Trump Says More U.S. Casualties Are ‘Likely’ in War With Iran, and Oil Prices Jump After Attack
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🗓️ 2 March 2026
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| 0:00.0 | From the New York Times, it's the headlines. I'm Tracy Mumford. Today's Monday, March 2nd. Here's what we're covering. |
| 0:14.3 | Combat operations continue at this time in full force, and they will continue until all of our objectives are achieved. |
| 0:22.8 | The United States and Israel struck more than 2,000 more targets in Iran yesterday, |
| 0:28.1 | not letting up on the assault that's taken out the country's senior leadership |
| 0:31.5 | and set off a wave of violence across the Middle East. |
| 0:35.8 | Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Hamine, was killed Saturday, |
| 0:40.1 | along with several high-level military leaders, and the U.S. is now continuing to target military |
| 0:45.3 | sites in Iran and the country's Navy. |
| 0:48.2 | These actions are right, and they are necessary to ensure that Americans will never have to face a radical, bloodthirsty terrorist regime |
| 0:57.9 | armed with nuclear weapons and lots of threats. |
| 1:02.0 | In retaliation, Iran has fired a barrage of missile attacks at Israel and at U.S. military |
| 1:07.6 | bases in the region. |
| 1:08.6 | We grieve for the true American patriots who have made the ultimate sacrifice. |
| 1:14.9 | One strike on a base in Kuwait left three U.S. service members dead. |
| 1:19.1 | And sadly, there will likely be more. |
| 1:22.4 | Before it ends, that's the way it is, likely be more. |
| 1:26.8 | President Trump acknowledged the U.S. casualties in a short address yesterday, |
| 1:31.4 | saying their deaths would be avenged. |
| 1:33.7 | And he called on the remaining Iranian military and the country's Revolutionary Guard |
| 1:38.3 | to surrender or be killed. |
| 1:41.1 | My colleague Zolink-Oyung spoke with Trump yesterday |
| 1:43.4 | and asked the president how long |
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