#488: What Was Iran Thinking Shooting Down a US Drone?
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🗓️ 19 June 2019
⏱️ 22 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Friday, June 21st. I'm Rachel |
| 0:08.9 | Dealt Judas. And I'm Daniel Davis. U.S. Iran tensions just reached a whole new level with Iran having shot down an American |
| 0:15.9 | drone. |
| 0:16.9 | We'll unpack the situation with Tom Spore, Director of the Heritage Foundation's Center for |
| 0:20.8 | 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. |
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| 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. |
| 1:10.1 | President Trump tweeted that Iran had made a very big mistake, but at a press conference |
| 1:14.1 | Thursday he seemed more cool about the issue, even suggesting the attack may have |
| 1:18.6 | 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 |
| 1:27.5 | that made a mistake in shooting that drone down. And fortunately that drone was unarmed. It was not there was no man in it |
| 1:36.8 | and there was no it was just it was over international waters clearly over international |
| 1:41.5 | waters but we didn't have a man or woman in the drone we had nobody in the drone |
| 1:44.6 | would have made a big difference let me tell you would have made a big difference but I have a |
| 1:50.9 | feeling I may be wrong and I may be right but I'm right a lot. I have a feeling |
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