Leaders promise forceful revenge. Its all unfolding as Democratic Leaders in congress are demanding an immediate briefing from the Trump Administration on its next steps. Lets get to our team opinion nbc news correspondents covering all the angles on this breaking story. Hans nichols is with the president in florida, Courtney Kube at the pentagon and matt bradley following developments from london. Hans, whats the latest were hearing from the white house . Reporter geoff, a couple new developments this hour. Number one, the president is answering this criticism at least through the retweet that he didnt read in congressional leaders and suggested they might have tipped off the iranians. Hes not directly saying, but suggested they werent informed for the same reason Congressional Democrats were informed. Quite an explosive allegation. We also have the president seem to be opening up a new front hinting the the government in bagdad, the government in iraq that the u. S. Pays billions of
Them now. We have Fox Team Coverage, the decision to take at the iranian general responsible for american deaths. Benjamin hall has the latest on the new round of airstrikes. What have you got . Reporter everyone was waiting for some retaliation from iran. There was a possible second us strike. It is not yet been confirmed but if true it took place just north of baghdad, two car struck by an airstrike, one containing a finance operator of the shia militia and someone close to Qasem Soleimani. The architect of irans foreign aggression, many of their terrorist acts responsible for the deaths of hundreds of americans. That took place early this morning. Qasem soleimanis convoy hit by a drone with the head of the militia that led the attack, the storming of the us embassy earlier this week. Qasem soleimani was said to be developing plans for further attacks against americans in the region. Iran said it will retaliate and the state department has told americans in iraq to leave immediately.
And we begin today with the threat of a Major Military conflict with iran as the u. S. Braces for some kind of retaliation after President Trump ordered an attack that killed one of irans most powerful military and political figures. That strike, near the baghdad airport, killed Qasem Soleimani. The commander of irans elite quds force and one of the most influential figures in the region. A short time ago, President Trump spoke publicly for the First Time Since that strike, which was carried out less than 24 hours ago. And he said soleimani was plotting attacks that would have killed americans. Soleimani was plotting imminent and sinister attacks on american diplomats and military personnel. But we caught him in the act and terminated him. Under my leadership, americas policy is unambiguous to terrorists who harm or intend to harm any american. We will find you. We will eliminate you. We will always protect our diplomats, service members, all americans, and our allies. Youre looking at
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