telling me right now, they are looking at intelligence that has tem worried iran could be aiming to take a swing at israel. what they don t know is would it come from iranian forces already inside syria? would it come from iranian third party affiliates if you will, like hezbollah in neb none. or would it come from inside iran itself, which would of course be a significant military escalation? all of this coming as the president withdraws from the iranian nuclear agreement. and of course they have very good intelligence that what iran has been doing is shipping weapons into syria. israel firing back, bombing some of those weapons sites. and now the escalation amongst all of this may be growing. u.s. military officials at this hour saying they are worried that iran could be prepared for some sort of strike against israel. very disturbing developments. barbara stand by. orrin liebermann is in jerusalem
you know, on september 10th, 2001, no one could have foreseen what would happen the next day and that is still the case today. military commanders will tell you all the strategy in the world is good but the enemy still gets a vote and the president can lay out this strategy but the military, the u.s. intelligence community still very much on station. very much on alert around the world to see where those next threats may be coming from, wolf. barbara stand by. nick paton walsh is joining us as well from ukraine right now. he spent a lot of time in syria covering that civil war. nick, what s your sense over there as you hear the president announce that we expect that perhaps he might go a bit further today and announce some additional u.s. military training for what you describe as moderate syrian rebels opposed to the bashar al assad regime. there is concern that some of that support could wind up in the hands of al qaeda, which has built up a significant presence