white house is urging israel to allow a "dramatic" increase of aid into gaza within "hours or days." in a statement released after the israeli ministers approved opening aid corridors, the white house national security council

white house is urging israel to allow a "dramatic" increase of aid into gaza within "hours or days." in a statement released after the israeli ministers approved opening aid corridors, the white house national security council

looks like this, according to the coordinator for strategic communications at the white house national security council night of april 14, indeed, on that very night, when hundreds of drones, cruise and ballistic missiles were sent from iranian territory to israel, the government directly decided the question: is it worth responding immediately, without waiting for flight time, without waiting attacks on israeli territory. at that moment the decision was made to wait and see what the attack would be like. so as to respond to iran adequately and even beyond that. but the next day the media wrote that severe pressure began, severe pressure began from partners from the united states. joe biden directly persuaded netanyahu not to respond to iran and immediately perceive the successful, repulsed air attack as a victory for israel. to stop there and not to provoke the start of a full-scale war on... the states do not need it at all, especially in the context of the approaching presidential elections. this pressure was obviously quite significant, yesterday at the meeting government has not yet come to a deci

a larger-scale war in the middle east, he said in an interview with nbc news. said white house national security counciltrategic communications coordinator john kirby, for his israel has not yet decided on retaliation, he said. let's hear what kirby had to say. it is up to the israelis to decide what the next step will be. i will say only one thing: president biden has worked very hard since the beginning of this conflict to prevent it from escalating into a larger regional war. that is, the americans, as i understand it, restrain israel, although, apparently, the state of israel still wants to strike iran or those proxy groups. who work under iran in the middle east, well, in determination there is no need to doubt israel and that he will find an answer, er, what is called. after all, we've, uh, witnessed over the last, uh, months, uh, how decisively israel is able to respond to, uh, an attack by hamas in particular. which took place on its territory, uh, that is, uh, for sure israel does not forgive its enemies and will definitely find the moment and the way that will be the most annoying for uh its e

white house is urging israel to allow a "dramatic" increase of aid into gaza within "hours or days." in a statement released after the israeli ministers approved opening aid corridors, the white house national security councild: speaking in brussels earlier, us secretary of state antony blinken outlined what was expressed in that phone call. the president emphasised that the strikes on humanitarian workers and the overall humanitarian situation are unacceptable. he made clear the need for israel to announce a series of specific, concrete and measurable steps to address civilian harm, humanitarian suffering and the safety of aid workers. he made clear that us policy with respect to gaza will be determined by our assessment of israel's immediate action on these steps. he underscored as well that an immediate ceasefire is essential to stabilise and improve the humanitarian situation and protect innocent civilians and he urged netanyahu to empower his negotiators to conclude a deal without delay to bring the hostages home. no aid trucks have entered northern gaza since the israeli strike on humanitarian aid workers on monday. un officials have accused israel of blocking humanitarian supplies to gaza. the latest

and we turn now to coordinator for strategic communications at the white house, national security councilohn kirby. good morning and welcome back. >> thank you, margaret. good to be with you. >> do you believe that iran intended these strikes to be successful and lethal or just look like they could be? >> oh, no question. look at the size and scale, the scope of what they fired at israel from iran proper. more than missiles and drones. they wanted to cause damage, no question about that. but they were utterly unsuccessful in doing so. >> israel clearly has the military upper hand here, but the israeli foreign minister said days ago that if -- that israel will respond if iran attacks from its territory. you said they did exactly that. so has israel committed to the u.s. that they will give a head's up before they take action against iran? >> i don't think we're going to go into the details of the conversation that we had last night between the president and the prime minister. it was a good conversation, really focused on the incredible success that israel achieved last night with their pa

made prior to ron taking this action and those will remain in place according to the white house national security council. so what we know is that the counterparts, that means the secretary of state, the defense secretary and others, will be meeting with there and discussing the with their counterparts options moving forward. but at the same time i can also tell you on capitol hill very quickly. this has re ignited the debates that will take place this week on further military aid to israel. kimberly, thank you very much. kimberly how could whitehouse correspondence is there in washington dc. meanwhile, the european union and the u. k of condemned data runs the attack on israel. you foreign policy chief, joseph brown, called it a grave threat to regional security. france also echoed his commitment to israel with a foreign minister saying, yvonne has reached a new level of the seventy's ation. and he's on was driven chance that all actual tests termed yvonne's as sold on these rocks on israel as unacceptable. what time we strongly condemn the rainy and attack and one against any further escalation. your h

program meet the press, on the air of the american tv channel, nbc. former head of the white house national security council, john kirby. according to him, it was thanks to the help of the usa and not only the tzahal servicemen that the israel defense forces managed to shoot down 80 drones and six ballistic missiles. and when the presenter directly asked admiral kirby whether it can already be considered that the united states is directly involved in this conflict? he replied that exactly, listen very carefully, because i have at least two questions for him. and now direct speech john'. yes, it was a purely defensive mission, it was fully in line with our responsibilities and our commitment to the defense of israel, and again, kristan, it wasn't just us, other countries were also involved. that is, two key points, this was israel's defense mission, and the second, the us were certain obligations to israel, vasyl. and didn’t we have a defense mission in february 22... when we asked our overseas partners to close the sky above the earth, for some reason they didn’t say what it was then, cameron said today, so

i want to read a statement from the white house national security council spokesperson adrienne watsonn the attacks joining me live is our diplomatic correspondent james landale live in jerusalem. la ke very lake very good to have you with us and which are hearing right now it's iran has launched this strike and hundred drones in iran and directed towards israel and they say those drones will reach israel and confident that there will be destroyed by air defences either on the way or when they arrive. or we are also hearing from the iranians, specifically the guard, they're talking about notjust an attack with the drones but also an attack with the drones but also an attack with missiles. and notjust cruise missiles but also possibly ballistic missiles. that is not been confirmed by the israeli side at the moment but that means if that is the case, it's a conference of attack by iran and this is not a minimalistic exploratory attack, this is the substance of attack nasa reports that some of iran's allies are also participating in their reports that some missiles have been launched by p

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white house and the next hour or so to huddle and meet with national security team as the threats for my ron increase. just moments ago received a statement for the white house national security council about the hijacking of the cargo ship. it reads in part quote we strongly condemn the iranian con seizure of the portuguese flag british owned various ares intel in waters. the crew is comprised of indian, filipino, pakistani, russian national too: iran to release the vessel its international crew immediately. it appears president biden's word into a round yesterday is being ignored. early today outside the straight and iran salt force repelling from a helicopter as you mentioned onto this portuguese flag cargo ship portugal of course as a member of the european union. there was biden's warning to run yesterday. >> surprised around this moment? lexi don't trade. >> american personnel. [inaudible] mr. president are american troops at risk as well? >> we are devoted to the defense of israel. we will support israel but we will help defend israel. and iran will not succeed. >> israel former ambassador to the united nations says if iran strikes israel will depend how and aware that strike

jon: jacqui heinrich covering the white house and the national security council which, as she said, iseeting there now, thank you. let's check in with jamil jaffer, executive director and finder at the national security student, former associate white house counsel to president george w. bush. finish you just herald jacqui say that the u.s. and israel are said to be in lockstep on this conflict with iran, and yet it wasn't that long ago that president biden was saying that israel should, you know, back off its attacks in gaza which are in response to an iranian-led, you know, slaughter of israelis on october 7th. can they be in lockstep, i guess is my question. >> well, one can only hope that when an ally like israel being attacked directly by an adversary like iran, that the united states and our ally governments are in lockstep. we should have been this entire way. the idea that we've seen the senate majority leader, chuck schumer, calling for the departure of the israeli prime minister in the course of a war with a terrorist group in gaza, hamas, backed by iran is obviously, you kno

white house was not involved in that the u.s. received prenotification from israel. it's been a busy day with respect to iran here at the white house. there was that meeting with the national security council being led by jake sullivan between u.s. and israeli security officials where we will told that the topic of discussion largely involved the planned offensive and rafah and they shared the u.s. concerns over measures that might be taken that israel noted those. we can perhaps infer from that that they talked about this. an interesting note when the president returned to the white house from his trip to philadelphia today, just before 5:00, the president and staff members did not go into the residence which is normally what what happened. they went straight into the oval office, perhaps to discuss this. some of the other things that happened here today in addition to that meeting with them was the announcement of the sanctions. the a ministration announcing sanctions that they are targeting iran's drone program. they are targeting one of the largest steel producers as well as automobile companies that have believed ties. what's notable is that part of the statement the white house issue

. >> the pentagon white house national security council are still not commenting on this israeli strike inside iran tonight's. i think what is notable is that this strike by what we were told was unlimited strike by israel. it was not carried out by and aircraft. that we can confirm it did take place on the day of the supreme leader birthday. i think that's notable. they were sending a message by targeting the area in isfahan province which everybody knows that is where the nuclear facility is located. we have no indication that the facility was either the target or was struck in this missile strike. but it is a message to iran that after saturday night, crossing that redline and striking inside israel that israel would respond. they were capable of responding and this was a limited strike. it is designed not to escalate tensions, not to launch a war in the middle east. that is something that u.s. central command, u.s. military as well as the white house has been trying to avoid. the military was not involved in these strikes. we know that from reporting from our own jackie heinrich at

now, joining us right now is a spokesman for the white house national security council. john kirby. john, thank you very much for coming on. israel's war cabinet meeting again right now, they have said that they will exact a price from iran does president biden's support israel retaliating now, after the iran attack >> well, we respect that. that's a decision the war cabinet, the prime minister, have to make. we know that they live in a very tough neighborhood. the president believes that what happened saturday night was an extraordinary military success and that it proved israel is not alone and it proved that israel has a military superiority can be proud of, and that they ought to think about what that success to the message that, that sends to iran into the region itself. he's also been very clear, kate, that we don't want a war with iran. we don't seek to why? biden and broaden this conflict. we don't want to see things escalate as a matter of fact, what we wanna do is see things de-escalate and defending israel the way we help due on saturday should have that effect. >> we tal

that was you just heard white house national security council spokesman john kirby weighing in yesterdayhe deadly strike earlier this week that killed seven humanitarian aid workers in gaza, a tense phone call yesterday between president biden and prime minister netanyahu. joining us for more on this national security reporter for politico alex ward. i've lost count how many bylines over the last couple of years you and shared. first, let's get your impressions as to what happened yesterday. for some democrats and this is a long time coming president biden using this tougher language with prime minister netanyahu. there's a lot of pressure now to follow through with action. we're seeing israel saying they're going to make changes, opening up new aid routes and the like. what doyou make of the call yesterday, and what will you be watching for in the next few hours and days of the prime minister? >> here's many more bylines. in terms of what the administration is looking for, they're giving israel eight hours and days, i mean that's the quote from kirby to make these changes on humanitaria

its own copy of the white house, the national security council, spikes person, the white us national security sports person. so there were no problems for an independent us investigation. i don't know whether this is an oxy more or less as early, but anyway, that's the, that's the problem for you as administration investigation into what happened to be a workers from the wealth central control. so that's one of the key to models. nope . and does that mean? so as far as we can tell, and in fact, cubby and others have been quite clear about this to those, their plans. certainly right now, to condition military aid to israel on, on an investigation and on all these rel, following international and domestic us little in no, and in, not putting human rights abuses with us weapon right side of the question, is i with this, legible them. so what, what, what are they going to do about it? if he doesn't invite them, doesn't do what they're asking to do in that lab. so simply not to $11.00 measurement could be, will some of these them as a congress now not vote for further all of this transfer

the white house and national security council also declining comment. commercial flights meantime at the time were diverted from their routes over western iran, near where those attacks are reported to have unfolded. iran later grounding commercial flights in tehran. this again, of course, follows last weekend's attack by tehran on israel following israel's deadly attack on an iranian consulate earlier this month, killing a top general. immediate reaction to this already being felt in the markets. asian equities dropping right now with japanese, south korean, australian and hong kong stocks sliding as well. us futures are down two. >> wait and see what happens tomorrow. but no doubt this is a dangerous escalation in an already volatile part of the middle east. zach thank you. earlier today there was a pro-palestinian rally on the cal campus with demonstrators calling on the university to divest from companies doing business with israel. the rally was also organized in response to an incident that we told you about last week at the home of school of law

national, an american-canadian dual citizen, and a palestinian. president biden said he was "outraged and heartbroken" over the deaths but at a white house press briefing, national security council spokesperson john kirby refused to say if israel had broken international law. >> not a violation of humanitarian law? >> the israeli's have already admitted this was a mistake and they will get to the bottom of this. let's not get ahead of that. the state department has a process in place. they have not found any incidents where israelis have violated international humanitarian law. amy: on tuesday, world central kitchen and at least two other groups said they would halt or pause operations in gaza after the attack. a world central kitchen boat which still held 240 tons of aid on board left gaza on tuesday. meanwhile, a group of u.s. officials at usaid have privately warned the biden administration that the spread of hunger and malnutrition in gaza is "unprecedented in modern history" and that parts of gaza are already experiencing famine. huffpost reports the cable states -- "an immediate and substantial flow of food, health, nutrition and assistance, expanded humanitarian access, a

have remarks by kelly, the national security council special assistant to the president and senior director for democracy and human rights. kelly kelly throws with white house national security council as special assistant to the president and senior director for democracy and human rights, and prior to this she was acting chief of staff and deputy chief of staff for policy for the u.s. ambassador to the united nations linda thomas-greenfield. from 2018-2020 she was director of you manager policy and efficacy for the international rescue committee, irc, which represented irc, which represented the organization at unitedes nations, and she's held numerous u.s. government roles throughout her career advancing key u.s. priorities at the u.n. and new york. she's also served a human rights ambassador to ambassador susan rice and then a senior policy adviser to ambassador samantha power where she led key human rightsr initiative for the obaa administration including efforts to secure the release of political prisoners around the world. she's had a distinguished career as well as a civil servant working in a variety of important state department bureaus, and shehe

kelly razzouk, who is the national security council special assistant to the president, and senior director for democracy and human rights. kelly currently serves at the white house national security council as a special assistant to the president and senior director for democracy and human rights. prior to this, she was acting chief of staff and deputy chief of staff for policy for the u.s. ambassador to the united nations, linda thomas greenfield. from 2018 to 2020, she worked for the advocacy for the international rescue community, and she has held numerous government rules throughout her career advancing key u.s. priorities at the u.n. in new york. she served under human rights ambassador susan rice. and then a senior policy advisor to ambassador samantha power, where she led key human rights initiatives for the obama administration including efforts to secure the release of political prisoners around the world. she has worked in a variety of important state department bureaus. she has a juris doctor from depaul university college of law where she was a sullivan human rights law fellow. i couldn't be more delighted to introduce kelly to kick us off with some

white the house might push on that, or is israel's word enough? >> it's really interesting, chris, because the white house and national security council spokesman john kirby earlier today some time ago indicated that the white house was going to reserve judgment on those preliminary findings from the investigation. he was trying to make the argument that in effect this isn't israel doing its own investigation, that it was a separate branch that doesn't report directly to the idf that made this assessment, almost trying to imply that maybe that could be perceived as some kind of an independent investigation. of course that isn't good enough for world central kitchen, and you did see secretary blinken making some remarks that also john kirby attempted to clarify saying he made those comments before we learned a bit more about what had come out of this initial report. so the white house seemingly saying we need a bit more information to decide whether we're going to fully back a separate third-party investigation into this. but here's a little bit more of what secretary blinken said overall about the major concerns the u.s. has about this unacceptable

including the national— in the united states including the national security council and the white _ national security council and the white housereally concerned millions of— non—binding. this really concerned millions of people in my region. can you out— millions of people in my region. can you put the — millions of people in my region. can you put the matter to lay? and please — you put the matter to lay? and please clarify to us whether the security— please clarify to us whether the security council resolutions are binding — security council resolutions are binding or— security council resolutions are binding or non—binding? and another point, _ binding or non—binding? and another point, today— binding or non—binding? and another point, today israel has fired two low level— point, today israel has fired two low level officers and reprimanded some _ low level officers and reprimanded some high officers for the bombing of the _ some high officers for the bombing of the world central kitchen. is that enough?— of the world central kitchen. is that enou~h? ~ , ., ., that enough? well, first of all, the secretary-general _ that en

machine tools, optics, nitrocellulose, microelectronics and turbojet engines, said white house national security council significant consequences if chinese companies are found to be providing material support to russia's war against ukraine. vladimir vladimirovich, regarding the little entente, this most updated entente, i, of course , also read today’s article. i was amazed, that is, they missed the two foreign ministers against whom this entente was created 120 years ago, the fact that russia joined there, becoming a triple alliance, for some reason they missed this fact, but in this article they directly write that the new the goal of this renewed entente is to defeat russia, let’s read vladimirovich’s article, which in general is essentially a declaration of war on us, honestly. but i can read, the dark days are here again, russia's war of aggression in ukraine is now in its third year and has a profound impact on european euro-atlantic security. it is absolutely clear to our countries that ukraine must win this war, if ukraine loses, we will all lose. the cost of failing to support ukraine now wil

we want to take you straight to the white house where national security council spokesperson john kirby is addressing an israeli airstrike that apparently killed several aid workers with world central kitchen. let's listen into the press room at the white house right now regarding israel and gaza about the floating dock and how the aid workers be protected. >> worries. what do you mean by worries or concerns about its satisfiability >> well, i mean, let me break that up a couple of ways. i mean, obviously the temporary periods, it's known as a dj lots joint logistics over the shore it's on its way to the eastern mediterranean right now. it's not, hasn't arrived yet, and it'll take some time once it gets there to be assembled and to achieve what we call interim operating capability, we expect that we expect that that happened in coming weeks there's no concern in terms of our ability and the skills taken to needed to build it and to get it up and running. what we are working with partners in the region are two things. one is the logistics flow, getting getting them maritime materials to

steps right further and by ms way on his way back to the white house to meet with his national security council staff and their social security account council and advisors. as right also the defense secretary also lloyd has talked to the his is early counterpart but also to other partners and allies or countries and counterparts. the secretaries of defense in or countries over the last few our so us is and was as you may remember yesterday, warning that this could be happening very soon that iran could come to those strikes a rather sooner than later, the president said yesterday, we're doing a press conference, he also said don't, don't do it wrong, but of course, um, those calls for restrain have not been he, by iran now as know what is going to happen now here in the us, they will analyze what's going on right now. as of, as you said before, and as the guest said before, there is a drones tried going on. those drones are travelling very, very slowly. and is there l? is there any defense for us to should be able to take those out? if there is more, that's a problem, that's a problem. all of

the white house and national security council also declining comment. meantime, commercial flights at the time they were diverted from their routes over western iran, near where those attacks are reported to have unfolded. iran later grounding commercial flights in tehran. this again, all of this follows last weekend's attack by tehran on israel that a response to israel's deadly attack on an iranian consulate earlier this month, killing a top general. this all obviously a developing situation and we'll of course be bringing you the latest details as we get them. >> yeah, obviously concerns growing with the situation there in the middle east. zac sos thank you. >> in the east bay today there was a pro-palestinian rally on the cal campus calling on the university to divest from companies doing business with israel. the rally was also organized in response to an incident last week at the home of school of law dean erwin chemerinsky and his wife, professor catherine fisk, during a celebration dinner for students. palestinian american law student malak hana

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white house. the national security council, significantly, we are told, that israel did alert the u.s. for this operation was carried out. now, stephanie, it all comes te just days after the president came back over the weekend for an emergency meeting as iran retaliated against israel, you will remember that operation from israel and its partners were able to knock down hundreds of missiles and drones and that attack from iran to israel. now just earlier today, an interview in another network, the iranian foreign minister said that any attack by israel on iran would be met with maximum impact and the response from iran would be immediate so that is the large question at this point, stephanie. if, indeed, this was an attack by israel inside iran, what will the iranians do next? national security officials here at the white house will be watching very closely, and again, this comes just days t after president biden told prime minister netanyahu to take the wheel because there were no casualties in that attack by iran on israel. now, though, it appears that israel has retaliated. the whi

white house, the pentagon, and capitol hill. i wasn't going to bring into a conversation nbc news correspondent bree. the meeting at the white house, the national security council state, lloyd austin, the secretary of defense, as well as the director of the cia, bill burns, what can you tell us about that meeting, and where the united states goes from here? >> evening. the president biden cut his weekend plans short in rehobeth beach to rush back here to the white house. we're told that even before he returned, he was receiving updates about the situation there in the middle east. now, there is significant concern about this coming a wider conflict. president biden holding this high-stakes meeting in the white house situation room with his national security team. the president posted a photo of it on social media. now, you can see that secretary of state antony blinken, defense secretary lloyd austin are among those there in the room. we're told that vice president harris, she is traveling. she attended by secure video. now, president biden is stressing that his commitment to israel's security against threats from iran is ironclad. the biden administration has

according to the national security council spokesperson, as he's making his way back to the white house, and that the us is in constant communication with is really officials and its partners and allies. this coming, just as we've known that uh that of lloyd austin, a u. s. secretary of defense has been in constant communication with israel's defense minister earlier a statement from the pentagon saying that us, once again, we committed it's quote, unwavering us support for israel's defense. now we will see how that coordination, how that response may unfold. biden's a bite and netanyahu's differences over the way that the israel has been waging as for on gaza, apparently now set aside as the 2 partners respond to this attack from iran in a coordinated manner. yeah, and i mean, we'll, uh, we'll have to, i guess, wait and see what that manner would be. but do we have any idea based on recent comments? how that reaction will actually play out to the pentagon and the white house has been very mom on that. obviously it's something that we're all wondering. what we can look at though is the

security. prior to this position he served at the white house in the national security council as director for cyber incident response. in that role he was a principal author of executive order 14028, improving the nation's cybersecurity. he also oversaw the federal government response to a wide range of malicious cyber activity, including the rush attributed solarwinds incident, china's exportation of microsoft exchangef servers, and ransomwae attacks such as those on colonial pipeline, on gbs foods. prior to joining the nsc he served as senior policy advisor at the fbi, working on an array of cyber internet and technology policy issues turkey earned a master public policy on the harvard kennedy school of government. iranga, it's great to have your today. we're going to give iranga an opportunity to make a few opening remarks and then he and i are going to have a brief conversation, fireside chat, and then open it up the moments that are left for questions. >> great. thank you, suzanne ansys friday. skinny-dipping with a fellow dhs lump it is understood to be in good company. i wanted to than

white house press briefing with national security council spokesman john kirby. there. and he is saying, now, if this is a warning and there is some vagueness to the warning, and yet we keep hearing it over and over. we heard it from senator. we heard it from secretary blinken. we got it from the readout. we getting we're getting it from kirby here at the briefing. they mean business here at least certainly in the communication of this and we'll have to see how netanyahu responds to it. but he's saying if there are not changes from the israeli side, then there will have to be changes from america's side. and specifically, he's talking about more trucks of assistance into gaza, especially from jordan, opening more crossings into gaza, and a reduction in violence against civilians. and particularly aid workers. and what he was talking about, their was that they need to properly d conflict so that they're not strikes that are hitting aid workers when aid workers have been clear about where they are going to deliver humanitarian assistance, significance there is properly de

the president is meeting with principles of the national security council in the white house situation room tonight. nbc says they expect major escalation from iran, plans to launch dozens of cruise missiles and ballistic missiles. senior officials say u.s. central command has coordinated a defense plan including potential american assistance from the air and the sea. the prime minister thanking them united states and addressed the israeli people saying quote our defense systems are deployed. the idf is strong. the public is strong. iran has been threatening retaliation since the israeli air strikes since its consulate in syria. earlier today, iran seized control of a commercial vessel leadershipped to israel near the persian gulf. another sign of growing tensions across the region. i want to bring nbc news chief correspondent richard engel who is on the ground for us. bring us up to date this hour. >> reporter: well, we are learning more about what is on the way to this country and what is thbeing done to stop it according to israeli officials,r dozens of drones, more than 100 drones

as president joe biden, cut short a trip to delaware, rushing back to the white house to meet with his national security council in a statement bite and said us forces health israel take down nearly all the incoming drones and missiles and bite and spoke with israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu by phone of firming the us is iron clad support. a he wants to the weekend's attack was retaliation for is real strike on any rainy and diplomatic count found in damascus earlier this month. even as the drones rain down on is real, you runs mission to the united nations dead. the matter can be deemed concluded, but warrant more violence would come is real or the us retaliated. iranians rallied in front of the british embassy into run after the attack concluded to each case, i have never seen in any country anywhere that attacking another country and war makes people happy. but to night, people gave up their sleep so that they can come here and show how important this 4 is to us. and how glad we are from this attack on these are leaders in the u. k. europe and canada condemned. he runs actions as reckless unaccepta

however, according to a white house national security council spokesperson, the steps announced by israel, quote, must now be fully and rapidly implemented. so, joe, another intense phone call, this time between president biden and prime minister netanyahu, all of course coming on the heels of that awful tragedy where seven aid workers were killed. we had one of the ministers, foreign mayor of jerusalem on our show yesterday, didn't seem terribly sympathetic to what happened, said it was a quote, mistake, but wanted to focus on other things and continue the war there. it's clear now from the white house that there will be conditions, perhaps, going forward on aid from the united states to israel. >> right. and he wanted to talk about the hostages, and of course that's great. mented -- wanted to ignore the fact that the gaza people are facing famine, extraordinary hardship, and wanted to talk about hamas as do we. we all agree that hamas, and we have always believed hamas were a group of terrorist thugs. but that separates us from benjamin netanyahu who, again, it can't be said enough benj

that a response was coming, but so far very little has been said by the white house, by the national security council. all we've heard from the biden administration is secretary of state antony blinken earlier said he had no comment on the actual strike, but take a listen to what he did say. >> the united states has not been involved in any offensive operations. what we're focused on, what the g-7 is focused on -- and again, it's reflected in our statement and our conversation -- is our work to deescalate tensions, to deescalate from any potential conflict. >> reporter: again, chris, that's a word we've been hearing over and over again, deescalation. again, we have not heard yet from the white house at this point. it appears that u.s. officials at this point are waiting to see what israel says about this strike and going forward, what iran's response may be. but so far they're extremely cautious, chris. >> so we wait. so colonel, do you think israel's response was limited enough that both sides can now back away after showing, look, here's your warning. we have the ability to strike you. >> i don't s

white ho house. >> the united nations security council convening for an emergency session after that attack. israel asking the council to condemn iran's attack and designate the resolution regard core as a terrorist group. cb cotton is live at the un with the latest there. >> the un security council meeting is still underway but ambassadors from some of the member nations which has spoken this far have all agreed that the iranian drone attack puts the middle east at a tipping point for further conflict in the region, to no surprise, the strongest rebukes of the iranian escalation came from the united states france and the united kingdom. u.s. ambassador robert wood said that iran's intention was to cause significant death and damage in israel. he warned the fire ant in his proxies took further action against the u.s. or israel. iran would be held responsible. >> the united states is not seeking escalation. our action have been purely defensive in nature. the best way to prevent such escalation is an unambiguous combination from the council of iran's unprecedented large-scale attack and unequ

white house just moments ago. here's national security council spokesman john kirby our support is ironclad and consistent. it's not going to not going to stop, not going to knock, not gonna waiver >> but >> will perhaps be some policy changes we might have to make if we don't see policy changes out of israel? yes. >> how is that? >> wavering? it sounds like you guys are trying to have it both ways here. >> no, i don't know that aqeel, but >> we are going to make all these changes because we don't support israel. >> i didn't we say we're gonna make changes. i said we need to see well how israel to the humanitarian crisis in gaza and how they respond to the of aid workers >> brock, how serious is this warning from the us? and how serious? israel taking it >> well, i think it's a very serious warning from the us. i would even call it an ultimatum. there's no other way to look at it. biden basically to understand you. you need to do a certain series of steps. for example, get more aid into gaza, open more border crossings to gaza than they are now take steps to protect civilians and aid workers. those are ver

president biden ended his weekend break in his beach house in delaware to attend a meeting of the national security council in the situation room at the white house, america's war cabinet, essentially. this didn't take the united states by surprise. intelligence has shown that iran was preparing an attack. indeed, there was a briefing last week for congress, members of congress, who were briefed on what america saw as the threat and the iranian plans. there has been a telephone call between president biden and the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. their first conversation since these events started. america very much involved politically, clearly. president biden talking about the ironclad u.s. support for israel's security at this stage. but, militarily also, it has been involved with u.s. military assets in the region, taking down some of those iranian drones and missiles. the uss kearney had been on its way home having engaged rebels in yemen firing missiles. it was on his way home but was turned back to help israel in its hour of need. it will take until the morning, one imagines, to assess the damage and for the politicians to

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