‘Whiplash’: Hayes warns Trump’s Iran message is total chaos
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🗓️ 21 March 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Tonight on all land. |
| 0:03.8 | I may have a plan or I may not, but how would I ever say that to a reporter? |
| 0:07.3 | Thousands more U.S. troops headed to the Middle East as the president complains other countries need to hell. |
| 0:14.0 | He said absolutely none of our allies in NATO have helped with support as it relates to the war. |
| 0:21.6 | Tonight's Stephanie and Rule on our conversation with the president, Senator Gary Peters |
| 0:25.4 | on the ground troops headed to the Middle East, Jared Bernstein on growing fears of economic |
| 0:30.3 | doom, and Congressman Jamie Raskin on a war that fewer and fewer Americans are supporting. |
| 0:36.5 | I will not vote for a war supplemental. |
| 0:38.3 | I have folks in Colorado who can't afford to live. |
| 0:41.3 | But all in starts right now. |
| 0:47.5 | Good evening from New York. |
| 0:48.8 | I'm Chris Hayes. |
| 0:49.3 | The whiplash of the U.S. Israeli war on Iran continues as it approaches its fourth week. We began the day with |
| 0:55.6 | signs of imminent boots on the ground in Iran and ended with a Trump post on social media saying |
| 1:00.0 | he will consider winding down the war. Go figure, I guess. Today, MS now learned that this |
| 1:05.8 | administration is sending an additional 2,500 Marines and three warships the Middle East. That's in addition to |
| 1:12.0 | 2,500 troops Trump ordered the region last week. Now, it takes a few weeks for them to get there, |
| 1:16.6 | but we are now up to 5,000 American service members en route to the theater of combat that we know of. |
| 1:24.5 | And I have to say, it is a little hard to imagine they're just going to go there and sit on the |
| 1:28.1 | boats. I mean, take a step back. Remember where we were a month ago, right? They were moving all of |
| 1:33.9 | these naval assets into the region from all over the world. It was a sort of unprecedented |
| 1:37.5 | armada that had built up. And there was at the time an argument that this was all basically a Trumpian bluff, that it was being deployed |
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