This all follows the killing of general Qassem Soleimani. There are reports in the streets as well. Reports of hundreds of street protesters in tehran today. They are demanding the ayatollah step down as Supreme Leader. Now, they are mad at irans government for its late admission that its very own military mistakenly shot down a ukrainian passenger jet, all 176 people, most of iranian descent or iran citizens on board dying from that attack. Secretary of defense mark esper took to the sunday shows to explain the reasoning behind the killing of soleimani. When asked whether there was decisive intelligence of an imminent threat, well, he had mixed messaging. You believe the threat was real. Do you believe it was imminent nchts in my definition, yes. The attack was days away. He had a proven record of executing attacks and killing americans. It was going to be at multiple sites. What the president said was he believed there could have been attacks against multiple embassies. I shared that
Throughout the region, they have never met an israeli Conspiracy Theory that they havent welcomed. So it was a surprise that up until now the iranians and hezbollah hadnt really been making all that many mentions of israel and hadnt seen a lot of israeli hands behind all of this. That changed this morning. We heard from the Supreme Leader of iran, Ayatollah Khomeini. He said the United States is trying to destroy hezbollah, which is one of their most powerful proxy groups in the region. It was set up by the quds force, which, of course, used to be led by Qassem Soleimani before he was assassinated on friday. So it seems as though now weve seen this morning a conventional attack by the iranians, going against what they consider u. S. Targets in iraq. The next stage of this would seem to involve what everybody was anticipating, which is the iranian proxy groups throughout the region getting engaged and firing back, not just at american targets, but at civilians like in dubai and israeli
A new phase in the impeachment proceedings against the president as House Speaker nancy pelosi gets closer to handing over those articles of impeachment. Plus, atrisk severe storms barrelling across the country. Already causing major damage in oklahoma. The timeline on where its headed next and who is in the path of Winter Weather. All right. Welcome back to msnbc live. Im corey coffin. Lets get into the days big story. New today, President Trump with a fresh claim about the imminent attack from iran. Largescale attacks planned for other embassies and if those were planned, why cant we reveal that to the American People . Wouldnt that help your case . I can reveal that i believe it would have been four embassies. And i think that, probably, baghdad already started. But i think it would have been four embassy. Could have been military bases. Could have been a lot of other things, too. But it was imminent. And then all of a sudden, he was gone. He says it was eminent or imminent rather.
Escalating tensions with iran after iran launched Ballistic Missiles at two iraqi bases that housed u. S. Troops. A house briefing on the situation is expected to get underway any minute now on capitol hill. A senate brief willing take place in just over an hour from now. In remarks to the American People just a short time ago, President Trump said iran would never be allowed to have a nuclear weapon. He announced new sanctions and then went onto suggest the negotiations of a new nuclear deal. No americans were harmed in last nights attack by the Iranian Regime. We suffered no casualties. All of our soldiers are safe. And only minimal damage was sustained at our military bases. Irans hostilities substantially increased after the foolish Iran Nuclear Deal was signed in 2013. And they were given 150 billion not to mention 1. 8 billion in cash. The missiles fired last night at us and our allies were paid for with the funds made available by the last administration. As we continue to evalu