market. that s another plus for iran as well. megyn: this juan was in international air space versus iranian air space? that s what the pentagon says. the rq-170 sentinel hat went down in 2011, that went down over iranian air space and it was he eventually learned from u.s. officials, it was monitoring iran s nuclear sites. megyn: this is a more significant attempt because you are allowed to be in the international air space. thank you both. jennifer. ambassador. we appreciate you being here and we ll be right back. don t go away.
of the american drone. it is the sophisticated aircraft called the rq-170 sentinel and, iran says it shot down the drone last december and u.s. officials say that it now functions and it accidentally landed malfunctioned and accidentally landed automatically and since then, tehran has flaunted its capture and putting it out during a news conference, saying they are able to exploit the technology they ve captured in that drone and they plan to use it against the united states. joining us now is former u.s. ambassador to the united nations, john bolton, a fox news contributor. and joins us every sunday, at this time. good morning, ambassador. good morning, eric, glad to be here. eric: what will they do with the drone they are copying to use against us? well, i think everything that the regime in iran says with a grain of salt but, there is almost no doubt that they have made this drone available to russian and chinese scientists an technicians. who are looking both at the aerodyn
etan patz, is once again capturing headlines today. a live report at the scene of the investigation. gregg: we began with breaking news out of iran making a bold announcement today claiming it has cracked the codes of our spy drone that they captured last year. they claim they have begun building an exact copy of the american drone. sophisticated aircraft is called the rq-170 sentinel. american officials say the aircraft malfunctioned and landed automatically. concern now is that iran will exploit the technology and use it against the u.s. here is john bolton former ambassador to the united nations talking on fox news about the importance of that drone. this is significant loss for the united states in terms of both the technology of the stealth grown itself. but also it s intelligence gathering capability.
bill: they do pan am now, the next year it ll be eastern airlines. martha: remember that? bill: i sure do. [laughter] martha: here we go, folks. coming up right now, could the stealth spy zone that iran is holding, how about this question, be a fake? reports from a former pentagon official claims it s the wrong color and the wrong design for an american rq-170 sentinel. iran says they captured the sophisticated aircraft. washington says that it malfunctioned, and it landed. but if it s fake, why would president obama say this to the world? watch this. as has already been indicated, we have asked for it back. we ll see how the iranians respond. martha: well, that statement met much criticism as we have talked about. joined by chad sweet, former cia agent and co-founder of the chertoff group. chad, welcome, good to see you.
i m erin burnett, outfront tonight,a major concession the president and leading democrats will drop a surtax on millionaires as the way to pay for the payroll tax cut extension. this is a huge step in breaking the impasse that threatened the tax cut and may have shut the government down again. here is the bottom line. the ds and rs each fought for one big thing this payroll tax battle and that is a nonstarter for the other side. the surtax for the democrats and the keystone pipeline for the republicans. now whether you love or hate either one of those ideas, the fact was this, both were deal breakers. we ve been saying this all week. and compromise really isn t that hard. here s the decent proposal we ve been putting out there as an example. extend the tax cut for those makes less than $75,000. that costs about $48 billion. but you can pay for it by charging more to mortgage lenders and more to millionaires for medicare. it actually comes out even. and there s a lot of differ