“How could the U.S. Military be the last to know and not get a heads up?” MSNBC anchor Richard Engel asked Huckabee on Ana Cabrera <\/em>Reports <\/em>o<\/span>n Wednesday.<\/p>\n

“I don’t know because I wasn’t privy to what the timeline was, when the decisions were made, and how they were executed,” Huckabee said.<\/p>\n

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<\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>“So I don’t know what the sequence was yesterday when everything went down, and who notified who, when they notified them. I simply have never been told those pieces of information,” Huckabee continued.<\/p>\n<p>A senior White House official confirmed to the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> that Israel gave President Donald Trump and his national security team<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3798681\/israel-gave-trump-white-house-notice-doha-strike-hamas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> “<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ice-asks-lawmakers-to-request-visits-72-hours-in-advance\/\" title=\"ICE asks lawmakers to request visits 72 hours in advance\">advance notice&rdquo<\/a>; of the airstrike<\/a> but did not say whether Israel asked Trump to sign off on the operation. White House press secretary Karoline Levitt confirmed that the White House was made aware of the operation on Tuesday morning, the day of the strike.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/foreign-policy\/3800356\/qatar-demands-retaliation-against-israel-after-doha-strike\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>QATAR DEMANDS RETALIATION AGAINST ISRAEL AFTER DOHA STRIKE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once the White House was notified, Trump directed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense\/3488603\/witkoff-huckabee-gaza-aid-sites-hunger-crisis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Middle East special envoy Steve Witkoff<\/a> to warn Qatari officials of the strike.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli Foreign Minister Ron Dermer met with Witkoff and Jared Kushner, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-taking-regeneron-drug-remdesivir-therapy-for-coronavirus-diagnosis-ex-wh-doctor-explains\/\" title=\"Trump taking Regeneron drug, Remdesivir therapy for coronavirus diagnosis: ex-WH doctor explains\">president&rsquo<\/a>;s son-in-law and former White House adviser, on Monday in Miami, Florida, a day before the strike.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Huckabee says he wasn’t informed on Qatar strike timeline<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2631,"featured_media":2484745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Mike-Huckabee-June-2025.webp?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[6223,53196,5894,62918,4252],"class_list":["post-2484744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-admission","tag-mike-huckabee","tag-politics","tag-qatar-strike","tag-timeline"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Mike-Huckabee-June-2025.webp?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2484744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2484744"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2484744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2484748,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2484744\/revisions\/2484748"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2484745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2484744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2484744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2484744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}