That are populated by iran, Islamic Revolutionary guards, quds force, which is the Paramilitary Arm there are, there are some other options. The former head of the mossad is israels former spy agency a couple of hours ago, also said the Israeli Cabinet is considering targeting Iran Nuclear Infrastructure which would definitely be an escalation i think they are considering a lot of the options and probably trying to take an action that makes him look serious. But not get them into a complete allout war. Of course, though the every single one of these things that you say, i think anybody watching is fearful you think its just a small escalation, but none of these things really are. Were in unchartered territory seth. Thank you so much. Thanks erin thanks for joining us. The lead starts now cnn Breaking News welcome to the lean. Im jake tapper. We start this hour with Breaking News and what we do just heard from House Speaker mike johnson live right here on the lead just minutes ago, he i
course in cr aftert happefore. but even so she ran into some headwinds today. yh. megan columbia says s firing one professor hired after he posted support for the hamas attack on october 7 colombia and condemned a tenured professor joseph mossad, who described hamas is tober 7 attack as a que, stunning victory in an online article. but he l s a job. i mean, tenure stil exists. i want you to listen to is exchange with republican congresswoman, at least defining like of new york is still in fact listed on e combia webte as chair of the academic review committee, are you aware of that i would need to check that the websites right here in this state cause he hasn t been removed as chair i would like to do you have my commitment. he ll be removed as chair to de i have my commitment commitment that i will come back to it, but yo can t say at this that this hearing that he should be removed as chair even though he violates not want him is chair and we are looking at the issue