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Runaway Country with Alex Wagner

Trump’s War of Choice Against Iran (w/ Rachel Maddow)

Runaway Country with Alex Wagner

Runaway Country with Alex Wagner

News, Society & Culture, Politics, Government

4.813.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2026

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Over a week into the war with Iran, the casualties, global economic fallout, and incoherence of the Trump administration are all growing. This week Alex speaks to Senator Adam Schiff about Democrats’ attempts to put Congress back into the decision maker’s seat and how to bring transparency to a conflict costing American lives. Then, she speaks to Rachel Maddow, NYT Bestselling author and host at MS Now, about what a political and moral catastrophe the war is, how we got here, and why the only winner so far seems to be Vladimir Putin.

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slash set up hey everyone i am back And I got to say, I had a feeling Trump would pull some crazy

1:16.7

shit as soon as I was out for hip surgery. I did. Did I expect that to be the start of the

1:21.5

third Gulf War or the beginning of what might be World War III? No, I did not. But here we are.

1:29.9

Twenty countries have now been pulled into the war started by the U.S. and Israel. At least 12 civilians have been killed across the Gulf

1:35.3

nations, most of them migrant workers. Add to that, 600 victims of air strikes in Lebanon,

1:41.8

where Israel is targeting the Iran-backed terrorist group Hezbollah.

1:46.1

13 Israelis have been killed by airstrikes.

1:49.1

Seven American soldiers have been killed in the line of duty, and another 140 have been wounded.

1:55.7

But it is in Iran, where the situation is extremely bleak.

2:00.0

More than 1,300 Iranians have died, as of this recording, including at least 168 children

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