Sources: U.S. believes Iran intentionally avoided hitting U.S. troops; Trump: Iran appears to be standing down after revenge strike; Gabbard: Trump admin failed to provide evidence of imminent threat

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 8 January 2020

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U.S. officials still concerned about threats from Iran's proxies; Trump: Iranian general should have been killed years ago; White House releases new photos of Trump consulting advisers last night in situation room; Trump opts not to use "big, powerful, accurate" missiles in retaliation for Iran strike; Iraqi military: two rockets land in Baghdad green zone, no casualties reported; Iran's supreme leader calls retaliation "a slap in the face" to U.S.; Satellite photos appear to show damage from Iran strikes; Gabbard: Trump admin failed to provide evidence of imminent threat; GOP Senator Lee: way this played out is "un-American" and "completely unacceptable" ; GOP senator calls Iran briefing "worst briefing I've had on a military issue in nine years"; Soleimani's tactics forced U.S. to change its strategy in IraqTo learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Is Iran backing down or are they just taking the fight underground?
0:07.0	The lead starts right now.
0:09.0	Breaking now, Iran tells the US via back channels that their response is over as President Trump
0:15.4	claims the regime is standing down following last night's attack by Iran on
0:19.7	bases housing US forces. So why is the FBI warning us about another kind of attack?
0:25.0	The president's also vowing Iran will never have a nuke and that he will strangle
0:30.0	the country with new tough sanctions. Is this the way to handle decades of aggression
0:34.1	from the regime a presidential candidate who served in Iraq ways in live plus the
0:39.9	Senate majority leader essentially telling speaker Pelosi to butt out as pressure mounts on the House Speaker for members of her own party to deliver the articles of impeachment to the Senate.
0:56.8	Welcome to the lead, I'm Jake Tapper. We begin with our worldly today, the escalating conflict between Iran and the United States looks to be on hold at least for now.
1:02.2	President Trump today said that Iran appears to be
1:04.0	standing down after firing more than a dozen missiles on sites in Iraq where US
1:08.2	troops are stationed. CNN has just learned that Iran sent multiple messages through three different back channels
1:15.9	to U.S. officials all indicating the same thing.
1:18.6	Iran's saying, hey, we're done.
1:20.7	But U.S. officials remain concerned about ongoing threats from Iranian proxies.
1:25.4	Mr. Trump also confirmed today there were no Americans injured or killed during last night's
1:30.3	attack. The Iraqi military says the same about its personnel. Multiple
1:34.7	administration officials tell CNN that they believe Iran intentionally
1:38.2	avoided hitting U.S. troops hitting as one Pentagon official told me
1:41.3	quote, deliberate targets with minimum damage
1:44.9	and maximum warning.
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