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Way Too Early with Ali Vitali

War with Iran enters second week

Way Too Early with Ali Vitali

MS NOW, Ali Vitali

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4.5538 Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2026

⏱️ 40 minutes

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War with Iran enters second week

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0:00.0

Do we have any overt or covert forces inside Iran now?

0:07.0

I wouldn't tell you that if we did.

0:12.0

The only reason I ask is earlier this week you said no.

0:16.0

Is that still the answer?

0:18.0

Yeah, that's still the answer.

0:19.0

But we reserve the right. We would be completely still the answer. But we reserve the right.

0:25.7

We would be completely unwise if we did not reserve the right to take any particular option, whether it included boots on the ground or no boots on the ground.

0:30.4

Defense Secretary Pete Hegeseth, not ruling out sending U.S. troops into Iran.

0:35.5

The question is, will we actually see American forces on the

0:38.2

ground there? Plus, the futures market is in a free fall as oil surges over $100 a barrel.

0:45.0

The question is, how much will this cost you at the gas pump? And just in time for spring break,

0:50.7

the partial Homeland Security shutdown is causing a shortage of TSA agents at some

0:55.1

airports across the country. The question is just how long will you have to wait in line at

1:00.2

airport security? It's way too early for this.

1:14.3

Good morning and welcome to way too early.

1:17.2

The show that would like its extra hour of sleepback.

1:21.1

And on International Women's Day, to do that, just kind of hurt.

1:25.8

Amali Vitale on this Monday, March 9th, and we are going to start with the news overseas because there are multiple developments out of the Middle East as the war with Iran now enters its second week. The Iranian regime has

1:32.9

selected the son of the deceased Supreme Leader to succeed him. President Trump warned Iran on

1:38.0

Saturday not to elevate anyone to that position until his administration had approved, or

1:42.4

that his administration hadn't approved,

1:45.0

U.S. and Israeli officials have vowed that any successor will remain a target. Meanwhile, Axios reports

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