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 s

does it respond, does it respond through proxies, conventional warfare? highly unlikely given the mismatch it has against the u.s. military here. it will massively impact inside iran as i'm sure but you have to ask what brought trump to this extraordinary decision, one that essentially begins a new decade. >> here on set michael holmes, you have covered that region extensively. look our viewers here in the united states and around the world who are waking up to this, help them understand who soleimani was in iran because, look, this is person who has reached beyond the borders of iran but also in that country. >> absolutely. he took off as head of the quds force in '90, '98 i think it was. he was crucially involved in the iraq war that the u.s. was fighting in iraq. iran was involved in that exporting the technology that led to the deaths of hundreds of american servicemen, explosively formed projectiles. that was iranian technology. he's been involved in lebanon, in syria. he's executing iranian regional military strategy. was able to do a lot of things

the best deterrent, we'll have to respond and respond proportion nally. this is d proportionally.rish: 1,500 people were slaughtered, and that was orchestrated by general soleimani. given your familiarity with hezbollah. the iranians may be saying we have a controlled response. there is no u.s. casualties in early reports which is heartening and we hope it hold through through the second round. they need to open the door for some kind of olive branch between the u.s. and iran. they cleared the air. but it doesn't get to the hezbollah issue which is that we may have some individuals that try to carry out attacks that are highly problematic, potentially deadly. if that happens the u.s. will want to respond again in kind. how do they shut the hezbollah stuff off from the iranians? >> i think it israel example is perfect. israel has responded interest mitintermittently. we'll have to respond to the terror threat in that region. i think attacking inside iraq is a whole different equation that may not be necessary because the bigger picture is the protection of the iraqi people. would i

but the question of when and where iran will respond to essentially i don't think iran has any choice but to respond to this attack let's bring in any government there in london ellie i mean it's an interesting observation is it not because many u.s. administrations have blamed iran for years about its destabilizing activities right across the region so has president trump finally done the one thing that so many other u.s. presidents were too scared to do what we're seeing is now both sides iran and the u.s. over the past anything particularly in iraq really if we do we find out that lives that are not engaged and so they've gone from 6 months ago of attacking military installations or drones friends on whole to now targeting us now this us attack comes after and number of heated exchanges in iraq over the past we whether happy if they got it but such a high ranking of fascination on the u.s. side is going to really draw the right lines are. wrong this fall and it's going to open up a whole new space i think of iran to up the ante in the region we'll talk about the response in a 2nd l

side is going to really if we go all the right lines are at how wrong responds and it's going to open up a whole new space i think for iran to up the ante in the region we'll talk about the response in a 2nd let's bring in marwan cabal on who's here in doha what's your response to the set him on the killing and then do you think iran miscalculated the level of u.s. retaliation to the you to the embassy siege in baghdad. absolutely i think iran thought that the president prom was very careful actually not to cross the red lines or the rules of engagement between iran and the united states after. donning of the you as a player in a few months ago and all sore after iran but vocation concerning the targeting of oil tankers in the gulf in the sea or for man. also after the targeting of the encore. oil affinities in saudi arabia so i think in iran the thought that the might actually go off air that a step in and balancing your as so but i didn't so i think he have decided in my opinion that maybe it's time to respond and i think that was the killing of soleimani was very much like that tha

and how they will respond they've warned that any kind of a reaction from the u.s. will have more consequences for them we're also waiting to find out a detailed account of the attacks that were carried out by the revolutionary guards their media relations department has said that they will release a statement in the coming hours so we'll get more information about the attacks so thank you all right let's bring in deborah elizondo who joins us live now from washington d.c. president trump has responded on twitter saying all is well so are we now sensing perhaps a poor in this escalation. i think so at least from washington's perspective at least from the trump administration's perspective i think that's what you're seeing i mean trump met with his war cabinet late on tuesday is this strike in iraq was happening and there was some real concern then and real apprehension going on and uncertainty on if some american troops were in killed or injured what trumps response would be but it appeared and it appears by all accounts that no u.s. servicemen were men or women wer

house speaker nancy pelosi is responding. she just tweeted this 30 minutes ago saying, quote, closely monitoring the situation following bombings, targeting u.s. troops in iraq. we must ensure the safety of our service members including ending needless provocations from the administration and demanding that iran cease its violence. america and world cannot afford war. >> let's bring in our political analyst larry gersten. this was a concern for a lot of people for candidate trump, was he going to be able to respond in this crisis. are we at war right now? at what point do we determine this? >> pretty close. all we need is the u.s. to respond in like fashion and you can call that war. when one nation is attacking another or its provinces, so to speak because iran would be that technical sense, part of our network, yeah, that's oura tatsumaing the united states responds in like mooner. the president said he would do more than like manner. so, yes, we've got real issues here. what people don't remember, perhaps, is that not only

have to respond right away.ct, i think they are hoping for the advantage of some form of a surprise, which means that they likely will wait. what i think they will do first, is try to utilize the popularity that soleimani had inside of iran, because he was seen as such a critical player in defeating isis and trying to see if they can get some of that popularity to wash off on them and on the regime which is faced with inpopularity. >> what factors come into play with iran's calculus with retaliation? the response risks a massive reaction from the u.s., right? and at the end of the day, the regime's paramount concern is survival of the regime? >> correct. i think at the same time, the economic pressure that the iranians has been under has been so intense, there's voices inside of iran, that essentially argue, unless there is some form of a confrontation, there may not be a way for them to end that economic strangulation they're faced with right now. we should remember, iran is under more sanctions and economic pr

drone strike that killed a top iranian general, iran responded forcefully tonight, launching missile attacks on at least two iraqi bases housing american and coalition forces richard engel is in iraq tonight with the latest richard, what do we know >> reporter: well, the u.s. military is confirming that iran launched ballistic missiles at conventional military attack from inside iran at two iraqi bases, one in erbil where i am right now we heard what we believe were two explosions not sure what the damage caused -- how much damage they caused and the other base that was attacked in the al asad base, which is about 200 miles from the iranian border according to the military, about a dozen ballistic missiles were launched iran says that these were medium-range missiles they put out some video. in the video, you can see three, maybe four different missiles firing, leaving smoke trails you can hear the distinctive roar of jet engines. military personnel on the bases told us that they knew they were under attack they went to shelters, that they hunkered down in bunkers. still no word of a

so the question is, how does he respond, when does he respond? certainly, major escalation of the moment. again, to reach at that statement from the dod laid out, approximately 5:30 p.m. on january 7th, iran launched more than a dozen ballistic missiles against u.s. military and coalition forces in iraq. it is clear that these missiles launched from iran and targeted directly bases. typically speaking, if the u.s. wants to retaliate the launch sites will be the first they will take out but iran has over 2,000 ballistic missiles. it has vast arsenal particularly so close across the border of iraq, conventional weapons they could use. but suddenly, today, this is what many people have been waiting for. iraq has made it clear after the death of qassem soleimani, they would respond and they would respond military and they would respond against u.s. military. they have suggested a whole lot of options. they were very public about retaliation. they talk about attacking ships and the gold from attacking israel, the u.s. homeland but they'd talked about

respond to that? >> i think that is a myopic view of the history of what has happened since 2014-2015 when the jcpoa was negotiated. four years ago in january 2016 right after the jcpoa was agreed to, iran took american sailors hostage that were operating in the persian gulf, and hell them at gunpoint. so this is not a regime that invitationpoa as an to better relations with the united states. evenntinued to antagonize, during the obama administration and during this deal, and certainly continued to antagonize the region during the jcpoa. it conducted multiple wars in syria and yemen, strengthened oversaw theiraq, use of chemical weapons against civilians in syria. the reading of the jcpoa as in any way pacifying iranian aggression is misplaced. it certainly put limits on iran's nuclear program, limits that iran has broken out of and might accelerate as a reaction to killing soleimani, but it certainly, the jcpoa did not halt aggression in the region. >> on friday, senator bernie sanders submitted leg

they will respond. they said they will respond. they always respond in these cases. what worries me also to maybe use the analogy as well, they've been fighting for 15 years. they've been taking casualties in iraq and syria. we had 160,000 troops at the height of the surge and they were still undertaking the rocket attacks. so this is not new to them and i think president trump needs lay out very clearly what are the objectives? how far are we willing to go here? because the iranians are willing to respond and what do we do next? if we keep going tit for tat, where does at the lead? and we have no clarity from president trump about where he's taking us. >> thank you for joining us. ben is a former deputy national security advisor. brett mcguirk served as senior national security positions under presidents bush, obama and trump. i feel like you and i have been talking for the last 36 hours and i haven't left new york. you moved from london to teheran, so thank you. a full night. thanks to all three of you for joining us. >>> up next the senate leaders have spoken and

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we just don't know how they'll respond but we have expect that they will respond, they'll respond atime and place of their own choosing, which means they will try to respond in a way and in an are thas advantageous for them and will be most hurtful to the united stat. >> the iraqis are saying thi attack was a violation ofheir sovereignty. there are now calls by iraqi lawmakers to kick.s. troops out. have we basically seeded iraq to iran? >> i think we're going to find out. we may find out as soon as tomorrow. the iraqi parliament is set to start debating whether or not to evict the american tro tomorrow. they may well choose to do so. all that said, i think in theer short we do need to recognize that this was a very significant tactical victory for the united states. soleimani was unique. there is no otheran ira wh his experience, with his intelligence, his insight, his contacts. the fear that heou bred throu iraq, syria, lebon, elsewhere. removing him is a big blow to iran. the iraqis may not be as ready to ejict us with him -- evict us with him gone. the fact that we've now killed

they will respond. they always respond in these cases. what worries me me also using the vietnam analogy as well, they've been fighting for 15 years. they've been taking casualties in iraq and syria. we had 160,000 troops in iraq at the height of the surge, and brett was working on this at the time, and they were still undertaking these attacks. so the fact they're in constant conflict with the united states is not new to them. so i think president trump need to lay out clearly what are the objectives here because the iranians are going to respond and what do we do next? it may not be a conventional war right away, but if we keep going tit for tat like this, where does that lead? and we have no clarity from president trump about where he's taken us. >> ben is former deputy national security advisor to president obama. brett mcgurk who was very involved in the iranian negotiations served in senior national security positions under president bush, president obama and president trump. i haven't left new york. you've moved from london to tehr

all eyes turning to the white house to see how donald trump will respond. you are watching a special early addition of "fox and friends first". president trump going to address the nation following 15 iranian missiles as military officials confirm there were no us trade casualties. we are following this breaking news, live team coverage. griff jenkins has reaction from lawmakers. jackie ibanez following the efforts to ramp up the hearing at home and expert analysis, at the heritage foundation, james carrafano, but first rick leventhal with the breaking development. what is the latest changing by the minute? >> they are but first and foremost this missile attack is not a surprise to us authorities who knew the uranium to take action in response to the targeted killing of one of the generals in iraq late last week. the question is this it? is iran done with retaliation? i am guessing that they are but if the us fires back the escalation could continue. 15 ballistic missiles at two military bases by us military forces, one missile hit a base, four missiles fai

the decision in the video we responded in the. best time and in the best manner. in the previous days. in the negotiation plus former the qatari foreign minister came to iran he had a special meeting with the reef. and the delegates from different countries had a telephone conversation with brief. negotiation of the points discussed what point what have been discussed so far. it has been reported. in iran retaliates more sanctions can import with the. qatar foreign minister trips to iran. it was planned a few days before the incident. in the the visit that took place after these saddened. event. and. even leave you to cancel the visit but we. are to receive the delegation yesterday they. had their visit to iran. the points negotiated work the similar to the telephone conversation that they've had with his counterparts concerning the regional situation. mr zarif clearly stated that. that a military. official delay get of iran in a 3rd country in iraq e delete geisha in their own country has been targeted by the american regime nature really this act. is. an attack

he may choose not to respond. i think they will get a better idea from the pentagon of exactly how much damage was caused. they will be able to get a better look at the bomb damage assessment to see whether or not there needs to be an american response. but so far, the only response was from the faa, banning all u.s. flights from flying over iran, iraq, as well as the persian gulf. we sit here on stand by. >> sean: fascinating, by the way, because i'm pretty confident we had different sources. you, almost verbatim told me what i had heard. i only had one source. obviously you only have one source. something to hope for, because that would probably be a best-case scenario if no americans lost their lives tonight. look at your screen right now. this just in. footage of me. the airbase we are talking abo about. the al-assad airbase. in 2006, i went there and got to know these guys. i looked a little younger. my hair was a little darker. these are our brave men and women that were under fire. here with the rea reactio

a lot of democrats running for president who responded immediately.an pull those up, elizabeth warren saying trump's reckless decisions, larger airstrikes in iraq without iraqi government consent have brought us closer to war, tulsi gabbard saying the military strike was impulsive, shortsighted, lacked strategic purpose, senator chris murphy saying trump has rendered america impotent in the middle east, no one fears us, no one listens to us, what a disgrace and senator marcy saying this mismanagement of the middle east. go through with us the significant differences and what the obama administration did and how they responded not only to benghazi but overall issues in the middle east, the iranian nuclear agreement as well with what donald trump has done and handled. >> as a matter of whether america negotiates from position of strength or weakness the obama administration paying people and entering into agreements, look at the iran nuclear deal president obama got into with iran basically saying i will pay you today not to make nuclear weapons tomorro

president donald trump has only responded to the attacks on twitter saying all is well we are expecting a statement from him once washington wakes him up in a few hours there in iraq iran's strikes are in retaliation for the killing of so the money in a u.s. airstrike last friday he was buried in his hometown of kirmani just hours after the strikes iran's foreign minister java serif says his country will respond in proportion to any reaction from the u.s. he spoke right after a cabinet meeting. we've said very clearly that if the united states takes any further action iran viewed respond accordingly and we would respond in a very harsh way but proportionately well we did not start this process of escalation day united states rage an economic war against iran the united states has to come to its senses the presence of iranian people industry each of many cities unprecedented in the history europe can play a useful role by informing the united states of the serious error in their analysis that they should stop listening to clowns that they should based their policy based on realities and

doesn't always respond tit-for-tat. they shot down the drone, we did cyberattacks. we cut off the oil they were smuggling to libya but we didn't actually do a military response, so, i don't think that, that we wake up tomorrow morning b-52s would essentially be dropping bombs on iran. i don't know what military option they my take. it might not be right away. melissa: yeah. and you're talking about all this hinges on the loss of american lives or not. we dope have any information on that right now. as you mentioned, we want to stress to our viewers, we don't know if any rockets that landed if they landed on the base. if there are casualties, what the damage is. >> right. melissa: all we know at this point is, lots of reports of missiles fired. they have been confirmed by fox news at this point. we also know that dow futures at this point are sinking. we're obviously a business channel so we want to bring that into the mix. and, so, let me ask you, you know, we had another expert on talking about a non-military response

democrats take to twitter to respond. connecticut senator chris murphy writing qasem soleimani was an enemy of the united states, that is not in question. the question is this. as report suggest, did america just assassinate without any congressional authorization the second most powerful person in iran knowingly setting off a potential massive regional war? ilhan omar tweeting so what if trump wants war, knows this leads to war and needs the distraction. real question is will those with congressional authority step in and stop him? i know i will. elizabeth warren tweeting qasem soleimani, the murder responsible for the deaths of thousands including hundreds of americans, but this reckless move escalates the situation with iran and increases the likelihood of more deaths and new middle east conflict with our priority must be to avoid another costly war. as for the president he tweeted out simply this, an american flag. as washington prepares for what comes next, one gop congressman is celebrating this monumental developme

i think iranians will definitely respond.w if they'll respond immediately, maybe nothing the next 48 hours, but eventually they will respond to the killing of qassem soleimani. and they will use the tools that qassem soleimani already worked hard in establishing the last two decades. he has been busy supporting terrorist organizations, killing american soldiers in iraq, creating chaos in the middle east, establishing non-state actors that became more powerful than the states themselves like hezbollah or lebanon in iraq or the houthis in yemen. and if you look at the iran strategy that focuses on using a symmetrical power in order to support the iranian regime in the region, i think qassem soleimani can be considered the main artect chitect of that str. so the iranians will respond to do so and they have hundreds of thousands of fighters all the way from yemen to the borders the borders with israel that are more capable to spread chaos in the region and make it more difficult to the united states to establish its security goal

how will they respond? they're going to come after us with a vengeance if we do not reset the table pretty quickly. if i were the prrktsesident, i d put on the target, targets in iran that crush the economy. the maximum pressure campaign has worked. what would take it to the next level would be destroy the ability of the iranians to refine oil and sell it. >> okay. back with us kaitlan collins our chief national security correspondent jim sciutto and senior international correspondent arwa damon. kaitlan, huge question, why was the chair of the judiciary committee, lindsey graham, briefed on this? and to our knowledge, no members of the gang of eight. >> yeah, as of last night there had been no formal briefing for the gang of eight on this strike being carried out. those are the questions now being raised by critics of the president and some democrats asking why not only were they not briefed. why was there not congressional authorization for this. and senator lindsey graham saying he was briefed. he was ha

is prepared to mobilize its network of militia groups all across the region if the united states responds so this is something that iran is, wants its own people to know that it did, wants its own people to know that it was launched by iran directly, that iran is taking on the u.s. military, was undetered by threats from president trump, and now iran is waiting to see if there will be a response and saying if there is a response from the united states, it is prepared to escalate both directly and through its network of allies and militias lester >> richard, you're in the northern partof the country. what is the u.s. military mission there? what do those troops housed there do? >> reporter: well, this is a big part of the equation there have already been calls for u.s. troops to leave this country. u.s. troops, about 5,000 of them, are here in northern iraq and also in baghdad and other locations to fight against isis that is their mission. they are not here to assassinate iranian generals they are not here to drag this country into a proxy war. and now that there is an exchange of fire, t

i do expect they will respond.the sayings i learned in the middle east is at a time and place of our choosing. it is hard to say how quickly they will respond but certainly the rhetoric is indicative, and the path is indicative that they will respond. heard,four years, i have one of the concerns with iran is if we ever did anything, they have a lot of surrogates. we have hezbollah in lebanon, people in syria, has that been degraded to an extent? there are problems now in libya that did not exist before. is it possible they are not quite as powerful through their surrogates as they once were? adm. mullen: it may be possible in those specific areas because of dilution of what's happening in yemen, but they are powerful in iran, iraq, and syria. soleimani at a level of brilliance which extended his reach them at the middle east. we really need-- to be on guard from any possible surrogate at this point. i would not expect iran necessarily to respond conventionally, but i would expect them to respond to their terrorist

they are going to respond. what do we do next. we have no clarity from president trump where he's taking us. >> thank you for joining us. form national security an vieszor. served as senior national s director. you've moved from london to tehran. thank you. it is an early morning for you. thank you for joining us. coming up, the senate leaders have spoken much mcconnell delivered a blow with a reality check. that's next. check. that's next [ applause ] it's an honor to tell you that liberty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need. and now we need to get back to work. [ applause and band playing ] only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ our mission is to provide complete, balanced nutrition... for strength and energy! whoo-hoo! great-tasting ensure. with nine grams of protein and twenty-seven vitamins and minerals. ensure, for strength and energy. 1 in 5 people you meet wear yeah. that many! but right now, is not the time to talk about it. so when you're ready, search 'my d

emerge from water didn't respond to their so trump as i said has been accused domestically and being rather weak on iran now it could be the trump is trying to say trying to make a point by just particular you know what aeration trying to make a point that he is not recall iran and that he is and he does intend to take it to iran now adult began with the attack on the. possible war group if you remember the recent attack which literally dozens of 25 year rockier here in iraq across no looks good at what is going to consider to be one of the close european allies of iran and now due course to how common a to with this operation targeting are still in many and also the corner they don't really have a beagle and what was actually units almost the old wonders now i can't help but see here the trump who's going more and more in the israeli direction because it's the israelis which over time and again say are you shouldn't focus on al qaida and on my system the real danger lies in iran and its allies and some of my carrying out this operation trump is basically full in the wishes of the is

how should we respond?hink the president has responded very effectively. >> quite frankly but very restrained and measured way. again, i appreciate the fact that he did not address the nation last night. he waited to address the nation this morning. still waiting battleground assessment. advisors are weighing those assessments. again, i believe the president he should continue to at least contemplate striking back at iran. i don't believe he will, based on battle damage assessment i understand. but targets that would be available to his disposal and u.s. military capability would be the ballistic missile capability. brian, you mentioned earlier this morning, they have 2,000 ballistic missiles, perhaps going after other military infrastructure. maybe even oil production capability. but, again, let's step back. i think there is an opportunity here for strategic pause. we do have exceptional and highly capable u.s. a symmetric forces. u.s. air forces. we just deployed six b-52s. harry s. truman steaming off in

military personnel the president has all the authority and needs under article 2 to respond and hiring spies is yet to be determined but he has that authority to respond it was an act of war by regime for the last 40 years spent a cancer in the mid east when they say they want to destroy israel they're not kidding they're the largest state sponsor of terrorism. here's the team covering events at this hour is in teheran gavrilo it's on to washington d.c. also harry falls that in west jerusalem starting though where it happened iraq asama binge of a desire kept is our correspondent in the capital baghdad i should say take us through the events which you've been covering asama for a good well i guess 5 or 6 hours now. just about 6 hours now c'mon we started getting reports of missiles being fired from iranian state t.v. which was later on confirmed by iraqi security forces more than a dozen of them landed in the base in our province multiple missiles landed near us bases in erbil as well the iranians saying that all of their missiles hit the targets but so far no reports of damage at u.s.

jan there, iran didn't respond again. how the iranian regime thinks, they are the last ones who want an all-out war wih the united states because the thing they care about the most is regime survival. they have a long history of marching right up to the edge and eventually backing down and surviving to spread its malfeasance another day. >> bret: what i'm saying is reading between the tea leaves, what is the trump doctrine as of tonight when it comes to dealing with this? on the campaign trail leading up to this moment, it seemed like he wanted to pull out and not get the u.s. engaged in these kinds of moments. as we sit here tonight, what do you think his thinking is? >> two fold, i think a lot of people are conflating this issue. we are not talking a normandy detaid-day style boots on the gd invasion, militarily that is very wise. but he's not going to let a regime, a terrorist regime continue to kill americans time and time again. he has repeatedly shown restraint when shooting down our drone, when attacking shipping b

can people respond? >> i will start off, i guess, with the first point about strengthening hard-liners. i'm sorry, this is just my current thought. every moment of u.s. foreign policy there is a question expressed and a concern expressed about whether our actions are going to strengthen hard-liners. i've never seen evidence that we have been able to do anything to unstrengthen or weaken the hard-liners in iran. i've never seen any evidence that we have the capacity to tilt the balance of the factional politics in iran in a meaningful direction toward those who are capable and willing and interested and determined to change core iranian policies outside of the nuclear issue, where i think there was a regime consensus around the need for a diplomatic resolution of that crisis because of the economic costs that it was imposing. but i think it's unfortunately become a trope, the strengthen hard-liners debate, because those hard-liners have had ultimate authority throughout the past 40 years. they have had th

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but they have other places to respond. lebanon is a place they can respond.ere. they have allies in gaza and can respond with respect to israel, as well. they can respond in the persian gulf. they were responsible, either directly or incorrectly for the attacks on saudi arabian oil facilities already. they have a broad scope of responses or potential responses. the president seems to think they will send out tanks and airplanes and meet the united states on a mutually agreed battlefield. and this, therefore, will not take long. but this will be asasymmetric. they will engage in terrorist acts as they have done in iraq and other places. where this ends, it's very difficult to start. military officers know it's easy to start a war but not easy to end. this is a proxy war. we've been dtalking about what s happening about a proxy war, between the united states and allies of iraq. this is a direction action between the united states against the senior military of iran. it's not a proxy war. it's a direct confrontation between the united states and iran. and i thin

even if they respond to local issues. but here israel itself is responding to its own local issues. benjamin netanyahu is under indictment. he's trying to get parliament to try to give him some sort of immunity from prosecution for suspicion of fraud. he's also facing his third national election in just a couple months. he's desperate to show the israeli public he can defend them. which is just a a few miles southwest of where i am. this is really dangerous situation. not just because everybody is arming up and everybody wants to retaliate. so many actors have something to prove. that hasn't always been the c e case. now tammi smith a poignant moment where everybody wants to show how strong they are. very dangerous. >> i know you're in israel. you spent a lot of time in that country. today by a lot of analysis, iraq is the biggest loser in a all of this. they have obviously been the subject of two attacks by foreign countries on their soil underlying just how much of a battlefield that country has become in this region. walk us through what the iraqi government is thinking this morn

how are they responding tonight? because the way both here in saudi arabia and in the emirates, the governments, they monitor what people are talking about in the country. it's sophisticated monitoring of social media. it's very clear that the government in the united arab emirates have picked up what they would see as disturbing conversations that people are picking up on these threats. this is undermining people's confidence, because we've had two real efforts from the government there to tamp this all down. one of them from the government media saying very clearly the rumors regarding security threats targeting dubai are fake and this is interesting, and they haven't been issued by official iranian sources. so the government in dubai taking to twitter to tamp this down. they really do monitor what the people in the country think about everything, but right now of course it's about iran and the possibility of threats. then you have the minister of state for foreign affairs who's really the international thinker, sp

or do you expect him to respond?n't want a war, that they're done. they're done because they realize that this president is not fooling around. they're done because they realize if they kill any americans or take this a step further, that the response will be catastrophic to them. kudos to president trump. he knew they were going to respond. he knew they had to respond. this was a face-saving response. by the way, it was more of a message to their own people that they did something. i'm sure the president is not going to respond aggressively. lauren: steve rogers, thank you very much. cheryl: that's a big piece of what we're seeing in the market reaction overnight is that this lack of u.s. retaliation against the iranians for these strikes against facilities housing u.s. troops, now the dows was down more than 400 points last night. we're only down 3 l 38 right n. a massive reversal in markets. s&p is higher by 2 and three quarters, nasdaq is higher by 4 and a quarter. one market strategist says the worry now is a re

responds to this, they will respond as well. thank you. nick robertson, in riyadh. these missiles, they came from iran, not from a proxy. they weren't looking for plausible deniability. is it your sense from the iranian targeting and the trump reaction so far, there's room for everyone to step back? >> the iranians are creating an off-ramp for sure in the tensions. that's what we've just heard from a reporter in tehran. look at the facts on the ground. at the air base in the past, it's one of the most remote of the air bases the united states uses in iraq. remote from civilian populations. also a massive, sprawling base. if you're in tehran and you're calculating that you want to hit somewhere, and you want to avoid actually creating big u.s. casualties, an large air base like al assad is a good one to use. it's remote from civilian populations, and a relatively safe target. nevertheless, it sends a very big message to the region here. this is how it will be read in riyadh and some of the other capitals in the gulf. iran under sanctions has been able to build these

i think he has all the authority that he needs to respond to what happened today. supports the president's actions, we go back to what the partisan divide is -- that begun with the iranian deal which was such a bad deal which gave so much money to iran in the past -- i believe some the missiles were fired at us tonight were funded by money that came from the united states has the comey deal was put together. it wasn't approached by the obama administration of wishful thinking rather than real strategy. >> shannon: you know that it is going to be one of the criticisms of the deal that there were a lot of unmarked bills that went over to iran, they have a lot of inappropriate activities and a lot of proxies, what do you say to that? they could now be enabled to be funded to have these kinds of materials and have this kind of -- if you want to call it arrogance or confidence about coming after the u.s.? >> coming after the u.s. is never a good thing for anybody to do and certainly not for iran or any other country -- there are consequences of doing so. my point earlie

responds to this, then iran will respond yet again. so that could indicate that's all they're doing in the death of soleimani. we have no idea if this is it. if in fact this attack is successful, they damage facilities, they're disruptive, they will get a lot of attention, but they don't actually end in a lot of casualties, particularly u.s. or coalition casualties, the question is will that be considered proportionate enough. these proxies have been firing on bases for about two months with growing intensity and frequency since about october or so. and the u.s. -- the first time the u.s. responded, the u.s. contractor was killed in kirkuk. the question we have now is is this the end? will the u.s. military not respond in any way? that's really the question that we're all kind of watching now. >> yes, we are in a cycle of action and reaction and retaliation. that's how wars stop and how they can stop based on the choices that leaders make. courtney kube, thank you very much. >>> here to join me, it's titled the choice that's coming in

will decide to respond to an attack.he americans that are based at these different facilities all across iraq, and what the damage will look like. we have seen the images starting to pop up on social media from groups trying to show these were the missile launches and rocket attacks. attacks. we have heard from some lawmakers including chris murphy saying he's praying for all the troops stationed in iraq. we are trying to find out if congressional leaders were notified about what's going on. there was a report that speaker me lowsy ma -- mat speaker peloy have had a chance to be briefed on what was going on. what will this mean for u.s. infrastructure over there. and what will it mean for the american service members based there in iraq. they didn't expect any more news to happen this evening at the white house. we saw some reporters making their way back. it's snowing in washington. a number of the government offices closed early today to make sure people could get home to beat the storm. it's unclear whether that would

and melt multiple americans are killed how is america going to respond and then it is will it start a chain reaction of response and counter response and where does it end and why does it have to be in iraq and that is something that everyone in iraq has seemed to be asking that what did iraq do to deserve this because there are people who are against not just the united states influence here in iraq but also against iranian influence in iraq and both of these forces seem to have chosen the theater of war to be this country. given your reporting osama when you talk to iraqis not iraqi politicians not iraqi military not even u.s. military who work with iraqi military is there a sense in which those people in iraq might be best served served if the u.s. does what iran seems to be signaling it wants the u.s. to do just over the past 2 hours and if this do not react to what we have done in the past 2 hours and then we would have to react to your reaction and the people that would benefit from that in the 1st instance would be the people of iraq. yes pieces of the people of iraq still re

president donald trump responds to around 3 talent free attacks on u.s. military bases by promising new sanctions. also iran strikes happened late on tuesday night dozens of missiles raining down on seeing u.s. spaces in response to america's assassination by drone of terrans top general. ukrainian passions are playing meanwhile has crashed near toronto airport in training tearing ministry says that all 176 people on board were killed and also to come this hour blood in the turkish counterpart president officially launched the turks 3 natural gas pipeline the project will supply the turkish and the markets with russian gas it's. only good evening 10 o'clock here in moscow you're watching r.t. international now the u.s. president donald trump has responded to iran's missile strike on 2 u.s. military bases in iraq by vowing to impose new sanctions as we continue to evaluate options in response to a rainy and aggression the united states will immediately impose additional punishing economic sanctions on the iranian regime these powerful saying shoes will rem

how will they respond to this? there were -- they were under -- many of them under the control and worked at the direction of qassem soleimani. this man who the u.s. killed last week. will they feel that the iranian response was enough or will they feel they need to lash out further against the u.s.? those are the big questions. >> courtney kube, thank you. >>> retired u.s. arm colonel jack jacobs is now an msnbc military analyst. what are the best options, courtney laid out what to watch, but what are the best options as you see them moving forward? >> well t best thing to do of course is to go to the negotiation. either directly or through the pakistanis or some other source. and we have a lot of ways to get into them. in terms of military options, the best thing to do of course would not -- would be not to do anything unless we want to engender another attack. i think the message from both sides, from us to the iranians and from iran to us has been pretty much the same. we don't like any of this and we don't wan