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Aggressively with our partners both in the region and with those partners internationally that move commerce through this critical part of the world to come to a solution that will enable the free passage of critical oil. >> julie: here is what is critical. the united states is not the only one that should be patrolling these shipping lanes in the strait of hormuz. how do we get our european allies to jump in i understand they are afraid they might escalate the tensions there. but i mean how muc...

Comments that have been made publicly by bolton and pompeo, they are talking a lot about maritime security, that is how to improve security here in the persian gulf. and there was an interesting comment a short while ago from the u.s. envoy to iran or the u.s. envoy for iran, brian hook, he gave a press briefing to reporters in oman, and he also talked about increasing maritime security and said there is an attempt by the u.s. right now to build an international coalition against iran to try to ...

Economic benefit. and then mr. trump blows up the deal. blows up the deal and then applies this maximum pressure on iran, not really knowing what the end game is. its not clear we know as brett says, we know what the end game is here. so the iranians are going you blew up this deal action youre the arsonist and youre saying i want to put out the fire so come talk to me. talk to you to do what? from the i rain januaranian pero get what? >> we had a deal. >> this is the iranian perspective. im not...

About going forward with this attack. >> never gave a final warn something. >> no, no, no. we had something ready to go subject to my approval. they came in about a half an hour before and said were about ready to go. i said i want a -- >> planes in the air? >> no. about ready to go. no, but they would have been pretty soon. things would have happened to a point where you wouldnt turn back or couldnt turn back. >> the administration is stressing this all happened over international waters. so th...

Either/or. i think theres an opening here for the trump administration to maybe get some of the international partners onboard after what iran has done in the last week. it doesnt have to be either/or. you come along with us for more economic and diplomatic pressure or well conduct a military strike. there are military options that are not provocative, not offensive but demonstrable enough to deter iran. so far they have been unsuccessful but there are other things they havent done but they coul...

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Isnt that his problem? >> the trump administration has quietly over the past couple of weeks reach out to iran, through the iraqis, through the japanese, through individuals in oman. and so now we hear that brian hook is off to the middle east yet again to try to talk to regional partners. we dont really know about what but we know its about iran and to try to talk to eu leaders about shoring up support for the u.s. position on iran. it just seems like a mishmash of different ideas about what we...

In the gulf, but we need to sort of scale of back a little bit. this is as hes headed into the launch of his 2020 campaign. and so what we know now is that this has really become a focus of top trump administration officials. we saw brian hook in front of the house foreign affairs committee today, whos one of the top people working on iran policy at the state department who made it very clear to all those watching and to lawmakers that the goal is not to go to war with iran. instead, it is to ge...

Of top trump administration officials. we saw brian hook in front of the house foreign affairs committee today, whos one of the top people working on iran policy at the state department who made it very clear to all those watching and to lawmakers that the goal is not to go to war with iran. instead, it is to get iran to come to the negotiating table and to sort of cripple the iranian economy as much as they can to sort of destabilize some of their military and nuclear activities. >> yeah this a...

Tehran, carrying a message from trump, inviting them to join negotiations and the ayatollah said no way, im not going to talk to you. the trump administration can say, well, abe tried to talk negotiations but they dont want to talk. theyre working hard at the security council. brian hook, the state department representative, has been up there talking to all different members of the counsel. the final key point i think is that cent come or military command, admiral steve eedous theyre coming from...