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Tune? >> its so interesting jonathan, and kristen welker as well, in watching this president, completely different tone both on twitter and in the oval office q&a from what weve heard previously when hes talking about tehran and talking about other aggression around the world. it just seems that he is relying on mike pompeo and other advisers -- pompeo having said at centcom earlier this week unless a u.s. soldier -- he said if a u.s. soldier is engaged, then we will respond immediately. we now ...

Changed from iran. thats, in part, because hes been tough on iran. this is certainly at the forefront of foreign policy crises here. at the white house, andrea, theyre navigating all this without an actual defense secretary in place. >> i understand acting defense secretary now withdrawn. shanahan was seen leaving. maybe hes there because the handoff was not supposed to be there until monday. gina haspel from the cia leaving. one of the actions they used before, well, we would not know because i...

To do a better job of getting the revolutionary guards under control. nevertheless, theyve tried it before and they havent been very, very successful. that means that theres continuous danger in the region from this sort of thing happening again and for it to spill over into something wider. the united states i think is not going to make an effort to make a direct attack on the country of iran. but there will be an indirect message that will be sent to iran for them to try to get these people un...

Like it was very calculated and if it happened again, theyll do it again. but all of this animosity is very troubling, andrea. i feel like both sides have gotten themselves into a cycle that they cant back down from. you know, in case they look weak and if they escalate it, things could get very seriously out of hand. irans foreign minister has been saying today that iran will zealously defend its skies, land, and waters. he also says that iran is going to take this case to the u.n. to prove tha...

Iran the benefit of the doubt. we know there were iranian proxies as well as the military part of iran, the revolutionary guard, that has been specifically isolated and sanctioned by the united states. >> or andrea, he could be saying see how uncontrollable things are in iran, see how loose they are. they cannot control their own actors and so, yeah, i think that cuts both ways again for the president, where he can give iran a cover and come back and say some rogue person hit the wrong button, o...

Security team has, andrea. >> kristen, courtney kube our colleague also in the persian gulf and the uae, as weve been reporting, this was a very different donald trump from previous crises and from previous crises involving iran. his language, saying it was a mistake, its very clear that they have pretty good intelligence on who ordered this or he would not be giving them so much leeway after a global hawk was shot down. courtney? >> reporter: im so sorry. can you say that again? >> colonel jack...

Regard, recognizing i think and appreciating the full weight of his power as president and using it judiciously and not just proactively going out -- >> we have arkansas senator tom cotton a military veteran who has been calling for military action. lets go to tehran. how is it being reported there? >> reporter: hey, andrea. well, unsurprisingly, the u.s. narrative of events differs vastly from the iranian version. the u.s. says the drone global hawk was shot down in international air space. ira...

Shot at a u.s. drone but missed it. the fact that this global hawk, which is a high altitude reconnaissance unmanned drone, the fact it was struck and shot down is a new level of escalation in these tension, andrea. >> the existence of these drones tell us a lot about all the slade i dont of the tankers as well because these are basically surveillance. they can be used offensively or defensively, but basically there for surveillance over the strait which is the key stroet stroke point. kristen w...

An interesting sort of move here to have that leadership sort of block and tackle if you will a little bit of what is going on politically with presidential candidates out there on the democratic side sort of getting in front of this narrative and framing it a different way. this way with folks in the room all the players in the room getting the briefing directly from the president and his team, it kind of mitigates a little bit of that because theyre at the table. >> michael, i was really struc...

I think this was not just a way to defuse the situation. i think this is a promulgation of specific information that he had and we do have information like that. dont forget, we monitor not just visually what is going on on the ground. we also monitor telecommunications of all types and varieties and we do it from a number of different platforms, satellites, airborne platforms, ground based platforms and so on. so we have a pretty good idea of how the chain of command thinks about things on the ...