This is NBC Nightly News with Jose Diaz Ballard.

Good evening. We begin tonight with new questions about a potential U.S. strike on Iran.

Two defense officials tell NBC news that B-2 stealth bombers have been moved to the Pacific.

As of now, their mission remains unclear, but the timing is raising eyebrows as President Trump

meets with his national security team, weighing weather to strike Iran.

Those B-2 bombers are capable of dropping bunker-buster bombs, which are believed to be one of

the few weapons in the world that could destroy a critical Iranian nuclear facility

buried deep inside a mountain. All of this comes at a very tense moment. Now nine days into this

conflict, Israel and Iran are ramping up, back and forth strikes. And tonight, there is still no

diplomatic breakthrough and no sign of de-escalation.

We begin with Von Hilliard traveling with the president.

Tonight, the Pentagon deploying multiple B-2 stealth bombers from a Missouri airbase to Guam,

according to two defense officials. Their mission unclear. But the movement comes as the president returns to the White House tonight

for an intelligence briefing from his National Security Council,

with potential U.S. attacks in Iran on the line.

The president, though, also seemingly giving Iran an opening to restarting nuclear talks.

I'm giving him a period of time,

and I would say two weeks would be the maximum.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this week

suggested that Israel has the capabilities

to remove Iran's nuclear facilities itself.

President Trump, particularly talking about Iran's

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