If it's Tuesday, President Trump meets with his national security team in the situation

room as he weighs the possibility of direct U.S. involvement in the Israel-Iran conflict

as both sides launch new rounds of attacks.

Plus, new calls on Capitol Hill for increased security protections and for a toning down of the heated rhetoric

in the aftermath of that deadly attacks on Minnesota state lawmakers.

And no safe spaces.

That's the message from the Trump administration after another policy reversal, now saying

immigration arrests will continue at restaurants, hotels, and agricultural work sites.

Welcome to meet the press now. I'm Garrett Hake in Washington, where we begin with the Middle East on edge for the fifth consecutive day as air raid sirens blared and more explosions rocked both Israel and Iran, and with the increasing possibility that the U.S. could get directly involved.

President Trump just wrapped up a meeting with his national security team in the situation room after abruptly leaving the G7 summit a day early,

saying he needed a focus on the Middle East crisis. This is the White House ways whether to help

Israel target Iran's nuclear facilities. Vice President Vance was asked this afternoon whether the

U.S. was closer to taking military action against Iran. Listen to what he said.

I think the president is making clear to the American people in the entire world that his policy is that Iran can't have a nuclear weapon. And that part of that is that they're not allowed to have enrichment in their country.

And there are many different ways, many different options at the president's disposal for how to accomplish that ultimate policy goal. But that is the policy goal.

That followed several extraordinary social media posts from the president over the last 24 hours,

started with an ominous warning yesterday evening, telling people in Tehran, a city of almost

10 million, to evacuate immediately. That was followed by posts this morning saying,

quote, we now have complete and total control of the skies over Iran and a seeming threat to Iran's

supreme leader, saying we are not going to take him out, at least not for now. It remains unclear

exactly what the president meant by any of those posts, but speaking overnight to reporters on Air Force One,

he said he wants to see an end to the conflict.

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