Concerns grow tonight, that israel could launch a devastating retaliatory strike against iran at any Moment Plus Warning king of violence, President Biden Tonight saying hes concerned that the upcoming Election Wont be peaceful and playing nice for President Trump appearing next to the very popular governor that he wants its called a bad disloyal guy. What hes saying now, lets go outfront Erin Burnett live from Tel Aviv and outfront tonight. The Breaking NewsIn The Dark. Cnn is learning tonight that the u. S. Is In The Dark as to whether israel plans to strike irans nuclear facility hes as a top us State Department Official tells cnn, quote, this is on the edge. That top official telling us exclusively that the israelis are so far keeping their plans to retaliate, which could happen at any moment extremely close to the vest saying, quote, we hope and expect to see some wisdom as well as strength. But as you guys know, no guarantees. Well, israel is at war and more strikes against tehran could change the ark of history. I mean, these are many of irans known and most important nuclear sites. Places where the country assembles and Spin Centrifuges and riches Nuclear Weapons grade uranium, and stores that highly enriched uranium, often hundreds of feet under the ground striking any of them could have massive and unstoppable consequences and that is why President Biden has said publicly he does not support israel targeting irans nuclear program. But to hey, he went even further than saying no nukes. He actually tried to take Energy And Oil off the table be thinking about other alternatives than striking Oil Fields but those words, at the moment appear to be falling on deaf ears i mean, again, that top State Department Official says israel is not sharing its plans close to the vest, even with its closest ally and the country which will be called upon to defend Israel And Deal with the consequences the united the states. And this isnt a war far away from the u. S. Not even now. It isnt just that it could spread with disastrous consequences. It is also that tonight as we speak, american troops, lives are on the line. There are 40,000 in The Middle East where we are right now and they are targets right now. Just listened to the chants that broke out when the ayatollah, i look, committee was leading Friday Prayers airs in Tehran Today before Tens Of Thousands of people ourselves and tehran Tens Of Thousands of people though chanting it now, that is the tone and the mood. The iranian Supreme Leader in that rare address today, Pounding The War Drums and he praised the October 7 Terrorist attack on israel. Its one thing he did. He backed further strikes from tehran on Tel Aviv, like the one days ago here. And as the situation is quote, on the Edge Israel Tonight is also pounding the drums, continuing to bombard the twoandahalf million Persons City of beirut a City Home to half the population of lebanon. And thats where we want to begin tonight with ben wedeman. He is there and ben, you have been seeing and hearing and the worry and the fear that so many their hands i have i know there was a strike in Southern Beirut just a short time ago. What is happening there and what are you expecting in these next hours ten minutes, weve had two warnings from the arabic spokesman for the israeli military published on Twitter Or X and following just a few minutes later, one of those strikes happened on the Southern Suburbs of beirut and another happened a few minutes later. And now we are waiting for the other shoe to drop the before the strike to follow the latest warning came in just about ten minutes ago, and this has been the Pattern Night after night. Now, i was in the Southern Suburbs the other day. I can tell you most of the inhabitants have already evacuated he did theres still a lot of young men whose really tasked is just to keep an eye on peoples apartments in houses and whatnot but what were seeing is that hezbollah, when i went to the Southern Suburbs, they were actually conducting a tour of various Strike Sites where these israelis had hit. And i spoke to one of their senior spokesman and he told me that despite the recent assassinations of Hassan Nasrallah and so many other senior officials that they still have all of their Missile Arsenal intact. He said they still have their leaders the ship intact. We dont know who that Leadership Isnt this point because they havent officially announced new leader but what we are seeing is that despite several days of intense israeli strikes on the south of lebanon, that hezbollah still functioning there. Theyre still firing rockets to israel and their fighters on the ground who are experienced a Guerrilla Fighters who fought the israelis in the 2006 war they fought in syria alongside the regime of bashar al asad. They are putting up some stiff resistance against the israelis and we are hearing initial reports that there or more clashes on the border this evening, apparently, whats being described as a serious incident down there. We dont have the details yet, but certainly indicates that hezbollah, despite taking a beating, is certainly still able to give some back to israel. Aaron ben wedeman. Thank you very much. In beirut and exhausted city where you getting warnings just to be clear eyed, everybody its 2 00 in the morning. If youre looking at twitter for warning saying to evacuate, you can understand the situation and how difficult that is where ben is. Jim sciutto is with me here in Tel Aviv, obviously, south of beirut, general Mark Hertling also joins us jim, let me just start with you. When we talk about this imminent strike that. Israel is determining its targets and keeping very close to the vest even from its closest ally. There are a lot of strikes. Possible strikes that israel could hit inside iran, nuclear stray, nuclear locations, oil installations, the actual regime itself, which a lot of people in this country have been pounding the table saying, this is our moment to dip ahead. The monster as they see it. Can you walk us through what these targets . Its could be, perhaps a combination of some of these targets. Lets begin with nuclear and there are multiple nuclear sites around their, around iran. And by the way, thats deliberate because they dont want them all in one place because they dont want it easy to be taken out, their facilities to be taken out in one blow. Lets zero in on one of them in particular, is for khan this is a nuclear Research Facility Production facility is for isfahan in the central part of iran. They produce Uranium Metal Key to the production of nuclear warheads. If, if iran were to go that path also centrifuge parts, what you need to produce the uranium enriched uranium to heres a Nuclear Weapon. Whats notable about this is that in april following irans last major Missile Barrage on israel, when israel did retaliate, it was isfahan, not the nuclear site, but a Air Defense Installation around isfahan that was israels retaliation at that point. And that was deliberate because they were showing we can reach out and touch you there right. In the event that we were to decide that its a big place, but we can be very specific. So i, you know, to show that point, they can they can pick and choose within the range to do so. And by the way, to carry out an attack on a site like that, you would have to take out the Air Defenses first. Another option is to go after Oil Oil facilities, oil refineries, et cetera. I want to talk about one in particular that is Cargo Island Cargo is an oil export facility. This is where 90 of Irans Oil is exported through. Here. So this would be an enormous blow to what is around Number One source of raw revenue around sends out about 3 of worlds oil. Thats 2 Million barrels of oil a day. Its not the entire market to sliver of the market, but you know, Oil Markets well, if you take out that percentage, thats going to have an impact on oil prices. So certainly an impact on, on World Oil markets, but also potentially the World Economy and the u. S. Coming, right . And both of those sorts of strikes would certainly move the lines forward and change the game in terms of whats on the table to talk about escalation in general, hertling. Thats the Big Question. If your prime Minister Netanyahu and his War Cabinet tonight, making these, these final decisions what do you do for targets like jim just laid out what kind of force, what kind of weaponry will israel use in these potential strikes first of all, erin, you have to look at the Target Package and jim and i talked about this earlier today. What will israel go after . A variety of Target Packages youve named a couple. I would name a couple of months how about Weapons Construction facilities, places where they build ballistic missiles and even the drones that are becomes so prevalent in not only the attacks on israel, but also the sale of drones by iran to russia for the attacks on ukraine. Would it be hurtful to ukraine to not i worried so much about the Energy Production facilities. But in fact to hit their main Weapons Facilities to places that build the weapons. And thats why i think that the president said what he said today. You can hit an Energy Facility either oil or a nuclear power plant, or some of the other stories which facilities that iran has. But what would be more damaging in terms of iranian potential in the future . There are two main proxy groups, hamas and hezbollah have been very damaged base. The israelis have basically destroyed hamas theyve taken out 25 of 27 ions in the gaza strip. They are now going after hezbollah. They know they have a lot of missiles there. They dont want the resupply of those weapons when you get back to your question was what would the Strike Package looked like it depends. It depends on what theyre going after. If its Weapons Facilities, those are strike fighters going in with a lot more than just aircraft that are dropping bombs, you have to have fuels, you have to have intelligence gathers jammers, and electronic warfare, aircraft to pave the path for a bunch of fighters to go in and bomb the locations youre talking about and depending on the target, if its a software target, if you will, like jim said, cargo island, its very easy to bomber a Storage Plant or a Storage Facility for oil. Its much tougher to strike some of the nuclear capabilities that iran has had in the past because they are mostly deeply buried in the mountains and they are very well, yeah. Part takes a much bigger package i mean, thats thats the thing. All this has to be planned out, right . Isnt just, you know, what ron did that when they fired the missiles here was, you know, pick a missile package, put your targets and go, im not saying that simple, but israel is going to be combination of different fighters in different planes and different bombs and missiles. I mean, its a more complicated project. What are those Flight Crews at risk as well, right . Well, as you gotta get those assets there and get them back safely right . Now, when you talk about oil facilities, nuclear facilities, theres also been and we referenced this a lot of talk in this country about what they believe is a once in a generational or more opportunity to take out the leadership of iran for regime change. Theyve shown they can do it with hezbollah. Theyve shown they can do it with her loss and they want to do it with the leadership of the iranian government itself and thats, of course the most extreme option would be regime by the way, part of a public discussion in this country, whether the leadership decides to go that way. Thats certainly part of the public discussion here, but, but there were options short of regime change, which has not even clear they could accomplish, which would be to go after military Command And Control, specifically the irgc, the iranian revolutionary guard corps, which is essentially the regimes military arm, right . And this is one of the right heart headquarters, right . Into iran, a heavily populated area. But of course, israel has not hesitated to go after targets inside heavily populated areas. Were seeing It Beirut now, weve certainly seen it in Gaza One could make a connection here if youre israel to the attacks that took place a couple of days ago here, that that center is is a Command And Control center for those very strikes. So you could draw a direct line between the strikes on tuesday and that as a potential retaliatory target. Incredible. Though a strike within in the heart of tehran itself and certainly something theyre capable of doing. But again completely changing the game. General in that context, the top State Department Official today telling cnn that israels not assuring the u. S. They wont strike nukes that theyre keeping their plans close to the vest obviously, the u. S. Is on the hook for whatever israel does for the repercussions of it, the u. S. Is expected to be there. Are you surprised that theyre not more sharing . Does it say anything to you at this point that there is not it does said something to me, erin, and it says to me that our allies are being increasingly wary of sharing intelligence with some of the officials in government and its not just the united states since across world, operational security is critically important in these kind of strikes. As soon as you tell us someone the potential of a leak that would damage the potential for targeting just rises exponentially. And i think thats what a lot of our allies are doing. Weve seen the ukrainians go into kursk. They didnt people whether theyre gone, Weve Seen Strikes inside of beirut by the israelis and then now the incursion and then the southern border its just probably best if military plans and operations are not shared by governments with other governments until you really have a trustful i, i believe that there are some in our government that know exactly whats going on and they have inside information, but theyre certainly not sharing it with others all right. Thank you both very much. Obviously, as a top official said, on the Edge Tonight here next, trump has never been shy about his feelings regarding the governor a bad guy, is a disloyal guy potentially Hand In hand with Brian Kemp plus a cnn Investigation Tonight. And how Tim Walz handled multiple Fraud Scanning including the largest Covid19 Fraud Scheme in the nation. Especial outfront investigation. Plus President Biden Tonight revealing new details about Pariss Role when it comes to the growing crisis. 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