ready to do whatever. whatever they want to do, i m ready. shepard: then reporters asked the president about an exit strategy should war with iran break out. the president said there is no exit strategy. he went on to say we don t need an exit strategy. all of this after the iranian president mocked the president s latest round of economic sanctions and outrageous and idiotic. he said on iranian television today the americans have become desperate and confused and that this has made them unusual measures and talk nonsense. iranian president said the white house is mentally handicapped. ellison barber reporting live. ellison? hi, shepard. iran s president said the latest round of sanctions means failure and defeat for the united states. president hassan rouhani called
saying that we have no exit strategy and the lack of conclusive proof that the drone was even in international waters as opposed to the iranian territory all belie the president s approach here. you don t accept the u.s. position that that drone was over international waters not in iranian air space? our allies you ve been briefed. i have been briefed. i think that the iranians purposely shot down that plane. it s yet to be confirmed where it was. s you have doubts on the u.s. version? i continue to have doubts. i think the administration owes it to the american people to present that conclusive evidence. did you make that point to the pentagone briefers? i can t go into the
so what s he saying there? there won t be war or if he does he doesn t need an exit strategy? do you know what he means? does he have a strategy. lord online knows what he means. but i will say this. trump has been a consistent critic of george w. bush s iraq war as being a folly and one of the most failed examples of u.s. diplomacy in recent history. because in part is it lacked exit strategy. for him to say he doesn t need one is profoundly contradictory from his own criticism of the iraq war. congressman, i want to ask you about a picture we have just coming in. i want to warn everybody about to see it it s incredibly disturbing because i m explaining what you are see processing. the associated press just took this picture. i don t know when they took it they are release going. it s a salvadoran father and his nearly 2-year-old daughter, according to the ap they are dead. in this picture. face down in the rio grand river
across the country. some of that fentanyl coming in from china. so the original discussion was with kellyanne conway, the president s senior advisiviser fentanyl. but the press corps was allowed to ask questions as they did in the last hour, 40 or so minutes ago. they were allowed to ask questions. the press corps asked about the threats and iran. the threat of obliteration and the rest of them where the president said if a war begins with iran, we won t need an exit strategy. now the press corps has been allowed to ask questions again. the white house pool is playing the questions back. listen. northern half of mexico they have discovered fentanyl in mexico. we know it s there. that s why we need a strong southwest border. we re going to have it. thank you very much.
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 it s secretary pompeo. certainly he recognizes it. that s right. he calls it out selectively. president trump said today he does not need an exit strategy. i want to splay play this exchange with reporters if you know what he means. here he is. do you have an exit strategy for iran if war does break out? you re not going to need an exit strategy. i don t need exit strategies.