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night with a fox news alert retaliatory airstrikes have begun in the middle east, according to the pentagon strikes against iranian backed militias in iraq and syria striking more than 85 targets, the u.s. says it hit command and control open raigsdz and intelligence centers. this comes after three american soldiers were killed dozens more injured in a drone strike in a base in jordan this past weekend. launched by of course iranian proxies. iran is responsible pretty much for all the trouble in the region. jennifer griffin live from the pentagon. any word why the targets were not in iran considering they re the source of these proxy and terror attacks? well sean officials i spoke to said they were ruling out striking inside iran in this first set of strikes, and they want to message to iran they re not tryinging to to war with iran. they re hoping iran gets the message based on these strikes against their proxies and against the irgc sites they hit tonight. the strik ....
the militias that they sponsor. we are also getting some more details on the timing of the response to those three american soldiers killed in jordan last week and how it unfolded throughout this week. just in a moment, i will talk with deputy director for the very latest response from the administration as well as the defense department. but first, we re going to head to the region and nbc news chief international correspondent, who s joining us from iraq. welcome, here, so has the region reacting? what can we expect next? well alex, i think what we saw last night was not insignificant. that is true. but it was also limited. granted, an escalation by the biden administration. we haven t seen anything like this in recent years, frankly, in this part of the world. but still limited so that the strikes were along the east syria, iraq border in a trench there that we know has a number of militia groups and camped there. now, that s a part of that border that runs t ....
for someone who built his political career, of course, on the notion he is a billionaire, maybe not so much. whether or not that is literally true. none of this is final until the judge signed off on all of it, but as we saw, it has not stopped yet, the former president from making it politically. he went on social media with one of his all-time favorite charges, that phrase, say it with me now, witchhunt, and claiming there are legal systems being used as a political weapon. but here s the thing. to damages that are vastly bigger than anyone expected allow him to frame all of this as an attack against him? after all, more than half of voters in our new hampshire exit poll said donald trump would be fit for presidency, even if he is convicted of a crime. joining me now are gwendolyn, a former da in dekalb county georgia, and rena shaw. i m so glad both of you are here, but first of all i have got to get your reaction to this, when thinking about that this is an $83 mill ....