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Short-term basis. but surely, even if youre going to focus on strategy, youll see no return to the united states. >> so, the american voter, colonel jack, isnt, in your view, getting anything out of this situation. so, was this the presidents attempt to help those lower-level negotiators here, in a way, to push it forward? >> i think the thing to do is to start at the end and work backwards, like just about anything else. what is it were trying to achieve? well, strategically, wed really like to...

That marks a shift and not an insignificant one. jo, when you look at the way the president was trying to unstick these negotiations, that was clearly a sticking point for kim. and one of the more interesting but subtle comments that came out of these last 12 hours is the president talking about the hanoi summit, which is widely regarded as a failure because they failed to reach an agreement. he thinks of it as a success because he learned something. and what youre hearing from the president, he...

By tehran but also locally orchestrated for their own reasons locally. >> colonel jack, one last question for you. we dont have a defense secretary in place right now. yesterday was patrick shanahans last day. the acting secretary doesnt start until monday. how dangerous is that? >> its been dangerous for a long time. when shanahan was the acting secretary, we didnt have a secretary of defense either. he was the deputy secretary that means hes the chief operating officer. he does all the adminis...

By all indications, there was a message passed to the iranians and they sent, you know, back to president trump. we got the message. i think that might have had something to do with president trump calling off the attack. i dont really think it had to do with casualties. he got cold feet. but now the question is, you know, what kind of message does this send to iran? does it send a message keep testing us? theyre likely to do. at some point president trump is going to be forced to make that deci...

Maybe some kind of modifications. but any deal he would make with iran would look very much like the old one. >> thats interesting. colonel jack, i want to follow up on this front. trump said that there might have been a mistake made in knocking down this drone and bringing it down. what do you think of that given what transpired? >> well, we tend to think of our enemies and particularly iran as being monolithic. there is an unbroken chain of command. but as weve seen before, theres a lot of fre...

Im going to now turn to those who know more than me because i have heard colonel jack all day talking about this. you see him in the meeting with trudeau talking with seems to be more strength and trying to create space for deescalation. and referring in a way that the president normally would do. seemed briefed, like he knew some things about the intel in a very un-trumpy way. i dont know where its headed but it seems like its headed in a direction even more unpredictable because trump is not b...

>> press, lets go. thank you. press, thank you. the president, as you can see, a remarkable exchange there. kristen welker, jonathan lemire, colonel jack. lets talk, first of all, colonel jack about the modulated voice you heard from the president about this, trying to say -- was saying it could have been a general who was not obeying orders, it was maybe a mistake, not the regime. were expecting momentarily pentagon, perhaps grainy black and white video -- do we have that video? there it is. ...

Shouted question which we could not hear. it was a response to iran and the president mouthed the words, not audibly, youll soon find out. with that on the table, congresswoman houlihan, youve heard all of what colonel jack said and courtney kube and kristen welker. youre on armed services, youre a u.s. veteran. whats your response to what seems to be a very calibrated escalation from iran and counteractions from the u.s. and what some would say and certainly zarifs argument would be the sanctio...

Iran the benefit of the doubt. we know there were iranian proxies as well as the military part of iran, the revolutionary guard, that has been specifically isolated and sanctioned by the united states. >> or andrea, he could be saying see how uncontrollable things are in iran, see how loose they are. they cannot control their own actors and so, yeah, i think that cuts both ways again for the president, where he can give iran a cover and come back and say some rogue person hit the wrong button, o...

Security team has, andrea. >> kristen, courtney kube our colleague also in the persian gulf and the uae, as weve been reporting, this was a very different donald trump from previous crises and from previous crises involving iran. his language, saying it was a mistake, its very clear that they have pretty good intelligence on who ordered this or he would not be giving them so much leeway after a global hawk was shot down. courtney? >> reporter: im so sorry. can you say that again? >> colonel jack...