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Follow through on a measured retaliation for the shooting down of an american drone by the iranians why should they be afraid of massive obliteration. this sounds like typical trump blunder and bluster. and you know, i also find it ironic that the secretary of state would characterize the iranian leader comments as childish and immature. if there is anyone who ought to be an expert in ujds child like and immature its secretary pompeo. >> certainly he recognizes it. >> thats right. >> he calls it...

This is not different than that. i think you always have to remember, he does not view the presidency as fundamentally different than being a reality tv star or being a business man, a deal-maker. i think hes taking the same approach. now the question to your point, wolf, at some point do foreign adversaries or even the political opponents get wise and say you just threaten that youre going to do this stuff and you never actually do it. the scary thing to think about there is what if he calls th...

Backed away from the brink postponing immigration raids planned for ten u.s. cities saying deportation would be delayed to give congress time to find a solution on the border. that move comes as house speaker pelosi said she warned the president that he was, quote, steering the children of america. ill speak with congressman anthony brown of the armed services committee and our correspondents and analysts will have full coverage of the days top stories. lets begin with the breaking news in our c...

Heavyweight military adviser, at work sites risks separating this from "the times" story about that. and trump heard from his are parents from children at day generals and diplomats, care. lawmakers weighed in and so did he also maintains i.c.e. should not devote major resources to advisers. but among the voices that rang powerfully for president trump carry out a mass interior sweep is that of one of his favorite fox news hosts, tucker carlton. by telling lawmakers it needs emergency funding to...

That is all for us tonight. chuck will be back tomorrow with more "meet the press" daily and "the beat" with ari melber starts right now. good evening, ari. >> good evening, steve. thank you very much. tonight donald trumps best peoples claim seems to be demolished by his own internal documents. well explain. we are also two days away from, yes, this first primary debate which everyone has been talking about. tonight on the show youre going to hear from, among other things, some of obamas debate...

Massive immigration arrests. >> the new plans for a large-scale i.c.e. enforcement operation. >> theyre going to start next week. when people come into our country and they come in illegally, they have to go out. they will be removed from the country. it starts, you know, during the course of this next week. >> the president pulling back on that order to start those deportation raids. >> trump says its because democrats asked him for the delay for negotiations. >> and there is more evidence of...

Drone last week. the sanctions are the latest example of mr. trump engaging in bringsmanship with a foreign adversary, something hes tried time and time in the past. a pattern that raises the question, whether this is brinksmanship or more bluster. >> president trump is ratcheting up the pressure on iran. announcing what he described as new hard hitting sanctions on tehrans top leaders adding the move is partly in retaliation for a downing of a u.s. drone last week. >> this, you could probably a...

Hurting them, but i dont know if thats whats going to motivate them. when you have a repressive regime like the iranians and if theyre hell bent on pursuing a nuclear program, this is actually -- provocations and bluster from the american government actually strengths their case internally to continue to move forward. so i worry that because of the presidents habits here, you know, im glad at the end he pulled back, but because of his habits and how he talks about these things, i worry that he m...

In with weak enforcement, put them at risk and is holding some of them -- most of them are being released into the interior of the united states. that is the result of donald trumps bluster. the iranians are acting the same way. the north koreans -- i come from the political right. our core message for a generation has been weakness is provocative. weakness tempts people to push the united states in ways in which the united states will ultimately not go. and donald trump is the most provocative ...

>> do you know who agrees with you? former dhs secretary jeh johnson who i saw speak this last week. and the point you raise, he said donald trumps bluster on immigration brought 16 to 18 months, whatever, some period, and he said, you know, the problem with that is its not policy. bluster can scare in the moment, but in the long run, people will see and feel -- especially when it comes to migration -- what is actually being done on the ground. >> yes. and it also destroys your ability to do thi...