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And welcome to the lead. I'm Jake Taff, and we're going to start with breaking news in our world lead.

The Joint Chiefs of Staff saying that the U.S. will start, quote, striking progressively deeper into Iranian territory.

And it appears that Congress will not stand in the way. Right now, the U.S. Senate is taking an initial vote on the war powers

resolution. It is right now on track to fail. As you may know, Congress passed the war powers

resolution in 1973 in response to the Vietnam War. It would allow any one member of the House

or the Senate to force a vote to withdraw U.S. forces from a conflict or to block strikes.

Presidents for years have held that that War Powers Act is unconstitution.

When it comes to the U.S. conflict in Iran, this legislation always faced long odds,

because even if it passed both chambers of Congress, there is not enough support without question to override a presidential

veto. And to be perfectly frank, many members of Congress don't like voting on such matters because

such votes force them to take a position at a specific moment in time that they can never erase.

I never erase. Ask former Senator Hillary Clinton how she feels about her Iraq authorization vote.

So the Trump administration is carrying on with this military campaign while the timeline

and desired outcome remain unclear as of now.

The U.S. Secretary of Defense, Pete Hagseth said earlier today, it's quote, very early in its

military operations against Tehran, the Pentagon.

And today, White House Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt was asked what success looks like in Iran.

We've hit all of these targets.

What can Americans expect the goal to be moving forward now that the U.S. has accomplished all of this?

What is victory, given we even taking out Iran's or on Supreme Leader. That was an explicit goal.

Again, victory will be determined by the Commander-in-Chief once the goals and the

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