Lawmakers got a closed-door briefing during which intelligence officials told them Iran still retains thousands of missiles and one-way attack drones capable of threatening American and allied forces in the region.

That echoes CNN's reporting from earlier this month that roughly half of Iran's missile launchers were still intact.

This is something that we knew going in.

It is very, very difficult in an air campaign to completely destroy the military

capacity of an adversary, particularly one like Iran, that had thousands of missiles, thousands

of launchers, and a whole bunch of drones. You can significantly degrade it, but if your adversary

isn't trying to take over anything, they're just trying to maintain the ability to inflict pain,

then that's a much lower bar for them to jump over. And we all knew going into this that Iran would

maintain that capability. And the president just sort of hoped that the regime would somehow collapse.

But again, as John Bolton said, it's simply become more hard line.

So yes, it's a huge problem in terms of being able to force Iran to do any of the things

that we would like them to do on nuclear weapons, on support for terrorist groups on their ballistic missile program.

Breaking news to bring you now. This is from the IEA chief, the International Energy Agency Chief, Fatibirol, saying that Europe has maybe six weeks or so of jet fuel left, warning of possible flight cancellations soon. This is being reported by the AP News Agency saying these comments coming to us from Paris. So Fatibirol,

the International Energy Agency Chief, saying that Europe has maybe six or so weeks of jet fuel

left, warning of possible flight cancellation soon. We've of course heard similar warnings

from the boss of Europe's biggest airline, Ryanair, in previous weeks as well,

talking about potential disruption through the course of the early summer. Well, as we approach

mid-April, that would align with about June, according to these warnings from Fatibirol,

the IE chief, say that Europe has six weeks or so of jet fuel left,

warning of possible flight cancellation soon.

Iran's foreign minister has announced that the Strait of Hormuz is open, that Iran has

had his own blockade there in place for several weeks since start of that war.

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