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This is sky news today. The headlines at 10 00. Iran launches the first ever direct attacks on israel where pour than 300 drones and missiles and ies rate says they intercepted 99 . U. S. Military helped repel and the Royal Air Force was involved. Fears about israels possible response means tensions remain high in the region. Joe biden calls it a brazen attack and reaforms americas ironclad commitment to protect israel. He called a meeting of g7 leaders later today to discuss the unfolding crisi...

The families. are supportive of remembering the lives that have been lost and he is going to continue to look for ways to do that. go ahead. >> two questions, first on afghanistan. the drone strike that the united states conducted appears, according to family members in afghanistan, to have killed seven children. does the president feel the same sense of responsibility and loss for those lives as he does for the american service members? >> well, first, let me say that we take efforts, take step...

And then, part of that is, because we now are, you know, hearing reports of how these have been carried out, why the drones had to fly, i think, 8 hours from uae, is there any concern that were limited in our ability to respond in a timely manner if weve got 8 hours of flight time and then they can only hang out over the target for like four or five hours before theyve got to turn around and go back. is there a future on going worry that were going to be behind the 8 ball again? >> well, first, ...

0 get him to the island and as long as theres communication, well be able to communicate with him and see whats going on there. but its very hard to not have any word from that island and the people on it since that time. in lafite, the water was very high. our first responders, the sheriff, firefighters, louisiana national guard, some coast guard are there doing search and rescue. theyre having to get boats in and out. we are sheltering those people at a playground and then i believe the state ...

For more on the death of al baghdadi and what it means for the future of terrorism, im joined by general david petraeus. he was the commander of sent-com and leader of the cia. david, good to have you on. >> good to be here, fareed. thanks. >> tell me what you think this means for the future of isis. i ask because you destroyed al qaeda in iraq, and of course it came back in the form of isis when american troops left. when you look at the situation today with isis, decapitated, its lost its terr...

Here enough to pick up in whats in the water. again, between the tweets and the way he responded to this story, you have people just saying, you know, republicans saying i dont know that we can handle eight years with him. >> and its such a marked difference as nbc reporting shows from the way this was handled eight months ago when the first announcement was made. when that first announcement came down, sentcom officials had time to reach out to the head of the syrian defense forces, our partner...

For beijing to go into hong kong. it could be disastrous on a number of different fronts but the fact is these forces are here and giving beijing the opportunity to send in troops if they choose to do so. >> matt rivers near the border. retired general joseph o tell roins me now, the former commander of central command and oversaw all operations in the middle east until he stepped down in march. >> it is good to be here, jake. >> so a lot of people think that china is the biggest threat to the...

The national unlawfully. we have to insure we have sovereignty and security at our southern border. every action the administration is taking is designed to do that. president trump has been very clear. we work -- i worked personally on an arrangement with mexico now a week and a few days ago. im confident that we will get that under control. its important. its important for americas national security that we do in fact achieve that. thank you all. >> secretary of state pompeo in tampa at sent c...

Tensions. secretary pompeo is going to be speaking from sent com. iran is threatening to break out of the nuclear deal for the first time in 14 months, even though the president withdrew from it. we see these hits on the tankers. they say theres intelligence, the brits agree with the u.s. this was iranian proxyied. what do you do right now where iran is arguably acting aggressively, even -- >> whoa, whoa e whoa -- >> -- in reaction to the u.s. policy making. >> just a couple of points. first of ...

And right now on "andrea mitchell reports," campaign kickoff. president trump officially launching his reelection campaign with a florida rally tonight. a threat of mass arrests against undocumented efforts in an effort to fire up his base. thats the same game plan he used before the 2018 midterms. >> the democrats want to continue giving automatic birthright citizenship to every child born to an illegal alien. >> coming up, democratic presidential contenders bernie sanders responds. razors ed...