talking about that too much. you ll find out. so really underscoring that initial tweet that we saw from president trump today, making it very clears it is the administration s position that that drone was in international airspace, not flying in iran s airspace. again, when pressed on what specifically the response would look like, the president reiterating you ll soon find out. so continuing to dangle that possibility, clearly discussions going on here behind the scenes about what, if any, response the administration will take. we underscore what we heard from lindsey graham, very strong rhetoric from senator lindsey graham who will be meeting with president trump today and signaling there will be some type of response, andrea. joining us now, kristen, msnbc political analyst jonathan lamb mere, white house reporter for the associated press. jonathan, we believe the president is taking questions from the pool. that is not live so we ll get that turned around as soon as we know more
welker. we can see the president has said trump has called the shooting a new fly in the ointment. he said he does not feel his administration is pushing him towards conflict and in some cases it s just the opposite, that it could have been someone who was loose and stupid. we just reported that. as to whether he s open to talking with iran, he said let s see what happens. he said it would have made a big difference if there was a person inside. kristen? i think it s significant, an three yeah, you hear the president saying it would have made a big difference if this drone had been manned. that sort of underscores part of where we began this conversation which is that secretary of state mike pompeo has indicated that any military strike would first require someone on the u.s. side to be attacked, to be harmed. so you have the president essentially underscoring the fact that this was an unmanned
what we warrant to do. he s insisting iran made a mistake and saying that that nation has changed since trump took office, in particular because of the sanctions that this administration has placed on the country but also the president s own rhetoric towards tehran. jonathan, as you ve been pointing out, we re getting snippets of notes from the pool. joining us now as well, msnbc political analyst michael steele, former republican national committee chairman. we don t know exactly the context of this because he s talked about iran and the pool report said that he said it s hard to think it was intentional. i want to be careful about that, because i m not seeing it myself. so let s not go there. he started out talking about the economy and trade and the booming economy, markets up. that partly on the feg signal yesterday perhaps. we don t know about that. he s been beating up on the fed. he s getting back to his what his advisers had hoped would be
from president trump who said iran made a very big mistake. so that s his direct response to everything courtney is reporting on. what is he going to do about it? that is the question. that s the topic of that meeting that you just talked about. here at the white house with the national security team. president trump, as you mentioned, about to meet with prime minister justin trudeau. so i can tell you that my other teammates out, about to shout questions to president trump to try to get some specific answers about how he s going to handle this. we know that president trump has been resistant to get engaged in foreign engagements. he has been signaling that, andrea. he was asked about these mounting tensions between the u.s. and iran overnight on fox news. he said don t worry about it, everything is under control. recently when he was asked whether he was poised to take any military action against iran, president trump said, look, he would do that if he felt there was an eminent nuclea
has agreed to take back all of the people from central america who have come into our country, applied for asylum and have them remain in mexico while we consider their asylum requests. these are things mexico had never agreed to do before. they re doing them now and it is all the result of president trump s strong and decisive leadership, but the truth of the matter is we need congress now to step up. mexico has done more to address the crisis on our southern border than congress has and it is time for congress to step up. to provide the resources. it s time to work with this administration and reform our asylum laws. close the loopholes that human traffickers are using to entice people to take the long and dangerous journey north. that s what s going to be necessary. but the steps mexico have taken represent a decisive step toward securing our border, and we re grateful. bret: mr. vice president,