Trump’s Iran War Strategy, Anthropic Sues US Government, The Freedom 250 Grand Prix and more

Good morning, everyone.

I'm Kate Baldwin.

It's Tuesday, March 10th.

Here are the five things you need to know to start your day.

Number one, the war messaging.

More strikes and an intensifying war across the Middle East region.

On day 11 now of the war with Iran, the U.S. military has now released video.

It says shows American forces destroying Iranian missile launchers.

And Com says they were hidden under a bridge-like, overpassed structure in Iran.

Crews were also seen racing through rubble in Iran after U.S. and Israeli strikes.

And people were trapped inside damaged buildings.

You see a video over there.

At the same time, President Trump is laying out conflicting messages about the status of

this war effort.

President, telling reporters within hours of each other that the war is both, quote,

is very complete, pretty much and very ahead of schedule.

But also, then later, saying we have one in many ways, but not enough.

Suggesting that the U.S. military operation might not be nearing an end.

Leveling also, he leveled a new threat over the essential current shutdown of the Strait of Ramos.

I will not allow a terrorist regime to hold the world hostage and attempt to stop the

globe's oil supply, and if Iran does anything to do that, they'll get hit at a much, much,

harder level.

I will take out those targets that were easy, and that I mentioned just before we'll

take them out so quickly they'll never be able to recover ever.

Oil prices at one point spiked almost $120 a barrel Sunday into Monday before settling

down, but standby for that volatility to continue as the days move on.

Number two, the soccer team.

As the war ignited in Iran, Iran's women's national soccer team was in Australia for

the Asian Cup, but now five of them are trying to stay there.

The situation unfolded after the team stood silently for the Iranian National Anthem before

a match, hardliners back in Iran then accused the players of treason for that.

After they lost in their final match, Sunday supporters surrounded the team bus, shouting

at police to quote, unquote, save our girls as it pulled away, which eventually led to

the Australian Prime Minister granting five of the women humanitarian visas, and saying

that Australia is ready to help the rest of the team as well.

This is a very delicate situation, and it is up to them.

But we say to them, if you want our help, help is here.

And Iranian sports journalist, Telsin N, the five women have now applied for asylum.

Here's one of the athletes who spoke publicly.

Obviously, we're all concerned, and sad it was happened to Iran and our families and

our loved ones.

But I really hope it's very good for our country to have good news ahead, and I hope that

my country would be strongly alive.

Number three, the Anthropic lawsuit.

The major AI company Anthropic is now suing the U.S. government to after the Trump administration

took a major move against it, essentially to blacklist the company.

The Pentagon designated Anthropic as a supply chain risk.

The designation usually slapped on firms with ties to foreign adversaries.

A move that restricts how much business Anthropic can do and with what companies.

Company says the move is illegal, and will cost them hundreds of millions of dollars

in contracts.

This started as really a personality fight between the CEO of Anthropic and the Defense

Secretary over the Pentagon's use of Anthropics Claude model.

The two areas and also the two areas that Anthropic wanted to limit how the military uses

its AI.

No mass surveillance of U.S. citizens and no AI for autonomous weapons.

Well, the Pentagon says it will not allow a private contractor to dictate how the military

uses any tool.

On the lawsuit, Anthropic says it was, quote, a necessary step to protect our business,

our customers and our partners.

The Pentagon declined to comment.

Number four, the Family Reunion.

A Texas family is back together now after being held in ice detention facilities for nearly

two weeks.

Their separation gaining national attention.

Eighteen-year-old Antonio Gamas Quayar had been separated from his whole family, his

father, mother and two younger brothers who were detained in a family detention center

in Texas, some 230 miles apart.

Two of the brothers are famous mariachi musicians who just last year were recognized in Washington

and performed on Capitol Hill.

Their detention now sparked protests and outrage in the community and from Democratic

members of Congress.

So Donald Trump said he was going after criminals.

He said he was going after people who were dangerous to Americans.

Well, how is it that these two young men were good enough to perform at the United States

Capitol?

They were safe enough to tour the White House.

The Department of Homeland Security says the family entered the United States illegally

in 2023 that the parents were arrested by ice last month.

Lawmakers say they have a pending asylum case.

More right after this.

I'm Dr. Sanjay Gupta, host of the Chasing Life Podcast.

Dr. Zachary Ruben, he's a pediatric allergist, clinical immunologist, and he just recently

released his book called All About Allergies.

With food allergies, we know that that's been around for thousands of years, but just

described differently, right?

There's even ancient Chinese texts that talk about avoiding specific foods during pregnancy

or different parts of life, so there's definitely evidence that it's been around, and it's

probably as a protective measure against toxins or parasites that were found in food and it

became this more exaggerated response.

Listen to Chasing Life, streaming now, wherever you get your podcasts.

One last thing, guys, rush hour is about to take out a whole new look on the streets of

Washington, D.C.

Officials have just unveiled the track for the Indy Car Freedom 250 Grand Prix.

The name that they've given for the new race planned for August in the nation's capital

is part of the grand and elaborate celebrations being rolled out for America's 250th anniversary.

The first ever street race on the national ball will be 1.7 miles long and will feature

seven turns around some of the country's most iconic landmarks.

The first usually isn't in session, and we're going to bring throngs of Americans into

our capital city, and we are going to celebrate our birthday with a free, awesome Indy Car

race, 190 miles an hour.

Last time we did this, 1801, we had horses race in the capital.

The Freedom 250 Grand Prix is one of many events planned, as I mentioned.

A UFC event is even in the works and is set to be held on the south lawn of the White

House on June 14th, also known as Flag Day, also known as President Trump's 80th birthday.

I'm Kate Baldwin, those are the five things you need to know to get your day going.

Now get going.

Our next episode drops at New Niste.

I'm CNN tech reporter Claire Defi.

This week on the podcast, Terms of Service.

There's a growing category of products aimed specifically at addressing women's unique

health needs.

These tools and services are sometimes known as FEM tech, and they can provide big opportunities

and benefits, but they can also come with some risks.

To walk us through all of this, I spoke with Bethany Corbin.

Bethany is an attorney and CEO of FEM Innovation, where she advises startups, clinicians, and

healthcare organizations.

In my opinion, what it really does is gives us a collective language to talk about women's

healthcare innovation and the tools that are out there so that we can take control of

our healthcare experiences and know how to advocate for ourselves in a system that's

probably not been designed to advocate for us.

Listen to CNN's Terms of Service wherever you get your podcasts.