Fox correspondent: President Trump was trying to “muddy the waters” about a missile that reportedly struck a school in Iran
Jennifer Griffin: “it seems highly unlikely would be anyone's tomahawk other than a U.S. tomahawk that hit that school, and I think the president knows that”
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From the March 9, 2026, edition of Fox News Special Report with Bret Baier
BRET BAIER (ANCHOR): I want to bring in Jen Griffin, our national security correspondent. One of the questions, Jen, in that news conference was about the strike on the girls school that's next to a base in Iran, and it was a tomahawk missile, the president saying tomahawks are used by other countries but an investigation is ongoing. What do we know about where that stands?
JENNIFER GRIFFIN (CORRESPONDENT): Well that was a bit surprising to me because basically the U.S. has tomahawks, tomahawks have to be fired from either submarines or from warships. The Brits and the Australians have tomahawks but they are not part of this conflict, and then you also have the Japanese who are in a testing phase, so it seems highly unlikely it would be anyone's tomahawk other than a U.S. tomahawk that hit that school, and I think the president knows that, he just knows that this is a — certainly a mistake, a big mistake, and it's being investigated but, he is trying to sort of muddy the waters by talking about the tomahawks.
BAIER: Yeah, they were saying that they didn't believe it was theirs or they believe that Iran misfired something, are we sure it's a tomahawk that hit that school.
GRIFFIN: There is no evidence that the Iranians fired anything at the school. If you look at the satellite imageries, and there has been a lot of investigations from the air, from these satellite photos showing the impact and showing the likelihood that it was a tomahawk.