Doe Terrence News Today

Democratic republic of congo. You are watching cnn, im brooke baldwin, thank you for being here. We begin this hour with those internal conversations between the white house and the pentagon. The conversations that led the president to call off a pending military strike against iran, after a massive u. S. Drone was shot down in the region just one day ago. First, the president s own candid explanation on why he pulled the plug with only 10 minutes to spare. They came and said, sir, were ready to...

Retired navy commander. kathy gillson a staff writer for the atlantic. she wrote a lot about this today. commander im starting with you, the president says this strike was "not proportional to shooting down an unmanned drone." do you agree with that? >> well, i dont know exactly what the strike consisted of, im seen a lot of different reporting on it, lets assume the civilian casualties were roughly realistic, around 150. i think that is disproportionate, in some cases, you do want a disproporti...