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Out of all international conflicts and that promise comes in contrast with the actual strategy of maximum pressure that he is excerpting on iran on other countries as well that has not proven to be very successful at this point what he wants essentially is to get iran back on the negotiating table to get a tougher nuclear deal iran refuses so is saying that the united states have lost all their credibility. after lees leaving the nuclear deal so that will be interesting to follow. both countries...

Out of all international conflicts and that problem is comes in contrast with the actual strategy of maximum pressure that he is excerpting on iran on other countries as well that has not proven to be very successful at this point what he wants essentially is to get iran back on the negotiating table to get a tougher nuclear deal iran refuses so is saying that the united states have lost all their credibility. after lees leaving the nuclear deal so that will be interesting to follow. both countr...

Mentioned that its really an ambivalent and complicated relation but really they try to be very harmonious place sample both will visit the korea north korea north korea china friendship tower and also to break the historic ties both were fighting in the korean war which started 66 years ago and both sides need each other china needs north korea because it wants debility in the regions and of course north korea needs china because its the economic lifeline of the country and without china they b...

Itself or its allies. so this is the right message to be sending to tehran. it is a brutal, barbaric dictatorship. the u.s. approach of maximum pressure is the absolutely right approach. >> bill: with 1,000 troops heading to the region, what does it suggest to you? youre of the mind the trump administration does not want to escalate this matter with iran. >> i dont think the trump administration has any intention of going to war. the administration clearly is making all preparations any kind of ...

Carried out the attacks. our fred pleitgen reports on the escalating tensions between the two countries. >> reporter: the iranians now throwing some allegations back at the united states. this time in the form of the speaker of irans parliament who on sunday came out and said that he believes that the u.s. is behind the attacks on those two tankers in the gulf of oman. he said that he believes that its part of americas campaign of maximum pressure against the iranian government and also that he ...

Had four tankers a couple weeks ago and attacks at saudi. we had a rocket trying to bring down one of our drones. >> theres no question that iran is behind the attacks. i think the evidence is very strong and compelling. reporter: at least two republican lawmakers are talking about military action. they say the administration so-called campaign of maximum pressure is working, and the u.s. should increase the pressure. house intel chairman adam schiff says military action is the wrong approach in...

Game, but as the attacks took place, i note that the prime minister -- or the prime minister of japan, shinzo abe, had just arrived there in tehran for talks with iran to try to broker a deal. how is this administration playing this all out? is it a good cop/bad cop or what? >> i dont think there are too many good cops in this administration when it comes to iran. i think theyre playing bad cop/bad cop strategy. but this was a signal from the iranians were not ready to talk. that the trump admin...

Military general mark hertling said this? >> its very interesting and weve seen worse. weve seen an indicator this could reflect the same thing we saw in the 1980s with the tanker wars where iran actually interfered with shipping in the gulf. isn in the strait of hormuz can affects the economy on a massive scale. 80% passes through those straits. when you think about the potential of closing down those straits its horrendous in terms of what it could do to the economy. but also, what it could do...

This yesterday on a cable news show. he used the opportunity to attack his predecessor barack obama and the iran nuclear deal. the president saying effectively that iran is doing this out of desperation because their economy has tanked due to his harsh stance against them, the removal of the united states from the jcpoa. you noted that japanese prime minister shinzo abe was in iran this week. there was some speculation that he might be brokering a potential meeting between american and iranian l...

Is this all groundswell building towards some kind of military full-blown military confrontation or is this what the administration says? this is about deterrence? >> according to donald trump the policy of maximum pressure on iran is to get back to the negotiating table and the nuclear issue and raised some other issues like intervention. griff: do you buy that? >> that is what the president would like to see happen but some of his more hawkish advisors like john bolton and mike pompeo have a m...