‘A very effective response’: U.S. launches retaliatory strikes in Iraq and Syria

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🗓️ 3 February 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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U.S. forces struck more than 85 targets against Iran-backed militias in Iraq and Syria. This is the first of a series of retaliatory strikes the U.S. has vowed to take in response to the deaths of American soldiers in Jordan. Then, a look at a blockbuster jobs report. And Judge Chutkan postpones Trump’s federal election interference case indefinitely as the federal appeals court has yet to rule on the former president’s immunity claims. Peter Baker, Barry McCaffrey, Nayyerra Haq, David Rohde, Matt Bradley, Ron Insana, Charles Coleman, and Keir Simmons join.

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0:00.0	Good evening, once again. I'm Stephanie Rule at MS NBC Headquarters here in New York City.
0:11.0	We can continue our breaking news coverage this evening of US
0:14.5	airstrikes against Iran-backed militias in Iraq and Syria. The military action is a
0:19.8	sharp escalation in the administration's effort to stop the rising threat from
0:24.3	Iran-backed groups across the Middle East. Earlier this evening US Central
0:28.6	Command released video of one of the B-1 bombers used to carry out the airstrikes and in a call with reporters
0:35.9	the National Security Council spokesperson laid out the details of the attacks.
0:40.5	US military forces struck more than a attacks.
0:43.0	U.S. military forces struck more than 85 targets at seven facilities utilized by Iran's Islamic
0:49.3	Revolutionary Guard Corps and the military groups that they sponsor.
0:54.0	Three of the facilities are in Iraq, four of them are in Syria.
0:58.4	Numerous aircraft including B1 bombers dispatch from the United States were involved in this operation, firing more than one. and Target facilities included command and control centers as well as headquarters buildings and intelligence centers
1:15.7	Rocket missile and drone storage facilities and logistics and ammunition supply chain facilities
1:30.0	Tonight's action is in retaliation for a drone strike that killed American soldiers in Jordan last weekend. They are the first American deaths after more than 160 attacks on US and Allied targets
1:36.2	since the start of the Israel-Hamass war in October.
1:39.7	Today, just hours before the US strikes, President Biden went to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware
1:46.0	to honor those fallen soldiers in a ceremony known as a dignified transfer.
1:51.1	This evening, Biden issued a strong statement saying the following,
1:54.4	our response began today. It will continue at times and places of our choosing.
2:00.3	The United States does not seek conflict in the Middle East or anywhere in the world.
2:05.0	But let all who might seek to do us harm know this.
2:09.0	If you harm an American, we will respond.
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