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CNN's Anderson Cooper responds to President Trump's repeated insults aimed at California Governor Gavin Newsom's childhood dyslexia, talking about his own challenges as a child who once struggled to read.

Despite the killing of the commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps navy, the Strait of Hormuz remains almost entirely closed. "Today, Iran controls the Strait," says former U.S. Secretary of the Navy Kenneth Braithwaite.

The President announced that Iran had let 10 oil tankers out of the Persian Gulf, but the Strait of Hormuz is still seeing a fraction of pre-war traffic. Current oil prices "don't really reflect the magnitude of this disruption," says Eurasia Group senior analyst Gregory Brew.

Democratic Rep. Josh Gottheimer, who sits on the House Intelligence Committee, says that Congress isn't getting enough updates from the White House on the Iran war. “We’ve gotten some information but, frankly, not enough,” he says.

New York Times White House correspondent Maggie Haberman says the president is keeping his options open when it comes to sending ground troops to the Middle East. "Clearly he wants Iran to think that there could be a maximum pressure effort here," she says.

CNN Contributor and podcast host Kara Swisher has reported on the rise of social media companies for decades. She weighs in on a jury finding Meta and YouTube negligent in a landmark social media addiction case and the impact this could have on the tech industry.

Kian Tajbakhsh was imprisoned by the Iranian regime for his pro-democracy work. He says the current leadership is "willing to go down with the ship" and continue the war despite suffering losses "beyond what any western power would consider a rational position."

Rep. Moulton says he is "disillusioned" after a House Armed Services Committee briefing by administration officials. “I don’t have any confidence whatsoever that they have a plan, a strategy, even very clear goals for what they want to do next,” says the Marine Corps veteran.

Cheap and deadly drones are just the beginning of the future of autonomous modern warfare. Former Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall and Rahm Emanuel, who served as President Obama's first chief of staff, discuss with Anderson.

The White House said talks are continuing with Iran, even after Tehran didn't immediately accept a 15-point plan to end the conflict. "Iran's fighting an unconventional war against our will," says Richard Haass, president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Roughly 1,000 U.S. soldiers with the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division are expected to deploy to the Middle East, according to sources. "It could be on station within 48 hours," says retired U.S. Army Major General James "Spider" Marks.

President Trump claimed today that regime change in Iran has actually already happened because many of the top leaders have been killed. CNN Global Affairs Analyst @ksadjadpour weighs in.

While Israel targets Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, some villages are being entirely emptied as civilians seek safety. CNN's Nick Paton Walsh reports.

Former Trump National Security Adviser John Bolton warns of ending the Iran war without regime change: "If you leave this wounded animal in Tehran able to recover, it will return to the nuclear weapons program, return to its terrorism, and ... closing the Strait of Hormuz."

Robert Mueller joined the Marines during the Vietnam War and served his country for the better part of the next six decades.

Geopolitical analyst Bobby Ghosh says "it's hard to get a sense of what the purpose is" and "what the end goal looks like" for the Trump adminstration's war with Iran. "There's been no communication that's consistent that explains the theory of the case," he says.

CNN Global Affairs Analyst Brett McGurk warns that the war in Iran "has a ways to go" as President Trump says the countries are having productive talks. "I don't really see the opening for diplomacy right now," McGurk adds.

"This is kind of symptomatic of an aviation system that's really bursting at the seams": CNN's Pete Muntean and former air traffic controller Chris Gallant give insight into the runway collision at LaGuardia airport.

Jack Cabot, a passenger on the Air Canada flight that crashed into a firetruck at NYC's LaGuardia Airport, talks about the chaos in the cabin at the moment of impact calling it a "really harrowing moment."

CNN Global Affairs Analyst Karim Sadjadpour believes the nature of the war in Iran has changed for the U.S. "I think this began as a war of choice for President Trump and it's morphed into a war of necessity," he says.