Trump prepared to 'unleash hell' on Iran, McSweeney's stolen phone & a new Harry Potter series
Cheat Sheet with Ridge & Frost
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🗓️ 26 March 2026
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump claims the US had no choice but to go to war with Iran - and also insists Tehran is desperate to make a peace deal.
The Prime Minister's given new powers for British forces to board and potentially detain Russian shadow fleets that pass through UK waters.
But why has the theft of the work phone owned by his former chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, not been investigated?
Plus, we've had a first glance at what the new Harry Potter series looks like.
Sophy and Wilf have the day’s news in 10 minutes.
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| 0:00.0 | Sky News, the full story first. |
| 0:10.6 | Donald Trump has claimed overnight the US had no choice but to go to war with Iran. |
| 0:15.3 | He also says that Iran is desperate in his words to make a peace deal. |
| 0:19.0 | The Prime Minister has given new powers for British forces to board and potentially detain |
| 0:23.3 | Russian shadow fleets that pass through British waters. |
| 0:27.2 | Hello, you're listening to Cheechy, a 10-minute podcast on the day's news. |
| 0:30.9 | It is Thursday the 26th March. |
| 0:33.0 | I'm Sophie Ridge. |
| 0:33.8 | And I'm Wilfred Frost. |
| 0:34.6 | Also today, we've got a first look at the new Harry Potter series as the trailer dropped overnight. You've got a couple of fans here. |
| 0:43.6 | So we have more words from Donald Trump overnight. And this comes, of course, after we know Iran has received a 15-point peace plan from theS., but it's been rejected. So he has said his |
| 0:55.7 | country had no choice but to go to war in Iran speaking at a Republican fundraiser. |
| 1:01.2 | I thought it would be much worse. I thought that the energy prices, oil price, would go up |
| 1:07.0 | higher. I thought the stock market would go somewhat lower. But it didn't matter to me. |
| 1:12.7 | It's short term. What we had to do is get rid of the cancer. We had to cut out the cancer. |
| 1:17.0 | The cancer was Iran with a nuclear weapon. And this, of course, comes after his press secretary |
| 1:23.3 | Karen and Levitt, said, if Iran doesn't accept defeat in the war, Donald Trump will hit |
| 1:29.2 | them harder than ever before. |
| 1:31.1 | If they fail to understand that they have been defeated militarily and will continue to be, |
| 1:36.5 | President Trump will ensure they are hit harder than they have ever been hit before. |
| 1:41.3 | President Trump, Dutt is not bluff, and he is prepared to unleash hell. |
| 1:45.1 | Matt comes as the Iranian foreign minister Abbas Arachi said his country has no intention |
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