latest of many provocative and hostile actions by iran against vessels operating in international waters. the united states reserves the right to defend our personnel, our facility, and interests, and calls upon all nations to condemn iran s attempts to disrupt freedom of navigation. the marines didn t just shoot it down the way iran shot down a u.s. drone. today marines used a new anti-drone jamming device, you see it right there, to stop the drone, the light marine air defense integrated system, long name with an important mission, successful. the president put pressure on iran in the form of more sanctions, following iran s shooting down the drone last month. this week iran s foreign minister was in new york at the united nations and talked about the escalating tensions with the united states. it is a very dangerous situation.
president to saudi arabia interests effect turnout among the democrats and effect independent voters, carrie. foreign policy generally doesn t play as much role. you ve seen in other words brutally killed and dismembered, he lived in virginia writing for the washington post. this is a guy writing in american newspapers. and the president has shown leadership, has put pressure on the saudis, they already made arrests of at least five individuals, there are 17, 18 people the saudi government that i believe confined or are investigating. the president put pressure on the saudis, they arrested people two weeks later, for a week or ten days, the president is saying don t rush, give them the benefit of the doubt, i talked to the king and he s convincing in his statement that he had nothing to do with that. you call that pressure? he has shown pressure.
number and i need to know as the press secretary how he is looking at the news. so i need to read the newspaper. he said did you see that story on a3? i know what he s talking about. and how does he know about the social media results? i m sure they re passed to him. shepard: a lot of talk about trade today, john. yeah. the white house is putting pressure on two fronts here. first of all, on canada by boxing canada out of the deal with mexico. the president put pressure on canada to sign on or face tariffs of 25%. christian vreeland is visiting robert lightheiser today. and the second part, the new shot across china s bow. now the new rules on origin for
this, no matter which of the four or any others are picked, the battle lines are drawn. they are. really the focus is on two republicans who support abortion rights, susan collins of maine and lisa mur cow ski of alaska and whether they re willing to trust a republican nominee for the supreme court who doesn t give any assurances one way or another on roe versus wade. as the white house tried to make clear, on the red state democrats, democrats up for re-election in trump states this november, can the president put pressure on them to vote for their pick, given the fact that it s not good for them to be seen necessarily in an election year as part of the democratic caucus doing what chuck schumer wants them to do. so it doesn t really matter which of the four. we really narrowed it down to just two now, which of the two the president picks. the pressure is going to be on those seven or so senators. we should just point out two black suvs have just pulled up
summit, they re the ones in line from artillery from north korea. so you know, this is good. it s the old cia days, getting somebody in secretly. that s impressive. the cia is back. i m glad. shepard: the headline is the cia is back. bill richardson supports it and he s hopeful. that s right. shepard: great to see you, sir. thank you. shepard: more ahead on the secret trip to north korea. and the confirmation process is not a done deal. that s why the president put pressure on rand paul. he said rand paul hasn t let me done. also in the event you had spare time, maybe a parasol with a bit of shade available and you were thinking of putting it on nikki haley, don t do it. i say look at available evidence. decide against it. no shade. not for nikki haley. don t do it.