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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.
and you try to read between the lines. there's a big difference when you talk about -- we see the pictures of explosions on the screen. there's a big difference between israel launching a drone and actually striking something, hitting any kind of ground in iran and iran actually knocking that drone out of the sky before it fires anything. that's a big difference. it's a big difference because if nothing was fired or if nothing touch the ground in any part of iran, it gives a ron the same way gave israel saying we knocked that stuff out of the sky. >> i'm with you 100 percent. here's where i come out with this. i don't think israel is going to initiate or engage in any type of selective operation without putting thought into it. i think they are going to be targets of opportunity that israel goes out and they think about the big picture here. i don't think that they are going to conduct an operation that isn't going to be successful.
indication following incidents like this as to how the iranians will respond. at this point tabletop this up as a failure by the israelis and a victory for the iranians following the attack on israel last weekend. what they are reporting at this moment as limited air defence activity over the province. so the thanks to look at in the coming days will be iranian proxy activity across the region , whether or not the israelis comment on these explosions overnight inside iranian territory and also if we get any further confirmation about activity in iraq or syria related to the ir gc or the iraqi and syrian militias. >> i want to make sure we are all on the same page. are you intending to say the whole concept here is that iran is saying that israel failed or is iran saying it didn't happen? that this explosion and the
we'll be another holocaust against the jews. netanyahu is responsible to make sure that this doesn't happen again and that is why they are constantly going after the professors. going after anything they can because my life and our survival there is more important than anything that iran wants to plan and do. thank god we have the holiday coming up because all the jews around the world, they love that there's a story that they tried hurting us and destroying us, we came out in peace and we came to the promised land and we are not moving. >> almost nine minutes before midnight. top of the hour on the east coast. they turn the lights out at the white house at midnight. let's go back to the national correspondent. he is like for us with at the white house with the latest information coming there. >> it's pretty clear that we are not going to hear from the white house tonight.
does not... >> the way that you get out of this decisive response is saying that israel never really made that error. >> in that way they save face by not responding again. but let's be clear, this individual is lying through his teeth. in they've been supporting all of these militia groups from north to south. the full on assault on israel. iran... and then they launch an attack on israel. israel has every right to do whatever needs to do to create some operational strategic space for itself and it's a sovereign nation and it has a right to defend it's borders. >> we are going to bounce these back and forth. it's like a ping-pong game here
this exactly right. this was an attempt to come in and say we can do this. you can't stop us. if you keep doing what you are doing, we have the capability to really levy some serious harm on you iran. >> by iran's message and buy them coming back and saying... they clearly know that they've been violent and they've been breached. maybe this isn't an offramp for them to say it didn't happen. now iran truly knows it happened and maybe we should walk softly. >> i think that's right. i think the world is a better place if they are in kung fu stands as opposed to fighting each other constantly. with israel flexing its muscle a little bit, perhaps we can get
israel. it did not involve manned aircraft. the iranians there's going to be a lot of propaganda being put out tonight about iran's wanted missile defence systems. i can tell you based on my reporting over the last few years, iran does not have sophisticated missile defence systems. they do not have was -- what israel has and what we saw israel employee on saturday night. they have limited russian-made missile defence. they are good for certain sites but they are not the arrow or the ages or any of the missile defence that israel has. >> just from a layman's perspective here because it seems like such a tight rope walk. you've got a limited response from israel as you say and the hope being that iran decides to claim victory, to say that it's defences are also robust and
message to iran that the israelis have the ability to target iranian targets and they have the ability to hit iran's nuclear program, not completely destroy it but to hit it. and if they decide to sleep the situation and respond that there could be a more significant strike by the israelis if they so decide p. or the latest in the region, the explosions inside iranian territory are being chopped up by... we have not yet heard on the record from israeli officials and we don't actually expect them to speak this morning about what took plays overnight. israeli military officials have to remain on high alert across the country. understanding that the proxies across the region including iran backed formats in yemen and hezbollah and southern lebanon do remain active. >> thank you. let's bring in...