Democratic republic of congo. You are watching cnn, im brooke baldwin, thank you for being here. We begin this hour with those internal conversations between the white house and the pentagon. The conversations that led the president to call off a pending military strike against iran, after a massive u. S. Drone was shot down in the region just one day ago. First, the president s own candid explanation on why he pulled the plug with only 10 minutes to spare. They came and said, sir, were ready to go, wed like a decision. I said i want to know something before you go. How many people will be killed . In this case, iranians. I said, how many people are going to be killed . Sir, id like to get back to you on that. Great people these generals. They said, came back, said, sir, approximately 150. And i thought about it for a second. I said, you know what, they shot down an unmanned drone, plane, whatever you want to call it, and here we are sitting with 150 dead people that would have taken p
retired navy commander. kathy gillson a staff writer for the atlantic. she wrote a lot about this today. commander i m starting with you, the president says this strike was not proportional to shooting down an unmanned drone. do you agree with that? well, i don t know exactly what the strike consisted of, i m seen a lot of different reporting on it, let s assume the civilian casualties were roughly realistic, around 150. i think that is disproportionate, in some cases, you do want a disproportionate response in order to provide future doe terrence. right now what i think the leadership wants is a disproportionate response. keep in mind the peak of popularity for the leadership regime for the islamic republic was in 1988 when the united states navy shot down an iranian airbus. right now, the iranian public