one family and not the other, i don t trust the media to do this, i m hoping somebody in the department of justice will appoint and investigator to look at all things ukraine like we looked at all things russia. maria: now, by the way, before you go, iran, you and the president had a back and forth, you were on twitter, he said no, this is the way we reacted was showed strength. let me talk about that, when the president decided not to attack based on iran shooting our drone down, i actually supported that, because he believed that if i hit a radar site and killed 150 iranians, it s going to put the iotola in the spot and we were talking about unmanned drone, i thought it was a level of restrain that i respected, the problem is iranians took it differently, i think president trump has been strong on china, strong on isis, strong on north korea, strong on iran, but the iranians are acting out in a very dangerous way, by attacking the saudi arabian oil field they ve
one family and not the other, i don t trust the media to do this, i m hoping somebody in the department of justice will appoint and investigator to look at all things ukraine like we looked at all things russia. maria: now, by the way, before you go, iran, you and the president had a back and forth, you were on twitter, he said no, this is the way we reacted was showed strength. let me talk about that, when the president decided not to attack based on iran shooting our drone down, i actually supported that, because he believed that if i hit a radar site and killed 150 iranians, it s going to put the iotola in the spot and we were talking about unmanned drone, i thought it was a level of restrain that i respected, the problem is iranians took it differently, i think president trump has been strong on china, strong on isis, strong on north korea, strong on iran, but the iranians are acting out in a very dangerous way, by attacking the saudi arabian oil field they ve
led or been involved in many dangerous misses. can you talk about the level of readiness in preparation of those sailors, being in the straight of hormuz with the tensions with iran? every time you trajs it through the sfrats of hormuz, having done so a couple of times, the sailors and the marines onboard well elevate their readiness, the commanding officer making sure they are at peak readiness in terms of the weapons systems, watch standards, everybody paying close attention to what s komzing from the iranian side. as they make that trans it not only them but the other ships in the readiness group, they will be poised to deal with any threat that might be coming at them. that s why as i said before, the navy knows how to deal with these threats, we ve been doing it for de cats, we need to handle it the way the ship did today, instead of engaging with weapons, engage with it a mechanism that can delink the drone, cause it to crash, and
believe that the air search radar probably picked up the drone some ways out. they knew the drone was coming. had the drone presented a real threat to them, imminent threat, cam kazzie style attack, my thought is they would engage it with a close in system. what they chose to do was to jam the link to the drone therefore causing to it circle down and crash in the water. that was the right step that, was the way to deescalate the problem and take care of the ship and the crew. on screen we re showing the technology they used. i should note that iran s foreign minister had this to say earlier, limit s take a listen. we re not looking for escalation, we re not looking for a war, we re not looking for conflict. but the united states should stop targeting iranian people, they re terrorizing our people, targeting order iran yancyvilleians.
latest of many provocative and hostile actions by iran against vessels operating in international waters. the united states reserves the right to defend our personnel, our facility, and interests, and calls upon all nations to condemn iran s attempts to disrupt freedom of navigation. the marines didn t just shoot it down the way iran shot down a u.s. drone. today marines used a new anti-drone jamming device, you see it right there, to stop the drone, the light marine air defense integrated system, long name with an important mission, successful. the president put pressure on iran in the form of more sanctions, following iran s shooting down the drone last month. this week iran s foreign minister was in new york at the united nations and talked about the escalating tensions with the united states. it is a very dangerous situation.