Here. Were also learning new information tonight on the president s seething state of mind, when he put at thought hit tweet this morning on our nations top intel chiefs. Was that, itself, a threat to our National Security . That is the beginning of a great debate. And, another president ial promise brokened. Have you, my friends, been foxconnd . The argument for that ahead. What do you say . Lets get after it. Id like to say, well, it cant be, but you never know these days. Did the president undermine the intelligence chief simply because they disagreed with him . Cnns sources say the president seethed this morning as he watched tv coverage of his intel chiefs contradicting him on capitol hill. At one point, were told, he singled out his director of National Intelligence, dan coats, a man he put there, singling out by name, appearing to be more frustrated with the graphics at the bottom of the screen than the actual assessmen assessments delivered by the group yesterday to the senate
Their own Close Encounters in the skies . Well dig into that as well in just a moment. But we start with Democratic Front runner joe biden facing backlash from members of his own party after praising his work from the 1970s with segregationist senators. The former Vice President arguing his work with Democratic Senators James Eastland and her man tal imagine. Earlier in his career as an example as an ability and willingness to work across the ill with politicians that he strongly disadegrees with. Cory booker blasting the front runner calling on him to apologize. But biden not backing down. Apologize for what . Cory bookers called for it. Cory should apologize. He knows better. Theres not a racist bone in my body. Ive been involved in civil rights my whole career, period. Bidens democratic rivals, several of them pouncing. For his posture to be, to me, ive done nothing wrong, you should apologize, im not a racist is so insulting and so missing the larger point that he should not have t
It down and its there for a terrible provocation. In either case, there is no disagreement that the thing was shot down. It is also worth being doubly, triply clear about the fact that this was a machine. A remotely piloted machine. No u. S. Personnel were physically involved or at risk in the shootdown. The pentagon said the drone was an rq4a global hawk. Im not sure thats what you should use to describe it. This is a large aircraft designed for surveillance. We think of drones as being if you think of commercially available drones, its the size of an Old Fashioned model airplane. This is more like the size of an airplane airplane. The Defense Department released video earlier today that they say shows the american drone being taken out by an iranian surface to air missile. You can sort of see what looks like a trail of smoke after the drone is hit and as it falls toward the earth. This incident happened last night in terms of u. S. East coast time, that means it was just before dawn
Thursday, iranians spotted a u. S. Drone flying overhead and launched a surfacetoair missile on the unmanned aircraft. The missile apparently missed and fell into the sea. Now the same u. S. Official that put out that report also said that days prior to that attack, the u. S. Drone was shot down in the red sea by what was believed to be Iranian Missile shoot by houthi rebels. This is all believed after the video shows the irgc removing the mine from one of the tankers. The u. S. Military put out a video that shows the irgc removing the mine from the hull of the tankers in order to cover their tracks. President trump says this is evidence that iran is behind the attack. At this point, there is no smoking gun. The evidence that is provided so far is that grainy video and at this point it is just not irrefutable. It doesnt show the mines attached, but removed. Iran could argue they are removing mines attached by someone else. Iran is arguing these attacks and the ones last month were fals
Border wall. One of my favorite quotes from dr. King was now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. You think of how he changed america. He inspired us to change through the legislative process to become a more perfect union. Thats exactly what President Trump is calling on the congress to do. And good day, everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington where President Trump and Democratic Leaders are locked in a 31day shutdown struggle, talking past each other while hundreds of thousands of americans wait for a payday. President trumps latest pitch, a temporary extension of daca and a program for refugees for emergencies in exchange for 5. 7 billion that hes still demanding for his wall. Mitch mcconnell would need seven democrats to break ranks and assuming that all of the republicans stand firm in order to pass the offer which could be brought up as soon as tomorrow. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has already said no deal, but the offer could put pressure democrats to renew talk