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Did we have a real opportunity now to engage iranians and they should know that if they do something again, the president is not going to be that generous next time. >> they cancel air a strikes one being that president public handling of the u.s. response and another being that the trump administration doesnt have a clear plan of action to respond to iran. >> did the right thing by calling by not -- but i think he did wrong thing by talking too much. these are thingses that you need to keep clo...

American credibility in the region? >> i think that remains to be seen. i think the sanctions are working. i think they are devastating iran which is why iran is lashing out like they are. i still, again, i will like to see at least the destruction of the site that took out this drone at the very minimum, but that said its not happening. what does it do to the credibility? i think it depends how it plays out from here. if iran does another thing similar to that, i think they would be underestima...

That seems to be off the table at least for now. what does that herky jerk if you want to call it or that whiplash on policy, what does that do to american credibility in the region? >> i think that remains to be seen. i think the sanctions are working. i think they are devastating iran which is why iran is lashing out like they are. i still, again, i will like to see at least the destruction of the site that took out this drone at the very minimum, but that said its not happening. what does it ...

>> ed: here is what the president himself on a question of credibility said about military action before. listen to him. >> america will not be held hostage to nuclear blackmail. we will not allow american cities to be threatened with destruction. we will not allow a regime to that chance death to america to gain access to the most deadly weapons on earth. todays action sends a critical message. the united states no longer makes empty threats. when i make promises, i keep them. >> ed: is that wh...

Shep? >> shepard: what are you hearing from the suspect here, the accused? >> well, i spoke briefly to chief gallagher as he arrived in court earlier today with his wife by his side as always. listen here. >> morning, mr. gallagher. >> morning. >> feel like youre almost there? >> yes. thank you. >> andrea gallagher has been her husbands staunchest supporter calling him a war hero and lashing out continually of those that testified against him. listen here. >> theyre either covering the lies that...

Mislabel this, the size of an airliner and $260 million, theres got to be a cost to you. going forward if they think the president is going to do the same thing, if they should anything else down, i think hes going to and the pressure is going to be on him so much that there would be a response that laws that with actually pale in comparison. >> ed: interesting. last question. what about this president moving forward in the fact that he drew out there today the idea of the potential for more san...

What precipitated all of this, and i think it surprised the white house how effective its been in its sanctions effort imposing major hardship sanctions on iran, that has resulted in iran lashing out by putting arms on tankers, bombs on on tankers, the attack on the american drone, provided harmed drones to the houthi rebels to attack arab allied airports in the gulf. this is irans chess game that it is playing, but i dont believe in the end the united states has really calculated how iran would...

Basically echoed that statement. theyre not saying it was a mistake. >> not only is an arm of the military but the ilgc exists within all the elements of governance in iran. im skeptical that was a mistake. the intelligence in saying it was very clear, they went after the drone. and so i see this as a series of events of iran trying to change the narrative. look, diplomacy is starting to work a little bit. sanctions are starting to strangle tehran quite considerably. we should not be surprised i...

Why donald trump has had to impose these sanctions is because of the obama administrations nuclear deal. when donald trump came into office, iran was on the march across the middle east. and it was fueled by the pallets of cash and billions of dollars in sanctions relief that came from that nuclear deal. the promise of a nuclear deal was its going to improve irans behavior instead of have the opposite effect. what donald trump did was he cancelled the nuclear deal and imposed massive sanctions o...

Organizations, stuff happens and the boss doesnt necessarily know about it and you go oh, my god, what happened here. >> but you dont get an official from iran coming out afterwards you shouldnt have been there, were not going to take it, and were going to the u.n. to tell them you lied about where it was and another official came out and basically echoed that statement. theyre not saying it was a mistake. >> not only is an arm of the military by the irgc exists within all the elements of govern...