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Make sure that the president and the administration are acting in the interest of the american people. i dont know what it is theyre hiding. i dont know why theyre afraid to just defend this within the congressional committee, but it certainly is disturbing to see that they are muzzling the inspector general and telling him he cant share this according to his duties under the law. >> some other big news in the world today, the iranian foreign minister tells cnn that if the u.s. were to launch a ...

Made is an awful lot of bluster and not a lot of follow through a lot of the time and it was designed to say the experiment when you can use military force and appealing to his broad instinct which is to get america out of conflicts. >> all right. thank you very much. nick paton walsh in tehran tonight. next, a company facing bankruptcy in its role in the opioid crisis making a request saying they want to pay out tevens of millions of dollars in performance bonuses. its a crisis that could a...

Described the attack, they issue third-degree chilling warning. >> what would be the consequence of an american strike on iran now. >> an all-out war. >> you make a very serious statement. >> i make a very serious statement about defending our country. >> i want to sddig into this. we have brian bennet here, brian, we should naengs ryan has officially denied any involvement in the attack. that said, what do you make of them talking about the possibility of a war? is this just talk and bluster? >...

The battle over that whistleblower complaint that the trump administration is fighting to keep under wraps. well talk to a member of that committee democrat jim himes. and the aps jonathan lemire joins us with his new reporting that posted overnight on trumps hesitation to engage in foreign conflict despite all the bluster. also, we will be talking about the latest scandal from virginias prime minister. >> yeah. and well see what happens. >> well be right back. >> trudeau, yeah. we call it t...

Keeps blowing hot and cold and thats keeping people very confused here. like you mentioned, he said were locked and loaded and were not looking for a military escalation, but iran is saying they are ready for whatever the circumstances are. they said if they were attacked indirectly or directly by the united states, they would fire back they said even if the saudi arabians attacked iran, they would hold the united states accountable for that attack and they would retire u.s. assets. those assets...

And one that will tell us where we are going first, he is a classic ceo who likes to break everything before he got there so he can somehow fix, be a cero the thing that if you are not a hawk, you should feel very, very good about is donald trump doesnt want to go to war not for the left-brain economic reasons. he is ironically one of the most nonconfront -- on a smaller scale he never fires anybody to their face i am not going to use the word, but for all of his bluster and all this tough guy b...

>> reporter: right, anderson. we pretty much know who it is. thats the closest that president trump came to actually blaming iran. far short of where he went on twitter in terms of a response over the weekend. we should note, his secretary of state, mike pompeo, not apprehensive at all. hes squarely placing the blame on iran. and the discrepancy is so glaring that today reporters asked trump if pompeo perhaps had information that the president had yet to see. trump assured reporters that they we...

Talk that took place wouldnt be a talk without preconditions. does that make sense? it doesnt. for the latest, i want to go to cnn white house correspondent boris sanchez. boris, so the president is saying its, quote, looking like iran was behind this attack. he still is not definitively saying they did it, correct? >> right, anderson. we pretty much know who it is. thats the closest that president trump came to actually blaming iran. far short of where he went on twitter in terms of a response ...

Asked lewandowski to try to get the attorney general to curb, yes, the mueller probe, to limit its jurisdiction mueller categorized all of that as part of the efforts to curtail the mueller investigation, the special counsels investigation. so right here you take a step back from lewandowskis bluster and see the outlines of the hiding hide the stories in public, delay as long as possible. in lewandowskis case, to be fair, ultimately tell mueller the truth. of course thats partly to avoid having ...

Diplomatic opening. now with this attack on saudi oil facilities and president trump indicating instead the possibility of a military response with these words "locked and loaded," all of this very much in question. >> jeremy diamond, thank you for staying on top of it. i want to bring in former state department spokesman, john kirby. and former cia counterterrorism official and fbi senior intelligence adviser, phil mudd. admiral kirby, the president says the u.s. is locked and loaded. whats you...