Trump Speaks As U.S. Launches New Strikes On Iran
The Lead with Jake Tapper
CNN
3.5 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2026
⏱️ 97 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is CNN Breaking News. |
| 0:05.0 | Welcome to the lead. I'm Jake Tapper, and we begin today with breaking news in our world lead. |
| 0:09.0 | This hour we are expecting President Donald Trump to hold a news conference as the war on Iran enters its second week with no clear end in sight. |
| 0:17.0 | We're going to bring this to you live. It will be a real inflection point for the war and also for President Trump, for whom the public might have a lot of questions about the war. |
| 0:25.6 | It's a public that as of now does not support this war. Can the president turn that around? |
| 0:31.6 | It seems increasingly probable in our war headlines that the United States killed at least 192 students |
| 0:40.9 | and teachers at an Iranian school on the first day of strikes February 28th. New footage has emerged |
| 0:47.2 | that appears to show a U.S. missile targeting the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps naval base, |
| 0:52.2 | which is adjacent to that school. |
| 0:55.2 | This weekend, President Trump told reporters that he thought Iran was responsible. |
| 0:59.2 | So a big question today, will he provide any actual evidence to back up that claim? |
| 1:04.3 | More than 1,700 people have died in total in the Middle East since the conflict started. |
| 1:10.0 | That includes civilians in Iran and civilians |
| 1:12.2 | in other Middle Eastern countries, Bahrain, Israel, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, |
| 1:18.8 | ones that Iran has attacked. European countries are now getting more involved. All of this |
| 1:24.8 | signs that this has clearly turned into a wider regional war. |
| 1:30.3 | In terms of U.S. losses, today the U.S. military identified 26-year-old Army Sergeant Benjamin |
| 1:36.3 | Pennington from Glendale, Kentucky. He is officially the seventh U.S. service member killed in this conflict. |
| 1:43.3 | The remain questions about whether the first six U.S. service member killed in this conflict. The remain questions about |
| 1:44.9 | whether the first six U.S. service members killed in Kuwait had at the time at their talk, |
| 1:50.9 | their tactical operation center, appropriate aerial defenses and warnings. We also wonder if |
| 1:56.7 | President Trump, the commander in chief, will address that today. What about the president's |
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