We've been waiting for the next move after the killing of a notorious Iranian general.

Now it's happened.

A new airstrike on Iranian-backed forces in Iraq just a day after the drone strike against

Qasim Soleimani at Baghdad Airport.

That's according to the militia in question and the Iraqi state news organization.

We don't know who's responsible for this new airstrike.

President Trump today said he ordered the killing of Soleimani to stop a war, not start

one.

Those are his words, tonight, new hostilities.

A remarkable statement from a former defense secretary in CIA directly on Pineda, who's

not known for wild exaggeration, calling this the closest we've been in 40 years to war

with Iran.

So, with America now sending about 3,000 troops into the region, with Americans being told

to leave Iraq with Iran calling for, quote, forceful revenge for Soleimani's killing.

We'll explore all of that, all of what may follow from perhaps the most consequential

decision this president has made.

There's also a new claim from the administration on the question of why now?

National Security Advisor, Robert O'Brien, telling reporter of the general of Soleimani

was planning attacks on U.S. troops and diplomats in the region, some of the president

touched on as well today.

He was plotting attacks against Americans, but now we've ensured that his atrocities

have been stopped for good.

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