THE PENTAGON, WHAT DOES IT DO AFTER ALL, THE GUY DIDN'T HAVE THAT MUCH EXPERIENCE TO BEGIN WITH. YEAH, WELL, LOOK, I think there's no great loss. The service secretaries, by law, actually have no impact whatsoever on military operations, which all go through the secretary of defense and directly to the combatant commanders, the four-star admirals and generals globally who are running U .S.military operations. So I don't think it's impacted on the war at all. Now, firing the Army chief of staff, General Rand ...

Let's bring in now MSNOW senior national security reporter David Rode who was listening along with me. So David, a lot to get into there. Certainly a lot of political nonsense for the secretary of defense.But I know some of it caught your attention too and were bothered by it. But let's start with what we know in terms of the concrete updates as to the ongoing assaults in Iran. What do we learn.There was a lot of talk and I think it has been a successful effort in terms of these bombings and the strikes. Th ...