>> Bret: JENNIFER GRIFFIN LIVE

IN THE PENTAGON.

TREY YINGST IS STANDING BY LIVE,

WHAT DO YOU KNOW, WHAT DO YOU

HEAR ON THE GROUND?

>> GOOD EVENING, WE ARE STILL

GATHERING INFORMATION ABOUT THIS

ATTACK IN WESTERN IRAQ TOWARD

THE MILITARY BASE THAT HOUSES

U.S. TROOPS.

THE IMPORTANT THING TO REMEMBER

IS ACCORDING TO IRANIAN STATE

TELEVISION, THESE ARE BALLISTIC

MISSILES, SURFACE TO SURFACE

MISSILES THAT HAVE BEEN FIRED.

THIS IS A MAJOR ESCALATION, IF

CONFIRMED DUE TO THE FACT THAT

WHAT WE'VE SEEN IN THE PAST AS

MORTARS AND ROCKETS BEING FIRED

TOWARDS AMERICAN AND IRAQI

BASES, MOSTLY RUN BY THE IRAQIS

BUT HOUSING AMERICANS.

IF THIS IS CONFIRMED TONIGHT,

THE NUMBER WE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO

GET FROM OFFICIALS AND

JENNIFER GRIFFIN REPORTING AT

THE PENTAGON, A MAJOR

ESCALATION.

SOMETHING PEOPLE IN BAGHDAD HAVE

BEEN CONCERNED ABOUT.

THEY ARE EXTREMELY CONCERNED

ABOUT WHAT IS TO COME.

THERE WAS A CALM BEFORE THE

STORM FEELING IN BAGHDAD TODAY

BECAUSE MANY PEOPLE HAVE

EXPERIENCED THIS BEFORE, KNOWING

HOW QUICKLY CONFLICT CAN ERUPT

IN THE REGION.

IT IS A MAJOR CONCERN, IF IRAN

DOES LAUNCH A MAJOR

COUNTERATTACK AFTER THE

AMERICANS TOOK OUT THEIR

MILITARY LEADER QASEM SOLEIMANI

LAST WEEK.

IT COULD EVOLVE INTO A MUCH

LARGER CONFLICT, WE ARE LOOKING

AT A PROXY WAR IN THE REGION,

MOSTLY SMALL ATTACKS ON IRAQI

BASES THAT HOUSE AMERICAN

TROOPS, MORE THAN A DOZEN OF

THEM OVER THE PAST SIX MONTHS.

BALLISTIC MISSILES ARE

COMPLETELY DIFFERENT THING IN

THE REGION AND COMING FROM

IRANIAN TERRITORY, THIS LEAVES

ALL OPTIONS ON THE TABLE FOR THE

TRUMP ADMINISTRATION.

WE ARE GETTING A STATEMENT FROM

THE WHITE HOUSE, FROM STEPHANIE

GRISHAM THE PRESS SECRETARY

INDICATING THE PRESIDENT IS

AWARE OF THE SITUATION AND HAS

BEEN BRIEFED AND IS CONSULTING

WITH HIS NATIONAL SECURITY TEAM.

LOOK FOR MORE RESPONSE FROM THE

WHITE HOUSE THROUGHOUT THE

EVENING, THAT IS THE BIG

QUESTION NOW.

THE PRESIDENT HAS PROMISED HE

WILL RESPOND STRONGLY.

HE MADE MANY OF THOSE COMMENTS