Tommy Vitor

And by the way, those casualty stats were coming from a running tally by Al Jazeera.

President Trump did not deliver a major address to the nation about Iran over the weekend.

The White House did not book any senior officials on the Sunday talk shows.

They just released these bizarre video messages from Trump.

And then Trump sporadically took calls from reporters and offered sort of incoherent lines of messaging.

Trump finally did an event where he spoke publicly today, as did Secretary Hegseth and Chairman Kaine.

We'll play all that for you in a minute.

But this really has been like a case study in how not to communicate.

So, Ben, we'll get into the Iranian response deeper in a minute.

But any initial reactions to from you to like what you've seen since Saturday?

Yeah.

The machine gun firing on the floor analogy is a perfect description of what Iran has been doing because they continue to target not just U.S.

bases in the Middle East and Israel, but also these Gulf countries.

On Monday, Iran attacked energy sites in Qatar and Saudi Arabia.

And then over the weekend, Iran fired hundreds of missiles and drones at the UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Jordan.

And I think when we talked on Saturday, Ben, they had not fired at Oman yet, but now they have.

And Iran even fired a drone at a British military base in Cyprus, although Britain, the UK is not involved in these operations.

So the vast majority of these missiles and drones were intercepted by missile defense systems, but not all of them.

A lot of the targets were civilian infrastructure like high rises and hotels.

Again, that's led to a bunch of casualties, including in Iran, Ben.