Tonight on the readout.

We have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of bash proportions.

We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or

unsought, by the military industrial complex.

63 years after President Eisenhower's farewell speech, those words are coming back to

haunt us with fears growing of a regional war in the Middle East.

Also tonight, E. Jean Carroll speaks out for the first time

since the 83 million dollar verdict against Donald Trump.

Trump doesn't even pay his lawyers so how likely is it that Ms Carroll will ever see that money. Plus

infrastructure and chips and science are among President Biden's biggest

accomplishments. Now Republicans are shamelessly trying to take

credit for policies they voted against.

But we begin tonight with the growing threat to a regional war in the Middle East.

Over the weekend, three US service members were killed and more than 40 injured in an attack

on a military base in northeast Jordan near the Syrian border.

Late today the Defense Department released the identities of the three U.S. Army Reserve soldiers who were killed.

They are Sergeant William Jerome Rivers, specialist Brianna Alexandria

Moffitt, and specialist Kennedy Leedon Sanders, all from Georgia. They are the first U.S. deaths in months of strikes by

Iranian-backed militant groups since the Israel-Hamas war started in October.

U.S. Central Command says the attack happened at a remote base on the border with Syria and Iraq called Tower 22.

The White House is blaming an Iran-backed militia with President Biden vowing that the US will

respond. Donald Trump of course pounced on the attack, portraying it as a

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