shooting down this drone literally was a mistake? yeah, brook, the president had been calling it a big mistake all morning, when we were in the oval office, he seemed to signal he thought it was an actual mistake, not just a crossing of the line. the president said it seems whoever did shoot down this u.s. military drone was acting without the orders of iranian leadership, he said, i think it may have been a general or somebody who was acting loose and stupid. the president seemed to be minimizing it in a way saying he doesn t think it was intentional incitement from iranian leadership. the question is weather or not the president made that remark. the president is asked by one reporter, does he feel he s being goaded into conflict by supporters. some of his advisers feel they should. he said, no, i don t think that,
a better read on where our aircraft was, that unmanned aircraft was than the united states. i think if tehran s lips are moving in this case, they re lying. we shouldn t give much credence to that at all. and the u.s. was very clear, when we saw the briefing from the lieutenant general in the region that this was farther than the dozen miles that you re talking about. so let s talk about this drone. what do we know about this plane? this is the rq-4 global hawk unmanned aircraft. it s been in the inventory for about 21 years. it s state-of-the-art. it s a huge aircraft. it s almost the size of a boeing airliner that you would get in tomorrow to fly home. it s a monstrous aircraft. huge. great capabilities. and you can put on that aircraft, you can mix and match the types of sensors you want to have. do you want to do imagery, do you want to do signals intelligence, do you want to do measurements and signatures intelligence, kind of getting into some arcane business. but this is
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i have a feeling, i may be wrong and i may be right, but i m right alot. i have a feeling that it was a mistake made by someone that shouldn t have been doing what they did. i think they made a mistake. i m not talking the country made a mistake, somebody under the command of that country made a big mistake. reporter: and he added that he finds it hard to believe that this incident, the shooting down of an unmanned drone, was intentional. he added that it would have been very different had there been a person on that drone. the context here, brianna, is that president trump has been for days and weeks resisting what has seemed to be pressure to move toward military action with iran. this is a president who does not want to do that. he has campaigned against moving the united states out of foreign wars. and so he s been resistant privately with his aides to this idea. so you re seeing here the
they say their airspace and was shot down by one of their surface-to-air missiles. the iranians not saying this was some sort of mistake. they were saying the droep was drone was in their airspace and that s why they shot it down. when the president said iran made a big mistake, they came out and said the u.s. wages economic terrorism on iran, that s what they call the u.s. pulling out of the nuclear agreement and putting sanctions on iran, has conducted covert action against us and now encroaches on our territory. we don t seek war but will zealously defend our skies, land and waters. we ll take this new aggression to the u.n. and show that the u.s. is lying about international waters. so that s a take from the iranian foreign minister. the drone was shot down by iran s most elite military unit, the revolutionary guard. the head of the revolutionary guard came out earlier today with pretty bellicose rhetoric