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Sid & Friends In The Morning

Victoria Coates | Former Deputy National Security Advisor | 03-17-26

Sid & Friends In The Morning

77 WABC

Sports, News, Comedy

4.2826 Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2026

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Former Deputy National Security Advisor Victoria Coates joins Sid to discuss the Iran conflict, where Coates argues timeline ambiguity is useful and says U.S. objectives center on disabling nuclear sites and addressing highly enriched uranium, while noting potential continued engagement if the Strait of Hormuz remains blocked. She emphasizes a second, economic front as Iran shuts down the internet, banks, and markets, predicting severe capital flight when restrictions lift. Coates contrasts Japan’s constitutional limits and growing defense posture with what she calls Europe’s disgraceful lack of naval capability and will, criticizing UK leader Keir Starmer’s behavior and forecasting political upheaval. She also expects Trump’s China trip to be postponed due to war and China’s dependence on Gulf energy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You know, it's kind of ironic that the World Baseball Classic, the championship is tonight.

0:05.5

It's not going to get nearly the amount of applause and love like the hockey team did in the Olympics.

0:13.0

But the truth is, America is once again playing for the grand prize.

0:17.5

And I want to bring in Victoria Coates.

0:19.3

Victoria, first of all, good morning. Happy St. Patrick's Day,

0:22.3

but there's some irony here that we are America taking on, of all countries, Venezuela,

0:31.8

for the WBC Championship tonight. A bit ironic, right?

0:36.4

It is ironic, but it's also, it's wonderful, Sid. And happy St. Patrick's Day to you and all your friends at W.A.B.C. Thank you. But, you know, we've got a real good shot at this tonight. We've got Bryce Harper on the field. We've got Kyle Schwerber also D-Hing tonight. So we're going to, I think, have a really exciting time. You know what I'm stopping here for a second. I say she's funny. This, you don't know Victoria Coach. She mentions two guys, Harper and Swarber, happen to play for the Phillies. She loves the Eagles. I hate the Philadelphia sports fan. I hate them with a vengeance. I love you. I love you. But there you are again, pumping up those Philadelphia ball players, right? Yep, yep, yep, that's what I do. I mean, you know, we even had Aaron Nola pitching last night for the team Italy, which was one of the great stories of the tournament. He's another good, uh, Philly pitcher. No, you're right, though. We've got, we've got a terrific baseball team and we should, uh, be able to pull this off tonight. And, uh, I think folks will be excited if we do. But the bigger question, bigger question than are we going to win this baseball game tonight and the one I keep getting asked all the time? I don't have an answer. I know President Trump gets asked it just about every day too, and that is, when is this Iran conflict going to

1:49.9

start? Actually, saw something a couple of days ago where, well, if you ask Israel, another three

1:55.9

weeks. If you ask the United States, well, it could be this week. So there are two different

2:00.8

timelines for Israel and the United States, well, it could be this week. So there are two different timelines for Israel and the United States.

2:04.4

I know the reason why, but for the listeners, why is that the case?

2:08.3

Well, from my perspective, ambiguity is not a bad thing.

2:13.0

And President Trump is a master at not taking things off the table,

2:17.4

even when it sounds like he's

2:18.8

sort of taken them off the table, but then they can come back on the table. And so he doesn't

2:23.3

want a signal to the enemy, what we're likely to do, how long this might go on. And also, you know,

2:29.1

we have been incredibly coordinated with Israel throughout this now 17-day conflict.

2:35.8

But at the same time, we are both sovereign nations.

2:39.0

We have our own goals.

2:40.1

So the United States may wrap up what we consider to be our piece of this action.

2:45.9

And I would say that would be after the nuclear sites are truly disabled, and we deal with that

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