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Have his new interview. you have, as we talked earlier in the show, the iranians presidents new comments saying they dont want to wage war. what is the off-ramp to try to deescalate things? >> that is the primary question. are we negotiating in private the iranians, yes or no. are we trying to mediate this confrontation? there is danger here. if the iranians make a mistake and strike at the u.s. navy, there will be war in the middle east. and it will go badly for the iranians. i cant personally ...

Saying basically he is forcing the first responders to beg for this funding when it comes up for renewal. this is a story that has captured the attention of washington, the rest of the country, as you noted, it all started when stewart testified on capitol hill, the emotional plea to congress to permanently pay for the september 11th victims compensation fund so they arent constantly having to ask for it. overnight he appeared on his good friends stephen colberts show to hammer home that point. ...

Every time you see small round numbers we are politically signaling. the problem is that interview was fascinating. the president signaling to the saudis, gulf coast states who have to export oil and japan and oil, who desperately need the oil, we dont really care about it. so it was a surprising statement by president trump. and i think the second thing is he said he would go to war over nuclear weapons. >> right. >> which are not susceptible to a military strike. so it is a very strange situat...

Comments that theres no wait senate wont address the funding, as you pointed out. but first it does have to go through the house where it is expected to pass. the fund is currently set to stop taking claims in december of 2020, hallie. >> kristen welker, appreciate you bringing us that. thank you. listen, senator mcconnells former chief of staff josh holmes tweeted about it this morning. he said i actually like john stew war and i like his passion for 9/11 victims, but generally when someone say...

Nuclear weapons but probably not go to war. he said, quote, i would certainly go over nuclear weapons and keep the other a i question mark. the pent gone sending a thousand more troops to the region. new pictures of what they say is more evidence iran was behind the attacks. including a boat. removing an mine. pieces of the mine still attached by magnets. this morning, iran is responding. nbc news tehran bureau chief is joining us from there. ali, what are rouhani saying? >> reporter: rouhani ca...