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started today at V, U.S. warships and aircraft are now in place across

the Middle East, giving President Trump a variety of military options against Iran, even as new reporting

suggests that the Iranian regime may be scrambling to avoid a confrontation. Later in the show,

a major shake-up in Minnesota after a fatal immigration

enforcement shooting, President Trump dispatches border czar Tom Homan to take direct control of the

operation. But first, today's afternoon spotlight. We've been tracking the steady buildup of

U.S. military power in the Middle East over the past several weeks, and now, according to new reporting from the Wall Street Journal, that buildup is complete.

American forces are in place. Over the weekend, the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln

and its accompanying strike group quietly slipped into the region in what's been described as,

quote, ghost mode,

deactivating its automatic identification system and using electronic warfare, jamming to confuse enemy surveillance. That gives President Trump a fully assembled, forward-deployed strike

package aimed squarely at Iran. Now, it's not a symbolic deployment, and it's obviously not subtle. The president

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