U.S. Navy Secretary Ousted as Naval Blockade of Iran Continues
Anderson Cooper 360
CNN
3.7 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening from the newsroom. Breaking news tonight in our CNN Global War coverage. |
| 0:09.0 | Iran's state media just aired this video, shot with multiple cameras, even a drone, packaged, |
| 0:14.0 | no doubt for propaganda purposes, of two cargo ships they purportedly seized today in the Strait of Hormuz. |
| 0:20.0 | Now in it you see Iranian soldiers boarding the vessel, brandishing their rifles as they make |
| 0:23.6 | their way past the cameraman. |
| 0:25.6 | The cameraman is actually following them through the ships. |
| 0:27.6 | This was released just one day into the Trump extended truce. |
| 0:30.6 | The Iranians say the seizure of these boats is not a breach of the ceasefire. |
| 0:34.6 | President Trump agrees, according to the White House. |
| 0:37.8 | One boat is Liberian, the other Panamanian. Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps saying the ships |
| 0:42.7 | were, quote, attempting to exit the Strait of Hormuz covertly. A third Greek-owned ship |
| 0:48.0 | was also reportedly targeted by the IRJC and according to Iran is, quote, now disabled off Iran's coast. I'll remind you, Greece is a NATO member. |
| 0:57.7 | White House press secretary, Carolyn Leavitt, was asked about the ships late today on Fox News. |
| 1:03.5 | We don't know what's going to happen to these crews. We're not sure where all of this is going. |
| 1:07.9 | Does the president view that as a violation of the ceasefire? |
| 1:12.7 | No, because these were not U.S. ships. |
| 1:14.8 | These were not Israeli ships. |
| 1:16.7 | These were two international vessels. |
| 1:20.6 | Seems to be a forgiving view from the commander-in-chief, |
| 1:22.9 | who on Easter Sunday wrote a profanity-laden social media |
| 1:25.8 | posts threatening Iran and demanding they |
| 1:27.7 | opened the straight. Two days after that post, he declared a ceasefire that he is repeatedly |
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