Trump's belated case for war in Iran
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🗓️ 2 April 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Host Mary Louise Kelly, NPR Pentagon Correspondent Tom Bowman and NPR National Security Correspondent Greg Myre discuss the Trump's vision for the next phase of the war and the many questions left unanswered.
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| 0:00.0 | He didn't say, is there going to be some agreement that's going to end this war, or is |
| 0:07.9 | U.S. simply going to walk away? |
| 0:10.8 | More than 30 days after the United States launched a war in Iran, just as President Trump |
| 0:17.4 | says that war is nearing completion, he finally made the case for war to the American people. |
| 0:23.1 | This is sources and methods from NPR. |
| 0:28.7 | I'm Mary Louise Kelly every Thursday on this podcast. |
| 0:32.1 | I dive deep on some of the week's biggest national security stories with NPR reporters out there covering them. |
| 0:40.3 | For the last few weeks, the story has been Iran. And happily, we have two of our most regular |
| 0:45.7 | regulars in the studio with me to talk about it. NPR Pentagon correspondent Tom Bowman. Hey, Tom. Hey, Mary Louise. |
| 0:51.2 | And sitting right next to him is NPR National Security correspondent Greg Myrie. |
| 0:56.5 | Howdy, Greg? |
| 0:57.0 | Hi, Mary Louise. |
| 0:57.6 | So nice to have the gang all together. |
| 1:00.1 | I will note, timestamp, we are speaking. |
| 1:03.1 | It is 11 a.m. Eastern. |
| 1:05.7 | It is Thursday. |
| 1:07.6 | And here we go. |
| 1:09.6 | Five weeks into this war with Iran, President Trump broke into prime time, |
| 1:14.8 | addressed the nation from the White House, and said this. We are going to finish the job, |
| 1:19.2 | and we're going to finish it very fast. We're getting very close. He spoke for 19 minutes, |
| 1:24.0 | which is kind of a long time to speak uninterrupted and managed not to say that much, |
| 1:30.1 | by which I mean most of what we heard last night, we had already heard. It was a rehash of a lot of |
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