"The President never said there was specific intelligence to four different embassies," Esper told CNN's Jake Tapper on "State of the Union." But Esper said he shared the President's belief that the embassies were threatened by Qasem Soleimani. He said that he believed that they probably, that they could have been targeting the embassies in the region,"Esper said. In a separate interview that aired Sunday morning, Esper said he "didn't see" a specific threat against four embassies in the intelligence. "I didn't see one with regard to four embassies," he told CBS' Margaret Brennan on "Face the Nation."

Source: CNN January 12, 2020 15:12 UTC