and who instructed duffy to reach out to the department of defense? who told him the president had questions? and what were those questions? and did duffy and blair have communications about the military aid to ukraine with the president? with acting chief of staff mick mulvaney, between themselves? what about the funding release and the president's so-called questions? blair and duffy could provide the answers. they could explain what directions they received, when they were provided, and who provided them. the american people deserve to know these facts. >>> the next significant event in our time line happened at the end of june. on june 27, blair got an email from his boss mulvaney. mulvaney was on air force one with president trump. according to public reports, mulvaney asked blair, quote, did we ever find out about the money for ukraine and whether we can hold it back? blair responded, it would be possible, but he said they should, quote, expect congress to become unhinged." when did mulvaney and blair first discuss the president's freeze on milit

officials of two things, first, continuing to withhold the aid would prevent the department of defense from spending the money before the end of the fiscal year and, second, the hold was potentially illegal as turned out to be the case. by august 9th, d.o.d. told mr. duffey directly that d.o.d., the department of defense, could no longer support the office of management and budget's claims that the hold would not preclude timely execution of the aid for ukraine, our vulnerable ally at war withck separatists, yet as mr. duffey reportedly told miss mccuster at the department of defense on august 30th, there was a clear direction from potus to continue the hold. clear direction from the president of the united states to continue the hold. so how did mr. duffey understand the clear direction to continue the hold? why is the president claiming that this wasn't unlawful when d.o.d., the department of defense, repeatedly warned his administration that it was. wouldn't we all like to ask mr. duffey these questions? finally, here's another reason why we know this was not business as usual. on j

yeah it was a pretty remarkable department of defense statement about this it's good too and a half paragraphs long i won't read the entire thing again but the key points that stand out here is obviously the united states department of defense confirming that the strike that killed solomon he was at the direction of the president united states that should not necessarily be a surprise given the high profile of solo money but also in the statement of by the department of defense they really pointed out how solo money in their view was actively planning more attacks on americans and american diplomats in the region there was a real sense in this statement that solo money in his cause forests were. an immediate threat to american lives in the region all read part of it general so the money was actively developing plans to attack american diplomats and service members in iraq and throughout the region general soleimani and his qods force were responsible for the deaths of hundreds of american and coalition service members and the wounding of thousands more again that's 2 sentences from the stateme

financing, fmf, included but not limited to, one, communications between or among officials at the department of defenseite house, office of management and budget, department of state or office of the vice president. two, documents, communications, notes or other records created, sent, or received by the secretary mark esper, deputy secretary david norquist, under secretary of defense elaine mccuster, and deputy assistant department of defense, three, draft final letters from deputy secretary david norquist to the office of management and budget and, four, un-redacted copies of all documents released in response to the september 25, 2019 freedom of information act request by the center for public integrity tracking number 19-f-1934. b, the ukrainian government's knowledge prior to august 28, 2019, of any actual or potential suspension withholding, delaying, freezing, or releasing of united states foreign assistance, military assistance or security assistance to ukraine, including but not limited to all meetings, calls, or other engagements with ukrainian officials regarding potential or actual suspensio

10, investigating committee issued subpoenas to the department of state, to the white house, the office of management and budget, department of defense, and the department of energy. the committees always remained open to working with the executive branch to discuss and prioritize the subpoenas. some agencies initially suggested that they might comply. for example, few days after receiving the subpoena, the department of state sent staff and reached out to the committee to quote discuss accommodations. as you know, the accommodation process is when congress and the executive branch discuss priorities and concerns. so that the committee gets what they need most efficiently while minimizes any burden to the agency. so on october 7, a committee staff met with state department officials. during that conversation the committee made a good faith attempt to engage the department in negotiations. to start the committee's requested the department prioritize the production of a narrow set of nonprivileged documents. the department representatives said they would take the requests back to senior state department officials. but that was the end.

and who instructed duffy to reach out to the department of defense. who told him the president had questions? and what were those questions? did duffy and blare have communications about the military aide to ukraine with the president with acting chief of staff mick mulvaney between themselves? what about the funding release? and the president's so called questions. blare and duffy could provide the answers. they could explain what directions they received, when they were provided, and who provided them. the american people deserve to know these facts. the next significant event in our time line happened at the end of june. on june 27, blare got an e-mail from his boss mulvaney. he was an air force 1 with president trump. according to public reports, mulvaney asked blare quote did we ever find out about the money for ukraine and whether we can hold it back? blare responded it would be possible. but he said they should quote expect congress to become unhinged. when did mulvaney and blare first discuss the president's freeze on military aide? was there f

eliminate the use of medical saving devices or tie the hands department of defense. so let's work together. et's make some progress that could actually pass both chambers. to that, i urge opposition the rule and i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from arizona the balance of her time. the gentlewoman from pennsylvania is recognized. ms. scanlon: thank you. i ask unanimous consent to insert into the record a 2019, "new york times" article entitled "government studying widely used linked to health issues." mr. speaker, what we're discussing is not -- the speaker pro tempore: without objection. ms. scanlon: thank you. what we're discussing here is issue, as this article outlines, these forever chemicals are adversely right now.eal people and they can be causing families issues like ealth autoimmune diseases, cancer, even children missing their set teeth.t so not only do we need more research, we need strong action and that's why the legislation we're considering here today is so important. that, mr. speaker, i'd like to yield three

and foreign military financing, not limited to communications, one, between officials at the department of defense, white house, office of management and budget, department of state or office of the vice-president. two, documents, communications, notes or other records created, sent or received by the secretary mark esper, deputy secretary david norquist, under secretary of defense elaine mccusker and deputy secretary of defense laura cooper or mr. erik ginning. three, draft or final letters from deputy secretary david norquist to the office of management and budget, and four, unredacted copies of all documents released in response to the september 25, 2019 freedom of information act request by the center for public integrity tracking number 19-f-1934. b, the ukrainian government's knowledge prior to august 28, 2019, of any actual or potential suspension, withholding, delaying, freezing, or releasing of united states foreign assistance military assistance, or security assistance to ukraine, including but not limited to all meetings, calls, or other engagements with ukrainian officials regarding po

that's what the department of defense is saying. and the department of justice, trying to legalize -- make legal what they clearly found to be illegal, per president trump. that came moments after the july conversation, the infamous july conversation, that those conversations are now in the hands of the democrats, fodder for the democratic managers, the prosecutors at trial, is great evidence for the democrats. that will come forward whether mcconnell likes it or not. so that's evidence right there. also what's happening, fred, is that the courts are now finally moving. last friday, just yesterday, a court -- appellate court in don mcgahn's case, remember him, the former white house counsel, he subpoenaed to testify in front of congress. >> refusing to do so. >> right. and the court finally said, and i'll quote from what they said, has there ever been an instance of such broad scale defiance of congress? all right. the department of justice lawyer standing right there said, there has been no precedent. all right, so now i think the c

what the consequences will be of his assassination which is being confirmed by the defense department in the last few minutes remains to be seen. that's going to do it for us at least right now. >> we're going to be continuing the breaking news coverage of this event. the information in the last 10 minutes has just changed dramatically. as you began reporting on it, it was hard to even confirm this had happened, we really just had iraqi sources at the beginning and we finally had iranian forces and now the department of defense. so it seems everything we need for confirmation of this we now have. >> not that long but for the initial coverage it was all those iraqi tv sources and then everything sort of fell into order pretty quickly in term of iranian sources. >> andrea mitchell is going to join us this hour. but one of things striking about it is she had secretary of defense esper on her program this afternoon. and when he was speaking about this situation, it really sounded like from his perspective things were under control now and the situation had calmed down. you couldn't get an

reporting that according to e-mails between the state department and the war department sorry the department of defense the trumpet ministration is preparing possible cuts of 250000000 military aid to iraq funds already approved by congress if the government truly expels u.s. troops and the state department bureau of near eastern affairs also has plans to ask the white house office of management and budget whether it can eliminate the $100000000.00 request for fiscal year 2021 due to current optics on the ground. current optics on the ground optics like the fact that most iraqi citizens are none too happy with the fact that the united states just assassinated the top iranian general at their airport possibly bringing the world closer to a hot war between the u.s. and iran a a hot war that would most likely end up being fought inside of iraq those kind of current optics on the ground those kind of or the optics on the ground that whole that whole illegally invading and occupying thing the united states did to iraq back in 2003 and is what is ultimately responsible for the nation being in the war torn ec

as early as the fall of feint, department of defense officials began to express concern that the u.s. maximum security pressure campaign against iran was raising the risk of iranian retaliation against american troops in iraq and syria. in an october 26 article in "the wall street journal," department of defense officials were quoted as expressing concern that iran's belief that the u.s. was helping israel with air strikes would jeopardize american lives in the region. on november 5, 2018, president trump imposed additional sanctions on the iranian oil, banking, and finance sectors. on february 3, 2019, president trump stated on "face the nation" that troops being withdrawn from syria would be moved to iraq -- would be moved to iraq to serve as a check against iran. on february 11, 2019, advisor bolton released a video addressed to the 40th anniversary of the iranian revolution, stating that iran's leaders would, quote, not have many more anniversaries to enjoy. on february 13, 2019, the trump administration convened a meeting in poland that was publicly described by israeli prime min

i would like to enter into the record a report to congress offered by the department of defense in coordinationwith the department of state dated december 2019 so, a month ago, entitled, enhancing security and stability in afghanistan. without objection, so ordered. let's see, we are beginning the second round so, let's see, all right, i understand i now recognize the gentleman from tennessee, mr. green, for five minutes. >> thank you, mister chairman. i'm still kind of stuck at this 100,000 foot view because i think if we get that wrong, everything else we are down below is a waste of time. clause which, i don't know if you have studied, much i'm an ex military guy so a lot of us were taught about is appreciation of strategy. one of his things that he sort of came up with, this concept of the center of gravity and so, if you are fighting a war, a military battle, you would look, for what is the center of gravity? what is the one thing that if you turn that, you win the day, victories at the end? it might be the terrain, if you hold the terrain, or if it is the defeat of the military itself or

they would reveal the defense department grave concern of the impacts of the freeze on ukraine and u.s. security. they would show the senior defense department officials repeatedly attempting to convince president trump to release the aid. in short they would for th woult of us to scheme to defense fund for his personal political campaign. we are not speculating about the existing of the document and we are not guessing about what they might show because during the course of the investigation in the house, witnesses who testified before the committee's have identified multiple documents directly relevant to the impeachment inquiry that the dod continues to withhold. we know these documents exist, and we know that the only reason we don't have them is because the president himself directed the pentagon not to produce them because he knows what they would show. to demonstrate the significance of the dod documents and the value they would provide in the trial, i would like to walk you through some of what we know exists, but trump administration continues to reduce turnover and again, bas

the director of defense and suicide prevention office for the office of forest resiliency in the department of defense, the acting director of suicide prevention program at the department of veterans affairs, the suicide prevention branch chief at the center for mental health services and substance abuse at the department of and a and human services family professor of health care policy, department of health care policy at the harvard medical school. thank you all for being here and we are sorry that we are a bit late. our topic today is a heavy one. it's one that is difficult to discuss. we must address it to ensure the readiness and well-being of our troops, their families and veterans. suicide is a homefront threat to service members and veterans. tragically, rates of suicide for active duty service members and veteran populations have increased in the latest reports, particularly affecting young men under 30 who make up nearly half the military. veteran suicide is a national epidemic. as a member of the veterans affairs committee, working to reduce the number of veterans who die by sui

secretary lord and doctor griffin and the department of defense are starting to do. that we have push things down into the services and it's good. now we have to align the rest of the department to those initiatives and take advantage of it. i tell you i could go on and on but that structure. actually just think back for a second. on where china has been in the last 40 years. and the constancy of purpose and the ability to move fast. of you think but north korea and that they have done in the last few years. and then you think about the potential of the united states of america. we should be able to defend ourselves against any threat. we should be able to deter any adversary from taking action against us. with the $700 billion defense budget we should be able to create the environment of peace in the world across the board. in order to do that, we have to look at the world, compete in the world and that mean wed have to go fast again. so i'm going to stop there and open it up for questions but i thank you for your attention and for your time and i look forward to the

they would reveal the defense department grave concern of the impacts of the freeze on ukraine and u.s. security. they would show the senior defense department officials repeatedly attempting to convince president trump to release the aid. in short they would for th woult of us to scheme to defense fund for his personal political campaign. we are not speculating about the existing of the document and we are not guessing about what they might show because during the course of the investigation in the house, witnesses who testified before the committee's have identified multiple documents directly relevant to the impeachment inquiry that the dod continues to withhold. we know these documents exist, and we know that the only reason we don't have them is because the president himself directed the pentagon not to produce them because he knows what they would show. to demonstrate the significance of the dod documents and the value they would provide in the trial, i would like to walk you through some of what we know exists, but trump administration continues to reduce turnover and again, bas

yes peter and i was just handed a statement from the department of defense just as you started talking to me i have not read it yet but this is an official statement from the department of defense that just came to my hands just now and i'm going to read it in full it's kind of long so bear with me but it's important we get this information out as soon as we have it here it is at the direction of the president the u.s. military has taken decisive defensive action to protect u.s. personnel abroad by killing customs so the money the head of the iranian revolutionary guard corps force a u.s. designated for foreign terrorist organization the statement from the pentagon goes on to state general so the money was actively developing plans to attack american diplomats and service members in iraq and throughout the region general solo money and his codes force were responsible for the deaths of hundreds of americans and coalition service members and the wounding of thousands more he had orchestrated attacks on coalition bases in iraq over the last several months including the attack on december

department of defense. francis incidents in a public information request say the release of these top secret materials would cause quote exceptionally grave damage to national security of the united states this group's person also tells the media outlets the date of the 2004 u.s.s. nimitz video is the number 4 of 2004 and the video that's been circulating since 2007 is the same length as the video source what it could be is anyone's guess behave permian professor of physics and astronomy at the university of southern california says he does it down there is someone who knows exactly what that meant in a 5 line object so when i watch the video you know you see an oblong object you see me and to me the only thing it does which is out of the ordinary is how it zooms out of view at the end all permian believes in life on other planets he says the day you declassify and this is something regarding national security could mean the u.f.o. is anything from one of the us and for series to other technology in the work

we have to reengineer how we buy stuff and secretary lord and doctor griffin and department of defense are starting to do that, we pushed things down back at the services and it's good now we have to line the rest of the department to those initiatives and make sure we take advantage. i could go on and on about that structure but i just think back for a second on where china has been in the last 40 years and the constancy purpose and ability to move fast, you think about north korea and what they've done in the last few years anything about the potential of the united states of america we should be able to defend ourselves against anything, we should be able to deter any adversary from taking action against us with a $700 billion defense budget we should be able to create the environment of peace in the world across the board. in order to do that we are going to have to look at the world, compete in the world and that means we have to go fast again. i'm going to stop there and open it for questions but i thank you for your attention and for your time and i look forward to questions and

as early as the fall of 2018 the department of defense officials began to express concern that the u.s. maximum-security pressure campaign since iran was raising the risk of iranian retaliation against american troops in iraq and syria. in october 26 article in the wall street journal, dod officials were quoted as expressing concern that i ron's belief that the u.s. was helping israel with airstrikes or jeopardize american lives in the region. on november 5, 2018 president trump impose additional sanctions on my iranian oil banking and financing. on february 2319 president trump set on facing nascent troops from syria would be moved from my iraq to serve as a check against iran. on february 11, 2019 advisor bolton released a video address to the 40th anniversary of the iranian revolution stating that i ron's leaders would quote not have many more anniversaries to enjoy. on february 13, 2019, the trump administration convened a meeting in poland that was publicly done described as israeli prime minister on his official website as designed to advance the common interest of war against ir

he is a battle-hardened veteran of the department of defense and you would be hard-pressed to find a more dedicated public servant, a better professional, and a more loyal friend of the united states army and our institution. i say that of course notwithstanding the outcome of the army/navy game this year, for which i think he would argue about responsibility. but his promotion to being the secretary of the army is a great plus for our country and for the army. now, with so many real and potential challenges on the horizon, our u.s. army has no choice but to adapt to an increasingly uncertain future. a future of complex and evolving threats and an environment of increasingly technology colonel sophistication, rapid change, and lethality. that is especially true of today's topic which is the indo-pacific region, although i know the secretary is focused with laser-like clarity not just on the indo-pacific but the middle east and north africa and europe and elsewhere, because the army is of course a global force. but today we will talk about the indo-pacific region. so to our program sho

custer at the department of defense on august 30, there was a clear direction to continue the hold. a clear direction from the president of the united states to continue the hold. so how did mr. duffy understand the clear direction to continue the hold? a person claiming that this was not unlawful. when dod, the department of defense, repeatedly worn his administration that i was. when we all like to ask mr. duffy these questions? finally, there's another reason why we know this was not business as usual. on jul july 29, mr. duffy a political appointee with 0 relevant experience, abruptly sees responsibility for withholding the aid from mark zandi. a career office of management and budget official. sees the responsibility from a career official. mr. duffy provided no credible explanation for that decision. mr. sandy testified that nothing like that had ever happened in his entire governmental career. let's think about that. if this is as retained as the president claims, why is a career official saying he's never seen anything like this happen before. mr. duffy knows why. shouldn't w

american lives, the lives of iraqis and muslims as well, and it was the right thing to do and the department of defense did an excellent job executing the mission. president trump: he killed at least 600 americans. roadside bombs and all of the horrible explosives you see. he was a big believer and send them everywhere. didas somebody that we ourselves and a lot of countries a big favor and i've been hearing from countries that they were extremely happy with what we did, and if you look inside iran itself, plenty of those leaders were happy. because they feared him and did not like him in many cases. reporter: [indiscernible] whether iranian cultural sites would be future targets? president trump: as i said yesterday, it was interesting, they are allowed to kill our people, maim our people, blowup everything we have, and there is nothing that stops them, and we are, according to various laws, supposed to be very careful with their cultural heritage. they kill our people and blowup i am ok withut their cultural institutions. if iran does anything they should not be doing, they will suffer the consequenc

on june 18, president trump's own department of defense certified that ukraine had met all of the anticorruption requirements necessary to receive aid. and you know what? the department of defense announced that the money was on its way. just as we, the united states of america, had promised. senators, our word must continue to mean something. our word must continue to mean something powerful in the world. so let us make certain that america continues to live up to its promise. >>> mr. chief justice and senators, thank you so much for the attention that you have given to our presentation throughout this day. it's a long day. you are here without your cell phones or any access to other information. it's not easy, but you're paying attention, and the country and the managers thank you for that. now, we have just through the importance of the security assistance to ukraine to our national security, and the clear consensus among congress, the executive and the president's agencies and advisers that the aid should be released to ukraine. in fact, by june 18th, after having certified that ukraine had

away how would you characterize the typical sex offender well if i look at our data from the department of defense and young people that are ages 18 to 2425 when you say that most of them are serial rape. i don't have data one way or the other to determine that what percentage of the rapes are caused by serial predator. i don't i don't have any numbers and i don't know how to i don't think we collect that type of data there's been studies done of people who answer the military are twice as likely to have committed rape as their equivalent population in the civilian world i'm not aware of that study my area of expertise focuses primarily on prevention and victim care but we're. focusing on the perpetrators. i notice that dr kay whitley is not in her chair is it under your direction that she has not shown her testimony this morning yes or do you have an executive privilege to do a search no sir you've instructed her not to come what is your reason for doing that if you find the department's response in provisions efforts fall short of your expectations responsibility for that shortfall rests with me

what is the why for the trump administration when you read the department of defense statement tonight, it seems to be because of what they expected general soleimani to do next. they say general soleimani was actively developing plans to attack american diplomats and service members in iraq and throughout the region. now, that's the trump administration asking us and the world to believe them about that point. >> well, certainly lawrence i think it's true what others have said, that no one should be shedding tears for qassim soleimani. he was in fact responsible for -- he had american blood on his hands, indirectly so but american blood nonetheless in conflicts throughout the region from syria to iraq to elsewhere. but at the same time, i think the fact as ambassador sherman said that the consequences of this could be unbelievable -- look, my concern throughout this had always been that a conflict with iran would start not with a bang but with a wimper, a wimper that was the result of any number of tit for tat escalations and retaliations derived from this so-called maximum pressure s

records from the committees in response to which the department of state, the office of management and budget, department of energy, and department of defense, refused to produce a single document for record. directing current and former and executive branch officials not to cooperate with theto committs in response to which nine administration officials defined subpoenas for testimony. namely john michael mick mulvaney, robert blair, john eisenberg, michael ellis, preston griffith, russell locke, michael duffey, ryan mccormick, nt orrick reptile, these actions were consistent with president trump previous efforts to undermine the united states governmentfe investigations into foreign interference in the united states elections. through these p actions presidet trump sought to arrogate to himself the right to determine scope and nature of the impeachment inquiry into his own conduct. as well as the unilateral prerogative to deny any and all information to the house of representatives in the exercise of its sole power of impeachment. in the history of the republic, no president have ever reported the complete defiance of an impeachment inqui

it would be a big mistake for iran to go after them but we are preparing, you've seen the department of defense take their actions. you've seen the state department do its work to buildout coalition partners. i've been on the phone for weeks intensely over the past few days. our partners in the region know what america did was a good thing t reduced risk in the region. it reduced the threat from of instability that theocrats in iran imposed on the middle east for so many years. what previous administrations chose to do with mr. soleimani i can't speak to what their calculus was. our intelligence was clear, our risk was much greater if we did nothing than if we took the action last week. maria: iran has relationship with china. iran has relationship with russia. even with the sanctions in place china is still among the larger customers of iranian oil and gas. do you think iran has become more emboldened by it is relationship with russia and china, and do you see a durable, russia, china, axis forming as all three powers continue to challenge the united states in different ways? >> absolutely the

in the department of defense misjudged our application for this contract. ctually important that a judge take a look at this and see whether the defense department made the right decision. and amazon agrees that certainly the defense department needs to move to the cloud. taylor: bloomberg's naomi nix, thank you for the update. now another conflict between apple and the european union. the tech giant is pushing back against an initiative that would standardize chargers for all types of smartphones and devices. . the move is part of the eu's effort to come -- to cutback electronic waste. i'm joined by mark gurman in los angeles. about if thisnder comes down to money because as you know, every time you get a new phone, you have to get three new chargers to match your devices because the old ones no longer work. is this coming down to apple trying to protect one of their moneymaking machines here? mark: you know, i don't think so particularly. i think this is pretty cut and dry. this is the rare case where i do not think apple did anything wrong. apple just has

is you know you have to look at it the congress just appropriated $850000000000.00 to the department of defense which should be called 'd the department of off friends and they've got to have a way to spend all that money now allegedly they're trying to get us out of afghanistan but we're a war culture now so we have to stay at war so they have to develop a new war if there's not going to be one in afghanistan now all get political for a moment defy were president i would welcome that 850000000000 did the department of defense but rather than spending it out aircraft carriers and rockets and weapons of mass destruction i would go out you spend $200000000000.00 on those machines that clean up the ocean then i'd spend another $50000000000.00 on training the united states navy how to use them and we would start a war on cleaning up the ocean guess what the rest of the world might like us again but what are the chances of bad no of course we're going to go to war again because the.

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in may of 2019, the department of defense, trump's department of defense, indicated in a letter to congress that all have anti-corruption by the ukrainian government. it seems the intervening event may have been the announcement by joe biden that he was running for president. >> chris: okay. one final question. house speaker pelosi, who's been saying for weeks that she takes no joy in the impeachment of donald trump. she used the words that you have used, solemn, sober, serious. here she is. >> this is a serious matter. we take to it heart in a solemn way. >> chris: which is why some were surprised to see the ceremony where she was handing out pens like it was a celebratory bill signing. as we can see from these pictures all the participants look pretty happy. doesn't that blow a hole in your narrative that the democrato re president? >> i was at that ceremony. there was no joy there. >> chris: we just saw the pictures, congressman. >> there was no joy in that ceremony. speaker pelosi has been clear that we are going to proceed in a solemn fashion. we don't dislike this president. we work w

we at the state department are working closely with our colleagues in the department of defense to takemany actions as humanly possible to protect our diplomats, our military can -- military, you saw the department of defense announced more troops going to the region. they announced it yesterday. there have been several announcements over the past week. so we will do everything within our power to protect americans, and certainly the safety and security of americans was always at the forefront of our mind whenever making this incredibly tough decision. alexandra: thank you. back to you. phil: alexandra, this is the second time the united states has sent missiles against targets in iraq, which is supposed to be its ally. what does this tell us about america's attitude toward baghdad? alexandra: well it is telling us , first and foremost that iran is the centerpiece of the u.s. foreign policy and that it was a priority foror the trumpmp administraration to strike on iranian proxies in iraq and to kill soleimani, even though it meant they would be risking the ir relationship with baghdad.

department of defense has said. at the direction of the president the u.s. military has taken decisive defensive action to protect u.s. personnel abroad by killing qassam still in money this strike was aimed at deterring future iranian attack plans the united states will continue to take all necessary action to protect our people and our interests wherever they are around the world now the iranian supreme national security council has confirmed in a statement that it held an urgent meeting and it made necessary decisions in that meeting the council valid that at the right time and place it will engage in actions that will do to the united states a basically make clear that this was the biggest strategic mistake for the usa in the west asia region basically the uniform and pretty clear message unanimous message from the iranians seems to be that there will be consequences and retaliation for this move by the united states. the u.s. an act of international terrorism targeting and assassinating general saloon money the most effective force fighting done. at oh h

important decision we at the state department are working very closely with our colleagues in the department of defense to take as many actions as humanly possible to protect our diplomats our military you've seen the department of defense has announced today more troops headed to the region they announced that yesterday and there's been several announcements over over the past week so we're going to do everything within our power to protect americans and certainly the safety and security of americans was always at the forefront of our mind whenever making this incredibly tough decision thank you morgan. back to you feel now i'll xandra this is the 2nd time the united states has sent missiles against targets in iraq which is supposed to be absolved what does this tell us about america's attitude toward baghdad. well it's telling us forces 1st and foremost that iran is the centerpiece of the us foreign policy and that it was a priority for the trauma administration to strike on iranian proxies in iraq and to kill soleimani. even though each man state they would be risking their relationship with baghdad

department of defense this was a defensive measure at the direction of the president the u.s. military has taken decisive defensive action to protect u.s. personnel abroad to by killing costumes still in money this strike was aimed at deterring future iranian attack plans the united states will continue to take all necessary action to protect our people and our interests wherever they are around the world now it certainly has been a dramatic week for the united states in the middle east and the pentagon seems to believe that qassam solid money was himself responsible for what has taken place in the last few days let's review. process of education so that they may be planning additional attacks that that happens and by the way we get word of attacks some type of indication will take preemptive action as well to protect american forces. to protect american lives. 'd now iran's national security council held its meeting and said that at the emergency meeting that was convened they made quote the necessary decisions and that there is going to be some retaliation at the right time