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Really, a bulwark of its foreign policy and these strikes are indicators of that. >> they had a plan for this and brought it to the president saturday for his approval. what do we know about that? >> we know it was briefed at a very high level, were being told by secretary of defense mark esper who brought it to the president who approved it. this kind of underscores the seriousness of it. you have these militia groups in iraq and syria with links to iran. they had been conducting a series of ro...

Attacks on joint u.s. iraq military facilities. housing american forces. and just moments ago, iraqs prime minister has condemned the air strikes calling it a violation of sovereignty. ryan browne is joining us from washington, d.c. with the lates condemning this u.s. attack on these bases is really representing the difficulty of this operation. these f-15 jets, the u.launch w from iraqi air space. and they have been the subject of increasingly sophisticated rocketed attacks from the iranian bac...

Targets associated with this group. three in iraq and two in syria. the targets i object colluded a weapon storage facility and command locations that were used to plan and execute attacks on bases that house coalition forces. now this is the first significant retaliation that the u.s. has taken against this group. again, the u.s. says its associated with iran. the pentagon describing these as defensi defensive, but this is clearly a sign of things getting stepped up against this group that has ...

Issues of mutual interest between the two countries. we dont know what those issues are, but of course there are a range of issues that could potentially include. this call came just as president trump was launching these five strikes in iraq and in syria against this iranian backed militia following a string of rocket attacks at u.s. forces at iraqi bases. that could potentially have been included in the call, but so far no further information from the white house or from the kremlin about the ...

And why do you think it took this long for the u.s. to retaliate on this one? >> i think that it is also important to remember that there have been nearly a dozen rocket attacks on u.s. bases and coalition forces in the last year or so. so this particular rocket attack that killed a u.s. contractor was after so many. and i personally think that it was probably the death of these u.s. contractor which probably tipped the u.s. government over the edge. my guess is that they had been planning optio...

-- are he declaring their dane for the american voter -- disdane for the american voter. the impeachment is a political suicide march for the democrat party. have you seen my polls in the last four weeks? [ cheering and applause ] paul: that was president trump last week at a rally in the crucial swing state of michigan, claiming that the democratic impeachment push is actually helping him in the polls. i spoke with wall street journal on the 2020 race. welcome, karl rove. good to see you again....

Real potential danger going into 2020? >> yeah, theres no doubt about that, paul. the iranian playbook is to maintain aggression in the area to try to disrupt the oil flow as much as they possibly can, to impact the world economy, cause a recession if they could and put pressure on the united states to pull back from the max mull sanction campaign. the means to do that is certainly some kind of military action, like they did with -- paul: saudi oil fields. >> and the fact we did not respond as a...

To reuters, and our lucas tomlinson over at the pentagon saying that he has spoken with defense officials who say u.s. f-15s were used in the strikes in iraq and syria. the big question now, how the iranians will respond to this retaliation by the united states in response to that friday rocket attack that did leave one american citizen dead. we are getting reports out of baghdad this evening that the iraqis and the iranians are meeting to determine the next steps in the region x there are also ...

Have conduct the five precision air strikes against iranian paramilitary groups in iraq and syria. a spokesperson for the pentagon says the strikes were in response to repeated attacks on bases in iraq that are housing allied forces. lets get more of what were learning from this right now, nbcs hans nichols is following the president in south florida and joins uses with what hes hearing. hans? >> reporter: these were precision strikes. they were going after depots, the group whether they could c...

Of it by far because this is sort of opening a pandoras box. on the other hand, i have been under rocket fire on u.s. bases in iraq that were carried out by iranian-backed i willi imilitia as al qaeda. these were standard operating procedures. if you were in iraq, your base got hit by four, five, six rockets a day. it was just the way you do business. since we withdrew from iraq while fighting isis, these attacks just went away. the fact theyre back now is either iran sees some value in stirring...