The pentagon. Nbcs hans nichols is with the president in florida. Courtney, some recent remarks made by defense secretary mark esper as well as general mark millie, the chairman of the joint chiefs. What do they have to say about all these global crises that are unfold . So we maerd from them specifically first about whats going on in iraq with these protests. Of course, the embassy, the protesters have now left the embassy, the area around it. But secretary of defense mark esper says the u. S. Believes that hezbollah, the riern backed Militia Group believed to be behind the rocket attacks and behind fomenting many of these protesters and the protests weve seen in the past several days, esper says he thinks the u. S. Believes that kh will try to continue to carry out additional attacks. He had Strong Language for them, if, in fact, they do that, they will regret it. He also said the u. S. Military reserves the right to take preemptive action before if they see any indications that any