Overview
- MS NOW anchor Stephanie Ruhle says President Trump unexpectedly answered her call on March 20, roughly 20 days into the war with Iran.
- She recounted the roughly 15-minute exchange on MSNBC’s All In with Chris Hayes after weeks of daily attempts to reach him.
- According to Ruhle, Trump claimed Iran was two weeks from a nuclear bomb and had plans to use it, and he said U.S. action “obliterated” its nuclear power, assertions the reporting does not independently verify.
- Ruhle said the president spoke as though the war had already been won.
- She also said he expressed greater trust in Vladimir Putin than in U.S. European allies.