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New released video shows a man's attack on tsa agents at an arizona airport. the new york pill y cans select zion williamson. >> he shares an emotional moment with mom -- passion. good morning. >> i'm dave briggs, june 21st, 5:00 a.m. in the east. 1:30 p.m. in tehran. we begin with breaking news. the president stepping back from the brink. "the new york times" reporting that president trump authorized military strikes against iran, then abruptly called them off. the strikes were in retaliation for iran shooting down a u.s. military drone.

Fred, the fact that it was so close and walked back, what is the response there in tehran? >> reporter: look, the iranians directly so far haven't responded to the "new york times" report, christine. over the past 24 to 48 hours, they made clear if the u.s. made a military move, there would be a big move from them. they've been saying that, first of all, the u.s. would bear the responsibility of any sort of military strike that it would conduct here in iran and also that there would be a crushing response, not just between the u.s. and iran's forces but they said also in a broader area, which ...

Able to get iran to the table so sort of cut off all the drama at this stage? what we do know is there have been other actions in the gulf which are concerning. including the federal aviation administration telling u.s. planes to stay out of the area. and that, of course, because of the back and forth between the united states and iran. back to you, alisyn. >> thank you for all of that breaking from the white house. we'll come back to you whenever you have anything. iran state television just aired images of what it claims is debris of the downed u.s. surveillance plane. and frederik pleitge...

Balls being dropped. both esper and shanahan were involved in these discussions. but on a strategic level, it's a real problem. because allies and adversaries know when you have a fully installed cabinet secretary at the defense department, that person has the ear and influence of donald trump and that person also can make meaningful long-term enduring changes to the institution. and they can count on what they say with some level of credibility. the way they could with mattis. that's a real problem going forward. i think, again bb for what we're talking about today, not a huge problem. but wh...

He laid out how this, we checked them out, it would put them 9 miles off the coast and would mean that would have occurred over iranian face. the president said there would be strikes, calling them off there. hasn't by any relations from the iranians. however, one thing that we have seen is iran's head of their national sort of a security down. >> fred live from tehran. we'll have the latest on all of this in 30 minutes. earlier planned strikes broke on capitol hill. republican senator lindsey graham said he spoke with the president about iran both