being -- being responsible for the strikes, leading the u.s. to avoid confirming them as well. iranian officials are downplaying the strike today. iranian media reporting the target was a military base near a major nuclear site which officials say was not hit. were informed shortly ahead of time, just before the strike, secretary of state tony blinken emphasized at a g7 meeting that the u.s. had no part in it. >> i'm not going to speak to anything other than to say we were not involved in any offensive operations. >> last weekend's iranian strikes were in retaliation for an israeli strike on an iranian consular building in damascus, killing a general and several others, dismaying u.s. officials who feared it was an unnecessarily provocative move. joining us is raf sanchez in tel aviv and courtney kube. iran is minimizing the strike.

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