images showing iranian freighters reconfigured to carry hidden missiles. cnn has not reviewed the intelligence which has led to the u.s. assessment, and the u.s. government has provided no proof the ships are carrying hidden missiles and other munitions. this is emerging as congressional leadership in the heads of the house and intelligence committees known as the gang of eight meet for a secret briefing on iran. our pentagon correspondent barbara starr joins us with more on the iranian freighters. barbara, what more are you learning about what the surveillance is allegedly showing? well, u.s. officials are telling us, anderson, that they have images that they assess shows them that iranian freighters are carrying missiles. so what they re seeing is iranian freighters with huge areas of the deck cut out. and what they believe are missiles and munitions below deck, transporting them around. now combined with the smaller ships they see doing this, this so-called dhow s, this is really
so-called dhow s, this is really weaponizing the commercial fleet iran has up and down the persian gulf, and this is putting these weapons potentially in range of being able to attack u.s. troops, military bases up and down the gulf. that s why it is so worrisome. two questions. this kind of movement outside the normal pattern of activity? and are these being delivered some place, or are these things that would be used from a ship? yeah, i mean, that s really the key question. some of them potentially could be fired from ships. some of them could be put ashore in various places and fired from there, delivered to shore. but that s really the key question. the extent to which this is outside the so-called normal pattern of iranian behavior in the region. they always have anti-american rhetoric. they always are engaging in potentially provocative behavior. they engage in weapons smuggling up and down the gulf. but official says this doesn t appear to be any of that. this appears to be
about this. does this impact the daca debate, the need, the necessity, the president ran so hard on building a wall, and now we have plans in the process of being made, and other words, blueprint for what theil wall will be. this is finally motivated congress to secure theng borders of that somebody can come back six separate times? you know, gosh, sean, i really hope so. this is a troubling night. i feel for the family. this is an unbelievable human tragedy. think about what happened. we have a guy in the country illegally five times. he admitted to being on drugs. he admitted to at least firing the weapon. he disputes how.s admits to running away. he is caught on video, sean, running away, on video. he then throws the gun into thec san francisco bay. then he gets in front of a san francisco jury and is even acquitted, sean, of involuntary manslaughter. i mean, how do you look at the
house, full year of funding for the department of homeland security, no language about immigration, how do you vote on that? i would vote for that. but i think that it s important that we discuss the immigration issue, steve. that s why we wanted to go to conference. that would be what is known as regular order. now, there has been the court case in southern texas, and that will be appealed to the fifth circuit in new orleans. we are all concerned on the republican side with what we believe is the president s overreach constitutionally on the immigration issue. and thank goodness there has been the court case in texas. we hope for an early decision in the fifth circuit in new orleans. if john boehner in the next week puts the senate bill which has no immigration language on the floor of the how s, does he have a problem among republicans. i believe that speaker boehner will be our speaker for the complete term. he was elected unanimously in our conference following the november e
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