And Garrett, I know you were listening as well uh over the last 45 minutes. Uh was interesting to hear sort of the timeline. Uh we've found out that President Trump ordered the strike uh roughly uh 3:30 Friday afternoon and they proceeded to walk us through more of the timeline. What else struck you, Garrett, from what we just heard there from the defense secretary and the chairman? Yeah, that timeline notable, Craig, as the president was traveling on Friday to Texas at back at the time was sort of publicly ...

For more on this, we want to bring in retired four-star army general David Petraeus. He served as the CIA director in the Obama administration and is now with KKR as the chairman of their global institute and their Middle East global institute. General, thank you for being with us this morning.Um, give us your thoughts on where we stand right now with this operation. Well, I thought the secretary and the chairman laid this out very effectively, uh, very sober, uh, very forthright, um, describing the extraor ...

This is not a single overnight operation. The military objectives that SENCOM and the joint force have been tasked with will take some time to achieve and in some cases will be difficult and gritty work. We expect to take additional losses and as always we will work to minimize US losses.But as the secretary said, this is major combat operations. ...

No stupid rules of engagement, no nation building quagmire, no democracybuilding exercise, no politically correct wars. We fight to win and we don't waste time or lives. As the president warned, an effort of this scope will include casualties.War is hell and always will be. First, to be clear, as the secretary said, this is not a single overnight operation. The military objectives that SENCOM and the joint force have been tasked with will take some time to achieve and in some cases will be difficult and gri ...

Joining us now Tom Lee Fund strat global adviser set of research and a CNBC contributor could be down obviously a lot more straits of her moves maybe in in play at this point. in in past incidents like this and every single time it's happened, we've always said, well, in past incidents, it it it never lasts that long and decisions that are made about whether staying in or getting out of a market. Normally, standing pat has been the right move.>> That's right. I mean, nobody likes to see headlines and the im ...

price of crude is surging back with a seven handle on fears of a further supply disruption uh in Iran. Joining us now with more, Daniel Jurgen, S&P global vice chairman. Dan, so many different angles to to talk about.I I guess the first one I'd ask is, is Iran still capable of shutting the straits where people are afraid to go through. And is there anything we can do uh to degrade their ability to shut that the straight. We we're doing everything else.>> Joe, the thing is people are afraid to go through. I ...

Premier. >> Thank you. He uh Secretary Hexath, I had two questions for you.First, um are there currently any American boots on the ground in Iran. >> Um no, but we're not going to go into the exercise of what we will or will not do. I think it's one of those fallacies for a long time that this department or presidents or others should tell the American people this and our and our enemies, by the way.Here's exactly what we'll do. Here's exactly how long we'll go. Here's exactly how far we'll go. Here's what ...

former uh Ambassador Hill, it's great to have you on. And the place I want to start with you right now is your assessment of what's happening on the ground in Iran as lawmakers look to be briefed further here over the coming days stateside and allies including our European counterparts are also perhaps begrudgingly finding themselves moving towards this conflict. >> Well, first of all, uh there are a lot of moving parts here.I think the Europeans are trying to kind of calm things down and say that uh look, ...

At 15:38 3:38 p. m. on Friday, February 27th, the United States Central Command through the Secretary of War received the final go order from President Trump.The president directed, and I quote, "Operation Epic Fury is approved. No aborts, good luck." close quote. In the region, every element of the joint force made their final preparations. Air defense batteries readied themselves, checking their systems to respond to Iranian attacks.Pilots and crews rehearsed their strike packages for the final time. Air ...

past the hour let's bring in foreign affairs opinion columnist for the new york times thomas friedman he's the author of the best-selling book titled from beirut to jerusalem it's good to have you on this morning you know thomas i don't have much of a life so i remember op-eds that people wrote 20 years ago 25 years ago i remember you know maureen dowd's op-ed before george w bush was elected president talking about what determines a presidency is not what you planned for but what you didn't plan for but i ...