for more on that i'm joined by courtn courtney kubi and david ignaceous. let me start with you. in terms of establishing what the united states was seeking to achieve here, we said it up front the word from the administration was that there were imminent attacks being planned and this was a preventive step to keep it from happening. do we know anything at this hour about what attacks the administration had in mind here, had on its radar, and do they believe that this killing has stopped that threat? >> so we know a little bit. we don't have a lot of specifics about it, so some of it on the record, some of it on background. general mark milly, the chairman of the joint chiefs spoke to a group of reporters today. he declined to give any specifics they were tracking, but told a bit about the atmospherics around it saying they gathered the information very recently. he felt confident it was solid, he praised the intelligence actually as being rock solid, that in fact qassem soleimani was directing and planning and helping with these imminent attacks that were in more than one place.