,000 targets across Iran, according to U.S. Central Command in an update seven days into the fighting. President Trump spoke by phone with CNN's Dana Bash today, telling her that he must be involved in picking a new leader for Iran, and saying  "It’s gonna work very easily. It’s going to work like it did in Venezuela." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Good evening, thanks for joining us, starting off our CNN global war coverage tonight. A new progress report from U.S. Central Command seven days into the fighting. Thank you.

0:23.1

Bessin.

0:23.6

According to CENTCOM, American forces have now hit more than 3,000 targets across Iran.

0:29.6

This is a new video of a strike on Tehran.

0:31.6

And this video also new to us shows one of the capitals two airports on fire after the strikes. Iranian state media tonight reporting explosions from one end of Tehran to the other.

0:41.3

Some of it likely from Israel, which says it launched a new wave of its own air strikes on the city.

0:47.3

And in the last couple hours, there were new Iranian missiles for Israeli air defenses to deal with.

1:07.2

Sentcom also said that 43 Iranian ships have been damaged or destroyed since the war began,

1:10.2

including this drone carrier in the Persian Gulf.

1:12.0

Unclear, though, exactly when it was hit, and though Iran's capacity to strike back has certainly been degraded, it has not been

1:16.6

eliminated. New video from Basra and southern Iraq security forces there telling Reuters that

1:22.2

Iranian drones hit an office and warehouse compound belonging to an American logistics and petroleum services

1:29.4

company, both Halliburton and KBR. No word yet if anyone was hurt, but Iranian attacks on the

1:35.7

world's oil supply over the last seven days have pushed prices sharply higher, up more than 12%

1:40.7

today alone, the steepest one to gain since 2020.

1:49.6

Also today, CNN learned from multiple sources that Russia is providing Iran with intelligence,

1:54.3

much of its satellite imagery about the locations and movements of American troops,

1:58.2

ships and aircraft, which Iran is targeting with missiles like these.

2:02.9

We don't comment on intelligence reports that are leaked to the press.

2:06.2

Whether or not this happened, frankly, it does not really matter.

2:13.1

That is what White House Press Secretary Carolyn Levitt said when asked about it today.

2:14.8

So there's a lot to get to into this hour.

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