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Back to the negotiating table. the military is providing him with options, they are going to be calibrated options designed to send a signal. from my read of hearing there is a 3:00 p.m. meeting in the situation room with a bipartisan group from capitol hill and the urgency of the meeting in the way in which the pentagon is rolling out the evidence of where this drone was, it suggests to me that there will be military action. what that military action is at this point is hard to say, my guess is...

Meetings and we need to get a better readout who is there and crucially if the president is there. if the president is there that makes this potentially a decisional meeting on how to respond. we heard from the president via twitter saying that iran made a big mistake. weve heard from his allies on capitol hill. clearly laying a legal predicate for some sort of response. now we just have to see what the president is going to say. we expect to hear from him in the noon hour. and i think thats goi...

In. >> well, i dont know. it wouldve been jim mattis and before him h.r. mcmaster. those are two points that trump made that i had a lot of confidence in. theres a lot of chaos at the department of defense, obviously. we dont have an acting secretary right now. joan bottlons views on iran are clear. hes a hawk on it. i think hes committed to wanting that regime overthrown. if we could get it overthrown, that would be fine. but the question is how and at what cost. mike pompeo, well see. this is ...

Have to turn to breaking news out of the middle east where an american drone has been shot down by iranian forces. a u.s. official telling nbc news they consider it to be an unprovoked attack on the united states. weve been working on the story all night. she is in the uae just south of iran. kristen welker at the white house where she has been speaking to administration officials. courtney, you first. what exactly happened? we have conflicting reports. >> reporter: thats right. so there are con...

We now have coordinates from the pentagon. obviously it took 13 hours for them, 14 hours to do this after the iranianens. can you i think of why that would be why it would take so long to hear they are proof or side of the story here. >> i cant, erin. thats going to be the interesting piece of conversation in all of this. the iranians are winning the information war. they have already submitted a letter to the united nations through their foreign minister saying this is what happened. that was s...

Pentagon this morning calling this an unprovoked attack. two officials tell nbc news the drone, similar to the one seen on the screen, was shot down in international airspace above strait of hormuz. again, international airspace according to officials. not iranian airspace like tehran explains. an administration official tells us to expect meetings at the white house today, where the president may make some kind of announcement. hes set to talk with the canadian prime minister in two hours and r...

Military has incredible surveillance capabilities, our allies know that and unfortunately our enemies also know that. that global hawk is worth about $180 million, it is an expensive loss, there arent enough and drones in the u.s. military, there is a demand for these all over the world. it is a loss but i think the president is drawing a clear line that there was not a loss of u.s. military personnel lives and that would change the calculation in terms of a military response or any response at ...

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...

Launched and may have moved those missile batteries to a different location. certainly we will go after the assets, whether they are on the water or on land and how we do that is going to be quite interesting to watch. >> harris: one of the things weve been covering, thats so interesting, the shoot and scoop and mobility youre talking about, would it be quick mobility? one thing jennifer said based on the size of this, this was not a shoulder missile and you had this surface-to-air missile was s...

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...