against the united states. he is also the author of tailing true north. good talking to you this morning. thank you for working during this holiday weekend. pompeo is saying they are a deterre deterrent, but how considered are you about this escalation in violence? i m very concerned, let s look back to the fall when we saw a whole series of moves seizing tankers, putting mines on tankers. shooting down a very expensive u.s. drone and attacking the saudi oil fields, and just last
a later date. hundreds more remain in custody, separated from their families. today president trump defended what officials are calling the largest enforcement raid ever in the country. staged the same day he was in el paso supposedly comforting terrorized hispanic victims. i want people to know that if they come into the united states illegally, they re getting out, they re going to be brought out. and this serves as a very good deterre deterrent. if people come into our countries illegally, they re going out. the white house claims it was not notified in advance to preserve secrecy, that does not address how an operation this dramatic could be carried out without a green light from the homeland security. let s get the scoop from gabe gutierr gutierrez. gabe, this is heartbreaking. you ve covered a lot of stories.
obviously his counterparts around the world, a lot of them thought the jcpoa, the iran nuclear deal negotiated during the paobama administration was deterre deterrent. they believed at least it did crimp the nuclear program. right. if you re watching mike pompeo today it s interesting. it is really unusual to see a secretary of state make a solo visit to an installation like that. later today he ll meet with the top foreign policy official from the european union. i don t know if we ll get a different message then. i thought that was interesting. i thought when he invoked china and the other countries that have interest in the freedom of navigati navigation, that was clearly international legitimacy for what the united states was doing in the gulf. he didn t get asked some of the most basic questions. the president just said these attack on tankers were minor. very minor. you ve been talking them up as very serious. where is patrick shanahan? if we re talking about
simple. easy. awesome. xfinity, the future of awesome. tonight, the pentagon is denying russia s claim its fighter jets chased away an american b-52 bomber over the baltic sea. fred pleitgen is joining us live with details. the u.s. military says there was what it calls a routine interaction between the planes much russia is painting it as something more serious. reporter: we see russian tv going after the united states. they re calling this an escalation and provocation. the u.s. says it s a necessary deterre deterrent. russia lashing out at the u.s. after claiming russian jets
training them to go towards gun fire. everything is habit being a deterre deterrent. it all adds up. if someone knows they re going to a school that doesn t have a sign on it that says gun-free zone or a k-9 on patrol, they re not going to the school. andrew, there s still push-back against perhaps arming certain teachers, teachers that may be qualified that is military, ex-police officers, creating that element of the unknown element of deterring a person this is an easy target. that s lot of push back on it. where are you on this? they didn t have the daughter on the third floor shot nine times praying for someone to save them. that s first. that s what i m going to tell them. when my daughter was waiting, if there would have been a teacher on that third floor, a janitor, a lunch lady that had been