joining me now, francine and personnel moffat, the parents of sergeant briana moffat. and purcell moffat, thank you for being here. my deepest and then once it's on behalf of the show. >> thank you. >> of course. let me start with you, francine. so i know from my producer, looking at your background that you actually were the first woman in your family to join the united states military. you served as well. and your daughter was the second. tell us about your daughter and what inspired her other than yourself to serve. >> she's always had her own opinion and she just always was an amazing person. she was in rotc and high school in her mentors were -- and -- she always looked up to them as well. wanted to inspire her to the military as well. >> and what was her dream, her goal, long term? >> she after this tour she wanted to do one more reenlistment so she could become sergeant. and then her long term she wanted to do medical, who want to go to the medical field. she also wanted to do real estate part-time. >> mr. purcell, can you tell the world something you would like

fallen here. 46-year-old sergeant williams rivers, a 134-year veteran. 23-year-old specialist briana moffat. her mother said she always lit up a room. and 24-year-old specialist kennedy sanders, described as having a big smile and a big heart. tonight, how will the u.s. respond? abc's chief global affairs correspondent martha raddatz leading us off tonight. >> reporter: tonight, new details on that brazen drone attack that killed three american soldiers and wounded more than 40 others at tower 22, a remote u.s. base in the jordanian desert. the pentagon saying those soldiers, many army reservists from an engineering unit, were asleep in their beds early sunday morning, when an explosive-laden drone slammed into their barracks. tragically, officials telling abc news that initial reports indicate no one tried to shoot down the enemy drone, mistakenly believing it was a u.s. surveillance drone, one of their own. late today, the pentagon revealing the identities of those fallen soldiers, including -- 46-year-old sergeant william rivers, a 13-year veteran. 23-year-old specialist breonna moffett,

-year-old sergeant william rivers, sergeant kennedy sanders, just 24, and 23 year old sergeant briana moffatr parents devastated by the loss. >> if we knew what we know now, we would have to say i love you so much. just make sure that she knew that she was not alone and that we love her. >> tonight republican critics say president biden is not done enough to confront iran and to deter the attacks. >> they are doing nothing that is meaningful, and now we have more gold star families because of it. it's infuriating. >> for more let's bring in msnbc national security analyst and former fbi special agent clint watts. clint, what are we expecting here? >> yes, stephanie, so we are talking about an interest network of proxies the iranians have throughout the region. if we go back to october 7th, we were talking about containing hezbollah here in southern lebanon. that's what the big focus of the u.s. navy was. since then, we've seen airstrikes here, down in yemen, with the houthis, who are going out and targeting ships. but all of the attention has shifted much more closely here to this border are

that includes sergeant william rivers, 46, specialist kennedy sanders, 24, and specialist briana moffat, who was just 23. the army announcing today that sanders and moffat would be promoted posthumously. three were killed, according to president biden, from an unmanned aerial attack from militant groups operating in syria and iraq. >> we [inaudible] >> yes. >> [inaudible] >> i do hold responsible incentive supplying the weapons. >> iran has issued a statement denying a part in the attack. them foreign mentors that his country was not involved in the decision-making of militant groups like the ones that complained who claimed credit for the attack, the islamic resistance in iraq. counter strikes following the october 7th hamas attacks in southern israel and israel's overwhelming military response. there's a sense in which the way things have played out follows, appears to follow her masters plan, which was to commit an act of violence so outrageous that would evoke provoke a response from israel that would engulf the region. when the new york times reported on the intelligence failures i