saying is so important and let's all hope this is a turning., that it's a new attack and opportunity there are much more people. [inaudible] thank you for being here thank you for all the breaking news. a maternity over to kennedy. kennedy: breaking news now on the u.s. standoff with around the pentagon confirming iran lost a major missile attack on u.s. military bases and iraq. early reports there are no casualties of the u.s. variety yet. but the eye iranians warning there is more to come. so how will the presidents respond? this is brand-new video of what we are told is one of the bases where the missiles landed. let's listen. [inaudible] we are told this is the missile shortly after they were launched into the night sky. it all comes five days after u.s. drone strike killed a

rooney in as he left the baghdad airport. this is a tweet from the state news agency that shows a missile leaving a launchpad, the eye iranians say one of the targets was the all asad military base which houses military troops. what happens now is a question on everyone's mind? is this attack over and how will the u.s. respond? benjamin hall is live in amman jordan with the latest. benjamin. >> good evening kennedy and for five days now since that it that killed qassem soleimani we have been waiting to see how iran would retaliate for his death. and they've been talking about ever since then. they have said very clearly that politically and militarily they will respond they will attack the u.s. military. a number of them had also said that they wanted to shed american blood. these early reports do suggest that no americans have been killed today and that is a critical. because president trump always said that the red line would

be the death of american soldiers. we saw that when he reacted to him the baser couple weeks ago. before that he had not responded to the shooting down of the drone to the attack on the saudi oil facilities he had responded to the tankers in the persian gulf, but he did respond to the death of that death of american. for two main reasons he was by iran themselves for it was not using their proxies as they have in the past. it is from inside iran directly targeting ballistic missiles. we don't have the exact number of missiles that were filed the u.s. is set in their initial statement that it was more than a dozen. but the iranian media are saying more than 30. we are also hearing maybe five or six hit that al-assad base. it was tacked to both of them are rocky bases but having u.s. troops. it's a key base for the u.s.

military was th the second largest in iraq during the iraqi freedom operation that continues to have its mostly u.s. soldiers in the u.s. country over the last few days we have seen the u.s. taking extra precautions and steps in case or for their retaliation. we saw them bringing soldiers into the outpost into the main basis. we also saw the u.s. over 3000 chemo from the u.s. to kuwait. just a few days ago and it was seven or 50 came paired we had b-52 bombers flying over yesterday. and we also had in the persian gulf u.s. as harry truman carrying a strike group along with at least one submarine. so they have the ability to respond. we have to see how they do. but iran also a formidable force when yet they are this close to them. they have at least 2000 of these missiles and there's not a lot of conventiona what happens next we do not know. they sent the u.s. strikes

back at them now they will retaliate and they will hold to account any country that allows the u.s. still be on their territory. so the planes in qatar they will target qatar. they also said they will target israel. so we are at a precipice right now. whether or not this escalates, whether the u.s. responds or not remains to be seen. but it's an incredibly tense night here in the middle east. kennedy: absolutely you are in jordan who has been an ally to the united states. it's where we have a joint training facility. so what are you hearing from some of those allies? has it been any response from israel or any of those others? >> we have not had any responses yet. we did see secretary pompeo releasing calls and transcripts that he made to leaders around the region. of course there is a close alliances. you still have to see the region split as it has done between the iranian allies in the u.s. allies. that is a situation right

now. whether other countries get brought into this, whether there is a need for more retaliation, we do not know. but certainly regional allies should be very away afraid of this. they are the ones who are split. you get the majority of iraqis who support iran, but a lot of them but don't. in in fact, we have seen the kurds in the cities with the u.s. troops ask them to leave. so iraq is really stuck in the middle at the moment. they are the battleground in this war that is escalating between the u.s. and iran. kennedy. kennedy: benjamin thank you stay safe. we are hearing now that the ffa has banned flights over iran, iraq, and the persian gulf. more on that as it develops. all of this follows a recent tit-for-tat between the u.s. and iran. an american contractor was killed by an iranian backed militia on december 27. the u.s. responded by killing

25 of those militia members and i and that was two days later. then after a funeral for fighters killed in those airstrikes protesters storm the u.s. embassy in baghdad on new year's day. and then of course president trump responding by ordering the drone strike on qassem soleimani last friday. and that brings up to this missile attack by iran on military bases that as you know her housing u.s. forces. so where do we go from here? benjamin alluded to it and now we have a heritage foundation research fellow former deputy assistant directly of defense peter brooks welcome. kennedy: cisse the iranian regime is shaky. what message are they trying to send? those targeted points were meant to just send a message and had not have a high body count or they have really bad aim. what is it? >> they have a couple of audiences, kennedy. they've got the united states, they've got people and iraq,

and they have their own audience on iran. they said they were going to take revenge. they set a red light and they had to do something about it. so they are signaling a lot of different people here. how successful they were in the messaging? it's not clear at this. we are still early in this breaking news. yes, that they have said what they are going to do, but we can't assume this is the end of it. kennedy: no emily worried is only the beginning. and every time there is actions, there is a reaction and then 1718 years later you are still there, so diplomatically how do you cool things down or even militarily what can you do? >> all options are on the table and that includes doing nothing to taking military strikes against iran in iran or against his forces. kennedy: what would you do? >> i would get a battle damage assessment and we are having positive news in that respect that there may have been no casualties on the u.s. side. we are going to assess, we are

also gonna do our force. we've had an attack, it started it we need to be ready. it may not be in a rocket could play come someplace else. we are going to assess what we need to do to respond to it. every action is going to have some sort of consequence. so the question is the president is going to have to make a decision on where he wants to go from it. but we thought we might hear from him tonight but we heed has decided so far he is not going to say thing. but there could be airplanes in the air to responding to this. so they have to decide where they want to take this. they are going to be looking at intelligence folks are going to be collecting everything they can on iranian forces which includes their paramilitary forces and paramilitary forces in iraq and deciding what it looks like iran plans to do next. we could be a defensive position right now because there could be additional attacks coming. and then the president has to decide what sort of targets, if he decides to respond

militarily he wants to go after. kennedy: what would be smart from his.of view, having been in the situation before. not only serving in the navy but in the department of defense. what is the smartest plan for the president? >> well look have to look at all instruments of national power which includes diplomatic. you can make an issue of this, you have need to consult with allies and partners that includes not only in the region but probably europe. you are going to want to come talk to congress about the sort of things. you are going to want to make it clear what iran did in firing these missiles in the attempts to take american lives. there are economic consequences, this is a business network there are still things we can go after in terms of iran. we have weaken their economy significantly and contracted by 10% last year. there are still things we can do there. and then there are military options that we call kinetic options and that could include everything from political targets to military targets economic targets. they can go after their oil

infrastructure and take out one of their navy ships. you could go after the ir gc headquarters. there's a lot of things but as each one of these options you look at, you have to decide what are the consequences of each of those actions. because there are likely to different ones. kennedy: there's a lot of differently could enumerate an election-year pride we hear a lot about the eye iranian attacking our grid, and cyber espionage and cyber warfare. what can the united states do in that realm to iran? because you say this is a weak regime, what can we do cyber risk tickly to weaken them further? >> we certainly could undertake cyber attacks and that would be a non- connecticut sort of response that could shut down their oil industry for instance. we could shut down their power system we could shut down their internet. but you also to think about the effect it has on the iranian people. our beef is with the iranian

government, which in my view took the first punch at the united states. we talked about that sequence of events that you so well laid out which you forgot to mention that starting in october through december there were 11 or 12 rocket attacks against u.s. forces and iraq besides all those other things. so iran through the first punch and so we don't want to alienate the iranian people. we want to punish the regime. because the people are victims of the regime and their policies. kennedy: we have some video right now of qassem soleimani's funeral and obviously it's his senses name would suggest is a solemn occasion, iran and the foreign minister has promised a proportional response to his death. he has been called a martyr, and revenge will be taken in his name. so when zarif says there is

going to be a proportionate response, what you think that's going to mean? >> that could be the attack on the military forces because they considered soleimani to be a general a military man. even though he was involved with the irg c which we consider to be a terrorist organization we considered him to be a terrorist as well. so this could be the end of the response but it may not be. so that is what our intelligence services are trying to assess. what comes next. remember it's the middle of the night in the middle east and it can be very, very difficult to assess these types of things. battle damage assessment if there's any movement of iranian forces, are they on alert? will we assess how we are going to respond to this. so this could be, i don't trust the iranians quite frankly. [inaudible] they could say it was good to be a military response proportionate response, and then they could've done something completely different. kennedy: maybe they don't know

maybe they've splintered, they are desperate and they are all over the place. which could make them even more dangerous we do not know we are going to keep brian all of this. does the nation have the stomach for a nether potentially major conflict in the middle east? let's meet tonight's panel to discuss. leslie marshall, peter suleiman and lawrence jones is here welcome everyone. so what are you seeing now in this escalation. >> of the response right now, i think everybody is freaking out right now without having information. we hear there are no u.s. casualties. kennedy: you think that's intentional? >> yes, i do and look we don't know yet so this is complete speculation. if there is if their mission

was to respond back and not hit american life, when you look at the response of far they said they want to hit american allies and go after israel. but not the u.s., just the allies. it is not a u.s. base, they could have went after our embassy but they chose not to do that. so i think this is an opportunity to reset. the president traditionally has been measured in his response. kennedy: yes i'm a jew brought that up and by the way that it was 15 ballistic missiles, 14 hit one fails, for hit the al-assad base. so nothing to libertarians about four fails. that's very good. one of the most attractive things about the president, was his notion, his long-standing notion that these wars are costly, they go

on too long, they are bloodied, and they we have to not get into any more of them but we have to extricate ourselves from them in places like iraq and afghanistan and elsewhere. is there any chance of him being consistent on that position at that.? >> i think the inconsistency is most frustrating about this. trump is often said look i want to get out of iraq, i want to get out of afghanistan i want to end the forever wars. yet that hasn't really happened and we have seen these sporadic attacks through the course of his presidency. and you talked about this is a de-escalation. i want to hone in on that.just a little bit here because is it an escalation excuse me, because this was pitched by the administration as a d escalatory move this was mike pompeo said over the weekend that this was an attempt to de-escalate the situation. look what is happening tonight. this is not a de-escalation. this is a not -- this is not

keeping america safer. this is what president trump needs to be thinking about is that look there are americans who are under attack right now and explicitly because as a response to the trump. kennedy: i think what he is saying we blew up soleimani and the administration said okay that's that were not getting into anything else. but now iran launches missiles at american interests and iraq. so now what we do we launch more, they launch more, and then more, more, more, or central war? [inaudible] >> president trump has to make a decision if he's gonna fight back. >> i think so far his redline is american lives being lost. kennedy: what if they were aiming for america? >> they had really bad aim. what they are saying is that iranian missiles attack did not even target either the largest base nor the one

closest to iraq. so they had really bad aim i think they want to strike back but did look weak. we need more facts. the red line is not been crossed at least by the president. kennedy: i'm going to bring leslie and we were been watching pictures and iran coincides with those 15 missiles launched at u.s. interest from my run to iraq. leslie. >> the president himself said this action was taken not to start a war but to stop a war. and we don't know if that, if this is going to become a war. there are two things with iran. they know their ability. and within whatnot minutes israel can make them a parking lot. they want to keep their regime. so i'm not sure this was bad aim. i think this was tearing up

what they said they were going to do. first and foremost. they know that redline. however, i'm just not sure of this we talked about earlier, if this is the proportionate retaliation in response to this. a man that they are calling a martyr now, that they would want. and in addition to that, even aside from my ron, we have a rogue elements throughout the world that could act on their own as a result of this, and that could take lives. not just american lives. perhaps iranian lives and not just military. innocent innocent men women and children whose fight this is. kennedy: in one of the more attractive things about nonintervention policies the preservation of life and the promotion of prosperity. that's what people want. they have an utter apathy for another conflict like this. >> i don't want to see war take place.

but i have to be able -- we have to take a breather and measure what we know so far. kennedy: we cannot operate as we are in the middle of something and we have to be very trepidation and encourage the president. kennedy: the panels coming back will have them stick around and you as well. the president now has an awful lot on an already full plate. a potential fourth iran and that looming senate impeachment trial, have a need juggle these crises all at once? we are going to learn with mcgurn. he is next. ♪ ♪

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kennedy: we are back with braking is tonight the iranians launching 15 ballistic missiles at u.s. forces in iraq. they say it's retaliation for the killing of their top general qassem soleimani but at the same time the white house gearing up for that impeachment trial in the senate. so how will the administration deal with two explosive problems at the exact same time. joining me to it break it down former speech writer for george w bush fox news contributor it's time to learn with mcgurn. so here we go. it's a very, very full plate. this horrible situation with my ron does anyway benefit him

on the beach met front? >> remember the impeachment was done in such a hurry. and now it's looking like the urgency of a few weeks ago. and it seems to recede in importance and mitch mcconnell says he has quote to proceed. ms. pelosi doesn't have any leverage at all perch he had have any power under the constitution and the senate is in no urgency to take this up. kennedy: they don't feel particularly moved. and all of the senators running for the democratic nominations, senator sanders, senator warren senator klobuchar, they have to take time out of their campaigning to go through a trial. kennedy: so one of the things i've read is that nancy pelosi will hold onto these articles until after the iowa caucus and the new hampshire primary. does anyone think that that helps the democrats. kennedy: been there in a split and they have to go to south carolina and super tuesday. >> and you're saying an election year we have to

impeach and even though there is an election coming up, and then you hold onto it through the election season, that makes no sense. kennedy: if i was elizabeth warren i would call nancy and say what you thinking. release those files. >> i think they just want to have it over with. it was never going to stick. kennedy: i don't think they want to give him the little because that is a win. and all that does is put all of this behind everyone. >> we could've seen that from the beginning there was no way they were getting get those votes. kennedy: we gather talk about secrecy it's a bunch of republicans organ about to kick them out. >> i think pelosi knew this. kennedy: that's why she let adam schiff be the bad guy. >> she resisted until the end but her caucus was there and she was not. kennedy: so now what does the president do? nancy plus he said democrats can walk and chew gum at the same time. that president is forced to walk, chew gum and kick.

>> i think it just makes the impeachment look less significant. the democrats are making it sound less significant because if you're saying the president has to be removed anyone gone now. but you're just holding onto it. kennedy: what's going on the white house tonight? >> i think they're gonna decide what to do with iran. kennedy: what you think they're deciding? >> it's new to us but they had to expect iran was going to something and the basis was to be an obvious target. so they're probably deciding how much they want to respond to. kennedy: in the faa's signal flyovers what is at sabia? >> they are taking precautions in the same way as the embassy was attacked we sent paratroopers and marines over to fortify the diplomatic compounds. kennedy: the iranians thought it was the end of it but unfortunately it is not. >> i think the eye iranians have made a big miscalculation and are trying to find a way out. kennedy: is there a way out? because that's my question the

quest the president said he loves a deal, and he loves diplomacy. is there a way in the hell that the eye iranians in the u.s. come to the table to either rip up the jc poa, or do something. >> of the only way to do it is the way nixon did it. all those years that they rejected things and then they bombed and then they came. i think countries like iran, when you show restraint and you mention the previous section the president how has shown restraint before, they generally interpret that his weakness. and also i am not persuaded that what the iranians are doing tonight is the end of it. they could assassinate in israelis diplomats, there's a lot of things they could do. kennedy: i don't think we should be naïve enough to believe that i don't think anyone believes it. there's a reason they are distancing themselves from this skirmish, and frankly i think it sucks. i like the dow going northward.

>> alike the dow going northward to. on people say date this from when it started. i dated to 1979. the iranians started when i was in the white house and the iraq war the iranians were making the ids or blowing up our troops. kennedy: what he think jimmy carter's thinking tonight? >> i'm sure we will hear in twitter soon. kennedy: thank you we always learned with mcgurn. great to talk to you. up more on the missile attack on u.s. military interest in iraq. how will the military escalation change the 2020 race? the panel breaks it down and ranks the candidates next. ♪ ♪ big ink tanks. lots of ink. print about... this many pages. the epson ecotank. just fill and chill.

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record. the two are pool polling essentially no connection i'll and new hampshire. that last last night on cnn, communist news network bernie went on the offense saying biden's record makes him unfit for office. >> and joe biden voted and helped lead the effort for the war in iraq of the most dangerous foreign policy blunder in the modern history of this country. joe biden voted for the disastrous trade agreements like nafta and permanent normal trade relations with china which cost us millions of jobs. you think that is gonna play wellin michigan or wisconsin or pennsylvania? kennedy: no, i think anderson cooper has a hell of an rv f. a number of candidates tweeting that u.s. troops are in their prayers so will foreign policy now become a much bigger issue on the campaign trail. the party panel is back. it's about time the gloves

came off, leslie. bernie needs to, he really, now that elizabeth warren is fading, bernie needs to run like a front runner. not someone who is wronged four years ago, but somebody who wants this and by doing that he's got to bring joe biden down. >> he is going to. the kumbaya ends. we saw he and hilary started hugging onstage back in 2016 and then definitely he went for the jugular as she did. and they have to. that's what they do in politics. look, there are people out there who will tell you sometimes you are such a disadvantage because you are voting based on information you're given. and there are a lot of people who were given obviously wrong information. it's party or permanent record. it's wrong information and semi- says there's wmds. and they say civilians are in danger. and americans throughout the world are in danger perhaps if we don't do this. and you have bipartisan support. bernie is going to attack joe

biden on this quite frankly that is not at least not right now is what wisconsin pennsylvanian this place is need. kennedy: but he has a very bad track record of telling the american public the truth about things like this. and it goes back, way before vietnam, but you can look at both persian gulf wars, you can look at afghanistan and the news that is come out about the survey of propaganda that the federal government was disseminating that was essentially lysed. so i don't think people have an appetite for it. the thing that does differentiate people like ron paul and bernie sanders is their consistency. they have always been antiwar and that means sometimes taking a very unpopular minority vote when everyone else is responding to the drumbeat of war. they are the one stepping back. does that make a difference here? is the electorate ready for a piece like bernie sanders?

>> this definitely plays into bernie sanders hands. this is an opening for someone who is been a consistent dow for many decades in politics. and in fact, this is going to open up knobs a lot of criticism about foreign policy, but out about joe biden's role as the avatar of the democratic establishment going back decades. in all of their failures that includes criminal justice, drugs, and foreign policy, all of those things. this is something where bernie sanders is going to say i have been an outsider this whole time. i've been a critic of the democratic establishment. you represent every one of its failures going back. kennedy: but in terms of this? he's cassandra because he can look back and say i knew this was going to happen i knew he would still be there and i knew it would turn into that list this level of crab show. i think that's right and i think bernie sanders is gonna do it. and he has a chance of actually winning in iowa. joe biden has choked when he has ran for president and got to iowa. bernie sanders knows this is

the time for him to step up. >> you don't need iowa to become the nominee it certainly helps. [inaudible] kennedy: momentum helps us celebrate crowded field. joe biden is still pulling nationally at the top of this heap. but bernie said, hey man you're too slow for this job. they're going to eat her lunch. >> he still has a lot of energy. i'm going to agree with everything my colleagues said about the flip-flop and the consistency, but there is another component to this. and when you have bernie sanders that essentially says soleimani was fascinated the americans don't feel safe. that is going be problematic with him with the democratic establishment. moving forward, i don't see any of these candidates with a lot of energy behind them. i've been on the campaign trail with all of them. they all have small crowds, but specifically on this issue

of iran, there has to be a balance of antiwar and steel strength as well. kennedy: this is what i will compare it to, the same people like about bernie sanders is his wisdom and he's like yoda. [laughter] he has the force, he has a lot of time and experience on his side. but. [inaudible] but he also is a light saber. the lightsaber and he can use it if he needs to and he could kick so much. >> he could be so reactionary. like tonight's, yoda is very peaceful, but bernie. kennedy: but if push comes a shovel bernie shoved back? >> will sometimes bernie is so quick to shove first. for example he of all the candidates were's bonding tonight. joe biden, his experience shows sometimes food i'm get a hold off on commenting. kennedy: no don't hold off on commenting if you're going to be president you cannot hold off.

>> he says until we know more. and that's okay. >> they're all saying thoughts and prayers for the people. kennedy: i understand and i don't hold the grudge against thoughts and prayers pretty mean those are always nice. but if you are running for president this is going to be. >> our own president has not stood up and talk to the american people about this. >> there is no try and only do and bernie sanders is gonna do what he does against joe biden. [laughter] kennedy: thank you panel so much great to see guys. coming out more on a potentially new conflict and iran. you can have a live report he is in baghdad. he is next. hope i am totally blind. and non-24 can make me show up too early... or too late.

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kennedy: we are back with more on the iranian missile attack on u.s. interests in iraq. just moments ago foreign minister tweeting iran took and concluded proportionate measures in self-defense.

under article 51 of un charter targeting base which armed attack against our citizens and senior officials were launched. we do not take escalation of war or war but we will defend ourselves against any aggression. and tweet. so does that mean we are out of danger now? live from baghdad tray what is going on there. >> kennedy good evening, here in baghdad we have heard apache helicopters to my left over the green zone patrolling all night. we have fighter just cited fighting north and west all after the ballistic missiles were sent towards the al-assad military base. that base has a number of troops president trump and vice president pence has visited that base and it's why the largest in the region for housing americans. therpresident are they are

calling as a victory for their retaliation of the killing of top general qassem soleimani which was killed outside of baghdad's international airport. that strike order by president trump in that top militia leader from one of the eye iranian backed iraqi shema militias that does operate. there is concern tonight and leading into the early morning here in baghdad that some of the eye rocky militia groups that are backed by the regime could take part in future retaliation. bullets seen so far is the back-and-forth war of words between the iranians and the trump administration. and now i iranian's responding with the ballistic missiles. this is quite different from what we've seen in the past. you might ruin the before when rockets are being fired at american bases in iraq, they were mostly run by the iraqi military, but the americans work out of them and stay there during their efforts to fight isis. the one attack that killed one american contractor and injured four service members, that got a response by

president trump by killing over 30 of hezbollah back to militia in iraq. but the.here without first attack is that these are rockets that are fired within iraqi territory by iranian backed militias. this is really ratcheting up the tension in the region. if you fast-forward a little bit as of that back and forth, we saw the embassy being stormed and ultimately soleimani being killed. and now the eye iranian's firing this ballistic missiles. what is this all mean? that means the ball is back in president trump's court. he is going to decide how is he is going to respond. the fact that we are hearing there is no u.s. casualties and that is according to pentagon officials that is going to be something that may make the response less harsh by president trump. but he has said he is going to respond. kennedy: we have lost his feed. that is very unfortunate because we have a lot more to hear from trey.

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kennedy: we are back with more tonight's breaking news on that iranian missile attack on u.s. interests in iraq. the president, he's chiming in on twitter right" all is well, missiles launched from ironic to military bases located in iraq assessment of casualties and damage is taking place now. so far so good. we have the most powerful and well-equipped military in the world. i will be making a statement tomorrow morning. this is new video of those missiles hitting the al-assad military base for u.s. forces are housed. u.s. military spokesperson said iran launched 15 ballistic missiles ten hit al-assad for failed and one hit at base and or bill. iran appears to be a calling it quits for now, but does that mean america's done? joining me now is he's on the four phone with more. what's going on suits?

>> i think the big take away here tonight is their radiance could done so much worse they could have lunch then it by rain or other headquarters but they fired them at basically placed in iraq and it seems to set it on to say orchestrated, but shooting 15 or 16 missiles, have four or five failed at the 30% failure rate in the magically having no american or iraqi casualties, just seems like a remarkable coincidence. and it strikes me, here at the end of the morning. that this was satisfying quds force honor, but on certain conditions. because obviously here's what i am hearing and they warned the iraqis knowing full well the iraqis would warn the u.s. they fired them at bases that were cohabitated by iraqi forces but they had to guarantee there'd be no i rocky casualties.

so they'll be getting their.across, but i think trump canceling the address tonight, he had only one written, but private ten peg is in a bunker, so his turtle tempeh. there are no american i rocky casualties said they now have to write speech number two or tomorrow morning. and i think it is a de facto agreement from both sides to satisfy honor and then walk away and go back with the coyote and sheepdog cartoon and start low level negotiations. but neither side once a war. that is obvious from tonight. kennedy: 's that obviously benefits the president politically so where does he move diplomatically with iran? >> it would not surprise me if we fire a bunch of cruise missiles at a meaningless island in the persian gulf. but i don't know.

because remember trump made the rules that when you shot down a drone but there is no american on board just a drone, i'm not going to take your lives. so very well might be that trump gets a win but diplomatic and political, we are not out of this. i could strike back, but nobody in that neighborhood is under the misimpression that we are not powerful because they know we are. but i've chosen not to because they iranian missiles were so bad their aim was so bad, they are such bad rocket tears that could not even get a fuel tech on an airport in erbil. and i think that's how they get the information out. and i think that's what they are doing. and if you member pompeo and westberg work west point classmates. they have their heads together on this to poll win out of this. they could say we are could strike back but were not going to because were not about revenge. we got the guy we wanted, he is still dead, thank you very much you're welcome. kennedy: are you confident the team around the president now that madison and kelly are no

longer there? >> i think, i'm about results. i like that soleimani was killed. he's not the second in charge and iran he had his many enemies in their government is our government. he i am confident because so far i like the decisions that he has made. after the drone shoot down, after killing soleimani i agree with, and if he does not respond to this incompetent attack, then i will be really impressed with the people around him. kennedy: in last word because we are running out of time here, what about russia? >> they are eating popcorn. you get a gift of a guiding popcorn on a couch, they say put in doesn't drink but i'm sure he did when soleimani was killed.

kennedy: that's very interesting because the worry is always that russia benefits from this, and may be they dislike the chaos because they are bunch of drama queens over there. thank you so much. >> any time. kennedy: thank you very much we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ print about... this many pages. the epson ecotank. just fill and chill. aleit's a master stroke ofe's heartachew. and redemption. the lexus nx. modern utility for modern obstacles. lease the 2020 nx 300 for $359 a month for 36 months. experience amazing at your lexus dealer.

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appreciate you sticking with me throughout the whole thing. tomorrow night on the show near congressman will be here along with kitty pavlovich and guy benson. they're gonna break down all of the fallout. good night. [♪] lou: good evening, everybody. we have breaking news tonight. iran has retaliated and in that retaliation has struck at a base, a joint base, iraqi base al-asaad in western iraq, 112 miles west of baghdad. reports are at 6 iranian missiles have hit the base. there are no reports at this hour of either injuries or damage to the base. but six missiles as they are described, not rockets or