Considered. Otherwise have done it and its shown to make the lives of sex workers safer. Back when he was asked in march, he said he didnt have an answer for that. Thats going to wrap up this hour. Ill see you tomorrow morning on today. Andrea mitchell reports starts right now. Big mistake, President Trump with a stern message for iran after iran shoots down an unmanned american drone in what the u. S. Is calling an unprovoked attack over International Waters and iran claims violated their airspace. These are very precisely guided, unmanned, run by high tech computers. I would bet almost anything that was in International Airspace. I think its a dangerous situation. High tension wires are up in the region. We expect to hear from President Trump this hour. No apologies. Joe biden standing by his controversial comments about working with segregationist
senators in the past. Cory booker is demanding he apologize. Apologize for what . Booker has called for it. Cory should apologize. He kno
talking about that too much. you ll find out. so really underscoring that initial tweet that we saw from president trump today, making it very clears it is the administration s position that that drone was in international airspace, not flying in iran s airspace. again, when pressed on what specifically the response would look like, the president reiterating you ll soon find out. so continuing to dangle that possibility, clearly discussions going on here behind the scenes about what, if any, response the administration will take. we underscore what we heard from lindsey graham, very strong rhetoric from senator lindsey graham who will be meeting with president trump today and signaling there will be some type of response, andrea. joining us now, kristen, msnbc political analyst jonathan lamb mere, white house reporter for the associated press. jonathan, we believe the president is taking questions from the pool. that is not live so we ll get that turned around as soon as we know more
that can certainly indicate that the rules of engagement are a moderated response, moderated eggsing lags. it reflects the president s thinking, certainly and perhaps not the thinking of his national security adviser. tlaert, andrea. look how the u.s. military has responded as the tensions and really what s become a game of chicken has continued to go on. first the u.s. surged an aircraft carrier headed to the region. they accelerated the deployment, they brought in additional bombers, additional defense aircraft, additional troops and some patriots. the majority of the u.s. military response so far has been a combination of sending a message to iran to show they have a strong presence in the region with the hope it would be about deterring iran from continuing any kind of provocations, just to stop iran from any kind of attacks.
and stupid, not following orders. so he seems to be trying to give them the benefit of the doubt. as you pointed out, we did not see an immediate military response. as you also pointed out, the u.s. could have intercepted those strikes before it hit our global hawk. there s something else to keep in mind. we have a tendency to look at everybody else as being homogeneous, particularly our enemies. it s not homogeneous thinking over there in iran. i think there s at least some gulf between the thinking of rouhani who runs the political operation on the one hand and the revolutionary guards. there s a real dynamic tension over there. it s entirely possible that the revolutionary guards were acting on their own without collection from the mullahs or from rouhani. it rarely pays to be precipitous
press, let s go. thank you. press, thank you. the president, as you can see, a remarkable exchange there. kristen welker, jonathan lemire, colonel jack. let s talk, first of all, colonel jack about the modulated voice you heard from the president about this, trying to say was saying it could have been a general who was not obeying orders, it was maybe a mistake, not the regime. we re expecting momentarily pentagon, perhaps grainy black and white video do we have that video? there it is. this is the video which is supposed to be showing the aftermath of the drone attack. kerchl jack, do you have return video? can you see what we re showing on the air? yeah, i can. tell me if you can ascertain the significance of this?