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A carefully curated strategy. setting the stage for the trump administration to put sanctions back on iran in three weeks. im joined by national security and military reporter courtney. love having you on. we debunked the wag the dog theory yesterday, but lets talk about what officials are pointing to, based on your reporting, andrea mitchells and others. they say the crackdown started with the may 8th announcement to withdraw from the nuclear deal. june 4th, the administration threatened to sto...

Peter strzok two days after trump was elected to page there is no there there. what is he talking about? he was doing the investigating from the jump from jump street. what trump was basically saying in helsinki is this, listen. we are tough on them. we are slapping sanctions, we are closing embassies killing their mercenaries in syria. we are doing all that at the same time the ball is in their court. we can either be friends or we can be foes. thats exactly what hillary said when she was secre...

Himself in an international stage and you can make the argument that we havent asserted ourselves. >> lisa: what could he do that would have a bigger impact? b3 how far you go with this? if a situation with china going on at the same time, so do you want to have two verbal battles going on potentially, to a true trade battles going on at some point, are they going to start slapping sanctions or making issues with our imports and exports like we do right now with whats going on in china? do you w...

Allies in the world. particularly some of the strongest potential allies when it comes to the chinese flooding the market with cheap steel. so the europeans should be our natural allies on this. theyre also suffering the consequences of the chinese dumping steel on the global market. why arent we reaching out to them to have them help us solve the problem with a case in front of the wto, and instead of slapping sanctions on them, and inviting them to retaliate against our job creators here in th...

We have to involve our allies and involve countries that can, perhaps, influence north korea. but we have no guarantee. this to me is a most dangerous situation that we face today in the entire world. >> if north korea tests a nuclear missile, how should the u.s. respond? >> well, i think we have to respond again by slapping sanctions. it hasnt work in the past. you know, we had the cold war with the soviet union and the united states. and there was never a nuclear war because there was a deterr...

He said this was more than just a provocation. this was violence against a neighbor. now we have heard condemnation from across the world. but the fact is this will make very little difference to north korea. it has said it will continue to keep going with the missile launches. of course that information earlier in the week. the nis saying preparations are still ongoing for another nuclear test renae. >> north korea remains defiant. paula, thank you so much. >> lets check on cnn money stream, th...

Disturbing. >> one police officer caught on fire from that explosion. the u.s. now considering slapping sanctions on its vital oil industry. the state department condemning the election, as well. lets get the latest from cnns laila santiago, live in caracas. good morning. we heard estimates of 40% turnout in that election. are you hearing any independent analysis of how many people did vote? >> reporter: at this point, a back and forth as the opposition calls this a frauds, as the -- a fraud, as...

And in response to venezuelas controversial election, the u.s. is considering slapping sanctions on the vital oil industry. right now, venezuelas only source of income is oil exports. the u.s. is one of its top customers. so sanctions would further cripple its economy. two senior administration officials have confirmed they could be announced as early as today. oil sanctions, theyre kind of a double-edged sword. american energy firms rely on venezuelas cheap crude, and cutting it off could cause...

Unacceptable levels of harassment in moscow. unquote. and now a spokesman for russian president vladimir putin says moscow is considering retaliation. so what does the incoming trump administration have to say about all of this? joining us now from palm beach, florida, incoming white house chief of staff reince priebus. thank you so much. big important day, reince. mr. chairman, let me put that correctly. mr. chairman, big important day. glad to have you. so, the president-elects reaction to pre...

The white house slapping sanctions on russian hacking of elects. kevin cork is just wrapping up an enter interview with eric schulte. what did he tell you and. >> listen itch asked him a couple of questions and i think the one will be most important to viewers what does this mean? you didnt really have to do it now. did you? and i also asked women hmm what the point before -- what the president is trying to do is send a strong message you mess with the u.s., especially from a sibber perspective,...