Deal with any form of aggression. He went on to say this is the way the iranian nation deals with its enemies. Tensions still flaring up here after the attacks on the tankers. After the tanker attacks, the u. S. Said the iranians also tried to fire at a u. S. Drone at this point in time. This general also saying once again iran does not want any sort of war, but hes also saying iran is very much prepared for war, alisyn. Please stand by for us and bring us the latest from tehran as soon as you have it. This action comes just after President Trump is down played the threat from iran. Joe johns is live with reaction from there. Reporter so far no substantive reaction from the white house, alisyn. Of course the white house can reserve the opportunity to allow the pentagon to speak for itself in situations like this. So were still waiting from this source or the source across the river to give us something more. What we do know is this is the latest example of escalating tensions in the gu
Like a tinderbox. Chris calendar in the studio. The reason they call it a forest, tucker 52 acres of timber, some eight or 900 years ago that is what it took to build this thing, 800 years ago and the timber come of course drying for that long so when this went up a tinderbox for all intensive purposes. It happened a little after 6 00 p. M. Paris time and you can see the smoke coming up out of the cathedral and people were wondering what the smoke was and then minutes later, you look at the pictures and you can see the flames, the smoke had gotten much darker. The firefighter say they were actually there as soon as the workers because they are now in the process of renovating where they were renovating the fire. The workers where they are and the firefighters trying to bring them out, but the problem was, there was no resources which is because the people in the scene said it was unbelievable that you had this thing burning. And you see that notre dame actually on an island. There is a
That drone was over iranian territory. Its huge. Known as the rq global hawk. Its the equivalent of a wing span of a boeing 757. It weighs eight tons. This is not a little drone that youre used to see. Lets get to the pentagon, Barbara Starr is there. What is centcom saying. Well, they are saying this was often unprovoked attack in International Airspace. Its worth thinking about why is that drone there in the first place. That drone is packed with ing s gathering information on what iran is up to. This is a drone that can fly for about 30 hours and can cover thousands of square miles of surveillance of airspace and land below. So this is a very key asset. Theres going to be a lot of questions about the capability of iranian surfacetoair missiles. That they were able to target this drone very clearly. Theres been a lot of concern that Iranian Missile capability is getting better, more precise, more able to target. This may be an example of those improvements. We will have to see. But a
Want to make sure were respected again. I hate to interrupt you, but ill took 15 minutes of Laura Ingrahams show. Its her birthday today, sir. Shes a great person. Ive known her a long time. Shes a great person. Tell her happy birthday, thank you for being with us. Hi laura, happy birthday from me and the president wants to wish you happy birthday. Hey, mr. President. Happy birthday, wow, thats great. Known each other a long time. Congratulations on your show. A big success, laura, big success. I appreciate it. Thank you so much, mr. President. If you want to stay on for a fee minute, thats fine. Ini dont want to take the baton. We hand off to laura. I want to thank you both. I tell you what, great patriots, love our country, you know whats happening. I appreciate it. At so does everybody else. Thats why you do as well as you do. They appreciate it. They really get it. The people of this country, they get it. Theyre smart. Did you get briefed on the syrian attack or planned attack on a