is first informed of casualty estimate that s clos that close strike. no, the whole thing here is strange. look the first thing that the military will tell the president is probably a range of options on targets. there is always a battle damage estimate means what we think the casualty toll will be in a strike package. that would have been initially briefed. i can t say when the president was briefed or anything like that. what we know from his own account i think we have to take it at face value, we were ten minutes away, from his tweets, he said, from a series of american air strikes on iranian soil that would have killed 150 iranians, and they would have probably responded in some way and then what would our response have been? so in making these serious war
tactical matter in terms of how something like this would go, is it plausible that the president is first informed of casualty estimates that close to the actual commission of the strike? no. the whole thing here is very strange. i think the first thing the military is going to tell the president is probably a range of options on targets. there s always a battle damage estimate, meaning what we think the casualty toll will be in a strike package. so that would have been initially briefed. what i can t say is when the president was briefed or anything like that. we know, though, from his own account, i think we have to take his own account at face value, we were ten minutes away from his tweets, that s what he said, ten minutes away from a series of american air strikes on iranian soil that would have killed 150 iranians. so that would have been a very serious piece of business. the iranians probably would have responded in some way.