Rachel Maddow

No, they are not.

Not only has there been no American or international evidence or intelligence made public that suggests even that they are doing that, but even the Trump administration says explicitly that that is not happening.

Marco Rubio on Wednesday at a press conference in St.

Kitts and Nevis told reporters, quote, they are not enriching right now.

So why is this happening?

Have we just started a war with Iran because they have got some advanced nuclear program that's rushing toward a bomb?

Ask President Donald Trump, who insists that the last time he ordered the bombing of Iran in June, that, quote, totally obliterated their nuclear program.

It's hard to say that anything totally obliterated, gone, pulverized, erased from the earth might now suddenly be back again.

And so, therefore, a war must urgently start today.

So, what are we doing here?

It's not that they're about to get us with intercontinental ballistic missiles.

It's not that they are enriching uranium to such a degree that it is dangerous and we must stop that.

It's not that their nuclear program, which Trump says he obliterated, has somehow unobliterated itself and is now a pressing danger again.

Why did we just go to war with Iran?

The president has said a couple of times in recent days that he just wants the Iranian government to say the words that they are not pursuing a nuclear bomb, suggesting that if they would just say that, that would be enough to stop the United States from starting a war with them.

Well, the Iranian government actually, over and over again, keeps saying that they are not developing a nuclear bomb.

They will say it whenever you like.

They say it whenever they are asked.

So that does not appear to be the reason either.

So why do you think President Donald Trump has just done this?