Trump to decide on US role in Israel-Iran conflict within 2 weeks
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🗓️ 20 June 2025
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President Donald Trump will decide on the U.S. role in the Israel-Iran conflict within two weeks.
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning. I'm Taylor Wilson, and today is Friday, June 20, 2025. This is USA Today's The Excert. |
| 0:14.8 | Today, when might we get a decision on the U.S. approach to Iran and Israel? Plus how Trump's National Guard |
| 0:20.2 | Immigration Enforcement could divide states, and it's been 50 years since the release of on the U.S. approach to Iran and Israel, plus how Trump's National Guard immigration enforcement |
| 0:21.3 | could divide states, and it's been 50 years since the release of Jaws. |
| 0:27.3 | President Donald Trump will decide in the next two weeks whether the U.S. will get involved |
| 0:31.4 | in the conflict between Israel and Iran. That's what the White House said yesterday. |
| 0:36.0 | Trump continues to keep the world guessing on his |
| 0:37.8 | plans. He had proposed a diplomatic solution, but has also suggested the U.S. might join the fighting |
| 0:43.2 | on Israel's side. Iran has said it won't negotiate under duress. The conflict has killed at least |
| 0:48.6 | 240 Iranians and 24 Israelis in a week. White House press secretary Caroline Levitt declined to say if Trump would seek congressional authorization for strikes on Iran. |
| 1:01.9 | The possibility of the Trump administration sending National Guard troops on immigration raids outside their own state |
| 1:07.9 | could cause a legal clash between states and with the federal government. |
| 1:11.8 | I spoke with USA Today, White House reporter Davis Winky for more. |
| 1:15.4 | Davis, thanks for joining me today. |
| 1:16.8 | It's good to be back. |
| 1:17.9 | So Davis, starting here, you know, the Pentagon is weighing a request from the Department of Homeland Security to call up members of the National Guard under state authority. |
| 1:26.0 | What did you find taking a closer look at this memo? |
| 1:28.1 | The way that the administration wants to bring the National Guard into immigration enforcement |
| 1:34.1 | really diverges from the ways in which the National Guard has previously been used on this front. |
| 1:41.2 | There have been border efforts that have really sparked professionalization |
| 1:46.4 | and even reforms of the National Guard when necessary. But each of those missions to include |
| 1:53.1 | ones under Obama, Biden, and Trump were focused on border security rather than interior immigration |
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