people and the iranian embassy in damascus and killed seven some odd senior members of the iranian revolutionary guard including the senior qods force commander in retrospect was clearly a provocative attack that didn't diminish iran's ability to threaten israel, but did goad them into responding with this over the top 350 some odd missile attack on israel. so, a lot of mistaken judgments are happening on both sides of this equation. >> yeah, and, peter, as a general saying, we heard secretary of state antony blinken say that the united states was not involved in this strike. nbc news learned israeli officials did notify the u.s. that a response was coming. what do you think this says about the relationship between the united states and israel? >> well, of course, it is a complicated relationship right now because on the one hand the biden administration has been very unhappy with prime minister