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From iran, the pentagon releasing this video of the islamic revolutionary guard using a surface-to-air missile to shoot down a drone. iran released its own video claiming the drone of violated territorial airspace over the mouth of the persian gulf. the pentagon insists this is international airspace. president trump says iran it made a mistake but downplayed any suggestion that it was a provocation that came from the top. >> it couldve been somebody who is lucinda stupid stupid that did it. we ...

>> youll find out. youll find out. [reporter questioning] >> we arent going to be talking too much about it, they made a very big mistake. >> sean: they made a very big mistake, they will pay. tonight the president is clearly giving the mullahs an opening to pick up the phone and come clean with her hostile behavior. i like that patients, what about all the liberals who said donald trump is rogue and we cant trust him? hes being very patient. congressional republicans released this statement "ra...

Ambassador bolton working hard since provocation began to get allied support. they want to eventually shape a coalition that will be able to detect shipping as it goes through the main artery of oil in the world called the persian gulf and the gulf of oman. that is the objective. we 20 two sets of tankers were attacked in the valuable oil shipping lane the strait of hormuz, saudi thinkers were hit in may, and japanese tankers just last week. joe biden blaming donald trump for the iranian strike....

Mistake. it was intentional. and then you have another iranian official whos saying we communicated with the aircraft, we told it where it was. it almost suggests as if they thought there might be somebody in this, that it wasnt a drone, and that might be a very different proposition. >> yeah, i dont know whether we have great clarity on whether iran knew what it was shooting at in terms of whether it was a manned or unmanned aircraft. i dont know the answer to that question, but, you know, cert...

The u.s. insists that it was in international airspace and that would be an enormous provocation. so, you know, the basic thing we have to establish is the location of that drone. and, you know, the fact that the drone was shot down may also play into the reasons for the delay. indeed, as the article suggests, one of the first things we would do is go after the air defense systems that iran has. and the u.s. military was surprised that this drone was shot down. this was -- this demonstrated a ca...

>> which of course obviously goes against some of the at least our reporting out there. well see. >> well see what happens as it comes out. i dont know. its hard to tell we know things dont add up. colonel one gop source tells cnn it was a mistake that president trump chose not to retaliate. here is one of them, congresswoman liz cheney. >> the failure to respond to in kind of direct provocation that we have seen from the iranians in particular over the last several weeks could in fact be a very...

Drone. if that chairman of the joint chiefs arrived with military options by inviting a tough group of congressional leaders to be briefed in the situation room, the white house fulfilled its duty to consult with congress before using military force. even house speaker nancy pelosi accepted the white house version of events, minority leader chuck schumer warned about bumbling into a war and asked mitch mcconnell to move on the defense bill next week which has an authorization for the use of mili...

In this, that it wasnt a drone, and that might be a very different proposition. >> yeah, i dont know whether we have great clarity on whether iran knew what it was shooting at in terms of whether it was a manned or unmanned aircraft. i dont know the answer to that question, but, you know, certainly this is a provocation by iran, an attack on our aircraft, an attack on shipping belonging to other nations. and i think theres no question that iran has chosen these acts of belligerence partly to div...

Drone. if that chairman of the joint chiefs arrived with military options by inviting a tough group of congressional leaders to be briefed in the situation room, the white house fulfilled its duty to consult with congress before using military force. even house speaker nancy pelosi accepted the white house version of events, minority leader chuck schumer warned about bumbling into a war and asked mitch mcconnell to move on the defense bill next week which has an authorization for the use of mili...

Collision course, and it could get scarier," and you write, both say they dont want a war, but each feeds off the other, and both have behaved reckless way in ways that increased the risk of conflict. how did the shooting down of this drone escalate to the situation that we have right now with iran? >> well, i mean a great deal depends on where the drone was. iran insists that the drone was over iranian airspace, that they collected pieces of it in iranian waters. if that is true, then they are ...