Hi again, everyone. It's now 5 o'clock in New York. There's a lot going on this hour.

We'll have all of it for you. We'll get through all of it together as we've been reporting.

Homeland Security Secretary Christine Nome has been fired by Donald Trump. Republican Senator Mark Wayne Mullen of Oklahoma is expected to replace her.

Right now, we are moments away from the start of a briefing at CENTCOM where military officials,

including the Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, are expected to update the country on the war in Iran.

So far, we have received no concrete answers on the timeline of the war, the military objectives, the policy objectives, how exactly and why exactly it started, or whether or not there will be American troops on the ground in Iran.

There is almost every indication that this could be. It is shaping up to be the kind of

forever war Donald Trump literally built a political career around opposing and promising never to

start. But now with Iran, he has changed his tune. Watch.

We're going to end these endless wars, endless wars. They never stop. You ever see these

wars? They're going for 14 years, 20 years. We're doing very well on

on the war front, to put it mildly, I would say. Somebody said on a scale of 10,

where would you rate it? I said about a 15. We had no wars. They said,

he will start a war. I'm not going to start a war. I'm going to stop wars. We're already

substantially ahead of our time projections, but whatever the time is, it's okay, whatever

it takes, we will always, and we have right from the beginning, we projected four to five weeks, but we

have capability to go far longer than that.

We'll do it.

From no wars to however long it takes.

Now with the war in Iran intensifying on multiple fronts and already costing the United

States $1 billion a day in the loss of six lives of men and women of the military, it appears that

it will take a whole lot of U.S. military force and possibly treasure and spending. The White House press secretary claiming in a statement

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