Anderson Cooper 360

Thousands more US ground forces are heading to the Gulf as President Trump claims the fighting could soon be over. Sources inside the intelligence community and the administration tell CNN that unclogging the Strait of Hormuz is a problem without a clear solution. 
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President Trump downplays Americans' growing pain at the pump and acknowledges that the Pentagon will be asking for an additional $200 billion to fight the war in Iran. The President called it, “a small price to pay to make sure that we stay tippy top.” Plus, what we're learning about the drones that were spotted recently near the Washington Army base where Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth live.
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New and rare Iranian strikes target the Saudi Arabia’s capital. According to CNN's Nic Robertson, some of the explosions occurred not far from where a high-level meeting of Arab and Islamic foreign ministers was taking place. Plus, Anderson speaks to the ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, Senator Mark Warner, who questioned DNI Tulsi Gabbard about why she failed to read the part of her opening statement that cast doubt on the president's justification for going to war.
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Tonight there are new strikes on the U.S. embassy in Iraq, and the U.S. military dropped 5,000-pound, GPS-guided bombs to blow up Iranian missile sites threatening ships in the Gulf. Back home, top national security official Joe Kent became the first senior administration member to quit over the war. Quoting now from his resignation letter to the president: "Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby."
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President Trump says the fighting will be "wrapped up soon," even as the repercussions of it grow and strikes by Iran continue. One of the world's biggest gas fields in the United Arab Emirates was hit today, and Iranian drones also hit an oil tank farm near the Dubai airport this morning.  When the president was asked whether he was surprised he wasn’t briefed that Iran could strike neighboring countries, he told reporters, “No, the greatest experts, nobody thought they were going to hit.” Plus, Anderson speaks to a friend and mentor of U.S. Air Force Captain Ariana Savino, one of the six crew members killed when their refueling plane went down in Iraq. 
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