Let's get more now from NBC News chief international correspondent Kier Simmons, MSNBC military analysts, Medal of Honor recipient, retired Colonel Jack Jacobs, and former deputy assistant secretary of state Joel Rubin. Kier, these attacks appear to be ongoing. Bring us up to speed on the very latest from the region and Israel's calculation here.Why now. Yeah, and all the reports are that they are ongoing. And frankly, we know that they are likely ongoing because all of the analysis was that if Israel wante ...

Prime Minister, just as you're about to leave for the G7, Israel's carried out what it describes as a preemptive strike on it on Iranian nuclear targets, 200 fighter jets, more than 300 bombs, the sight struck, including homes. Would you say Israel is justified in the action it's taken. Well, I'm very concerned um about the situation that is developing and um it's obvious that for a long time we've had grave concerns about the nuclear program that Iran is putting together and we absolutely recognize Israel' ...

Iran's uh newer news saying that 78 were killed, 329 injured in Israeli attacks on residential areas in Thran. Joining us now, Congressman Rajna Krishna Morti. He's a ranking member of the China Select Committee uh and member of the House Permanent Select Committee on uh intelligence, which is in charge of oversight of the intelligence uh committee.And it's good to see you, Congressman. in in the past you've been a pretty staunch defender of Israel. I'm quoting you from a former when there were some other y ...

that Israel's attacks on Iran are ongoing, hitting an airport in one of the country's most northern major cities. Thank you for joining us. Uh just for edification of the audience, you're the head of political analysis at Pangia Policy Advisory.Really great to have you on a morning like this. What do you make of the fact that Israel's attacks, they are still ongoing. We did hear from Benjamin Netanyahu saying that basically it could take days or weeks and that Israel would continue, but what do you make of ...

Joining us right now is Kareem Sajapur. He is Middle East program senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. And Kareem, what what do you make of what's happening.These strikes, how effective were they. What do you think the retaliation will be. Well, this is an incredibly significantly sign significant moment.Uh not only have uh Iran's nuclear sites been uh damaged and and we'll see the full extent of that in the coming days, but Israel also decapitated assassinated uh Iran's senior n ...

Good morning to you all. Let's get right to the breaking news out of the Middle East. Israel's military says Iran launched more than 100 drones targeting Israel after the Israelis carried out what it called a precise and coordinated preemptive strike targeting Iran's nuclear program.Israel's defense forces say its opening wave of attacks hit dozens of military installations, including nuclear sites across multiple regions in Iran, killing Iran's most senior military official and two other leaders. Now, Iran ...

I want to bring into this conversation and Ben I hope you can stay where you are. Courtney is sitting here. She can't go too far because we're at the same table.Um Richard Angel who's of course the chief um foreign affairs correspondent. Um Richard we we Courtney is Courtney's frantically typing on her phone right now. I know you were in touch with a lot of people.What we didn't know at the top of the show or a few minutes ago is what they exactly had hit. Courtney gave us some updated reporting on that. Ho ...

Jonathan, we were just speaking to Karen there potentially about what this means for Iran's nuclear program. What is your assessment at this point. Well, the strikes are going to make the challenge of accounting for Iran's nuclear program vast, vastly more complicated.Don't forget, as of today, IAEA inspectors were in Iran, an average of more than one time a day visiting multiple sites. Iran has already announced a couple of weeks ago to International Atomic Energy Agency diplomats that any strike by Iran i ...

All right, we are following the breaking news out of the Middle East right now in which the Israeli defense minister has alerted the nation to a set of what he called preemptive strikes against Iran. There have been no uh explosions outside of Chiran according to the Iranian state authorities. We do not know yet where these strikes have been, how widespread they are, what facilities they're focused on.There would be in the eyes I think of the Iranian government a big difference between military strikes like ...