It is friday, june 21. Im Yasmin Vossoughian joined by White House Correspondent jeff bennett. We begin with the situation in iran. Reports that President Trump approved air strikes on iran but backed away at the very last minute. The strikes would have been in retaliation against iran shooting down the u. S. Military global hawk grown using a surface to air missile. The pentagon released this video showing the smokey trail. The u. S. Claims, it was in international airspace. Iran claims it was in their waters. Telling the New York Times that officials were expecting a strike as late as 7 00 p. M. Last night adding that the retaliatory operation was under way with planes in the air and ships in position to strike when it was abruptly called off. The white house has declined to comment and says no government officials asked the paper to withhold this article. The u. S. Strikes would have been on a handful of targets. The u. S. Air force says the drone was on, quote, a Surveillance Missi