i am sure that that is part of what is happening in the white house tonight is just making sure that we are doing everything we can to avoid this escalating further. but also making sure that we g have our eyes on all the different ways in which this fire could catch in other places. courtney, i want to ask you a version of a question, just ask mike about the white house tomorrow on the assumption thatr we are not going to have any united states government officials before a microphone tonight, what will you be looking for at the pentagon en tomorrow morning? please so, keep in mind that in the past, when israel has carried out strikes against this practical, for instance, in syria, when they go after these advanced missile components and parts, that iran is sending to hezbollah and syria, they very rarely, if ever, acknowledge that point i think the biggest question is, will israel acknowledge any part of this tonight because of their threats that they have been s putting out all we
we see any change in the president s schedule point he has on the public schedule for tomorrow, a union event, he has been doing a lot of those lately, lawrence, he is set to speak at a union conference at here in washington, part of the series of events he has been doing, especially focus on the economy this week when his republican opponent has been, let s say, distracted with other matters. he was schedule, as he often ed does, for the weekend, to travel to wilmington, delaware point we did see, course, the president return from delaware last week, we were aware of the response coming from iran, the attended attack on israel and now, of course, the potential does remain, as well for him to change his schedule point nbc news pentagon and national security correspondent, courtney. do we have anything more? yeah, so we can now say, lawrence, that according to a source familiar, israel did carry out an operation inside iran tonight now, we still t don t have a lot of details, includ
house has had an awareness of the range of options that it could potentially take in response to the efforts over the weekend that included potentially a more limited response. it could include strikes outside of iran, which we have seen reports of tonight, as well as strikes in iran. we know that president biden in a conversation over the weekend said that the u.s. would not join israel in any potential offensive operations. there is a term we have heard quite a bit this week, which is take the win. that is what the government has been communicating to israel to avoid that term escalation. that has been the hope of the white house as well, from bill burns and officials throughout the week. they are standing back at this point to see what the situation is, to see if it has concluded. mike, i know the president has been on the campaign trail most of the week.
through gaza, that there are serious differences. he will not waver in his support for the state of israel for its right to defend itself but it does speak to him having the role of wanting to avoid further escalation that could put israel at risk of itself. ben rhodes, you worked in the white house that had the best and strongest communication channels to iran of any white house since the fall of the shot, possibly, with the obama administration working on the nuclear deal with iran . the trump administration then lost, really, all of those communication channels. they didn t want them. they just kind of wiped them out. how much of that communication has been rebuilt during the biden administration? how much of that communication you think is available tonight? been rebuilt in terms of direct
if and when that happens, that would be when she might see someone in the u.s. talking about it. unless israel acknowledges this, any part in this tonight, i don t know that the u.s. would acknowledge it on the record. and i have to say i completely agree with what ben was wi explaining about the process here the israelis will, the source of strikes and they take in syria, remember the u.s. has terry in southern syria and eastern syria pick when they carry out attacks against some of these proxy groups, israel will give the u.s. a heads up, sometimes it is literally when the planes are in the air to carry out the strikes pick but they do for a deconfliction. they also do it because if there is a potential that u.s. forces have personnel in the region could have some sort of a negative impact from an israeli mission or operation, they have sort of an agreement that they will give the u.s. a heads up so they will know to up their readiness, any kind ofi defenses that need to be shored up