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i thought martin fletcher's interview was thoughtful. why did netanyahu greenlight with several major revolutionary guard leaders in syria on their embassy. military organizations are immensely resilient. if you kill the general, someone shows up again in 30 minutes and takes command that is equally capable. netanyahu did, deliberately, provoke the reaction. i don't think they thought they would go on this magnitude but we aren't ages ground the israelis are in for a rough go. >> general and colonel if you would stand by. we are watching the clock ticked by. we could be seeing the drone heads as we look at these live pictures in tel aviv. i want you with me if that happens. i do want to bring in gregory meeks, he is a ranking member. thank you for joining us. talk me through how you are feeling about this and what you are expecting to see. and what the president needs to take into account with the support of israel. two very nervous and worried as everyone is. and rightfully so, given what we have seen or hearing. i think that we are wai
i thought martin fletcher's interview was thoughtful. why did netanyahu greenlight with several major revolutionary guard leaders in syria on their embassy. military organizations are immensely resilient. if you kill the general, someone shows up again in 30 minutes and takes command that is equally capable. netanyahu did, deliberately, provoke the reaction. i don't think they thought they would go on this magnitude but we aren't ages ground the israelis are in for a rough go. >> general...
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joining us is bureau chief martin fletcher. martin, thanks for being here. you were the bureau chief for decades. how was last night's attack different, was it? >> reporter: it was, it was so different it can not be expreltsessed fully in words. this is, as you know, the first time iran attacked israel directly on iranian soil. that is what they face now. how, how to respond to that. all of the pressure coming from the white house from european governments on israel is not to respond physically, militarily, certainly not in a strong manner. but the pressure is so us inside israel is to do something. after all, the leadership of israeli government from the right is pushing for a very, very strong response. the president has said it was a declaration of war by iran and israel will occur all options. now the question is what will israel do? will israel base the response and try to do or what iran achieved last night, that is basically nothing. not was not shock and awe. able to stop that massive missile attack on israel from iran. only you can count low many mi
joining us is bureau chief martin fletcher. martin, thanks for being here. you were the bureau chief for decades. how was last night's attack different, was it? >> reporter: it was, it was so different it can not be expreltsessed fully in words. this is, as you know, the first time iran attacked israel directly on iranian soil. that is what they face now. how, how to respond to that. all of the pressure coming from the white house from european governments on israel is not to respond...
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. >>> 17 past the hour and welcome back to the iranian has beens on israel, and martin fletcher, always great to see you and on a night i guarantee not a lot of people slept where you are. >> that's right, and it was a dramatic evening and night for the israeli citizens, expecting the worst from iran and iran fired the hundreds of missiles -- we didn't know exactly how many -- but for the time being seemed to have dodged a bullet to use that phrase with the defense systems shooting down most of the inbound missiles by iran help from the u.s. and the uk and also jordan's air defenses, the country of jordan shooting down some of the missiles, too. so facing an enormous threat, the israelis, trying to sleep, and they went to bed hoping that they would not need to get up and spend the night and face tremendous damage. and in fact, there were sirens all over most of israel, and in the north and south and only minor damage it turns out in an air force base in the south of israel. otherwise, israelis for the most part were able to experience an evening of success of their defense system. it wa
. >>> 17 past the hour and welcome back to the iranian has beens on israel, and martin fletcher, always great to see you and on a night i guarantee not a lot of people slept where you are. >> that's right, and it was a dramatic evening and night for the israeli citizens, expecting the worst from iran and iran fired the hundreds of missiles -- we didn't know exactly how many -- but for the time being seemed to have dodged a bullet to use that phrase with the defense systems...
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. >> carl, talking to martin fletcher in this last hour, was speaking to us from the balcony of his house, and he was, he was telling us how remarkable it was, how effective the iron dome and other defensive capabilities that israel has have been in this more than 100, maybe 200 drones and missiles that have, for the most part, almost all of them have been successfully defeated, or defendant. what does this tell you about israel's capabilities? >> there is substantial, but we have to remember that the large majority of the airborne vehicles that were sent from iran were drones. which are slow. and relatively easy to intercept. more difficult are missiles. there is very little warning time, getting picked up by radar, less time in order to intercept them, and if there are large numbers of them they can easily overwhelm the iron dome or any other, any of the other systems that israel has. so it would appear that iran attempted, this really sounds silly, but to give israel an opportunity to knock these things down, they could have sent a very substantial number of missiles, that would've bee
. >> carl, talking to martin fletcher in this last hour, was speaking to us from the balcony of his house, and he was, he was telling us how remarkable it was, how effective the iron dome and other defensive capabilities that israel has have been in this more than 100, maybe 200 drones and missiles that have, for the most part, almost all of them have been successfully defeated, or defendant. what does this tell you about israel's capabilities? >> there is substantial, but we have...
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fletcher. good to have you both. matt, first of all, it seems like regionally speaking, they thought this could explode, but it's de-escalated in a sense. you spoke with hezbollah's second in command. could we see iranian-backed proxy groups like hezbollah respond and make it worse again or what do you think? >> yeah. i mean, you could kind of call this case the sum of all fears when it comes to the last six months of what we have been seeing here in the middle east. once we see this escalate beyond just iran and israel, that was enough to cause everyone to really hold their breath. once we see it spill out beyond the borders of those two countries and beyond the palestinian territories, we're into very, very lethal and destructive and destabiling territory. here in lebanon, you see just over my left shoulder here down the coast is where hezbollah has been attacking the israelis for the past six months. this has been very bloody. tens of thousands of people have been displaced. hundreds have be
fletcher. good to have you both. matt, first of all, it seems like regionally speaking, they thought this could explode, but it's de-escalated in a sense. you spoke with hezbollah's second in command. could we see iranian-backed proxy groups like hezbollah respond and make it worse again or what do you think? >> yeah. i mean, you could kind of call this case the sum of all fears when it comes to the last six months of what we have been seeing here in the middle east. once we see this...