00:00We have major updates this afternoon regarding the war in Iran and American reactions here at
00:04home. Americans overwhelmingly do not approve of the war in Iran. New polling shows that just
00:10one in four Americans actually approve of this weekend strikes on Iran by the United States of
00:17America, with more than 40 percent saying they do not approve and an overwhelming majority of
00:22Americans saying that they believe Donald Trump uses military force too quickly and too easily
00:28to advance U.S. interests. At the same time, the Trump administration did not allow any
00:35administration official on television today for the Sunday shows, despite the fact that the
00:40American people are desperately looking for answers and explanations as to why we went to war with
00:45Iran. And lawmakers this afternoon on the Republican side and the Democratic side are saying they do not
00:51have justification that Iran was close to a nuclear weapon. They do not have justification that there
00:57was a preemptive strike planned by Iran. Major developments right now. Make sure to like,
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01:15happening in Iran in the United States of America. This afternoon, new polling from Reuters shows that
01:20only one in four Americans approve of the U.S. strikes that killed Iran's leader on Saturday,
01:25while about half, including one in four Republicans, believe Donald Trump is too willing to use
01:31military force, according to a new Reuters IPSOS poll that was concluded today. 27% of respondents
01:38said they approved of the strikes. 43% of respondents say they did not approve. 29% were
01:45not sure. Nine in 10 respondents said they had heard at least a little about strikes, which began
01:51early yesterday. 56% of Americans believe that Donald Trump, who has ordered strikes in Venezuela,
01:57Syria, and Nigeria in recent months, is too willing to use military force to advance U.S. interests.
02:03The vast majority of Democrats, 87% held this view, as the 23% of Republicans and 60% who
02:10don't
02:11identify with either political party. The poll, which began after strikes got underway, gathered
02:16responses from about 1,200 folks online. That is a problem for the White House. And while the White
02:21House has to explain to the American people why it is conducting these strikes, why it took out the
02:25Supreme Leader of Iran, the Ayatollah. And well, today, not a single White House official made it
02:31onto any one of the famous Sunday shows from CNN to CBS to NBC to provide that justification. And it's
02:39maybe because the justification really is lacking. Here is Senator Mark Warner, who is the chief Democrat
02:44on the Intelligence Committee in the United States Senate, explaining that he does not have evidence
02:48of a preemptive strike, which is the justification that the United States has been using to launch
02:53the strikes over the weekend. There's still got to be a case to the American people. And again,
02:59this was the guy that was going to keep us out of endless wars in the Middle East.
03:02I have a couple of follow-ups to some of the things you just said. First of all,
03:06you have access to intelligence that few other people have. The president said in the video he put out
03:13that there was a possibility that the Iranians could use missiles that could strike the American
03:20homeland. Senior administration officials said that the timing was chosen because they saw intelligence
03:27that the Iranians were going to launch preeminent strikes. Did you see any of that information?
03:35The Iranians have been working on increasing their military capabilities. And remember,
03:42this was supposed to be military capabilities, at least on the nuclear front, that the president
03:46himself said were obliterated based upon the strike of seven months ago. I saw no intelligence
03:55that Iran was on the verge of launching any kind of preemptive strike against the United States of
04:01America. That's a significant development. Here's Senator Ted Cruz, a Republican senator,
04:05admitting to the division that there is no evidence that Iran or he has no indication that Iran was
04:12close to a nuclear weapon, which is another justification that the Israelis and the United
04:16States officials have been using.
04:17Now, Iran is building roughly 100 missiles a month. They're actively building missiles
04:23to threaten their neighbors.
04:25They're firing some of them right now at their neighbors, at our allies.
04:28They're illustrating powerfully. They're attacking virtually every Arab neighbor that surrounds
04:34them. They are firing missiles that it's almost like they want to illustrate to the world just
04:40how malign they are.
04:41But in terms of containing the risk, who's securing the nuclear material that you say still exists
04:46within Iran? Who's doing that?
04:49Look, the quantity of nuclear material, I didn't say anything one way or another on that.
04:54What I said is they were building nuclear weapons a year ago and our bombing took that out.
05:00They also had an ongoing desire to rebuild them. I don't have present day intelligence
05:06on what progress they had made towards rebuilding nuclear weapons since we bombed their facilities.
05:13I have no indication that they were anywhere close to getting nuclear weapons because our bombing
05:20was devastating. And Margaret, that's one of the reasons I urged President Trump now is the time.
05:26I have no indication that they were closer to a nuclear weapon. Now, Lindsey Graham,
05:31who's been the chief architect behind Trump's push to war here, saying that it's not the
05:35president's responsibility to make sure that Iran is no longer a state sponsor of terror,
05:39which is a pretty stunning admission from the Republican senator.
05:41In a social media post Sunday, President Trump wrote this, quote,
05:46hopefully the IRGC and police will peacefully merge with the Iranian patriots and work together
05:51as a unit to bring back the country to the greatness it deserves. Is hope the plan for the future
06:00of Iran?
06:03No, the future of Iran is going to be determined by the Iranian people. The new Iran, whatever it is,
06:12whether it's a cleric or a representative democracy, our goal is to make sure it cannot become,
06:19again, the largest state sponsor of terrorism. That's a win for us.
06:22But is there a plan to make sure that happens, Senator? Is there a plan? Does the president have
06:29a plan to guarantee that that happens? No, it's not his job or my job to do this.
06:35How many times do I have to tell you? Our job is to make sure Iran is no longer the
06:41largest state sponsor of terrorism, to help the people reconstruct a new government,
06:46no boots on the ground. We don't own, you know, this idea, you break it, you own it.
06:50I don't buy that one bit. It's in America's interest to make sure the Ayatollah-
06:54It's not his job. It's not my job. Now, in other news this afternoon, the Israeli Air Force
07:00announced air superiority over Tehran, the capital of Iran. Search and recovery operations have
07:06concluded following a reported strike on the girls' primary school in Manab, southern Iran.
07:11The county governor says 165 bodies, mostly children, were recovered from the rubble. And three
07:18U.S. service members were killed and at least five others injured in an attack in Kuwait as part of
07:24the Operation Epic Fury. Now, meanwhile, in the United States of America, we've had two mass shootings
07:30in the past 24 hours, one specifically in Austin, which is specifically horrific because you have
07:36three people killed. In the other one, you only had nine injured. One person was in critical condition,
07:40but everyone's going to recover. That one happened in Cincinnati. But in Austin, Texas,
07:45three killed, 14 others injured in a mass shooting that FBI agents are now saying they are investigating
07:50as a possible act of terrorism. They did not explain whether it was linked to Iran. Make sure
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