Welcome to the beat. I'm Ari Melboro. We begin following this breaking news.

Right now, U.S. force is searching for the missing second crew member of this F-15 fighter jet that was shot down over Iran.

One crew member rescued and is now we can report safely in American custody.

But the other crew member remains missing. We have these images from social media that show some of the search

operations. The F-15 is the first jet shot down by Iran that we know of during the course of this war

that President Trump started. That has been an air war. The New York Times is reporting the second

combat plane also a second combat plane crashed in the region that was earlier today, but that pilot

was safely rescued. The A-10 Wardhawk attack plane went down near the Strait of Ramos about the same time

that an Air Force F-15E was shot down over Iran, the paper reports. The wardhog was hit by Iran,

the journal notes, according to people familiar. MS now has not independently confirmed this.

We can tell you, though, the defense secretary Pete Hegseth, as recently as three weeks ago,

was asserting as a matter of U.S. observation or intelligence, a claim that looks quite different

tonight, that Iran's air forces and defenses, he said, had been basically been destroyed.

Iran has no air defenses. Iran has no air force. Iran has no Navy. Their missiles, their missile

launchers and drones being destroyed or shot out of the sky. Most Americans supporting anything

that keeps our troops safe would like that to be true.

That sounds like a positive.

But as with so many other issues with the Trump administration in general and certainly with

the propaganda around this war, the question is, is that good thing true?

And if not, was Mr. Hegsteth saying something he knew to be untrue, another lie in war,

or was he mistaken? And now we are seeing, very tragically perhaps, what happens when those

claims don't add up, when Iran might be stronger than we were told over time.

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