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President Trump continued to feign ignorance when confronted with reports that the U.S. was directly responsible for a military strike that hit an Iranian girls' school in the first days of the war in Iran, killing 175 people, most of them children.

Trump was asked on Wednesday about a new report from The New York Times and if he'd take responsibility for the deadly strike as Commander-In-Chief.