traditional iran hawks and the american first non-interventionalists. speaking for the hawks look no further than national security adviser john bolton in the oval office today. behind the desk in the oval office. no question this was an iranian drone. the uss boxer it posed a threat. entirely the right thing to do. reporter: the taking of the british ship ups the ante with an ally but is a direct threat to us sovereignty? it was called unacceptable, the response would be considered and robust. the iranian actions, weeks and the brits grabbed one of the iran s tankers. the iranian s promised that would not go unanswered and here we are. we have a close alliance with
but i rainian forces. we re told it has been set free to continue its journey. here s british foreign secretary jeremy hunt. we will respond in a way that is robust and we re absolutely clear if this situation is not resolved quickly, there will be serious consequences. in recent weeks, authorities say iran has attacked various oil tankers, shot down a u.s. drone in international airspace, captured several foreign tankers and flew a drone within 1,000 feet of the u.s.s. boxer. the u.s. navy brought down the drone by using an electronic jamming device to disable it. iranian officials say the drone is not theirs. the pentagon says it is. today president trump said this about the latest escalation. iran is in big trouble right now. their economy is crashing. a lot of bad things are
but i rainian forces. we re told it has been set free to continue its journey. here s british foreign secretary jeremy hunt. we will respond in a way that is robust and we re absolutely clear if this situation is not resolved quickly, there will be serious consequences. in recent weeks, authorities say iran has attacked various oil tankers, shot down a u.s. drone in international airspace, captured several foreign tankers and flew a drone within 1,000 feet of the u.s.s. boxer. the u.s. navy brought down the drone by using an electronic jamming device to disable it. iranian officials say the drone is not theirs. the pentagon says it is. today president trump said this about the latest escalation. iran is in big trouble right now. their economy is crashing. a lot of bad things are
maintained. there is so much confusion here on what happened with the tanker or tankers. a lot of confusion on whether surrounding an iranian drone was shot out of the sky by a u.s. warship. get us up to speed on what we know at this point and what we don t know at this point. that is right. lots of claims, counterclaims, and finger pointing. with the drone situation initially, president trump had come out and said that the u.s. had shot down an iranian drone that was doing menacing maneuvers around the uss boxer. the iranians refuted the claim that their drone had been shot down. they said their drone was on a reconnaissance mission, gathered intelligence and safely returned back to base. late last night the iranians
united states will the right to defend our personnel and interests and calls upon all nations to condemn iran s attempts to disrupt freedom of navigation and global commerce. steve: there have you got president trump yesterday in the east room calling on world leaders to act after a u.s. warship apparently destroyed an iranian drone in the strait of hormuz. trump says the drone came within 1,000 yards of the uss boxer and apparently ignored repeated calls to stand down. now iran claims what are they talking about? we didn t lose any drones. here to weigh in is former u.s. army special ops and strategic advisor to white fox defense bretve. bret: velicovich. apparently we didn t shoot it down with a missile or anything we got some sort of a sonic device, right. exactly. first let me say that i am thrilled to hear we conducted some sort of military action against the