Returning now to the war with Iran, President Trump spoke to reporters late this afternoon

at his golf resort outside Miami. In his first formal news conference, since the U.S. and Israel

began strikes on Iran over a week ago, the President made a new threat.

We're also hitting where they make missiles and where they deliver missiles.

We've struck over 5,000 targets to date,

some of them very major targets, and we've left some of the most important targets for later

in case we need to do it. If we hit them, it's going to take many years for them to be rebuilt.

Joining us now with more on what the President had to say about the war in Iran is our foreign affairs and defense correspondent Nick Schifrin.

So, Nick, when the president talks about new targets there, what does he mean?

Yeah, this is new.

We have not heard this from him or any other U.S. official, specifically talking about the threat of hitting, in his words, electricity production.

That presumably means civilian targets how the country keeps its lights on, keeps its heat going.

And U.S. and Israeli officials have pointed out that ideally they would actually leave some of that intact

because they want the future of Iran to be one that they deal with.

That depends on the leadership, of course. But again, a new threat from President Trump and really saying we're not looking to do that if we don't need to. We are waiting to see what happens before we do, leaving an ellipses at the end of that sentence. He also spoke about a timeline for the war. What did he have to say about that? So this is really important, I think, because we've heard President Trump speak to reporters

lately saying that, well, maybe the war is almost done.

He's cited all of the air defense in Iran has gone.

Missile, the ability for Iran to launch missiles is down some 90 percent.

All of these U.S. airstrikes that you're seeing some video of hitting drones, etc. But this is what he said tonight.

He said the war will end soon, very soon.

And when asked about how he could help protesters, right, the ones who he promised to help

back in January, when tens of thousands of them were killed, he said that he would love to

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