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Territorial waters and air space. the rest of the international community generally does not agree. they see it as international. this comes just one day after the u.s. military delivered what they called hard evidence that one of the tankers attacked in the gulf of oman last week was targeted by a limpit mine. they didnt say it was specifically placed by iran but did say it is the kind of explosive iran has in its inventory. >> kristen, what is the white house saying? >> reporter: i spoke with ...

However, he signaled hes not prepared to take any military action at that point for any of these other types of incidents that theyve been tracking here. now, again, as the calculation changed in the wake of what happened, this is again a new provocation by iran based on how the white house perceives it. we know theyre trying to determine exactly what they will do and what the response will look like, andrea. >> kristen, the president was tweeting about the big mistake. i wanted to play somethin...

As the tensions between iran and the u.s. have continued to flare up over the past week since those two tankers were attacked in the gulf of oman. the u.s. blaming the iranians. the iranians saying it wasnt them. one of the things now might recall is around that time the iranians also tried to fire or did fire at a u.s. drone that was flying over the area. they say at that time they had missed the drone. so as you can see, those tensions still very much flaring up as both sides saying they dont ...

Ainsley: we begin with a fox news alert. tension in the middle east reaching a boiling point. iran says its ready for war after shooting an american drone down overnight. ed: a series of alarming incidents nut middle east. steve: lucas tomlinson is in the middle east with the latest on this? >> steve, ainsley, ed, im told the race is on to recover the wreckage of a u.s. navy high altitude drone shot down by iranian surface-to-air missile last night shot down over the strait of hormuz not far fro...

Waters, what does it say to you? >> right no it says they are looking at the menu of options to respond. there should be some sort of response that they have to come up with and im actually glad to see that that process seems to be happening today. we havent seen it all that recently, but that doesnt mere we have a strategy to handle iran in the long term. both have talked about regime change. president trump mostly limits his ra, to getting back to the table, so clearly theyre not on the same p...

Goals inside the white house? >> i think there is. look. if you take what -- look at what bolton is saying both currently and historically, bolton is much more ma materialistic about iran. this is not a surprise. i think there is some belief that bolton is much more interested in a conflict than certainly the president is. the president is the president. and we have seen over many months the president has gotten frustrated with the idea that john boltons words are being taken of having more weig...

>> iran is a much different country. i will tell you, much different today than when i took over. when i took over it looked like there was no stopping them. right now -- >> you say they never get nuclear weapons? >> i would say if i were you dont worry about a thing. >> dont worry about a thing. now, that tone really echoes what the president said last week after u.s. officials blamed iran for attacking the japanese oil tankers in the gulf. in that instance the president said while he would go ...

So will he be able to resist responding in kind? >> he usually responds to a provocation when its a smaller thing that he can punch and knock down. hes pretty aware he cant actually do that with iran. so i dont think youre going to see the typical, you know, as if he were swinging back at a primary foe. i think he is going to actually be a little more careful in what he says. >> it is interesting when you listen to the language he used last night. not dissimilar in some ways to the language he u...

Alert. the message from iran, ready for war, asked her an act of hostility against the united states. rob: a navy drone shot down in international airspace. any ideas how the us might respond to this? >> reporter: tensions have skyrocketed, the race is on to recover the us navy drone shot down by iranian surface-to-air missile. not clear how the us will respond to the provocation. officials tell me a target list has been brought up but it is up to donald trump to strike back or not. before the i...

So following up admiral starvidas point, at what point did the iranians move to such down a u.s. drone, there have been attacks on shipping, that the u.s. is forced to respond. do you see that looming in the next days and weeks? >> i do. remember, the goal of the trump administrations policy allegedly or supposedly has been to pressure iran to negotiate. not to go to war with iran, but to bring iran back to the table. but the iranians have been responding in exactly the opposite way. theyre resp...