meeting to go through options on iran this after iran s alleged attack on a key saudi oil facility. tonight iran is threatening trump. it will respond to an american strike with all-out war. what would be the consequence of an american military strike on iran now? an all-out war. you mack a very serious statement there, sir. i make a very serious statement about defending our country. i am making a very serious statement that we don t want war, but we won t blink to defend our territory. cnn senior international correspondent nick paton walsh is in tehran and that was a very serious statement from minister zarif. does he mean what he says? reporter: i think the tone of that interview was to do two things. they know that the real person they re talking about iran policy is donald trump. john bolton s out. he was the iran hawk, mike
look forward to more jumps on the way to 100. thanks for inviting us into your home, that is it for this special report, fair, balanced, and unafraid. the story hosted by martha maccallum starts right now. martha: setting the bar pretty high. bret: he is. martha: thank you, bret, good to see you. so, everybody, iran s foreign minister speaking out today and he is sending a crystal clear message to president trump and to those who are urging him to take military action against iran. what would be the consequence of an american military strike on iran now? an all-out war. we believe that military confrontation based on deception is awful, will have a lot of casualties. martha: good evening, everybody, i am martha maccallum and that is where the story begins. here is how general jack keane and former defense secretary leon panetta see the situation playing out in the wake of last
conversation. her reporting suggesting that it s donald trump speaking in the kinds of language that we re accustomed to assessing from north korea. i just had the opportunity last week to interview former cia director john brennan. he made an interesting point to me. he said after trump s fehr and fury comment, the north koreans actually backed down, and it was only a few days later when steve bannon gave an interview, i think to the new yorker saying that we have no military option that the north koreans were very attentive to what is said by administration officials, resumed their testing and their missile strikes. i just want to very quickly disagree with something that mark said. if we assume that north korea and kim jong-un is a rational actor, then you have to assume that he would not respond irrationally to a limited american military strike to take
intelligence community and backs them up and supports them and says what everyone else in this country knows, that russia interfered with our elections, all this is for thougnaught. jeffrey, unless you name radical islam or what the enemy is, how are you going to fight it, that was donald trump s criticism of president obama, rightly or wrongly. can you make the same argument on russian hacking? until he acknowledges that russia was behind this and will try to do it again, how can you unless you name it, how can you fight it? anderson, i hope you re sitting down, because i agree with you. my point is, let me just read you one part of a sentence from a new york times story on april 7 of this year. the american military strike against syria threatened russia relations on friday. in other words, when the
7th of this year. the american military strike threatened american relzs on friday as the kremlin denounced the use of force. in other words when the president perceive as basic interest of the united states to be at stake, come hell or high water he s going to act russians or not. what we saw from the obama administration was an unwillingness to act. what weir trying to focus on is what now. what s he doing then? well, i think he is going to take into account all the advice we re seeing here. the washington post says despite the dire warnings there were no but he was just meeting with cyber security people this week. he sat with all the leading people of the cyber world and