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Martha thanks very much. Good afternoon. Im Martha Maccallum live in washington today for our special coverage tonight of president Bidens Oval Office address on americas role in two wars. Now in israel and also in ukraine. Were going live to the pentagon. A very important briefing about to get underway. Well take you there live as soon as that gets started. In israel, john roberts stays with us this hour in jerusalem. Mike tobin in southern israel and israeli Prime Minister netanyahus spokesman joins us live. First, the pentagon about to update on the situation as americans have four warships...

Breaking news on escalating u.s. tensions with iran. the pentagon announcing that 1,000 additional u.s. troops are u being sent to the middle east. let's go to barbara r star. barbara, tell us more about this deployment? >> will be there to conduct intelligence operations, force protections for other troops there. all of this coming as new images of that tanker attack have been released. >> new images on an iranian attack on two oil tankers last week. one clear image taken by a us navy helicopter overhead shows an iranian revolutionary guard boat moments after those on board removed an unexplo...

32. we've discussed our support activities that are similar to jump start. >> so it wouldn't be actual enforcement? >> correct. as of now. >> the president also in a tweet said that he suggested that he would use some of the military appropriations to fund the construction of the border wall. does the president have the authority to use money that congress has appropriated to the department of defense to build the border wall? >> so it's a good question. i'm only going to side step it because i'm not at the department of defense. what he meant was, there's some lands that the department of def...