Iran looking to target Americans on U.S soil amid rising Middle East tensions

We're learning about new threats from Iran and the possibility that Americans may soon become targets. I'm joined by Trenton Hooker and retired Marine Intelligence Officer Howard Kemper. Thanks for being here with us, Hal. What do you know about that report, Hal? Well, the report has actually come from the Director of National Intelligence and then Secretary Rubio. Basically, U.S. personnel across the Middle East are being targeted. Initially, it looked like just Saudi Arabia looked to be tied to the Houthis and what they're doing with drones and missiles. Now, it looks like there was a much bigger thing and the fact that the director of national intelligence has weighed in on this indicates that might be you know not just u.s personnel military personnel and it could be diplomats it could be other u.s personnel there in the middle east so in a you know basically prudence uh they're saying look get out of there just just you know lay low use all the procedures all things we've talked to you about and if you don't have to be there get your families out and no indication that this might happen on american soil just somewhere in the middle east not yet uh we haven't seen anything out there uh is that a possibility you can't rule it out you know we just had an indictment that was uh in new york where basically there were you know the the russians were trying to target u.s personnel here we've seen iranians try to target u.s personnel here so we can't rule it out i mean the iranians they're they're being pushed to the limits right now it isn't it is within their their scope of capabilities got it how were we at with the Strait of Hormuz. We just saw the president on the campaign trail all week long. We're in the final push towards the midterms. He says the Strait of Hormuz is under complete U.S. control, especially to try to get those gas prices down. Are we in control of anything in the Hormuz Strait? Well, Trenton, good news, bad news. The good news is that oil coming out of the Strait is almost, it could be surpassing what we saw before the war started. The bad news is you're seeing the Iranians starting to target more ships we are seeing tankers hit so that's are we in control more so than Iran by a long stretch but with that said are the our ships still in peril yes some clearly are and and it's it's that that that fight isn't quite over yet yeah well we just saw the Roosevelt come back in to dock and rearm the rest of our navy our fleet as well as our other weapons systems how are we doing on right now u.s stockpile well it's all relative of course with the patriot missiles and the THAAD missiles we are vastly lower than where we should be it's going to take a long time as in years to build up our stockpiles with those areas but in terms of relative combat power within that area uh within uh soon within a couple weeks we could have three carrier task forces and possibly two marine expeditionary units all ready to go now is that timing going to be around the midterm it could be and could we go back to kinetics I can't rule that out but we will have tremendous combat capability all centered at that particular time frame how about 30 seconds if do you feel like the president feels like he's been pushed into a corner and if we do attack more he's going to have to really go all out I think I think he feels a lot of pressure all right if he's pushing to a corner I don't know but I think they've been making plans that's how we do things we make plans I think the plans are be ready in case we have to do something at that particular time frame Hal we appreciate your time and your expertise always in studio in studio what a pleasure for us yes thanks Brian thanks Trenton thank you guys