Welcome to meet the press now.

I'm Kelly O'Donnell in Washington, where the Trump administration is racing to calm growing anxiety over soaring energy prices as the war with Iran intensifies.

After Israel and Iran exchange strikes on critical energy infrastructure in the region,

these were the stunning images out of Iran after Israel launched an attack on South Pars,

one of the world's largest natural gas fields,

which is shared by both Iran and Qatar. You can see the large fires burning as plumes of black smoke billowed into the air. Iran responding, launching retaliatory strikes on energy infrastructure

across the Gulf region,

hitting a refinery in Saudi Arabia, an energy facility in Qatar, and two oil refineries in Kuwait.

President Trump is also reacting to dueling strikes, posting on social media that the U.S.

did not know about the Israeli attack on South Pars, while also threatening to, quote,

massively blow up the South Pars gas field if Iran carried out any more strikes on Qatar.

However, a U.S. official familiar with the information telling NBC news, Israel did inform the U.S.

They were planning to strike that facility.

Speaking in the Oval Office today, while hosting the Japanese prime minister,

the president said he told Israel to stop strikes on Iran's energy fields.

Have you talked to Prime Minister Menetianahu about attacking the oil and gas fields?

Yeah, I did. I did. I told him, don't do that. And he won't do that. We didn't discuss.

You know, we do, we're independent, we get along great. It's coordinated. But on occasion,

he'll do something. And if I don't like it. And so we're not doing that anymore.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also speaking to reporters late today,

saying Israel acted alone when striking the oil field,

but not answering the question about whether President Trump knew or had approved the strike.

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