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BREAKING: U.S. strikes have begun in Iraq and Syria after drone attack killed 3 American troops

NBC News National Security and Global Affairs Correspondent Dan De Luce and Retired Four Star General Barry McCaffery join Alicia Menendez in for Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House with the breaking news that the United States has begun conducting military operations in Syria and Iraq against Iran backed militias in retaliation to the attacks which took the lives of 3 U.S. service members at Tower 22 last week.

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Morning Joe

staff, kelly magsman, was sick at the time. now, the pentagon is saying that was the reason the white house wasn't notified until thursday. the reality is, that really doesn't pass the smell test. it doesn't make sense that no one else would have notified the white house in three days, mika and joe. >> nbc news national security and military correspondent courtney kube, thank you very much. courtney brings up, if something were to happen, there is some sort of attack on the u.s., you'd need to know where the secretary of defense is and reach him immediately. let's just keep in mind, that's the unthinkable. right now, there are two realities, two hot wars going on that the united states is directly involved with. >> right. and the threat of a much larger regional war breaking out in the middle east. >> lebanon, iran. >> you've got, obviously, what's going on in ukraine. you have the possibility all the time of a war possibly breaking out in china and taiwan. jonathan lemire, we

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2-year-old granddaughter, her nanny and a pilot were on board the flight. he says they were returning to east hampton, new york, for a four-day visit to his home in north carolina. joining us now nbc news national security and military correspondent courtney kube. what more can you tell us about the military response? i will say twitter was going wild about the massive sound that many said sounded like an earthquake had hit d.c. >> it wasn't just a sound, mika, there were also people near andrews air force base who reported feeling the boom. so feeling a shake. that may have been where the reports of a potential earthquake came from. what essentially happened here was this plane it took off from tennessee, made its way up towards long island and then it turned back around and started headed back towards d.c. well, once it came close to and then even breached the restricted area over the washington, d.c. area, norad jets were scrambled. they scrambled them from andrews air force base, a couple of

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machine, secret assessments of ukraine's combat power as well as intelligence gathering on america's allies, including south korea and israel with us now to talk more about this, nbc news national security and global affairs reporter dan de luce, and former founder and executive director of the national security institute, he is also former senior counsel to the house intelligence committee and a former chief counsel and senior adviser to the senate foreign relations committee. i thank you for being with us. and dan, what more do we know about what's in these documents? and there are a lot of them. >> there are there are dozens, and as you said, this is arguably the most serious breach of security since the whole edward snowden episode in 2013. it's on a smaller scale. we're not talking thousands of documents but we're talking dozens, and there is a lot of sensitive information here, classified information it's labeled secret and top secret it shows on the one hand how

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i'll leave it there. >> i don't think the american people need to worry about aliens with respect to these craft, period. i don't think there's more that needs to be said there. >> i think we can all get our heads around the fact that there are sometimes things floating at high altitudes for various purposes. i don't think that that's necessarily unusual here. it's difficult for me to say exactly what you can expect going forward. one of the reasons that we think we're seeing more is because we're looking for more. >> joining us live from brussels, where nato allies are gathering for a key meeting regarding aid to ukraine, nbc news national security and military correspondent courtney kube. we'll get to the nato meeting in a moment, but, first, anything more about the unidentified objects shot down over the weekend? >> reporter: no, we're still

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the right as a former president to retain classified documents, even though there is no evidence any of them had been properly declassified. >> when biden is admonishing me for documents that i'm allowed to have as president, i am allowed to have, we were allowed to take this, many presidents took things with them. >> he was not allowed to take them. peter alexander reporting there. let's bring in nbc news national security annual igs jeremy bash and simone townsend. she was chief spokesperson for vice president kamala harris. jeremy, let me start with you, given the understanding of classification of documents, what do you take of what we have heard and seen that there wasn't one batch in an office but a second set at the home in

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going by. we know how this ended, alicia. >> nbc news can the lenient and sam brock. thank you both. there has been more about lax gun laws. another shooting under greg abbott's watch. during the press conference yesterday, he was confronted by democratic state senator gutierrez. senator, you are not the first democrat to confront abbott at one of his conferences this week. what was your message to him? >> alicia, i asked him specifically to bring him back into a special session. it is going to bring change to our gun laws. we do not have responsible gun laws in texas. we have asked over and over in session after session to create change. after el paso, after southern springs, the governor suggested that he was so proud of his 17 school hardening measures. we saw where the measures got us here. it is time to create some

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for example. there's a majority of republican senators, and even in the past, some democratic senators that were against and voted against expanding universal background checks. so there's not a lot of optimism for any action that a federal level, or even at a state level here. with the governor of texas greg abbott, he addressed that convention via video yesterday. he said he was not looking at new laws that control guns. despite the lack of optimism, they said it was so important for them to be here because of the tragedy that they saw. for them it is a matter of life and death, but i think if you talk to a lot of the people attending the convention, they also say that it is a matter of life and death, because i see guns as a tool to protect themselves. and that is the big gap that you have here, and i think that was on full display yesterday. and that will continue to be on display, as we go through the weekend at this convention. alicia. >> and we talked, and we talked a little bit earlier about the work of the end that the nra has done to make people believe that nbc news -- shaq brewster, thank you so

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the wake of the massacre here and eovaldi tech texas. plenty of attending members didn't think that the loss of 19 children, two adults, a mass shooting in the same state, should get in the way their convention. >> the second amendment is our right. and because we gather, and because we have a convention that has been planned for years, and the fact that this happened just a few days ago, doesn't mean that you stop people from trying to do business or trying to promote their business and stuff. it is unfortunate. >> joining me now, nbc shaq brewster live from houston. shaq, talk to me about what you are hearing from people. what is the energy going into day two of this conference. >> well good morning. it will be much different than what we saw yesterday. you one of those high-profile speakers. former transit president trump or ted cruz for example, in that leadership form that we saw yesterday. they'll be official nra business, so members will be able to elect their new board, and will be political updates that members will have. in addition to going to the

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rifle. that he was able to legally purchase, just like the gunman here and eovaldi. the vice president and the second gentleman will be in buffalo later today to attend the funeral of one of the victims of that massacre. meanwhile, as authorities we can continue to piece together the events of the tragedy here in uvalde, the nra is holding the second day of its annual convention in houston, just 270 miles east of here. joining me now, nbc news national security and intelligence correspondent, candlelight ian and, correspondent sam brock live in uvalde texas. can, the timeline of events of tuesday's tragedy keeps shifting. what has changed over the past few days in law enforcement's account of just what happened? good morning alicia well. you really had a shift from the department of public safety from defending the law enforcement response and saying that actually saved lives, to yesterday laying out a timeline that really made it clear that there was a series of colossal misjudgements.

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