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President Trump reportedly considering direct strikes against nuclear facilities in Iran. Aean Javvers joins us right here on set to talk about what is happening in Washington and what he's hearing. Aean, uh, good morning. Good to see you. Yeah, good morning. Good to see you, Becky. I mean, we don't know. We're kind of in waiting and holding mode right now as we wait for President Trump to make his decision. We do know uh that there was this meeting in the situation room yesterday. We don't know what option ...

President Trump left the G7 meeting early to focus on the conflict between Israel and Iran. And the president says he's looking for something uh in his words better than a ceasefire. Joining us now, former Biden senior adviser Amos Hawkin.He's a managing partner at TWWG Global. And I assume you uh Amos, and it's good to see. I I assume you have a pretty good idea of um how the world is supplied right now with oil.And you can explain why we did see a little a move higher, but we certainly didn't see the any ...

The conflict between Israel and Iran is now into its fourth day, with no sign of it ending. An Israeli strike in Tehran has killed another key military official. Iran has fired several waves of drones and missiles over the last 24 hours.Loud explosions have been heard over Tel Aviv as missiles were intercepted by Israel's defense system, the Israeli military says. Eight Iranian drones were intercepted overnight in Iran. Israeli strikes have targeted nuclear facilities and natural gas plant and senior milita ...

I think all of us are trying to get our head around the various nuclear facilities and sites within Iran. But let's just talk about the damage leveled at the Isfahan facility. There have also been attacks on Natanz as well.How much of a setback does this constitute for Iran's nuclear ambitions. Well, it's a very serious one. Everybody likes to talk about uranium enrichment.That's the back end of the nuclear fuel cycle. But what people have to understand is this is a vast industrial enterprise involving doze ...

I'm currently sitting inside of a bomb shelter somewhere in northern Israel. I've just heard tons of booms over my head. Interceptions of ballistic missiles coming all the way from Iran.We've already had two salvos from Iran just in the past half hour. Each of those salvos, dozens of ballistic missiles in Tel Aviv, uh where I just came from. Some of those missiles managed to penetrate Israel's air defenses and some of them landed in the center of Tel Aviv.This counter strike came hours after Israel launched ...

Joining us now we have Senator Chris Coons of Delaware. Senator Coons is a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the Judiciary Committee. Senator, I want to ask you looking at these images of smoke rising over Tel Aviv, uh what we know about Israel's attacks on Thran overnight, where does this put the US.What is the US position in the Middle East now. because we've heard from the White House that they did have prior knowledge, but that's not the same as prior approval, but that doesn't make i ...

I do want to ask you here about the targeting of the various sites and what we know about Iran's nuclear capabilities and more specifically, the location of those capabilities. Right. Well, at least what we know and nobody should be completely confident.We know everything was that they had 18 separate sites, one of which the Israelis largely destroyed last October, retaliating for an Iranian ballistic missile attack on Israel. So the targets that I've seen mentioned in the press cover most of those sites. W ...

זה בעצם הנחיה דירקטיבה שאני נתתי לצמר את הביטחונית לפני למעלה מחצי שנה בנובמבר 24 א אני מחזיק אותה כאן הנחיה בעצם לחיסול תוכנית הגרעין האיראנית כמו שאני אמרתי בדיון לצמרת הביטחונית אמרתי שאם לאיראן יהיה נשק גרעיני אנחנו פשוט לא נהיה פה אנחנו לא נתקיים פה ברור שאנחנו מנסים לפגוע במשגרים ובטילים שנשלחים אלינו כרגע אבל המטרה של המבצע היא קודם כל לטפל ביכולת היצור של הטילים הבאים, של אלפי הטילים הבאים, עשרות אלפי הטילים הבאים וכל א אמצעי היצור האלה הם מעל הקרקע, הם זמינים ואנחנו מתכוונים לפגוע במירב של היכולת ה ...

Bring in show music, please. Hi, I'm CNBC producer Katie Kramer on today's superersized squawk pod. Israel's strikes in Iran. Questions about who knew and how because you had to get Well, they knew, but doesn't mean we were involved. Reaction in Washington with Megan Cassella. The White House was emphasizing as these attacks were unfolding overnight that the US was not involved and that it was not providing assistance. And the impact on oil markets with RBC's Hale Croft. What do the Iranians do? Do they try ...