Good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Im Steve Kornacki in for brian williams. Day 1,079 of the Trump Administration. Tensions in the middle east are dramatically higher tonight after yesterdays u. S. Air strike that killed iranian general Qasem Soleimani. The United States is on a heightened state of alert in the region, and there are concerns in washington about the potential for war with iran. There is also word tonight from an Iraqi Security official to nbc news that a second u. S. Air strike was carried out in iraq several hours ago. According to the official, the attack took place north of baghdad and targeted irani iranianbacked Shiite Militia leaders. There are reports that six people were killed. Our own Richard Engel points out that shiite demonstrations are planned in baghdad where it is already saturday morning right now, and he warns those events could countturn violent. As to the timing, Senior State Department officials tell soleimani h
Own administration over targeting iranian cultural sites. What the state department and pentagon have to say about the president s threats. And we are one week away from the next democratic president ial debate. And a number of candidates making the stage is set to shrink even further. Dnc chairperson tom perez will join us live to talk all things 2020. All right. Today, the secretary of state mike pompeo faced questions regarding the decision to kill the iranian general Qassem Soleimani. Again, refusing to lay out the specifics behind the intelligence that reportedly drove the decision to kill the general. So if youre looking for evidence, you need to look no further than the days that led up to the strike that was taken against soleimani. And then you, in addition to that, have what we can clearly see were continuing efforts on behalf of this terrorist to build out a network of Campaign Activities that were going to lead, potentially, to the death of many more americans. Well, earlie
Intelligence Community Joining us later on today. We have our team covering from washington and around the world, but i want to start with Andrea Mitchell who is in the room at the state department. I know we expect secretary pompeo in a matter of seconds. What do you expect to hear from him . Well, he has a prepared statement that hell deliver and take a few questions. As you know hes been in the center of this. Hes long pushed for a strike against iran and for retaliation against iran. There was reporting in the Washington Post he was morose last summer a few months when iran struck the Saudi Oil Fields and the u. S. Drone and when there was no retaliation and theres been some criticism that the president reacted too weakly against iran and then encouraged their aggression against the u. S. And then overreacted by taking out soleimani. He has been defending it and in particular language hes defended on meet the press the language that the president had used denying that the president
Good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Im Steve Kornacki in for brian williams. Day 1,079 of the Trump Administration. Yesterdays u. S. Air strike killed iranian general Qasem Soleimani. The United States is on a heightened state of alert in the reasonab region. There are concerns in washington about the potential for war with iran. There is also word tonight from an Iraqi Security official to nbc news that a second u. S. Air strike was carried out in iraq several hours ago. According to the official, the attack took place north of baghdad and targeted iranianbacked Shiite Militia leaders. There are reports that six people were killed. Our own Richard Engel points out that shiite demonstrations are planned in baghdad where it is already saturday morning right now, and he warns those events could turn violent. As to the timing of yesterdays air strike, officials have told us that a short time ago on fox news, secretary of state mike pompeo said the pres
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