THERE IS A LOT OF REACTION

THROUGHOUT THE MIDDLE EAST,

OBVIOUSLY.

YOU SEEING -- YOU'RE SEEING

SECRETARY OF STATE POMPEO TWEET

OUT PICTURES OF REJOICING IN THE

STREETS.

THERE OBVIOUSLY WILL BE SOME

PUSHBACK, SOME RETALIATION.

YOU'RE HEARING DEMOCRATS ON YOUR

PROGRAM AND OTHERS SAYING THAT

SULEMANI IS FAR MORE DANGEROUS

AS A MARTYR THAN HE WAS ALIVE.

AND THAT THIS IS KIND OF

SHOOTING FROM THE HIP FOREIGN

POLICY.

REPUBLICANS ARE SAYING THAT THE

PRESIDENT SAID IF YOU ATTACK

AMERICANS OR AMERICAN INTERESTS,

WE WILL PUNCH BACK AND THAT AS

OPPOSED TO PRESIDENT OBAMA,

REPUBLICANS WILL SAY, WHO DREW A

RED LINE AND DIDN'T ENFORCE IT,

THE PRESIDENT IS MAKING CLEAR HE

WILL.

STEVE: THAT'S RIGHT.

BRET, WE WERE WATCHING AN

INTERVIEW YOU DID WITH THE

SECRETARY OF STATE, MIKE POMPEO,

BACK IN APRIL.

AND FOR A LOT OF PEOPLE, THEY

HAD NEVER HEARD THE NAME OF

COMMANDER SULEMANI.

BUT ESSENTIALLY THE SECRETARY OF

STATE SAID HE WAS A TERRORIST,

AND NOW WE'VE LEARNED OF THE

HUNDREDS OF AMERICANS WHO HAVE

LOST THEIR LIVES AND THOUSANDS

WHO LOST A LIMB AT THE

OPERATIONS THAT HE ORCHESTRATED.

GOING FORWARD, HOW MANY THERE IN

WASHINGTON, HOW MANY MEMBERS OF

CONGRESS ARE GOING TO CLAMOR FOR

SOME SORT OF AN EXPLANATION FROM

THE PRESIDENT ABOUT WHAT LEGAL

AUTHORITY HE HAD TO PULL THE

TRIGGER?

>> I THINK THERE'LL BE A LOT OF

THAT, THERE'LL BE A LOT OF

ASKING, YOU KNOW, WHAT HAPPENED

SPECIFICICALLY.

LISTEN, I'VE BEEN FOLLOWING

QASSEM SOLEIMANI FOR MANY YEARS,

I SPENT SOME TIME IN IRAQ WHERE

THESE IEDs, ROADSIDE BOMBS,

TOOK OUT HUNDREDS OF AMERICAN

SOLDIERS AND SERVICE PEOPLE.

AND AS YOU MENTIONED, WOUNDED

THOUSANDS.

HE WAS A BAD, BAD CHARACTER.

THE QUESTION IS WHAT COMES NEXT.

AND HOW DOES IRAN RESPOND.

WE'RE BEING TOLD, AND NOT ONLY

FROM U.S. OFFICIALS, BUT ALSO A

DIPLOMAT IN THE REGION, THAT

THIS WAS AN IMMINENT ATTACK IN

THE MAKING THAT WAS BEING BACKED

BY QASSEM SOLEIMANI AND THE

IRANIANS ON AMERICAN INTERESTS

WHETHER IT WAS THE U.S. EMBASSY

OR OTHER INTERESTS.

AND ALSO REMEMBER THAT IRAN DID

ATTACK THAT SAUDI FACILITY AND

DID OTHER THINGS THAT HADN'T