Changed his mind. From there reporting, a little more this morning. Officials said the president initially approved attacks on a handful of iranian targets. The operation was underway in the early stages when it was called off according to a Senior Administration official. Planes were in the air and ships in position, but no missiles had been fired when word came to stand down. Reuters is reporting overnight this is what happened according to the headline. Tehran received a message from President Trump warning attacks were imminent. Also from reuters, iran told the United States via the swift ambassador that washington will washington for former had no here is how the president sounded yesterday midday in the oval office before a meeting he had with the canadian Prime Minister on irans bringing down that u. S. Spy drone. Here is how he sounded at this point yesterday. [video clip] when i came here, iran was in 14, 18 different sites of confliction, extremely hostile. They were screaming death to america. I think iran made a mistake. I would imagine it was a general or somebody that made a mistake in shooting that drone down. Fortunately, that drone was unarmed there was no man in it. It was over International Waters, but we did not have a man or woman in the drone. It would have made a big difference, let me tell you. It would have made a big, big difference. I have a feeling, i may be wrong, and i may be right. I am right a lot. I have a feeling it was a mistake made by somebody who should not have been doing what they did. I think somebody under the command of that country made a mistake. Lets see what happens. It is all going to work out. Are you saying it was not intentional . I find it hard to believe it was intentional. I think it could have been somebody who was stupid that did it. Smooth. Very full a that i can tell you. Host that was President Trump midday yesterday on iran, his thoughts on what happened when u. S. Drone was shot down by the Iranian Revolutionary guard. When you hear the president say it would make a big difference, he was referring to a question from a reporter what if the drone had been manned . That is when he said that wouldve made a big, big difference. According to the New York Times, a strike was set to take place just before dawn on friday in to the minimize risk Iranian Military and civilians. Secretary of state mike pompeo, john bolton, and the National Security advisor and gina haspel favored a military response. A top pentagon official questioned cautioned it could relate congressional leaders were briefed by Administration Officials in the situation room yesterday. That took place at 3 00 p. M. Yesterday with about 20 lawmakers and that lasted about 90 minutes. We are getting your reaction to this news of the New York Times that the president called for a strike and then told the military to stand down. Good morning, michael. Dont see us going in that part of the country again. To call before the Armchair Generals get on here. Would you like your son and daughter to die over there . Thank you very much. Host did you fight for president did you vote for President Trump . Caller yes, i did. Host was part of the reason you voted for him during his campaign when he said we have to end these endless wars. Is that is part of is that part of the reason you voted for him . Caller yes, it is. Afghanistan and iraq, this has to end. We get in there and 20 years later, we are still there . For what . Our sons and daughters are dying , for what . This must end. Host if the president does decide to strike iran . Doesnt and lets not hope hurt civilian people. The people over there need to look at themselves and decide if that is the kind of regime they want to live with or maybe some regime should be made. I we have no chance think that will escalate things in that part of the country, which i dont think anybody will really like. Host robert, independent. Lets get your thoughts this morning. Caller my thoughts are simple. The people in the pentagon are not capable of waging war anymore. 1991. E been in iraq since we have watched iranian skill 200 something marines in beirut. Our soldiers in iraq. We have sat back and done nothing about it. The people at the pentagon and the people of this country are not capable, cannot handle the type of warfare this would bring. If you want to deal with iran, you are talking about totally annihilating that country. Uclear war this country cannot handle that. You guys are too soft. They cannot handle a bunch of hotties on horseback. They were shocked when 19 hijackers came into this country, took down three of our buildings, poked a hole in the pentagon and these guys were not even statesponsored. The cia has failed us. The pentagon has failed this country. If you want to look at warfare how warfare is fought, look at what they did to dresden and germany. Right now there is a refinery in pennsylvania on fire. I wonder if that is coincidence. The American People have allowed foreigners into this country. You think that war is not going to come to this sure . Then you have you guys in the media who are going to undermine the United States, undermined this country. What the hell is the sense . Of theblow the hell out whole place or leave it alone. Host take a look at this out of the united kingdom, the express newspaper put together u. S. Firepower versus irans firepower. Aircraft, 14,000 on the u. S. Side. A little over 500 iranian aircraft. Ships, almost equal. Tanks and armors, 48 thousand over that for the United States. About 4000 iranian tanks and armor and active personnel, you can look at the numbers. 1. 2 million for the United States, 500,000 plus for iran. Jim in west virginia, democrat. Good morning. Caller good morning, greta. Robert needs zoloft or something. He is all upset, yelling. He was talking about the hijackers. Those hijackers are from saudi arabia, trumps buddies. I know itron called off the airstrike. His main advisor, his boss, putin told him not to. Host why do you say that . We wont find out. We will go to george in michigan. Hi, george. Called a couple months ago and you were at the end of a fiveday run and i said i had never seen that before and then you were on another five day run. I asked if brian lamb was going to give you a raise or a card or something and you said you would show him that piece. Did you ever get that raise or card . Host no. Still waiting. Caller tell brian lam to open little bit as far as does, thet this guy poor guy cannot win. Whatever he does, yes or no, someone will complain about it. I think Albert Einstein said he did not know what weapons were going to be used in world war iii, but he knew in world war four, we were going to use sticks and stones. We are probably on the path to there. Brian lam, open up the wall a little bit. You have to get greta that raise. This is only about the third time since that i called a couple months ago, you have been on. You said you were going on a new protocol, but you have been somewhere else. I have not seen you much. Host we were mixing up mixing it up for a little while, playing with the format. Thanks for watching and thanks for calling. Independent. This morning, reacting to the front page of the New York Times. Reporting the president approved strikes and then called it off. Caller i dont understand what this president is doing. He scares the crap out of me because he changes his mind about everything and then he has got bolton trying to start the war on anybody. I am just afraid for the future of our country, of this world, thisur children because guy thinks he does everything good and right. I really Hope Congress could stop him if he decides to use the Nuclear Weapon because i think he is crazy. I think he would do it just to say he did it. I just pray for all the children in the future of the world. Thank you. Ort after the president after the lawmakers met at the white house in the situation room for that 90 minute briefing yesterday afternoon, Congressional Democrats emerged from the classified briefing urging the president to deescalate the situation. They called on the president to seek congressional alteration before taking any military action. We are getting your thoughts on that. Perspective, the u. N. The Iran Ambassador to the United Nations sent a letter droneday saying that this , the United States had been warned repeatedly bore before it was shut down through radio. He also writes while the islamic a public republic of iran does not seek war, it reserves its right under article 51 of the United Nations charter to take all appropriate necessary measures against any hostile act violating its territory and is determined to offend its land, sea, and air. This is not the first provocative attack by the United States. Officially protested the United States through introspection interests section in the embassy of switzerland and tehran. The coordinates of that drone and saying it was over iranian waters, not over International Waters like the United States is saying and they also say we retrieved sections of the United States military drone in our territorial waters. On iran tb, this is what they are showing. They say this is pieces of the retrieved section of the u. S. Spy drone downed earlier and landed in their waters. It was flying over, they claim, their airspace. The pentagon is denying and saying they were over International Airspace and landed in International Waters. Chicago, a democrat. Good morning. Caller how are you doing . First of all. In 2011 when president obama was running for reelection, the first thing that came out of Donald Trumps mouth was president obama was going to start a war with iran so he could win reelection. Thank god that did not happen. Trump should have stayed in that agreement with iran, but he pulled out because it is something president obama got through. Anything president obama do, he wants to reverse it. When the guy called in and told you putin told donald trump to step down, if you go back from yesterday on msnbc they said putin did warn trump not to go to war with iran. Go in your files, pull that up. You all seem not to pull anything up when people call in. He did tell trump not to do it. If trumps wants to start a war, i wonder if they will put his two sons, john bolton, put them in some uniforms and lead the charge. Why are you starting a war with those people not bothering us and if he so concerned with nuclear, why is he giving north korea a break . Missiles. S sending up why dont you use the same bullying tactics with kim jongun like you do on the rest. We need to leave people alone because our children, not the millionaires and billionaires and people like trump and his two sons, they are not going to war. Trump did not go to war, the United States needs to mind their own business. Host Vladimir Putin yesterday held a callin program with russians, over four hours he took questions and he was asked about escalating tensions between the United States and iran and here is what he had to say. [video clip] the u. S. Blames iran. If there is going to be a war, what will russia do . Indeed. I dont know why they are asking me. Perhaps if you dont have a direct line with your colleagues from iran. Says the option is on the table. I would like to say straightaway that that would be a disaster, at least for the region. The outcome would be an outburst of violence. The number of refugees would increase. Those who would initiate such an toion, that could also lead negative consequences. It is really hard to calculate what the backlash what the ramifications would be. Iran is a shiite country. Ake the islamic world they are capable to extreme measures if they need to protect themselves, if they need to protect their country. We could take it to an extreme, but we dont know what that extreme will be. Eventt really want the to take that turn. We dont want to see that scenario. Iran has been fully compliant with the iaea. Have beenons observed, so no sanctions should have been applied against it, it is not justified. Host russian president Vladimir Putin yesterday asked about u. S. And iran tensions. President trump in 2013 sent out this tweet referring to President Trump president obama and tensions between the u. S. And syria at the time. He wrote, what will we get for bombing syria besides more debt and a possible longterm conflict . Obama needs congressional approval. What is your reaction to that . Does President Trump need congressional approval. . Trump approved a strike yesterday against iran, but delayed carrying out the attack. In the paper report as late as 7 p. M. , military officials were expecting a strike. Lets go to randy in new york. Caller good morning, greta. Thank you. I am a 22 Year Air Force retiree it i want everyone to calm down. President trump was being president ial. He explained it to iran in advance, they blinked, and that is what we wanted. Host what do you mean they blinked . Reported, hes been called them and told them it was imminent, correct . They did something which prevented them from being hit. Host what do you think . I dont understand. What do you think the president would be asking for to not strike . , but thatdont know is something we will never know. Host randys thoughts in new york. Chris, republican. Caller thanks for having me on. Here is what i think about the overall situation. All these war hawks that surround trump, i am happy he is not listening to them for now. With that situation in general,. Ver time, he might tend to so i dont like that. Terrible iran, it is a idea to escalate in general. This would be a disaster for america. Host that me read for you and others, the New York Times is saying it is john bolton, the National Security advisor, gina haspel all favoring military action. It is top pentagon officials who are cautioning that such an action could result in a spiraling escalation with risks for American Forces in the region. Here is a headline from earlier this week. Gop lawmakers telling the hill that some Trump Officials contradicting pompeo on iran and al qaeda. That is one headline from the hill newspaper. Lets go to john in pennsylvania, democratic caller. Good morning. I saw on sunday on cnn that germany and iraq i mean, iran, were working out a deal to replace the dollar as the currency for oil. On,t then, the light came we are going to war. Everybody that has ever tried to do this has ended up dead. Qaddafi, many others in the past. America needs to wake up. Witler, as i call 45, he is not my president. This guy is a nut. He has violated the constitution repeatedly and he is scary. Host richard, minneapolis. Minnesota republican. Your turn. Caller that guy that last guy was wackier than looney tunes. The last time i heard the International Waters started 12 miles out. Shot down the koreans the plane and the squadron i was in and they were in International Waters. If they took care of korea then, we would not have the problem we have now. I think trump will probably wait until the next one and there probably will be a response. Host would you risk support that . Caller iranians have been sponsoring terrorism all over the world for years. Host would you support that, if the president were to strike iran . Caller say that again, please. Host would you support the president striking iran . Caller if the iranians are lying as much as they did in that last statement you read if they do something again, it probably will gain the support of a lot of people. Host all right, richard. Bill in ohio, democratic caller. You are next. Caller yes. Doesnte our president really think things through. He says things just for. Olitical gain a lot of times put a strike on, that probably came off the cuff of his head without thinking about the problems that may follow. I just wonder about him, he has me concerned. Host mike, good morning. Caller thanks for having me on this morning. I want to respond to a question, you made a comparison between obama in 2013 and President Trump at the time, civilian trump. Hemade a comment saying should get approval from congress and that is correct. Here is what is different, you are comparing apples to oranges, syria did not shoot down one of the u. S. Aircraft. They are saying the aircraft iran shot down, no one was in it. Iran did not know if anyone was in it or not. There could have been pilots in that aircraft. Rightent trump is in his to go ahead and order the retaliation he did. That comparison between what obama said and when trump said he should get approval from congress is totally different. I cant believe you guys make comparisons like that without really looking into the difference. Host i see the point you are making. Let me show you a headline from the New York Times. Iran has ties to al qaeda President Trump is telling a skeptical congress.