Im richard lui live at msnbc headquarters. Two pictures were watching. Breaking news, a very busy saturday. On the left, youre protests going on, signs that are and chants that are against detainees. Two that were held there at jfk airport. Refugees from iraq. One released, one remains behind. 11 still detained across the country as we understand at this hour. And on the right hand side, we have the white house where President Trump whose executive order resulted in those being detained on the left, we expect him sometime this afternoon at the white house to be signing new more executive orders that we have not yet got any indication of what they may be about. However, there are possibly several options on that which well get to in a little bit. But first, lets go straight to jfk. Nbcs correspondent there, anne thompson. And the energy has not gone away at all. Have the numbers grown . Reporter in fact the energy keeps growing and so do the numbers. If you look behind me, you can see n
Of now for u. S. Naval vessels to escort commercial ships through the straight. We learned late yesterday that iran tried to shoot down an american drone on two separate occasions in recent days, using surfacetoair missiles. In fact u. S. Central command released this Photo Officials say the unexploded mine removed from one of the tankers is the same type of mine used to attack four oil tankers last month, in the same area. The you arab emirate presented evidence to the u. N. Security council that the attacks were state sponsored. Oil prices increased by about 4 following thursdays tank era tacks, but remained lower than where they were two months ago. G20 ministers meeting in in japan vowed to stabilize the oil market and the u. S. Granted a waiver to iraq to import iranian gas for the next three months but encouraged baghdad to find an alternative. In fact this video released by the u. S. Military claims to show proof of irans involvement in thursdays attacks. Officials say this Iran
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