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The Chuck ToddCast: Meet the Press

Will Trump Drag The United States Into WAR With Iran?

The Chuck ToddCast: Meet the Press

Chuck Todd

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🗓️ 18 June 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Chuck Todd weighs in on the prospect of President Donald Trump bringing the United States military into the conflict between Israel and Iran.

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0:00.0

Well, good Wednesday. We are sitting here a bit in limbo as I tape this that no other American

0:06.8

president would have put the country in, let alone the world, that there's no other American

0:11.8

president shares his indecisiveness as publicly as Donald Trump does. And right now, on Iran, he has,

0:19.9

we, in many, you know, there's a part of me that that

0:23.3

appreciates the transparency of the indecisiveness. I mean, we get a front row seat at finding out,

0:30.8

oh, somebody whispered something new in his ear because he's now sharing this. He appears to be

0:35.2

leaning this way. I mean, we know President Trump is notorious

0:39.1

for buying into the last best argument that somebody makes to him on any given time. When it comes

0:47.3

to what to do here with Iran, there is a lot of competing voices that are in his head. And I think

0:53.0

that is, you know, if you want to know why it,

0:55.5

it's unclear where his head is, though, boy, it feels like there is a drumbeat towards

1:02.6

action, towards some sort of military action that the, that the Americans may engage in

1:08.7

with the Israelis. But the fact that it is not clear, I do think is a reminder that this, particularly when it comes to foreign policy and international engagement, there's a real divide.

1:24.4

I mean, I think there's a bigger divide in the Republican Party on this stuff than there is in the Democratic Party.

1:29.6

There's certainly a divide in the Democratic Party on Israel, but I don't think there's near the amount of divide, for instance, when it comes to Ukraine or when it comes to even Iran.

1:41.9

Although there's certainly, I think that the divide on Iran is whether this is a

1:47.0

military action should be on the table or not.

1:50.9

There isn't a disagreement.

1:52.1

And frankly, there's not a disagreement on the Republican side that, you know,

1:55.3

everything needs to be done to stop or, you know, Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.

1:59.7

And if Iran looks around the world, there really isn't an incentive Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. And if Iran looks around the world,

2:01.9

there really isn't an incentive to stop getting a nuclear weapon, right? If you are thought of

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