them. their strategic bet is for the president to lose the next election. that s all they have. bill: the tweet from the iranian foreign minister. we haven t lost any drone in the strait of hormuz. i m worried the u.s.s. boxer has shot down their own unmanned aircraft system by mistake. if we would have done that we would have immediately announced it, of course. they re concerned that we were able to bring it down through electronic means. not even shooting a missile on this drone. bill: do you see the two sides sitting down and talking? the president said he is open to it. the iranians have a different view. they want war to come to the table of negotiations and announcement by the white house that they re legitimate. they want to appear big in front of their base. that s not the president will give them. it s possible there could be pictures, sort of negotiations maybe oman will initiate
evidence this was an iranian drone and claims by the iranian leadership that the u.s. shot down an american drone are far-fetched at best. in fact, a video released by the iranians to prove the u.s. navy did not shoot down its drones appears to be from 2018. marines on board the uss boxer used this state of the art electronic jamming device to bring down the iranian drone, i m told. the device known as a lemattus is causes the electronics on board a plane to jam. the relatively new technology deployed at sea for the first time in january. the uss boxer is an amphibious assault ship with 2,000 marines on board. this all occurred as the american warship entered the strait of hormuz at 10:00 a.m. local time yesterday. the united states reserves the right to defend our personnel, our facilities and
highs in the 70s and 80s. near dem of krimp. they destroyed an iranian drone. the boxer took over. they ignored multiple calls to stand down and was threatening the safety of the ship and the ship s crew. the drone was immediately destroyed. trump said it happened over the strait of hormuz. cnn s fred pleitgen tracking live from berlin. what happened? the president describing what happened there. what apparently un knew that.
claims it shot down of the ship the u.s.s. shot it down iranian say this footage credibly disproves the american claim that one of their drones moved too close to u.s. navy ship the u.s. has stuck to its guns u.s. president tunnel shot today addressed the issue in an event at the oval office when questioned by reporters as to the veracity of the story. we. trump said a drone can t come within a 1000 yards of the assault ship the u.s.s. boxer pictured here and ignored calls to stand down iran has responded with derision the foreign minister suggested that perhaps the u.s. shut down its own drone by mistake. this is the latest scrape between the 2 countries over who is provoking whom in the strait of hormuz on june 20th iran shot down a u.s. drone it said had violated its airspace just days ago the iranian military seized
getting a better deal, and it may just be a while of this kind of thing, of tit for tat, and that is better than a war and letting them have a nuclear weapon. bret: it happened yesterday as we saw the pentagon saying that the iranian drone that was threatening the uss boxer was taken down by an electronic jamming device, a new device that you see on top of that ship, the drums. but the iranian said, no, it did not happen. the issue of the drone is still under investigation. based on the latest information that i have received from tehran, we have so far absolutely no information about losing a drone. it went down, and the fact that the foreign minister did not know or lied about it, i cannot help. it happened. for congress, fantastic and the end, president trump will make clear the decision when he is ready to proceed.