Jen Psaki

Admiral Kirby, let me bring you into this.

I mentioned this.

I mean, you have been a member of the military.

You have family members of both generations up and down who have been... There's reporting that at least 10 Americans have been injured in an attack on a Saudi airbase just today.

I think...

Prior to this war, there may have been an underestimation by some, perhaps in the White House, certainly out there, about Iran's capabilities.

What does it tell us that they have been successful in hitting our bases?

Is it possibly that our missile defense capabilities are being strained?

Or what does it tell us from a military perspective?

What about you, Director Brennan, when you saw the news of them, the troops that have been impacted in Saudi Arabia, that they've been successful in hitting a number of bases, it seems?

Let me pause you for a second because I just want you to put in perspective how many they have used and how many we have used.

What does that kind of mean as I just gave the numbers there?

Let me ask you, Admiral Cormier, there are now, as you know, thousands of U.S.

troops deployed to the region.

The Wall Street Journal reported last night that the Pentagon is contemplating sending an additional 10,000 troops.

As one former Marine interrogator and special ops specialist told some before, Trump has not ordered large footprint military assets in either of his presidencies without actually using those forces.

We obviously don't know

what's next here entirely, in part because we don't know why this war is being fought or what's going to happen any given day.

But when you hear numbers like that, sometimes I think for a lot of people watching, what do numbers like that mean?

And we keep seeing an additional several thousand being announced and sent.