Hey everybody, I'm Yasmin Vesugin. You're listening to the first episode of Here's the Scoot, the new daily podcast from NBC News, to help you get caught up on the day's biggest stories. Enjoy the first episode.

Hey, everybody, and welcome to our very first episode of Here's the Scoop from NBC News.

I'm Yasmin Vesugin, and I'm your host today.

Every day on this show, we're going to break down the biggest stories of the day and why they matter,

tapping our network of reporters stationed all across the world to bring you the inside scoop.

Today, obviously, we got to start with Iran.

In striking Iran's nuclear facilities,

Trump and his advisors said American involvement in the conflict was one and done. That's it.

Iran, though, has now launched retaliatory strikes against U.S. forces stationed across the

mid-east. The president a couple hours ago confirming that Iran gave them a heads up and thanking

them for the advance notice. So what now?

And what do the Israelis do? Our chief foreign correspondent, Richard Engel, is on the ground

for us in Tel Aviv and has covered the region extensively. Hey, Richard, thanks for being here.

It's great to be with you. And I'm so happy to be part of your first broadcast, but I'm not

really surprised. A lot is going on. So if we take a step back return for a moment, do you think

this has changed the game or not? Because we're hearing that Iran essentially gave a heads up,

that the threat was imminent. It looks like Iran gave a heads up, and it looks like even if they didn't give one, that the

Qataris had one. If the Qataris had one, the Americans had one. They're co-located on the space.

They worked together. But the reason why it seems clear that they had intelligence is before this

attack took place, before these missiles were flying, the Qatari shut down the airspace. The Americans

and British nationals, so civilians, were told to shelter in place. And then the attack came. When you read

the statements that the Iranians put out, they were going out of their way to say this was not an

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