Nick Schifrin joins us now along with White House correspondent Liz Landers. Good to see you both. Liz.

We'll start with you. President Trump met with the German Chancellor today at the White House.

We saw him take questions from reporters. One of the questions he got was who could lead Iran next.

What did he say? This was the first time we've heard the president take questions from the press on camera since this strike was launched over the weekend.

And now that the Supreme Leader has been killed, there's a question of who's going to lead the country.

He was specifically asked today in that Oval Office meeting about whether or not the crowned prince Reza Pahlavi, the exiled crown prince, the son of the former Shah of Iran, could lead the country. Here's what he said.

It would seem to me that somebody from within might maybe would be more appropriate. I've said that.

He looks like a very nice person. But it would seem to me that somebody that's there that's

currently popular if there's such a person.

But we have people like that.

But the president has also said that many of the other options that the administration was looking towards as potential successors in Iran have also been killed now.

We heard yesterday from the Secretary of War Pete Hegesa

that this is not a regime change war, so still questions about who succeeds there in Iran.

And Nick, you reported that Israel struck the meeting of the assembly that is picking the next

supreme leader in Iran. What more do you know? Well, as you and Liz have been

discussing, this is a real key decision point for the future of the Islamic Republic. And there are

reports tonight. We haven't confirmed them, but there are reports that that assembly has chosen

Mostabha Hamini. He is the son of the current supreme leader. And if this is true, if this is

the case that he's been chosen, this is not

in U.S. interests. analysts tell me that he represents a continuation of his father's policies

backed by hardliners within the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, with whom he fought in the

trenches of Iran's war with Iraq. That said, analysts do tell me that he's probably in the best

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