it first, shep. shepard: what are you hearing from republicans? have they one voice today or are there differing opinions? there are differing opinions. kevin mccarthy on fox and friends this morning saying he s not judging the president for his last-minute decision to call off the strikes. he said he thinks the president has a larger goal in mind. i think the instance of what i saw yesterday, they re well-prepared, composed of what they re going to do, it will be measured but it s all in the basis of getting the ultimate goal that iran can never achieve a nuclear weapon. not every republican agrees. adam kinsinger in a fox news radio interview says he s not happy about the decision by the administration to make a last minute change of plan. he says that he thinks it could potentially make the president look weak. he also said that if there s no u.s. response to iran hitting this drone down, he thinks that will ultimately be a hit on the
then circled around. it had its transponder off. it violated iranian air space and gave coordinates for where he said the drone was shot down. we looked up those coordinates. that would put it about 9 miles off the iranian coast. again, the u.s. has a very different view of where that drone was shot down. the iranians for their part, however this is coming from the military, the revolutionary guard which is the unit that shot that drone down they re saying this is definitely a clear message to the united states that if you infringe upon iran s air space, this is what s going to happen. the iranians are saying this is a red line. and anderson, the top commander of the revolutionary guard, he came out earlier today, shortly after the drone was shot down and said iran does not want any sort of war with the united states, but at the same time, they re also saying that iran is prepared for a war with the united states. and one of the things that senior revolutionary guard former command
but the mccarthy part is interesting in the sense that we talked about liz cheney earlier in the program with the other group, more republican hawks are saying wait a minute, there has to be something. you cannot let iran bomb tankers with mines, shoot an american drone down without some sort of response. mccarthy being the good republican leader saying i trust the president, but also adding there has to be an answer. right. with mccarthy, he s one of trump s top allies on capitol hill, but trump is surrounded by a bunch of hawks and is being pushed closer and closer and closer to this response. obviously he pulled back on this. it s a question of who he is actually listening to? he doesn t even have a defense secretary right now. everyone on capitol hill is trying to get in the president s ear. you saw mccarthy put out this statement. so you re just seeing them try to direct the president towards de-escalation but the republicans want to see some sort of response. and it comes in
we ll day. if you look at the video the iranian put out and listen to the voices on the video, those don t seem the voices of people who feel they just made a big mistake and shot down the wrong aircraft. they seem to be people celebrating the fact that they hit the drone. the iranians as you said deliberately shot the drone down because they believe that it was in their air space. we checked out that tweet from the foreign minister javad zarif. that s nine miles off the coast of the i were put going in iranian territorial waters. of course iranian air space as well process. as you say the u.s. has a very different view saying it was in international air space. but the revolutionary guard corps, which is the unit that came era came out and shot this drone down, it was their air defense system that did it. they kim out shortly afterwards and also said the air space is a red line saying that the drone infringed on the air space and gave a strong warning for the united states saying this
not to my back yard. so steele drafted a drone-hunting ordinance that goes up for a vote tomorrow. a yes vote would give residents the go ahead to shoot down a drone that comes within 1,000 feet of their homes. reporter: but you don t want people to take this seriously? of course i want them to take it seriously. reporter: steele insists he s thought of everything. the ordinance specifies the kinds of ammunition and weapons you can use and put as bounty on recovered drone parts. $25 for the fuse ladies and it s a federal offense to destroy government property. reporter: despite opposition, steele s idea has found support. i would shoot a drone down if it s peering in my window and if it s where i can nail it. reporter: david copley is one of the people who have purchased