We will be bringing you updates and important analysis throughout the hour from multiple perspectives. But first i want to go to trey yingst, who is live from baghdad where the sun has just come up. What can you tell us at this early hour . Good evening. We saw the expected response from the iranians. No one knew exactly what was going to be but it ended up being more than a dozen Ballistic Missiles fired from iranian territory towards that military base. The all assad base in western iraq. This is a base that does house many u. S. Forces. According to resource at the pentagon, a total of 15 Ballistic Missiles were fired. For two of them failed, one landed in the city, the rest hitting that base. But as he said, no reports of american casualties. The good news out of this Ballistic Missile strike attack today from the iranians. What is different about tonights attacks from previous months we saw it earlier this week, in baghdads green zone, to the left, some rockets fired by iranian backed shia militia groups. These are smaller rockets fired within iraqi territory, often towards u. S. Backed bases, but not from iranian territory. This is a major escalation from what the iranians were doing before. But from baghdad tonight, a lot of helicopter activity over baghdads green zone. A number of countries including the u. S. Patrolling the area to make sure none of the militias would launch a similar attack during the same prime. According to the Iranian Foreign minister, zarif, the ball is now in President Trumps court. Hes participated in this back and forth all week. Even today, president and top leadership have said they are going to spill american blood. It does appear that this round of retaliation is over, but make no mistake, there are iranian proxies across the middle east. Weve spoken with many of them in places like gaza, hamas, also in lebanon, has below, and iranian backed militias in places like iraq and syria. They all threaten allies such as israel, so even the retaliation may be overcome u. S. Troops in kuwait are still on high alert. Laura . Laura thanks, and remember there are 5,000 u. S. Troops in the region tonight in iraq. Here to react to all this news, retired colonel daniel davis, senior fellow and military expert for defense priorities also with us, jim hansen. Former special army operator. I will start with you, colonel. Can we expect more from the iranians or is this it for now . I think this is going to be it for now. I think theyre going to wait and see what we do as a result. We heard from the correspondent right there and other sources i have heard from also, is that many of these ha types in iran d syria have all independently threatened the United States as well. The question is can they be controlled from tehran or might some of them be directed . So we are not out of the woods next. Laura if they wanted to kill americans, they could have, correct . They know where they are basically on these bases. If this report is correct and it looks like so far we have no reason to doubt it, that no American Service personnel have been killed, could this have been their way to kind of save face with their anxious, radical within their population . They had to retaliate in some way or they would lose face, so think youre absolutely right that that is a distinct possibility and the choice of Ballistic Missiles, as opposed to another laura explained that for us. Ballistic missiles are longrange, they require guidance. To be perfectly frank, the iranian missiles sucked. They are not good. They dont know where theyre going to land. They lobbed them hundreds of kilometers and they land in a general area. Its not like people think the u. S. Launches Ballistic Missile strikes laura pinpoint accuracy. We are going to hit a desk in a building. Laura you are saying something different, they couldve tried to kill u. S. Forces but missed . I think they were trying to take the least likely incident but they took a chance by doing it, by launching them at the base. If they hit and killed american, then they are in trouble. They knew the chances were slim of that and it makes them look tough because lipstick missiles sounds like a tough guy move. Laura nancy pelosi you would be happy to know is closely monitoring the situation. Here is a tweet, following the bombings of u. S. Troops in iraq. We must ensure the safety of our Service Members including neals provocation from the administration and demanding that iran cease its violence. We cannot afford war. And a picture of her closely monitoring the situation from a rather highend d. C. Restaurant here she happened to be out to dinner, im not going to crucify her for that. But she is criticizing the president as the commander in chief as American Forces are in harms way. Well, what else is she going to do . She has to Say Something because there is a bigger issue involved here. Ive said this on your show several times of the last several months, is that we need to get our troops out of there because right now they are serving absolutely no positive outcome for the United States. Our security is not at risk. The missions we had been given, which is train the iraqi troops encounter isis staff have now been suspended. Right now they are just sitting in the desert. Laura are our military sitting ducks in iraq waiting for iran may be to attack . Speak a correct and we need to pull them out. President trump has talked about this several times and i strongly agree with that because it doesnt help us any. It gives us a lot of Strategic Risk. I would love to see him move us out of there. Laura jim, do you agree with that . Im worried about Mission Creep here. Im worried that this president , who in part one make the election by being the antibush. He did not want to do what bush did. I dont think that is where he is going here, i really dont. I think his instinct is for peace but cant also allow terrorists to run roughshod over american interests. Can we do peace through strength . Can we admit that taking out one of the worlds deadliest terrorists, the kingpin of irans Terror Network and their proxies around the world, may actually make us safer because now they are disrupted. Trump didnt do that because he wants to have world war iii with those guys. He did it because soleimani asked for and we wouldve put all our people at risk by not responding. Now we did, now all their networks in iraq, syria, lebanon are all in chaos. The russians called assad to their air base to meet with putin today. He is all soleimani has got. They are buddies. Now the russians are moving in, and iran has plenty on their plate. They dont want to beat with us citizens of being a net positiv. I dont agree with that, i have a different view on that. Laura this is why i love these discussions. This is not necessarily a clear conversation about this. We took out a soleimani. He was the top of a very large apparatus, and if we thought there was imminent strikes come in, the operational people are still untouched and they immediately replaced soleimani. So all those things still exist but now you add a lot of emotion on top of that for retaliation, so the risk is actually higher, in my view. President trump, and there is a redline. When an americans guilt, how can you not retaliate and respond . But that is why we need to get the troops out of there because it reduces our Strategic Risk and makes it harder for iran to do something because if we dont have the targets they are, what else are they going to do . Their reach is very short and our global reach is unrivaled in the world, and we can reach out from anywhere. Laura i go back and i think about 2006, early 2006 in iraq and i was there only for a week but i said this last night, they enlisted men who kept telling me iran, iran, iran. Youve got to focus on iran because theyre making these ieds that blew up my body two weeks ago, and remember general case he didnt want to talk much about iran back then. But trump is in the situation because this is what he was dealt. He was dealt the situation by both obama and bush, and its a hard cleanup act to deal with. Obamas cringing capitulation for the entire time he was in office out of a desperate attempt to gain a legacy for his Foreign Policy left us in the place where iran was dominant. They were dominant in the region and we werent responding. Now President Trump has responded in a very important way and i will agree with colonel davis. I agree this may come in the short term, put us in more risk. But in the long term it may create a wedge between iran and their proxies. And at home it reminds the iranian people that they are buying guns for militants in iraq and syria, not eggs and butter for their own people. That matters. Laura Elizabeth Warren speaking out tonight as well, and he sensed the candidates on the trail, the democrats are trying to recapture that antiwar mantle that trump had successfully, you know, wrestled away from the democrats. Watch. Speak of the iranian government has announced that it has sent missiles to attack our military bases in iraq. This is a reminder why we need to deescalate tension in the middle east. The American People do not want a war with iran. Laura jim . Nobody wants a war with iran. Iran especially doesnt want to wear with iran because they cannot go for us to force against us and they know it. They can asymmetrically hit us. They can attack shipping again and do things like that but they dont want the United States particularly riled up. Laura here is my thinking. If we are now in a position in iraq where we are supposed to not respond when we have soleimani parading around the Baghdad Airport obviously planning something behind an attack on the embassy, they wouldve torched that whole embassy if they couldve. If we are in a position where we cant do anything because it would trigger iran, then why are we there . The situation is truly hopeless of a country that is a sixth of our size we have 326 Million People in the u. S. , they have about 80 million. They are a sixth of our size. If we cant retaliate, then what are we doing there . That is another way of looking at it. It illustrates colonel davis, what you are saying here, but also, we were there, we thought we would be out of there, we are still there, we get threatened, hes parading around the airpond we are supposed to say, well, nothing . No person in our history whatever stand passive in the face of an attack on the American People so that is unquestioned. Laura didnt they attack our embassy . They attacked our embassy. That a sovereign u. S. Territory. Speak up but that didnt happen in a vacuum. That happened after we killed 25 of their people. We call them bad but they were iraqi citizens. And 15 more were wounded. That is what drove them. So we can deal with them, as long as nobody was hurt. But heres the Biggest Issue for President Trump. Earlier today, iran says they are stopping abiding in any capacity to the agreement. Meaning they are moving back openly to nuclear stuff. What we dont want to get into is a situation where we have troops there, which can be targeted by either hezbollah, by some of these other groups there. We can pull them out so now we can just deal with that issue there, because trump i think must avoid an unnecessary war while defending us laura you see with the democrats are doing, though, dont you . He really had an edge on us. He was so hard he was asymmetrical in the last election. They didnt see anything like him. Now theyre trying to say, no, you see. He is like the neocons try to for a while this money away in this godforsaken place. It is not going to work for them for one reason. Trump doesnt want to work. He wants a deal. He wants to put iran in a spot. They dont have the money to do it, theyve lost their puppet master who is running all their things and he was a very charismatic guy. He may have been a scumbag, evil terrorist laura murderer. But he was good at it. Consequently, the guy they replaced him with is not as good, not us charismatic and he doesnt have the personal relationships. For the short term we have a least an opportunity to put them on their heels and trump is going to use that not to start a war but to avoid one. There is also an issue here with maximum pressure. Im an outlier here and i will admit that right off the top here, but when all we do is put pressure on them. We say we want to negotiate a better deal, that is what trump says. But if we dont offer the possibility for iran to get something out of it, there will never be a negotiation. They will continue to move to nuclear, and then we may have to come to a point where there is a war, whether we wanted or not. That is hard for americans to say. Laura this is why we have different voices on the show. This is an important moment for this presidency, and i really appreciate both of you coming on tonight. Thank you so much. Now we will go to the white house where our chief White House Correspondent john roberts is standing by with the latest. The president just tweeting moments ago that he is going to address the nation tomorrow morning. Any clues about what we might expect . I think you could draw a lot of clues from what we saw tonight where, initially, there was what looked like mayhem unfolding in iraq with all these Ballistic Missiles fired at a rocky basis that has u. S. Military forces. Then as we found out throughout the night that it didnt look as bad as what had been initially expected. The president tweeting a short time ago, all is well. Missiles launched from iran and two military bases located in iraq. Assessment of casualties and damage are taking place now. So far, so good. We have the most powerful and wellequipped military anywhere in the world by far. I will be making a statement tomorrow morning. We had no idea the timing of the statement or really what the president is going to stay but there is a belief among some highranking Administration Officials that what we saw from iran here tonight may have been an intentional miss, that they knew where the u. S. Forces were housed and even though they hit the alassad airbase with ten air missiles with one, that those missiles fell far away from where u. S. Forces were being housed and while there may have been some casualties among iraqi forces, there were no casualties among American Forces, which really wouldve changed the equation. This is being potentially seen here, still in the early going, as a potential facesaving meast of iran to say, we did something here. But they didnt do enough that would invoke a really harsh and wideranging retaliatory response from the United States. Now that said, the president could announce tomorrow morning that he is going to respond in some way short for form, particularly in the oval office. The president said he was ready to do that. Listen here. I will say this, if iran does anything that they shouldnt be doing, they are going to be suffering the consequences, and very strongly. We are prepared. We are totally prepared. Likewise, we are prepared to attack if we have to. As retribution. Of course, today iran was talking about all this attack against soleimani, which killed him on friday night in that air strike. An act of terrorism. An act of war, that was even some suggestion by the iraqi Prime Minister or and the Foreign Ministers before that soleimani was there on some sort of diplomatic Peace Mission that iraq was trying to broker a new relationship between iran and saudi arabia. The secretary of state basically laughed that off this morning, and listen to what President Trump said about it this afternoon. They werent there to discuss a vacation, they werent there to go to a nice resort, someplace in baghdad. They were there to discuss bad business. And we saved a lot of lives by terminating his life. A lot of lives have been saved. They were planning something, and youre going to be hearing about it, or at least various people in congress are going to be hearing about it tomorrow. Again come over going to hear from President Trump about this tomorrow. Secretary of defense, cia director and the chairman joint chiefs of staff go over to capitol hill to brief members of congress on all of this. But the initial assessment this evening, the thinking among many Administration Officials is that this couldve been a deliberate mess on the part of iran. Fired some missiles out in the iraqi airbase where they say the attack on soleimani was launched and zarif himself tweeted out that iraq undertook and concluded its response. It does not want escalation, according to zarif, but it will respond when attacked. We will see where this goes from here, but the early bedding may be that it doesnt go too much further, unless the u. S. Decides to attack some iranian infrastructure. But the fact that there were no u. S. Casualties tonight i think is a good sign of where this may be headed in the future. Laura excellent analysis. I appreciate it so much. Here now, House Foreign AffairsCommittee Member and matt gaetz, house judiciary Committee Member. Congressman, lets start with you. The house is set to vote to limit trumps war power this week, but do the attacks today change the calculus . I would certainly hope so. Im a member of the House Foreign Affairs committee. There hasnt been any type of a hearing, any markup of any resolution. Get this, there isnt even text yet. Here we are back in d. C. , theyre talking about