The White House saying President Trump will decide on a strike on Iran within the next two weeks while the conflict in the Middle East escalates between Israel and Iran without a resolution in sight. Mark Esper, former Secretary of Defense and former Secretary of the Army joins us now. It's great to have you, Secretary Esper.What do you think President Trump will do. Well, good morning, Sarah. Um, look, first of all, I thought he made a smart decision by pausing the clock, if you will, and giving himself mo ...

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How vulnerable is the Iranian regime at this point. Well, after 46 years of rule, the Islamic Republic is probably at its weakest moment that it's ever been. I mean, the past few days of Israeli attacks on the Islamic Republic have not only been a significant operational and strategic weakening of this regime, but also a significant psychological weakening of this regime.Ali Khamenei has ruled this country without elections as a one man show, really for 30 years. And the generals who rise up in his armed fo ...

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of staff. That was during President Trump's first term, co-chair of ACTUM. Now, Mick, uh, your thoughts, please, on look, a lot of people were saying that the president kind of intentionally like he knew about this days ago, didn't say anything to the Iranians.We've seen now the what that has meant. What more do you expect of the Iranian response. Um, a bunch of different questions there.What to expect of the Iranian response. It's hard to say. It's hard to know what they still have available to them.I gues ...

more hours left in this and much more to go before we know exactly what's going on. >> All right, Megan, thanks very much. Megan Cassella, let's turn now to Michael O'Hanlon.He's director of foreign policy research at the Brookings Institution. Michael. And so we are hearing from different analysts that they think this could actually be a rather drawn out affair.That's going to kind of put that on one side of the equation. On the other side, are those pointing out that the market reaction here is not outsiz ...

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situation in the Middle East. The president attending a National Security Council meeting this hour. Let's bring in our Megan Casella live outside the white House for the latest.Megan, as he has spent at least part of the morning calling around to the various networks. >> He definitely has Carl. And that national security meeting.That is the only event that we know of on the president's schedule so far. Today. He is back in the Situation Room with his national security team this hour.After they spent the ev ...

bring in Haleem Croft, global head of commodity strategy at RBC Capital Markets and a CNBC contributor. This about what you would expect with something like this. This is about what we'd expect.I think the key thing to watch now will be what will the Iranian retaliation look like beyond the drone strike that we saw yesterday. Obviously, people be paying attention to the regional energy infrastructure. There's a lot of concern over the straight of Hormuz.20% of global oil supply goes through there on a daily ...

Let's talk oil prices. They're easing off a little bit, but they hit a two-month high yesterday on growing tensions in the Middle East. Tensions that are high enough that President Trump addressing concerns about a possible Israeli strike on Iran.Listen to this. How imminent is an Israeli strike on Iran. Well, I don't want to say imminent, but it looks like it's something that could very well happen.Look, it's very simple, not complicated. If it's big enough for the president to talk about, it's certainly b ...