years. the united states has a responsibility to do our part. the world has a big role to keep these ceilings open. the whole world is waking up to the fact this threat is real. not just a threat against america or israel. it s a threat against all of us. bill: lucas tomlinson tracking it from the pentagon. let s begin there. good morning. day four of an escalating hostage crisis between iran and great britain after iran seized a british tanker and 23 crew members. over the weekend iran released this video going onto the deck of the oil tanker seized friday night. earlier this month a royal navy warship blocked another gun point from doing it to another tanker. they couldn t stop the iranians are seizing another tanker. here is radio traffic from the encounter. you are ordered to change
your course to 360, 360 degrees immediately. if you obey you will be safe. we are conducting. your passage must not be impaired, obstructed or hampered. please confirm that you are not intending to violate international law by unlawfully attempting to board the ship. iranian forces ignored the british warship order and proceeded to take down the tanker. a british defense minister says the royal navy is too small to handle missions around the world. they have roughly half the number of warships it had during the 80s. british prime minister theresa may will resign wednesday. iran says its actions are retaliation for british commandos seizing an iranian tanker carrying oil to syria in violation of e.u. sanctions. the pentagon announced it would send more troops to saudi
diplomatically and isolating iran is succeeding. the president s words are right on the money. secondly we re conducting a defensive campaign, bill. why we re bringing the troops into the region to deter iran from taking actions against our bases and troops that are in there by the tens of thousands. and number two, we re attempting to stitch together with our allies tanker protection and surveillance in the persian gulf and straits of hormuz some iran s ability to interfere will be eliminated. that s a work in progress. bill: the foreign minister was in new york last week and now in venezuela. you have this these parallel stories between the iranian government and the maduro regime. the tweet from john bolton. something tells me they felt right at home in caracas as the
nita springs in orlando over the weekend. it was appreciate to see everyone in person. if you have to run from the tv, run to the radio. watch the after the show show . stay within yourself. bill: breaking overnight and more action this morning in a high-stakes stand-off with iran. new video inside that british oil tanker seized by the revolutionary guard. it raised the story to another level as we say good morning. i m bill hemmer live in new york city. i know you had a good weekend. sandra: i m sandra smith, new images showing crew members held captive by iranian forces and the british navy tried to stop them. the british prime minister chairing an emergency security session and secretary of state mike pompeo reacting on fox a short time ago. this is the kind of behavior we ve seen out of iran for 40
the president flatly denies their claims that they disrupted a c.i.a. ring and i need to leave it at that. we can t comment further on intelligence matters. bill: what do you in a general sense make of the constant provocation, the back and forth as i just mentioned a moment ago? it seems like it goes higher by the day as opposed to backing away. your sense of that is what? let s back up and see this president won on and governed according to his explicit promise to pull this nation out of what he saw as a horrible iran nuclear deal. the last administration was much friendlier and accommodating toward iran and its malign behavior. from day one this president has been very clear and resolute in taking action and pulling us out of that nuclear deal and making very clear that we will defend our friends in the