and the drone, there s a question was it in iranian airspace. was it in international airspace. what would that change? well, you do have central command saying this was a drone shot down over international airspace which is a very different act than shooting down an aircraft over your own space. but, remember, the trump administration has no credibility. this is a president who lies something like 12 times a day. they have disregarded intelligence in the past. and president trump refused to listen to what the intelligence community has to say about saudi arabia. now he claims that the intelligence is saying something he likes, he putting it out there. i tend to believe central command. but there is a very high threshold that the white house has to reach for the world to believe what they re saying. and right now, i think their comments have been met with disbelief, just because of their track record of not telling the truth. max boot, thank you.
president talking about the specificity of how this could ve happened and may be a mistake but he said, if this had been unmanned drone, a very different situation. i wingspan larger than a 737, some people who are watching may wonder, how could it have been manned at this point, why would we need to do it? the largeness of this for a lack of a better word, enormity when most people think of a drone speaks to the issue of what we can do with the size and how far away we can be from different countries. jennifer: i think the reason this is unmanned is that it diminishes the risk to the u.s. military personnel and what s unfortunate, whenever a drone like this it shot down is that it tells the enemy, the adversaries what our capabilities are and the u.s.
a meeting going on at the white house, responding to iran shooting down that u.s. military drone. we re not expecting president trump to attend that based on what our sources are telling us but they are tight-lipped about the details. we know that the outgoing acting defense secretary patrick shanahan is expected to attend, as well as incoming secretary and secretary of state mike pompeo in that meeting as well. we ve been reporting on what exactly is going on at the white house as we re learning the details of what happened here with iran. and we do know that the president has been speaking to lawmakers this morning, including senator lindsey graham who said this is what the president told him. now, they shot down an american drone. they fired into saudi arabia. so, i talked to the president this morning. you need to tell the iranians that if they increase their enrichment program for uranium that would be a provocative act
pompeo after the attacks on the ships last week, come out to the state department press room and make ail series of declarations. and then the president seemed to undercut that over the weekend, when he stepped in, he said i m not terribly concerned about these and so forth. and so, what it seemed like, the policy was headed, was to say, look, we can manage the small tactical stuff in the gulf. the big issue is don t restart the nuclear program. because if you do that, you re in for a world of hurt. now, we ve lost a drone. it s obviously a pretty provocative thing to do. but fortunately, there were no casualties. the u.s. has lost $150 million worth of machinery. there s an argument about where it was located, in international waters or not. it s not the first drone we ve lost over iran. back in the obama administration, there was famously one lost because of an accident with the drone. but the iranians put it out on
drone had gone to the persian gulf area and made a turn towards iranian airspace and shot down by iranian airspace missiles going into their airspace. it was quite interesting to see because the revolution guard corps, erica, which is iran s most elite military unit and the unit that shot this drone down. they came out very quickly and said this is something that they will absolutely react to if it happens again. they also said that iran does not want war. but they said that iran is absolutely prepared for war at this point in time. those are statements that we ve been hearing from the iranians over the past couple of days. of course, all of this comes in the context of the standoff that s going on between iran and the u.s., especially in the persian gulf. after the tanker attacks that took place last week. the u.s. blaming the iranians. the iranians saying it wasn t them. saying they don t want this tos