Sarah good morning to you everyone, targeting several iranian assets when the call came to stand down. If all of this coming after an american drone was shot out of this guy sending washington into a frenzy. This drone was in International Waters and it made a very bad mistake. I find it hard to believe it was intentional, it could have been somebody who was loose and stupid. Whatever it was, it was iranian. How we go forward from here has to be strategic and smart and in close alliance with our allies. To get trump back to negotiating, theyre trying to use hostile acts as a means to do that. If they are successful, that becomes the template for other outlawed regimes and terrorist organizations. To my former cia station chief dan hoffman is standing by but first Lucas Tomlinson. Officials say it at the u. S. Military counterattack has been paused but they are not ruling out strikes today were in the last night, strikes were called off and is not immediately clear why. Today, Iranian S
Said, sir, approximately 150. And i thought about it for a second and i said you know what they shot unmanned drone plane, whatever you want to call it and here we are sitting with 150 dead people that would have taken place probably within a half an hour after i said go ahead. Yeah. I didnt like it. I didnt think it was proportionality. Harris this development. Iran has released images as you see on your screen now which iran claims to show the debris from that navy drone. The revolutionary guard saying some of those remnants were recovered from waters in iranian Territory National security correspondent Jennifer Griffin is live at the pentagon. Jennifer . Atmosphere here at the pentagon here today as opposed to yesterday. U. S. Warplanes were in the air, im told. Navy warships were in position and ready to strike with tomahawk missiles and just waiting the go orders. You heard the president explain his decision to stop the mission at the last minute, but there remains serious questio
Confirmed secretary of defense and nobody would know. Right . It is amazing enough that the white house had been reckless enough to put somebody who was in that kind of a compromised position at the pentagon at all as acting defense secretary for six months, let alone that they nominated him to try to confirm him for that position on a permanent basis. I mean, whatever you think about the circumstances of what had happened in his family, the fact that he was trying to keep it secret . I mean, thats the danger, right . Thats the potential liability to blackmail or somebody trying to leverage that secret against him while hes running the Defense Department. It emerged after usa today and the Washington Post broke that story yesterday and Patrick Shanahan withdrew his nomination to be defense secretary. It emerged that u. S. Senators on the Armed Services committee were especially aggrieved that they had never been notified about that very serious situation in shanahans background that he
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