Trump says US 'may' or 'may not' strike Iran
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🗓️ 19 June 2025
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President Donald Trump is weighing U.S. actions amid Israel and Iran's ongoing strikes. Plus, MAGA infighting grows on the issue. And there are risks for Trump of 'regime change' in Iran: Just ask George W. Bush.
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning. I'm Taylor Wilson, and today is Thursday, June 19th, 2025. This is USA Today is the excerpt. |
| 0:14.7 | Today, the latest on Trump's decision-making with regards to Iran and Israel strikes. Plus what a Supreme Court decision means for |
| 0:21.0 | youth gender affirming care. And today is Juneteenth. As Israel-Iran strikes continue, President |
| 0:28.2 | Donald Trump weighing U.S. involvement said he may or may not strike the country. Some conservatives |
| 0:33.9 | have urged Trump to support Israel more forcefully and use the American military to help destroy Iran's nuclear facilities, drawing pushback from leading MAGA figures, |
| 0:42.3 | including Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green, Tucker Carlson, and former White House chief |
| 0:46.6 | strategist Steve Bannon, sparking increasingly growing MAGA infighting on the issue. |
| 0:51.8 | As for what U.S. involvement would potentially mean for those in the military, |
| 0:55.1 | the country has some 40,000 troops stationed around the Middle East. Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali |
| 1:00.8 | Kamini responded yesterday to President Trump's call for the country to surrender, warning that any U.S. |
| 1:06.6 | strike will have serious irreparable consequences. The president had this to say. Well, I don't want to |
| 1:12.4 | get involved either, but I've been saying for 20 years, maybe longer, that Iran cannot have a |
| 1:17.7 | nuclear weapon. I've been saying it for a long time. And I think they were a few weeks away from having |
| 1:22.5 | one, maybe longer. And they had to sign a document. I think they wish they signed it now. It's a fair deal. |
| 1:30.3 | And now it's a harder thing to sign. It's a lot of water over the dam. |
| 1:35.1 | The decision now facing President Donald Trump on Iran over whether to try to overthrow a government seen as unfriendly to the U.S. |
| 1:41.9 | is one that previous commanders in chief have wrestled with in countries from Iraq to Cuba, |
| 1:46.6 | often with catastrophic consequences. |
| 1:49.0 | As our own Washington Bureau Chief Susan Page writes, |
| 1:51.6 | we have a link to her piece in today's show notes. |
| 1:54.4 | Israel struck a key Iranian nuclear site earlier today, |
| 1:57.5 | and Iran hit an Israeli hospital. |
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