Today, the part of the job President Trump says is probably the hardest, being on hand to welcome home America's war dead.

Yet hours later, at a political rally, the president suggests his fight with Iran, in his view, isn't really big enough to be called a war.

John King here in for Anderson. Tonight, the war, and yes, it is very, very much a war goes on,

and it could be widening. Yemen's Aranbeck Houdis claimed they've hit two Saudi oil tankers

in the region's other strategic waterway, the Red Sea. And though CNN cannot independently confirm

that, a British maritime tracking organization says a tanker was hit by some kind of projectile

and caught fire. Also tonight,

the air campaign continues. American forces are carrying out their 12th straight round of air strikes

since the ceasefire broke down. The president now threatening to destroy one Iranian bridge or

power plant. You see his post there for every ship Iran targets in the Persian Gulf. Tehran promising

in return to hit regional oil and gas facilities in return. And as we said, the remains of four

Americans killed in action over the weekend returned home. The dignified transfer took place

right there at Dover Air Base in Delaware, family members, military officials,

and the commander-in-chief looking on. They are, we now know, First Lieutenant Tyler James Fian,

Staff Sergeant Michael Emmanuel Swinton, Sergeant Angel Rampersad, and Private Isabella Gonzalez.

The president called today's ritual, quote, one of the hardest things to do

as a president. In all now, 18 American servicemen and women have been killed since President

Trump ordered the first strikes on Iran back on February 28th. From the solemn event at Dover,

the president flew to a political rally in Georgia. It was there, he suggested. What we had been

witnessing for nearly five months now is something short of a war. I call it a skirmish.

This is with this skirmish we have with the Islamic Republic of Iran, and I call it that,

because let me tell you, they're getting hit so hard,

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