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🗞️ Story file #1528

Trump meets with national security team as decision on potential strikes against Iran pending

Nov 6, 11 AM ET to Nov 6, 6 PM ET

📰 read it at: HuffPost Axios CBS News Yahoo News The American Conservative The Epoch Times Breitbart

👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.

  1. Nov 6, 11 AM ETfirst on a front page: The American Conservative
  2. Nov 6, 3 PM ETfirst on TV: BBC News
  3. Nov 6, 4 PM ETpeak: on 7 front pages

📰 Spread

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

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Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Nov 6, 11 AM to Nov 6, 6 PM ET (peak 7), by the outlets' lean: left · right
Nov 66 AM12 PM6 PMAxiosAxiosAxios, Nov 5, 7:02 PM ET: Trump meets with national security team, says Iran war decision coming "soon"HuffPostHuffPostHuffPost, Nov 5, 11:01 PM ET: Trump Held Meeting With National Security Team While Considering Whether To Resume Iran Strikes: Fox NewsCBS NewsCBS NewsCBS News, Nov 6, 8:01 AM ET: Trump touts imminent decision on potential new attack on IranThe Epoch TimesThe Epoch TimesThe Epoch Times, Nov 6, 10:01 AM ET: Trump Says US ‘Locked and Loaded’ for Renewed Strikes Against IranBreitbartBreitbartBreitbart, Nov 6, 10:01 AM ET: Trump Says Decision on Renewed Strikes Against Iran Coming ‘Soon’ ‘I Would Rather Not Destroy the Rest of the Country’The American Conser…The American ConservativeThe American Conservative, Nov 6, 11:01 AM ET: Iran War Day 252: Trump Promises Decision on New Strikes ‘Very Soon’ as Iran Hits More TankersYahoo NewsYahoo NewsYahoo News, Nov 6, 4:01 PM ET: Trump says US will soon decide on possible resumption of Iran war📺 TVBBC News, 3:31 PM ET: Search for US-Iran off-ramp continuesBBC News, 3:32 PM ET: Fresh push to prevent return to combatBBC News, 3:35 PM ET: Fresh push to prevent return to combatBBC News, 3:36 PM ET: Fresh push to prevent return to combatBBC News, 3:38 PM ET: Fresh push to prevent return to combat
Who carried it and when: each outlet in the order it picked the story up, a bar for each headline from when we first saw it on the front page to when we last did, in the outlet's lean color (dashed: not rated); a dot marks a new headline, and a headline swapped for a new one between our hourly looks runs on to it. A gap means a look found the story gone from that front page. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

💬 Quoted

  1. “Soon”3
  2. “I Would Rather Not Destroy the Rest of the Country”1
  3. “Locked and Loaded”1

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📌 Linked by aggregators

1 Political Wire

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📰 Every outlet's headline 7left to right by AllSides rating

📡 Broadcast

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

minutes its captions were on screen, by channel; the disc is the network's lean

  1. ⚖️ BBC News 2 min

📻 On the radio

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📻🤷 No radio newscast matched to it.

🧶 Retelling

what people online made of it

🦗 Nobody's retelling it online yet, as far as the daily reports of the last week can tell.

🗣️ Names in it

Donald TrumpIranFox NewsNational Security Team

🔎 Checking

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧵 Persistence

the running story it belongs to

🧵 U.S.-Iran conflict

  1. Soldiers wounded in Iranian drone strike report delayed medical care

    Oct 5, 1 PM ET

  2. Pentagon updates troop death toll in Iran war to 21

    Oct 11, 8 PM ET

  3. U.S. military weighs use of 'mother of all bombs' against Iran

    Oct 15, 8 AM ET

  4. Oil prices rise above $117 amid Middle East tensions

    Oct 23, 7 PM ET

  5. Trump says U.S. may launch another military operation against Iran

    Oct 24, 11 AM ET

  6. U.S. intelligence warns Iranian plots against Americans have reached advanced stages

    Oct 24, 1 AM ET

  7. Trump weighs deal with Iran or military action

    Oct 26, 8 AM ET

  8. Trump's oil and gas investments gained millions during the Iran war

    Oct 26, 11 AM ET

  9. U.S. warns allies of possible Iran strikes after midterms

    Oct 28, 6 PM ET

  10. Pentagon estimates Iran war cost at 47.1 billion

    Oct 28, 12 AM ET

  11. Trump says Iran war will end soon

    Oct 30, 6 PM ET

  12. Iran's Supreme leader threatens response without geographic limits as Trump weighs new strikes

    Oct 31, 1 PM ET

  13. Iranian and Qatari negotiators continue talks to end US-Iran war

    Oct 30, 7 PM ET

  14. Netanyahu urges Trump to consider strikes on Iran

    Nov 2, 4 PM ET

  15. Iran proposes 2-day plan to reopen Strait of hormuz

    Nov 3, 12 PM ET

  16. Oil prices fall on hopes for US-Iran diplomatic talks

    Nov 2, 1 PM ET

  17. Tucker Carlson claims Trump is considering nuclear strike on Iran

    Nov 2, 3 PM ET

  18. Trump confirms US strike on iranian air defense site

    Nov 4, 5 AM ET

  19. Trump says Iran wants settlement, deal could happen

    Nov 2, 5 PM ET

  20. U.S. strikes Iran as Trump downplays conflict

    Nov 3, 2 PM ET

  21. U.S. military conducts defensive strikes on Iran's Qeshm Island

    Nov 2, 10 PM ET

  22. Trump meets with national security team as decision on potential strikes against Iran pending (this story)

    Nov 6, 11 AM ET