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Today the head of irans navy is warning it can shoot down another surveillance drone as president trump is expected to increase sanctions on iran. the sanctions come days after the president backed off a plan for air strikes in retaliation for the downing of the u.s. unmanned drone. both "the new york times" and "washington post" are reporting that the same day president trump called off those military strikes u.s. cyber command was conducting online attacks against an iranian intelligence group...

Msnbcs "politicsnation," reverend al sharpton has been busy and hes up early for us in los angeles after covering the south carolina democratic convention on saturday where he had joe bidens first cable news sit down interview since announcing the white house bid and has been involved with the events in south bend. well get to all of that in a moment. turning to the heightened tensions in iran, yahoo news, "the new york times" and "the washington post" report that u.s. cyber command conducted on...

>> we locked up tens and tens of billions of dollars. these sanctions will come along with additional entities where people are hiding, these sanctions are highly effective. well look forward to a time and release sanctions if they are willing to negotiate. >> these sanctions are just the latest tension points that the presidents newest akicting secretary of defense will have to deal with as he starts his interim today. u.s. cyber command stepped up attacking foreign network in iran. joining me ...

Border patrol enforcement released a statement following these reports. the statement reads in part, u.s. customs and border protection leverages our limited resources to provide the best care possible to those in our custody, especially children as dhs, and and cpb leadership have noted numerous times, the short-term facilities were not designed to hold vulnerable populations and we need additional funding to manage this crisis. >> that story keeps getting worse. turning now to the heightened...

With those new sanctions, secretary of state mike pompeo has arrived in the united arab emirates. hes working to build an international coalition against tehran. national security correspondent jennifer griffin is at the pentagon. jennifer, we need our allies to be with us. >> senior u.s. officials confirmed to fox news the u.s. military carried out a cyber attack against iran thursday in response to the american drone being shot down. while most focused on the presidents decision not to carry o...

Russian systems at a depth and with an aggressiveness that has never been tried before." it is intended, "partly as a warning and partly to be poised to conduct cyber strikes if a major conflict broke out between the u.s. and moscow." this initiative has been carried out by u.s. cyber command, which is part of the u.s. military, and this is interesting. recent changes to u.s. law, thanks to both a presidential directive and thanks to a little-noticed new legal authority that was slipped into the...

Got from "the new york times" as of this weekend that the u.s. cyber command has developed sort of remarkable new offensive capacity against russia, but i was very struck by a couple of paragraphs deep into that story in which pentagon and intelligence officials tell "the times" that the president probably wasnt briefed on that. in part because its about russia and senior national security officials, including military officials, dont trust the president to be -- to have sensitive information, p...

>> according to the "times" reporti reporting, they believe mr. trump had not been briefed in any details and broad hesitation to go into detail with mr. trump of operations against russia or concern over his reaction and the possibility that he may count count count count counter -- you will remember this and the russian ambassador of the ambassador and the foreign minister when trump were fed intelligence information and compromised methods necessary to national security. >> joining us now, ou...

Youve got to see this from their perspective, not just the media in the u.s. >> its fascinating, too, david, to look at that, if they go after president trump personally, russian media, whats the impact of that on this administration. >> thats a good question. its not entirely clear at all to us, if the russians have to pick a side in the upcoming presidential election that president trump would necessarily be their favorite candidate. its no the that he goes out and says anything aggressive abo...

May not have trusted with this information >> yes that was the suggestion in the report but another little tid bit in that report was that there was a little bit in a major bill passed last year that i believe gave u.s. cyber command the authority to do more things without presidential approval and thats one of the reason it why this was able to go on without signing off with president trump. rick: specifically the article stated the president gave him the new authority to carry out just this ki...