WELCOME TO MEET THE PRESS NOW I'M GABE GUTIERREZ IN WASHINGTON. AS THE WAR WITH IRAN NEARS THE THREE WEEK MARK AND THE PENTAGON APPEARS TO BE RAMPING UP OPERATIONS AMID NEW ATTACKS TODAY ACROSS THE REGION, INCLUDING IN JERUSALEM'S OLD CITY. ALL OF THIS WHILE PRESIDENT TRUMP CONTINUES TO SUGGEST THE WAR WILL BE ENDING SOON. JUST MOMENTS AGO, THE PRESIDENT SPEAKING TO REPORTERS ABOUT THE ONGOING WAR WHILE LEAVING THE WHITE HOUSE.>> WHERE WE'VE BEEN HITTING THEM AWFULLY HARD. I MEAN, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU CAN PO ...

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>>> GOOD FRIDAY MORNING. >>> NEW TURMOIL FOR AIRLINE PASSENGERS. >> HEADING INTO A MAJOR WEEKEND FOR SPRING BREAK TRAVEL, TOO.IT'S MARCH 20th. THIS IS "TODAY." >>> FROM BAD TO WORSE. THE TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY SOUNDING THE ALARM ABOUT THAT ONGOING CHAOS AT OUR NATION'S AIRPORTS.>> YOU'RE GOING TO SEE SMALL AIRPORTS, I BELIEVE SHUT DOWN, EXTENSIVE LINES, AND AIR TRAVEL IS GOING TO ALMOST COME TO A GRID HALT, STOP. >> WHY HE SAYS THOSE HOURS' LONG DELAYS COULD SOON GET MUCH WORSE. >>> PLUS, NEW THIS MORNING ...

BARON LOPEZ IS COVERING E WHITE HOUSE MSNOW POLITICAL ANALYST JOHN TESTER SERVED AS A DEMOCRATIC SENATOR FROM MONTANA HERE WITH ME IN STUDIO MICHAEL WEISS EDITOR OF THE INSIDER AND AUTHOR OF THE BOOK ISIS INSIDE THE ARMY OF TERROR IT'S GREAT TO HAVE ALL OF YOU HERE LARA TELL US WHAT ELSE WE HEARD FROM THE THE PRESIDENT, THE PRESIDENT IN THIS CONVERSATION WITH STEPHANIE RULE DID WHAT HE'S DONE A LOT SINCE HE LAUNCHED THIS ATTACK ON IRAN WHICH IS OFFERED A RANGE OF CONTRADICTIONS ABOUT WHAT EXACTLY HE THINKS ...

CALIFORNIA, FIRST BEFORE WE GET TO THE GAS PRICES I WANT TO GET YOU TO REACT TO WHAT STEP RULE JUST REPORTED, A 15-MINUTE CONVERSATION WITH THE PRESIDENT AND IT WAS PRETTY BROAD, FAR-REACHING. WHAT WERE YOUR THOUGHTS. WHAT WERE YOUR TAKEAWAYS.WELL, STEPH GOT MORE ACCESS TO THE PRESIDENT THAN MEMBERS OF CONGRESS DO. WE HAVEN'T BEEN BRIEFED IN THE LAST COUPLE OF WEEKS REALLY IN A MEANINGFUL WAY BY THE PRESIDENT OR HIS TEAM SAVE FOR ONE BRIEFING THAT REALLY WAS INADEQUATE. AND HERE WE ARE, THREE WEEKS INTO A W ...

Breaking news tonight. The USRussian thousands more Marines and sailors to the Middle East and the major escalation in the attacks on energy facilities sending oil prices soaring. The stunning new images from inside Iran.Flames erupting from one of the largest gas fields in the world. The new warning from President Trump to Israel. Don't do it again.As an American F-35 is struck over Iran. And the terrifying moment a missile hits just feet from a journalist on the front lines. Plus, Iranian missiles raining ...

Mario, this place is hopping today. We've got a foreign leader visiting and the prime minister of Japan who was worried about getting in the Oval Office with Donald Trump. They had a pretty good conversation, it seems.What are you hearing from the White House about our relationship following this conflict. Well, the relationship seems to be good, right. Just looking at the tea leaves and just both from the White House, President Trump saying, in effect himself, he was obviously frustrated earlier this week. ...

I mean, I'd say we're still on an escalatory path. So there were three things that we highlighted at the beginning of the war that we were watching for the oil markets. And the first one was the Strait of Hormuz, whether it gets closed or what happens there, and then it's essentially still at a standstill.That's very important because about 20% of global oil flows go from there. And this is obviously very consequential. The second one was that if that happens, we would be watching the shut ins in the Gulf p ...

Today, the closure of the Strait of Hormuz pushed the price of Brent Crude Oil to $111 a barrel. It comes as the White House attempted to bring down gas prices at home while the war in Iran, of course, continues. And the president invoked the Defense Production Act to reopen a California pipeline that was shut down in 2015 after a rupture caused an environmental disaster along the state's central coast.Our nightcap is still here. Okay, David, this administration has a pattern. And listen, other administrati ...