And loaded last night on three different sites but he called off the strike to save lives. The tweet, quote, i asked how many will die. 150 people, sir, was the answer from a general. Ten minutes before the strike i stopped it. Not proportionate to shooting down an unmanned drone. I am in no hurry. The three targets were radar installations and missile sites, the types of facilities iran used to shoot down an unmanned Surveillance Aircraft yesterday. Now were learning that the u. S. Has asked for and will get a special United Nations Security Council meeting on monday. But the u. S. Still has no confirmed ambassador to the u. N. Or a secretary of defense. Lets go to cnns Kaitlin Collins who is at the white house. What are your sources telling you . Were hearing from the president in tweets. Are they saying anything else behind the scenes . Reporter well, were hearing more from the president himself, explaining his decision to call off that strike at the last minute, which the president
Fred . Yeah. Getting new information now from the Iranian Military as well you said, we now also have video and not just still images of those alleged drone parts. As you can see on that video, a lot of those parts are very small and appear to be the outer shell of that drone allegedly of that drone shot down. He just came out and basically confirmed why those parts are so small. He said the drone was at an extremely High Altitude when it was shot down. He says the parts were seeing there are indeed mostly from the outer shell of the body of that drone. And he says the reason why the iranians were able to recover those was because those were floating on the surface in iranian territorial waters. He said the water there is about 400 feet deep. Thats why they werent able to recover more of that drone. The iranians also coming forward and now claiming still obviously that the drone violated iranian air space. Also claiming now that the drone was warned several times by the Iranian Militar
The pressure on, other democrats are rushing to his defense tonight. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. This is cnn breaking news. Were following breaking news on the threat of a dangerous new confrontation. Top congressional leaders were just briefed on the shootdown of a u. S. Drone by iran. The urgency underscored as officials convened in the white house situation room. After the meeting, the Top Senate Democrat is now warning the president against bumbling into an unauthorized war. Mr. Trump leaving his options open, telling reporters, quoting him now, youll find out how and when the administration responds. Also breaking, the transcript of hope hicks closed door testimony is now public. It was just released moments ago by the house judiciary committee. Stand by for new details on that. This hour, ill speak with the former Homeland Security secretary jeh johnson who also served as Top Defense Depar
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