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The US has begun striking Iran in retaliation for its Monday night downing of an American military helicopter and its two pilots, US Central Command said Tuesday.
A Texas Republican went after the wrong congresswoman Tuesday — and got schooled on the spot.The mix-up unfolded at a House Judiciary Committee hearing already careening off the rails. GOP witness Alveda King — niece of Martin Luther King Jr. and a Fox News contributor — had just derailed Democratic questioning by shouting "Stop killing the babies and cutting the penises off!"Rep. Becca Balint (D-VT), reacting to King's outburst, said she hadn't been aware that penises were being cut off babies.Then Rep. Lance Gooden (R-TX) seized the moment — and blew it.Rising to submit a unanimous consent request — a procedural move that allows members to enter material into the congressional record — Gooden announced he wanted to submit an article on Trump administration statements about transgender surgery for minors. He directed it squarely at Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX)."I'll send you a copy, Ms. Crockett," Gooden said, "so you can learn more about this."One problem: Crockett hadn't said anything about baby genitalia. That was Balint.Crockett didn't let it slide."Mr. Chairman," she said evenly, "just for purposes of the record, know that that side doesn't have too many women, so we may all look alike, but that was actually my colleague."Balint, unfazed, leaned right in."I take full credit," she said.Gooden backed down fast. "I apologize," he told Crockett. "I just assumed it was you. Please forgive me."The exchange was a sideshow inside a sideshow. The hearing — titled "The Southern Poverty Law Center: Manufacturing Hate, Part II" — was called to examine a federal indictment against the SPLC alleging it secretly paid more than $3 million to informants embedded in extremist groups, including the Ku Klux Klan.Crockett had spoken before Gooden, submitting two articles into the record — one from ProPublica on hate group members identified at the Capitol riot, and one from Salon on the SPLC's work fighting hate groups.
Trump administration officials have expressed in private that they are concerned that the ceasefire between the United States and Iran has given Tehran a chance to recover from previous attacks, CNN reported on Tuesday. CNN senior reporter Zachary Cohen said that as President Donald Trump responded to a downed Apache helicopter that was patrolling over the Strait of Hormuz and vowed to retaliate, behind-the-scenes sources said this issue had been raised.CNN anchor Brianna Keilar asked Cohen about a recent report that Iran had started to build drones again and "re-upped its drone production during the ceasefire." She questioned if Trump administration officials were reflecting on whether "the ceasefire being dragged out now, weeks and weeks, is giving Iran these capabilities."Cohen confirmed that was the case — but not something that Trump has acknowledged in public."That's something that we hear from sources and U.S. officials in private, for sure," Cohen said. "But we have not heard the president in particular, or Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, voice a similar concern, really painting a more optimistic and a more confident view of the damage that the U.S. military has inflicted on the Iranians' capabilities," Cohen added. "But as you mentioned, we reported that the Iranians have been using this time the ceasefire to reconstitute many of their military capabilities. And it's already restarted production on some of these attack drones that, as we're seeing today, are capable of taking down an Apache helicopter, also a threat to U.S. Navy ships and commercial ships alike."
President Trump vowed to respond after a US Army helicopter was downed last night, confirming that the Iranians executed the attack. President Trump initially told reporters while departing Queens, New York, after attending Game 3 of the NBA Finals, "The pilots are fine." "Nobody injured. The post JUST IN: “The United States Must, of Necessity, Respond to This Attack” – Trump Reveals Downed Apache Helicopter Was “Shot Down” by Iranians, Vows Response appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
'We can't let them, and I know the president's not gonna let them get away with this'
President Donald Trump threatened a military response to the downing of a U.S. Army helicopter over the Strait of Hormuz.The two crew members were rescued in the first-ever sea drone operation conducted by the U.S. military, and the president blamed the crash on an attack by Iran."I have just been informed by our Great Military that last night the Iranians shot down one of our highly sophisticated Apache Helicopters while patrolling over the Strait of Hormuz," Trump posted Tuesday afternoon on Truth Social. "There were two pilots involved, both are safe and uninjured. Nevertheless, the United States must, of necessity, respond to this attack. Thank you for your attention to this matter!"CENTCOM has previously stated the U.S. Army AH-64 Apache went down near the coast of Oman while patrolling regional waters and that the cause of the incident remained under investigation.A fragile ceasefire between Israel and Iran appeared to hold Tuesday despite the two countries trading military strikes Sunday and Monday, and Israel has continued its parallel strikes against Iranian-backed Hezbollah forces in Lebanon.
President Donald Trump said, “the United States must, of necessity, respond” against Iran for shooting down a US military helicopter. Trump made the announcement in a social media post on Tuesday afternoon. Tyler Kendall reports on Bloomberg Television. (Source: Bloomberg)