now in studio by iraqi journalist amir mousavi and in washington by our correspondent pablo thank you to you both for being here pablo i want to head to you 1st because the president has just tweeted moments ago walk us through what did the president say. that's right carl we were almost expecting president trump to tweet and in it he said all is well missiles launched from iran of 2 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 anywhere in the world by far i will be making a statement tomorrow morning of course that was in direct reference to the fact that many americans were expecting him to address the nation earlier this evening that was being reported in u.s. media it was later than confirmed that it wouldn't be happening and it's a very different tone than what many americans were expecting from president trump it seems that he after this meeting that he held with the vice president my pants with the secretary of state my palm pale and the defense secretary mark asper you

joining me in studio iraqi journalist amir mousavi and from washington ard w. d.c. correspondent pablo foley as pablo we want to head to you 1st the big question still american casualties we don't have any word on that but president donald trump tweeting the 1st we've heard from him in fact this was a couple of hours after the attack this is the tweet here and the president as you can say is seizing quote all is well and so far so good pablo certainly a different tone in that tweet from what we've been hearing from the president in just the past few days. yeah you're absolutely right far less aggressive the mall we've been hearing from president trump far more measured and i think one point that we really need to focus on is those casualties and actually to wait and see whether we have a final confirmation on dot undock could play a very pivotal role in how at the united states precedes un also president term say they in dot tweet add that he'll be making a statement tomorrow morning at now what's interesting about this is that several hours ago here in the united s

us wait till the assessment number because you will think it will be clear the iraqi journalist amir mousavi here in studio and in washington our correspondent bob loaf thank you both thank you. just a short while ago iran buried the general whose killing triggered this whole crisis large crowds of mourners gathering in the city of care months of pay their respects to money is burial had been delayed following a deadly stampede at a funeral procession on tuesday at least 56 people were killed in the crush. they were here to say good bye to a military command they called their own instead many were caught up in a stampede as hundreds of thousands of mourners descended on camera man. this is the hometown of kasim soli money the general killed by a us military drone last friday his funeral procession soon turned tragic as dozens were trampled to death. these mourners never expected the nation's loss to be overridden by their own. at a hospital a desperate search for missing relatives feared trapped in the stampede. we were at the ceremony and people rushed towards us so that i had to run away b