officials say two u.s. service members were killed today in afghanistan. that brings the total to 14 u.s. service members killed in combat in afghanistan this year. tonight, another fox news exclusive. national security correspondent jennifer griffin talks to the new defense secretary. there are reports that iran shot down a 62 million dollars american drone. will you hold iran for that? we lost an mq-9 over yemen. we will figure out the next steps that are appropriate. a ship is en route to syria.
ultimately i think that if we begin that campaign there is no seeming end to it, which is why i m pretty worried. well, yeah, brett stephens, new york times columnist calling for the same thing that tom cotton called for. the u.s. should have a military strike. there is a little question of the constitution and whether it would be legal. this is what mike pompeo said when asked about legal authorization for a military strike against iran. take a listen. do you have the legal authorization for a strike on iran? we always have the authorization to defend american interests. remember, they now have attacked u.s. aircraft. on june 6th there was a missile filed from yemen that we assess had iranian assistance that took down an mq9 aircraft. these are attacks on fundamental international forms and american interests and we always have a right to defend our country. is that true? it s fundamentally not true. the president does not have unchecked article ii authority to launch war
new york times columnist calling for the same thing that tom cotton called for. the u.s. should have a military strike. there is a little question of the constitution and whether it would be legal. this is what mike pompeo said when asked about legal authorization for a military strike against iran. take a listen. do you have the legal authorization for a strike on iran? we always have the authorization to defend american interests. remember, they now have attacked u.s. aircraft. on june 6th there was a missile filed from yemen that we assess had iranian assistance that took down an mq9 aircraft. these are attacks on fundamental international forms and american interests and we always have a right to defend our country. is that true? it s fundamentally not true. the president does not have unchecked article ii authority to launch war against a country overseas simply to defend american interests. now, a president can take a
that grey zone of being able to attack american interest with violence but just beneath the threshold of the kind of activity that would automatically trigger an american military response, because if we allow that to happen without imposing real price on the iranians, this will just lead to precisely the kind of war that we re seeking to avoid. rick: national security correspondent jennifer griffin is reporting from washington on this. reporter: rick we have new details of an incident we first reported about the u.s. mq9 reep er drone fired on after the tank era tack on thursday. a senior u.s. official tells me just minutes after the first distress call went out from the mv tanker at 6:12 a.m. local time thursday, the u.s. mill moved an unmanned mq9 donald the drone arrived at 6:20 a.m. local time eight minutes after the first distress call went out and
at 6:45 a.m. local time prior to the second attack, on the second tanker, a missile was fired at the u.s. drone on station over a norwegian flagship. it missed. u.s. officials have assessed that the missile was a modified sa-7 surface to air missile fired from iran s mainland. it was fired after the u.s. drone arrived to assist the norwegian tanker. separately we have learned from u.s. officials that an american mq9 drone was shot down over yemen by iranian-backed rebels on june 6. the british government has issued a statement blaming iran s revolutionary guard for the tanker attack saying no other state or non-state actor could have been responsible, but the german government said it needs more evidence than the video released by u.s. central command allegedly showing an iranian boat removing an un exploded mine from the side of one of the damaged vessels. after two days iran finally