states about the capabilities that their air systems have. all right, fred pleitgen in tehran, thank you for that report. president trump offered surprising details in this statement about his decision. he said he called off the strike ten minutes before launch. the release of details like that did not sit well on capitol hill. that s not the kind of thing that i think the president should say publicly. this is not this is a decision that he should keep to himself. he should not say stuff like that publicly because it gives the impression of a level of indecision that i don t think is helpful to us. i wish he was more discreet about what he shared with everybody. i want to bring in retired air force colonel cedric leighton and a foreign policy advisor. colonel, what we re hearing, that s a democrat on capitol hill who is critical of the president revealing operational details. in general, republicans also don t like these released. do they have a point?
what lives are at stake? remember, this was an unmanned drone, so there s a question as to whether or not what would be proportional, the one that was shot down was an unmanned drone. i m not saying there shouldn t be consequences, but there would not have been the need for this rush decision to launch a potential strike. it just calls into question how he makes decisions and i think underscores his basic unfitness for being commander in chief. carrie cordero, thank you for being with us. a standoff is escalating in oregon after the governor has sent them to find missing republicans and bring them to the capitol. plus a man rushes the tsa in the airport security line. s you, but behind them are health needs you may not see. royal canin believes in tailored nutrition, to ensure his long back and playful spirit get the joint support they need. or to help this gentle giant
planes were in the air. they came and they said, sir, we re ready to go. we d like a decision. i said i want to know something before you go. how many people will be killed? in this case iranians. i said how many people are going to be killed? sir, i d like to get back to you on that. great people, these generals. they said came back and said, sir, approximately 150. and i thought about it for a second and i said, you know what, they shot down an unmanned drone, plane, whatever you want to call it. and here we are sitting with 150 dead people that would have taken place probably within a half hour after i said go ahead. and i didn t like it. i didn t think it was i didn t think it was proportionate. reporter: so the president is saying he didn t think a strike was what was called for after they shot down that u.s. military drone. what you re hearing essentially as the president does explain that decision is how he s
and loaded last night on three different sites but he called off the strike to save lives. the tweet, quote, i asked how many will die. 150 people, sir, was the answer from a general. ten minutes before the strike i stopped it. not proportionate to shooting down an unmanned drone. i am in no hurry. the three targets were radar installations and missile sites, the types of facilities iran used to shoot down an unmanned surveillance aircraft yesterday. now we re learning that the u.s. has asked for and will get a special united nations security council meeting on monday. but the u.s. still has no confirmed ambassador to the u.n. or a secretary of defense. let s go to cnn s kaitlin collins who is at the white house. what are your sources telling you? we re hearing from the president in tweets. are they saying anything else behind the scenes? reporter: well, we re hearing more from the president himself, explaining his decision to call off that strike at the last minute, which the presid
considering. let me be very clear, the democrats in the meeting, house and senate democrats, were very clear that congress must act must have the authority of congress before we initiate a military hostilities in iran. the president seems to suggest that he found out about the apparently death toll if they had gone through with the strike just moments they would have conducted the strike. isn t that something you think he should have known about beforehand? you know, i don t know the timing of when the president learned the consequences of it. i don t even know how off the ground these planes were. that s something you just have to ask the white house. it would make sense if you are considering options that you know what the consequences are before you make a decision to go forward. thank you all. thank you. thank you. house speaker nancy pelosi there answering questions on iran, agreeing with the