saturday afternoon, they never showed up. opening arguments today in the trial of the one and only person charmed in connection with a deadly crane collapse in new york city. the crane owner, james lomas charged with manslaughter for the disaster back in 2008. seven people died when that massive rig collapsed on a building not too far, in fact, from fox news headquarters. and a report on cocoa puffs, a washington state woman charged with murder are arguing their client should be allowed to eat cereal and other sugary snacks. right now she s being denied access to the jail s cafeteria. jon: let s get back to speculation about who will be tapped as the gop vice presidential nominee. the leading contenders so far might surprise you. chris stirewalt, fox news digital politics editor and host of power play on foxnews.com live joins us now. you would think when you get
correspondent jennifer griffin is live at the pentagon with momplet so exactly what did this iranian official say, jennifer? reporter: jon, this is the first time we ve heard an iranian leader, a commander of the armed forces taking about taking a preemptive strike. let me quotena cnn muhammad hejazi, head of the forces, he said, quote, our strategy now is if we feel our enemies want to endanger iran s national interest and want to city to do that we will ability without waiting for their actions. it was clearly designed to be a message for israel, just as those iranian destroyers who passed through the suez canal over the weekend and dock a syrian port yesterday was designed as a message, a muscle flexing exercise for the israelis. we now understand that those iranian destroyers have left that syrian port. it s not clear whether they offo whether they offloaded cargo but they are traversing back through the mediterranean. what about the u.n. nuclear inspectors. we know t
griffin is live at the pentagon with momplet so exactly what did this iranian official say, jennifer? reporter: jon, this is the first time we ve heard an iranian leader, a commander of the armed forces taking about taking a preemptive strike. let me quotena cnn muhammad hejazi, head of the forces, he said, quote, our strategy now is if we feel our enemies want to endanger iran s national interest and want to city to do that we will ability without waiting for their actions. it was clearly designed to be a message for israel, just as those iranian destroyers who passed through the suez canal over the weekend and dock a syrian port yesterday was designed as a message, a muscle flexing exercise for the israelis. we now understand that those iranian destroyers have left that syrian port. it s not clear whether they offo whether they offloaded cargo but they are traversing back through the mediterranean. what about the u.n. nuclear inspectors. we know they re in iran. are the