live from the pentagon. we ll try to get that piece queued up. jenn, breaking news on the story that you broke yesterday on soleimani. reporter: what s interesting, bret, is that yesterday it was very difficult to get any u.s. officials to comment or confirm the story. today iranian officials came out and in fact confirmed not only that qassum soleimani under sanctions by the u.s. since 2005 had traveled to russia. they also confirmed he was there to do weapons deals, arms deals with the russians, including talk of the s 300, the s 300 missile system. bret? let s take a listen. a day after u.s. officials refused to comment, iranian officials confirmed today general soleimani the heavily sanctioned revolutionary guard quds force commander did travel to russia last month adding he was seeking weapons deals including the s 300 missile system. today the u.s. ambassador to the united nations, samantha powers, acknowledged the u.s. is very concerned about this development.
live from the pentagon. we ll try to get that piece queued up. jenn, breaking news on the story that you broke yesterday on soleimani. reporter: what s interesting, bret, is that yesterday it was very difficult to get any u.s. officials to comment or confirm the story. today iranian officials came out and in fact confirmed not only that qassum soleimani under sanctions by the u.s. since 2005 had traveled to russia. they also confirmed he was there to do weapons deals, arms deals with the russians, including talk of the s 300, the s 300 missile system. bret? let s take a listen. a day after u.s. officials refused to comment, iranian officials confirmed today general soleimani the heavily sanctioned revolutionary guard quds force commander did travel to russia last month adding he was seeking weapons deals including the s 300 missile system. today the u.s. ambassador to the united nations, samantha powers, acknowledged the u.s. is very concerned about this development.