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#488: What Was Iran Thinking Shooting Down a US Drone?

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🗓️ 19 June 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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U.S.-Iran tensions just reached a new level: Iran shot down an American drone. In today's episode, we unpack the situation with Tom Spoehr, director of The Heritage Foundation's Center for National Defense and a former Army general. Plus: Days after Rep. Alexandria-Ocasio Cortez compared U.S. border camps to Nazi concentration camps, a Polish member of Parliament is inviting her to Poland to potentially rethink her comparison. Rachel and Daniel discuss.We also cover the following stories:-Supreme Court rules the Peace Cross war memorial can stand-Democratic staffer who attempted to doxx senators heads to prison-Rhode Island legalizes abortion up to birthThe Daily Signal podcast is available on Ricochet,iTunes, SoundCloud, Google Play, or Stitcher. All of our podcasts can be found at DailySignal.com/podcasts. If you like what you hear, please leave a review. You can also leave us a message at 202-608-6205 or write us at letters@dailysignal.com. Enjoy the show! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Friday, June 21st. I'm Rachel

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Dealt Judas. And I'm Daniel Davis. U.S. Iran tensions just reached a whole new level with Iran having shot down an American

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drone.

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We'll unpack the situation with Tom Spore, Director of the Heritage Foundation's Center for

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National Defense and a former Army General.

0:23.4

Plus, days after Alexandria Ocasio Cortez compared the U.S. border camps to Nazi concentration

0:29.6

camps, a Polish member of Parliament is inviting her to Poland to potentially rethink her comparison.

0:35.6

We'll discuss.

0:36.6

By the way, if you're enjoying this podcast, please consider leaving a review or a five-star

0:41.3

rating on iTunes and encourage others to subscribe. Now on to our top news.

0:47.0

While President Trump is weighing options in responding to Iran's shooting down of a U.S. drone.

0:55.4

Iran claimed responsibility for shooting down the drone on Thursday, saying it had violated

1:00.3

Iranian airspace, but the U.S. disputes that, saying that the drone was clearly in international airspace

1:07.0

over the Strait of Hormuz, which is near Iran.

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President Trump tweeted that Iran had made a very big mistake, but at a press conference

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Thursday he seemed more cool about the issue, even suggesting the attack may have

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been a mistake. Here's what he told reporters. And I think probably Iran made a mistake. I would imagine it was a general or somebody

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that made a mistake in shooting that drone down. And fortunately that drone was unarmed. It was not there was no man in it

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and there was no it was just it was over international waters clearly over international

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waters but we didn't have a man or woman in the drone we had nobody in the drone

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would have made a big difference let me tell you would have made a big difference but I have a

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feeling I may be wrong and I may be right but I'm right a lot. I have a feeling

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