it could be one, could be two tankers, not noosing precise language on what assets have been seized bitynians in the persian gulf this afternoon the president underscoring the close relationship between the united states and the uk which has apparently had at least one tanker seized today. the president saying there is no written agreement between the united states and the uk in terms of how to handle this, but also emphasizing that there is a long standing relationship between the two nations and indicating that the uk does have the u.s.'s support here in all of this. the big question is what, if any, retaliatory action is the uk going to take here and will the united states back their play in the persian guflt. the president seeming to signal support, we don't know support for what just yet, though. >> eamon, just to summarize, of course, it comes off a week where we had hoped that these tensions were easing based on some comments by the secretary of state pompeo earlier in the week. >> right but then we saw yesterday this incident involving the iranian drone which the president said w