The U.S. is at war with Iran, and the Trump administration decided several reasons for it.

Our objective is to defend the American people by eliminating eminent threats from the Iranian regime. They possess these conventional weapons that are solely designed to attack America and attack Americans.

They were warned to make no future attempts to rebuild their weapons program in a particular nuclear weapons.

Yet they continue to the great proud people of Iran.

I say tonight that the hour of your freedom is at hand.

A spokesman for the Pentagon denied that the administration has shifted its justification for the operation.

Based on your reporting from sources inside the White House,

do you have any sense of how Trump himself has been thinking about this conflict?

It's day by day. I mean, this is like wartime jazz. He's improvising in real time.

That's our colleague Alex Ward, who covers national security.

You know, I've talked to a lot of sources who were pretty clear there was no day after planning.

Trump is in break mode. He's breaking a bunch of things.

And that's, as callous as it is to say,

you know, kind of the easy part.

We can break a bunch of stuff.

But what Trump wants to build or replace for what's been, you know,

removed from Tehran, that is wholly unclear.

The Trump administration has made the case that Iran presented an imminent threat to the U.S.

But after talking with sources in the intelligence community, Alex says that just how

immediate that threat was is questionable.

The intelligence and just general understanding what was going on is that it wasn't imminent.

There was a looming threat, but not one that required an immediate response.

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