Trump, Gabbard: A Hardline Stance on Iran

0:00On March 30, President Trump dropped a hint yesterday on Air Force One about some real differences with his intelligence chief, Tulsi Gabbard, over. How tough to be on Iran's nuclear program. Flying back from Mar-a-Lago, he called her approach a bit softer than his own hard-line stance against Tehran getting nukes. Trump made it clear he's dead set against Iran having nuclear weapons, saying they'd use them right away if they did. Still, he backed Gabbard fully, shrugging off the policy gap, as no big deal for her role as director of national intelligence. This comes amid the U.S.-Israeli push against Iran, now in its second month, where top aides have clashed before on just how close Tehran was to A. Bomb Some warned it was weeks away pre-war, while Trump pointed to last summer strikes as having wrecked their program. Gabbard recently told Congress her team has high confidence on the location of Iran's enriched uranium stockpile, but stayed quiet on whether the U.S. could take it out. Meanwhile, Joe Kent, a close ally who ran the National Counterterrorism Center quit earlier

1:05this month, arguing Iran wasn't an immediate threat. As these tensions play out, Iran insists its nuclear work is purely peaceful, leaving the door open for possible deals while the campaign rolls on. This has been Global News Today, powered by AI. I'm Cory with the story.