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And it appears that the president is going to share the plate with the current situation and perhaps go into the courses of action that lay in front of him and share that with the congressional leadership. >> harris: we are getting worried that the majority leader senator mitch mcconnell is going to head to the white house for that briefing on iran today so people are starting to put their plans into place, timing may slide it to her for a what we are reporting on that. you mentioned global hawk...

This region right now. what youre seeing is the actual impact from the surface to air missile, fired, we are told, by the head of u.s. air operations out in the gulf from an iranian town. it was fired at the global hawk drone that was flying up above the gulf of oman nearing the strait of hormuz. over international waters, according to defense department officials, who just spoke on the issue. this video was released by the pentagon just moments ago. it shows the actual moment of impact. its a v...

Altitude, approximately 34 kilometers from the nearest point of land on the iranian choice. this dangerous and escalatory attack occurred in established air quarters between dubai and muscat, possibly endangering innocent civilians. thank you. >> colonel jack jacobs, you just heard that audio briefing from the air base. lets talk about what your interpretation of this. i was going to ask you, what are the chances that a global hawk could drift into iranian airspace? >> well, anything is possible...

We have so many vacancies. even the acting chief of staff with no experience on this issue tells you a lot about chain of command and the advice the president may or may not be getting. >> im worried, as you mentioned, we may be stumbling our way into an unintentional war. we need to be deliberative and thoughtful. at this point in time i think both sides are behaving poorly without a whole lot of thought process into why it is were doing this. both sides seem to be very significantly stating th...

Theres very little doubt in anybodys mind that this was, in fact, in the middle of the straits, already recognized as a safe passage area. i think its interesting to note that the attack took place at all when iran would prefer not to engage the united states, and yet the attack occurred i think principally because the revolutionary guard corps wants to follow its own path and own course, thus the attack on the ships in the straits earlier this week and this attack on the aircraft today. but it ...

Lives selling war equipment as hess defense secretaries. >> yeah. he happens to like most of them are acting in those positions because he feels like he can hold it over their heads. i dont know, he really said only the best and i think we really have seen just the bottom of the barrel, frankly. >> manafort was one of his first choices. there is cleaning the swamp. >> i will say that mattis was a really good choice, so was tillerson, so ill give him that. >> he is better off helping people getti...

An american family. this is also a story about vetting and a lot of acting titles in the trump administration. what do our viewers need to know about the story? >> a tragic story on a personal level for acting secretary shanahan. putting that aside for the moment, looking at foreign policy in this administration, this entire episode, that vacancy now with another acting secretary, it leaves the impression for so many officials in this administration that secretary of state mike pompeo along with...

Starting to remove a lot of troops. >> the removal of troops is not a story we have been covering. >> well it seems -- we have a president who seems to be at odds with his national security team. rather than the security team when mattis and tillerson and mcmaster were there intent on restraining a volatile president from going too far. now its the other way around. bolton is the hawk. pompeo is a strong conservative hawk on these things and the president is saying lets -- hes more than happy to...

Sort of the other way around. john bolton is the hawk as robert said. pompeo is pretty strong, a conservative hawk on some of these things. it is the president who is saying, wait a second. lets tamp this down a little bit. he is more than happy to attack iran rhetorically and economically but said in an interview i think on monday that the explosions on the tankers in the gulf of oman were minor incidents, basically implied he wasnt going to take military action over that. he would he said perh...

Airstrikes against iran. with the presidents iran strategy, personally, whats he think? in an interview with "time" magazine, he down played the oil tanks in the gulf of oman as minor. the pentagon announced this week, it would be sending another 1,000 troops to the region. whats the message? i am joined by elyse jordan and national security council aid under president george w. bush. and a former state department senior adviser under president barack obama. what do you read here? i mean, tucker...