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proportionate to shooting down a drone. what now is one big question. fred pleitgen joins us live from tehran, barbara starr is live at the pentagon. barbara, remarkable to get this firsthand account from the president right after the situation. how close were we to this and what now? well, i guess ten minutes if you believe what the president has to say. you know, it s a little mysterious here exactly what may have transpired because you have to logically believe the president, if he desired to have a full briefing on this potential strike, it would have happened a lot sooner than ten minutes before the missiles and bombs started flying. so he would know these things. the military would have offered him briefings, understanding discussions, analysis, all day long. hours before this was even taking place. he suddenly said he cancelled it ten minutes ahead of time. i m not sure what the president s thinking is about
and indirectly, trump campaign information to. offered him briefings. offered him briefings about the analytics that the trump campaign had done of the electorate and that could have been used to shape and fashion the social media attack on our election. admiral, all of this, it raises huge questions about american security and about whether the treasury first of all, these sanctions were forced upon the administration reluctantly. they fought it and fought it. but a republican-led congress forced them last year to put these sanctions on. and now very quietly over the holiday break, they re relieving the pressure on this one guy. it s very disturbing. and one thing you learn in this town is that reality matters but so does appearance. and even if this is, improbably in my view, but even if it is completely some kind of innocent analytical drill that we ve gone