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Restrained, does not issue an attack. now has leverage with the allies to give him some assistance. secondly, hes increase the sanctions. so this thing just really has backfired in the iranians face. >> trace: life for us at the pentagon. >> officials confirm the u.s. military launched a cyber attack against iran, following the downing of the american drone. iranian forces were quiet, but tensions remain high pure national security advisor john bolton had this blunt warning for iran. >> neither ...

Days put together a coalition of partners to help protect the shipping lanes in the persian gulf and the gulf of oman. and i believe that he has more leverage to do that now as a result of the presidents restraint. not executing the strike. i also think it is worth a try to try to get them to assist in participating in the sanctions as well. so we will see. i think there is potential here for some progress on the part of the trump administration and our allies and partners. >> sandra: we await a...

I think a lot of restraint has been shown by us. a lot of restraint. and that doesnt mean were going to show it in the future. but i felt that we want to give this a chance. give it a good chance. because i think iran potentially has a phenomenal future. >> retired admiral john kirby is a cnn military and diplomacy analyst. admiral kirby, a pleasure as always. we heard a lot of praise last week for the president showing restraint, calling off the military strike. but irans foreign minister says ...

Want people coming to the country in the first place. it is a leverage of fear. >> it is important to remember too. two things. the vast majority of undocumented immigrants live in big cities like new york and los angeles. most of the people now being added to that population are not people from mexico. they are mostly asian at this point and visa overstays. it is not the case that when he talks about. it is a more complex picture. >> speaking to a reporter who said, my duty is not to look at th...

Efforts and energies instead to support terrorism. >> exactly. and secretary pompeo has said we all look forward to a time when iran becomes a normal nation in the community of nations in the world. as they support hamas and the palestinian authority, threatening our ally israel, hezbollah in lebanon and their activities in syria, their activities in iraq, theyre a threat to saudi arabia with their destabilizing efforts in yemen, they really are the destabilizing force in the middle east which m...

Recently hacked to death an american journalist. so these are rough regimes in a rough part of the world playing a game of power politics. i see no moral distinction between the iranians and the saudis and what we should be doing is trying to de-escalate and trying to have leverage with both sides so we can prevent this cold war from turning into a hot war. we have no idea, and john bolton has no idea what would happen if we started a war. this man, john bolton, has been calling explicitly for w...

Of issues like high-tech and subsidies have broken down last month. more tariffs are being threatened. beijing state media on saturday said that china, this is a quote, has the strength and patience to fight the u.s. to the end. hong kong is a real go-between for trade. one analyst here told us that china could blink. take a listen. >> if xi jinping makes concession to donald trump on trade, its because in china they are treating problems related to economy, the fact that the sanctions, the u.s....

Iran is much more capable than syria. it has missiles it can launch at the gulf. it has missiles it can hit our ships with. it has various proxies in iraq and syria and the middle east and can launch terror attacks against the u.s. ambassador and other facilities. iran might decide we dont want to get into a major conflict with the united states or it might decide to retaliate and respond, in which case we could be off to the races. i think that is the real danger. >> what would the united state...

Maybe he wouldnt have hired him. i think the big difference here is, the president seems to believe or at least hes arguing now this kind of pushing and pulling publicly really helps -- strengthens his hand when it comes to iran. theyre off-balance. somehow this makes him stronger and have leverage in this situation. i think to a lot of people on the outside, including a lot of republicans i spoke to at the end of the week after he pulled back on the strike, they think it looks like incoherence ...

Limited strikes against al assad in syria. the difference is that iran is not syria. iran is much more capable than syria. it has missiles it can launch at the gulf, hit our ships with. it has various proxies in iraq, yemen, syria, and the middle east and launch terrorist attacks against u.s. embassies and other facilities. so, iran might decide, well, we dont want to get into a major conflict with the united states. or it might decide to retaliate and respond, in which case we could be off to t...