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Withdrawal, escalation or both? What Trump could announce during Wednesday address

Morning Joe

Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, MS NOW, Willie Geist

Issues, Washington, Politics, President, Campaign, Scarboro, Brezinski, News, Giest, Ms Now, Congress, Government, Election

3.98.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2026

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Withdrawal, escalation or both? What Trump could announce during Wednesday address

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0:00.0

We have had regime change. Now, regime change was not one of the things I had as a goal.

0:05.0

I had one goal. They will have no nuclear weapon. And that goal has been attained. They will not have nuclear weapons.

0:12.0

But we're finishing the job, and I think within maybe two weeks, maybe a couple of days longer, to do the job.

0:20.0

But we want to knock out every single

0:22.5

thing there. If they come to the table, that'll be good. But it doesn't matter whether they

0:27.4

come or not. We've set them back. It'll take 15 to 20 years for them to rebuild what we've

0:32.9

done to them. You know, it's very interesting me because the president talking about putting us back on the time frame where he was, I think, originally.

0:43.0

But we started talking about ground troops going in and a lot of other complications.

0:48.6

That two to three weeks sounds like the four to six weeks he started with.

0:53.3

And obviously yesterday, the markets rallied

0:56.1

pretty, in a pretty strong way, a pretty strong reaction to the belief that this war is not

1:02.0

going to be dragging on into May or June. Let's hope, I think. It's hard to know what to hope

1:07.0

for with this. President Trump yesterday suggesting mission accomplished with the Iran war

1:11.7

telling reporters the United States could withdraw in the next two to three weeks. We'll bring you

1:17.0

the latest on what's happening in the Middle East in just a moment. Meanwhile, the president says

1:22.3

he will attend this morning Supreme Court hearing on his executive order challenging

1:29.4

birthright citizenship. He can really just say in the Oval Office, Willie, and just read

1:33.8

the 14th Amendment. If you just read the 14th Amendment, and say, oh, wait, wait, I'm asking

1:38.8

them to change an amendment to the Constitution of the United States in a case that was decided pretty overwhelmingly

1:47.0

in the 1800s. Yes, yeah, 1898, if I'm remembering correctly, that was decided back then.

1:54.2

And he's going, he says he's going, it's on his schedule, he'll be there, the President of the United States,

1:58.7

in the Supreme Court, inside that chamber,

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