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
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