There are differences. Iran said the drone violated iranian airspace. The u. S. Government said no, the aircraft was operating in international airspace. Iran should not have shot it down and its there for a terrible provocation. There is no disagreement that the thing was shot down. It is also worth being doubly and triply clear that this is a machine. A remotely piloted machine that no personnel were physically involved or at risk in the shoot down. The pentagon said the drone was an r q4 a 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 Old Fashioned model airplanes. This is more like the size of an airplane airplane. The Defense Department released video that they say shows the american drone being taken out by a surface to air missile that you can see what looks like a trail of smoke after the drone is. As it falls toward
Administration transfers Migrant Children under the age of 12 from a transfer facility in texas after a National Outcry over the reported conditions they have endured. The children arent being given enough food. They are hungry. The facility is very cold at night, children have told me that they have had trouble sleeping because theyre so hungry, and they wake up because of the cold. Good day, everyone, im Andrea Mitchell in washington. The day before the first president ial debates here on msnbc news. Heres a live look inside the debate hall in miami where the stage is set for a special two night prime time event and the anticipation is building as the lar largest and most diverse field in history prepares for the first high stakes political test of the primary season. Joining me now is nbcs Peter Alexander in miami. Joel payne, and democratic strategist. Ruth marcus, columnist and msnbc contributor, and sam stein, politics editor for the daily beast and an msnbc contributor as well.
A lot of love here at fox news. [laughter] i want the people to feel it. Welcome. The New York Times is reporting the fbi sent a woman to meet George Papadopoulos at a london bar where she asked him if the Term Campaign was working with russia. He told Tucker Carlson last night how he felt. That it was some sort of set up from the getgo. I readily understood this wasnt a cambridge assistant, and she barely spoke english, she was very flirty and was trying to do two things. One, to extract information about my professional connections in the middle east. Two, to see if i had any information that she could potentially extract for me about trump and russia. Which is nonsense. Now, of course, the New York Times reported that she was some sort of agent. But i dont think she was fbi, i think she was cia. Harris the report coming as the attorney general william barr says he is committed to investigate the origins of the russia probe and that he is working very closely with the doj Inspector G
At 4 00 a. M. , the u. S. President donald trump is explaining his decision to call off strikes against iran but then pull back on that decision. On twitter. On friday morning, he pointed out the shootdown of a u. S. Drone saying the u. S. Was cocked and loaded to strike three Iranian Missile sites in retaliation. Mr. Trump later told nbc he is willing to sit down with irans leader, but also warned this im not looking for war. And if there is, it will be ob lit race like youve never seen before. But im not looking to do that. But you cant have a nuclear weapon. You want to talk good, otherwise you can have a bad economy the next three years. No preconditions. The commander in chiefs decision to attack and then pull back, it came as different advisers urged far different courses of action. Kaitlan collins has this report from the white house. I didnt think it was proportionate. Reporter President Trump explaining his last minute decision to call off his planned strike on iran. Nothing i
Waters. Things are escalating. The seizure of the british tankers is the latest step. We have hawks on both sides driving the process. Hard line people in iran and in the u. S. We are headed for a collision if we dont pull back. Tucker what would be the advantage to the United States, do you believe, in conflict with iran . What would we get out of such a war . Oh, we dont get anything out of it. Its past the point of stupidity and verging on insanity. The United States should pull back from persian gulf. We have bigger problems at home and abroad. Tucker how would you assess the threat of iran to the United States . The threat to the United States is negligible. The threat to some of our allies is a different matter. The direct threat to americans and vital u. S. Interests is next to nothing. Tucker yet, there is an enormously powerful bipartisan push toward a conflict with iran. Cranking up the severity of the sanctions and out right conflict. Why . Its at Foreign Policy takenment in