Weekly news commentary and features from the editors of the Wall Street Journals editorial page. Weekly news commentary and features from the editors of the Wall Street Journals editorial page. Investigators will be trying to figure out the motive based on what they have seen so far. The fbi says they do not believe this was a Terrorist Threat and they do not believe theres any additional criminal activity associated with this. Another major issue, authorities will surely look at is security access, the fact that could happen at all. All entities will do what they call a hot watch, they will review incident and look at all of the things happened and look for the holes and why employee had access to aircraft and try to determine where it was broken down and with that theyll be able to strengthen the system. Former dhs officials spoken to fox news today say at this Point Mental Health seems to be the primary issue when it comes to this situation. The challenge on this particular case as
this kind of attacks going back to the 1980s in fact ronald regan had to reflag a lot of vessels going through the persian gulf and take military action against iran in 1988. these unprovoked attacks on commercial shipping warrants retaliatory military strike. rick: politicians split on what the united states should do next after the white house asserts that iran was behind the attacks of two oil tankers last week in the gulf of oman. this comes as fox news learns iran tried to shoot down an american drone on two separate occasions in recent days using surface-to-air missiles. ellison barber joins us with more reaction from washington. reporter: hi rick secretary of state mike pompeo told fox news sunday the u.s. will do whatever is necessary, diplomatic or otherwise, to guarantee freedom of navigation, and at the same time the secretary claims the u.s. does not want to see any sort of war with iran. we don t want war. we ve done what we can to deter this. the iranians should understan
also compete against companies that must get through their gates to reach users. reporter: congress is considering new legislative protections like allowing news outlets a four-year anti-trust exemption so they can bargain with big tech giants and ultimately share in the revenue. this is the first significant anti-trust investigation undertaken by congress in decades. reporter: capitol hill may just be tuning into the changing landscape but big tech companies have been in reg you late ors crosshairs for months. the department of justice is also getting involved taking a look at the companies and their dominance in the marketplace and making sure that they re not misusing that. reporter: the big tech companies have done the best they can to navigate this rapidly-changing news landscape and insists for the most part they help keep the industry afloat, and it s tough to argue with the numbers. each month google reports they drive over 10 billion clicks to publisher s websites. in wash
security, great economy. i think i ve done more than any other first term president ever. i have a phony witch hunt, which is just a phony pile of stuff, mueller comes out there s no collusion and essentially a ruling that no obstruction and they keep going with it. do you know what, people are angry about it. reporter: that was one of several times during that interview that the president brought up the russia investigation, even when he wasn t asked about it so he can tell this is still something very much on his mind and it is something we are going to be hearing about both from him as well as the democratic candidate s a lot moreover the next 17 months, rick? rick: garrett tenney at the white house. the president escalating his feud with the new york times accusing the paper of a virtual act of treason after it reported the u.s. is ramping up its ability to hack into russia s power grid in response to moscow s heightened cyber aggression in recent years. mark meredith explains t
had four tankers a couple weeks ago and attacks at saudi. we had a rocket trying to bring down one of our drones. there s no question that iran is behind the attacks. i think the evidence is very strong and compelling. reporter: at least two republican lawmakers are talking about military action. they say the administration so-called campaign of maximum pressure is working, and the u.s. should increase the pressure. house intel chairman adam schiff says military action is the wrong approach in the administrations policies in regards to iran namely withdraw ing from the iran nuclear agreement have heightened the risk of conflict. rick? rick: ellison barber in washington, thank you. meanwhile, american allies in the region are also blaming iran for the attack. saudi crown prince says tensions could disrupt the oil market, and the kingdom will not hesitate to act against any threats from tehran. trey yingst has more from jerusalem. reporter: after those attacks