Nightly News Roundup for Mar. 9, 2026

Tonight: Donald Trump described an active war on Iran as a "short-term excursion" while claiming veto power over Tehran's next supreme leader, Lindsey Graham threatened Saudi Arabia for refusing to fight the war he lobbied Trump to start from a golf course, the White House spiked a joint FBI-DHS-NCTC terrorism bulletin warning of Iranian proxy attacks on U.S. soil because the writing needed work, Trump held the legislative calendar hostage to a voter suppression bill stuffed with trans sports bans, Mehmet Oz declared 23 million insured Americans too many and set his target at 19 million, Claudia Sheinbaum reminded Trump's counter-cartel summit that American guns arm 75% of the cartels Trump wants to eradicate, and ICE is tracking protesters in real time using commercially purchased data after the Senate killed the one bill that would have required a warrant to do it. Tape rolls. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.