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So iran is denying any involvement, saying the u.s. doesnt have a shred of evident. of course the u.s. feels its evidence is crystal clear. what is not clear is what does the u.s. do next? the acting secretary of defense says the immediate goal is to build international consensus that iran is behind this. what we are hearing from u.s. allies is an agreement with the u.s. assessments, but not the blatant blaming of iran to the u.s. is doing the europeans want to hold to to what is left of the nuc...

Was hit bay mine. barbara starr, cnn, the pentagon. lets talk further now. aaron, david miller is with me from washington. he spent two decades at the u.s. state department as an adviser and negotiator under democratic and republican administrations. good to see you. so the u.s. says it has proof of a major spro occasiprovocation iran is denying involvement. what are your concerns about happened? >> based on the video, i was an intel analyst in the state department for a decade. intelligence i...

Agreement with the u.s. assessment but not the same kind of blatant blaming of iran at least for now. and remember, the european countries they want to keep whats left of the iran nuclear deal. and in the investigation that came out of the last tanker attacks that happened only weeks ago, those countries that were involved concluded only that a state actor was likely to blame. but they did not name iran. >> thank you very much, michelle. outfront now leon panetta former second secretary of def...

Think this is funny, but no one else in the world does. >> the japanese are coordinating with the united states, in investigating the attack on its tanker, but at this point, are not blaming iran. the incident in the gulf of oman follows months of escalation in the region. in may national security adviser john bolton accusing iran of executing an attack on four oil tankers in the united emirates point and a state actor was likely to blame. >> and that same month, the u.s. deployed the u system s...

These ships were hit by projectiles while on the move. what we saw a month ago was ships hit while they were at anchor and targeted with mines that were put on the ships, it seemed to be, overnight. the u.n.s conclusion about that attack a month ago was that a state actor was involved. the united states and the saudis have both said that iran was that state actor. >> all right. well continue to watch this. weve got oil prices up about 3% because of that, you know, tensions there in the region. t...

Closer to the coast of iran. the last attacks, the ships were at anchor, close to the coast of the united arab emirates. and those attacks a month or so ago appear to be from mines that they were below sea level on the ships and appeared to be from mines. so, this is different. this is missiles fired at the vessels. the vessels damaged in such a way that no crew member has been injured, that the crews have had to abandon ship. the tensions in these waterways right now we know is high. the united...

It happens at a time when the u.s. and iran and st and its allies in iran ramping up the rhetoric and tension in the region. >> jim, theres a clear cause and effect here. the attack off the coast of the emirates four weeks ago on those four ships, the u.n. said that a state actor was most likely behind t both the united states and saudi arabia that they believed iran was behind the attack. in the wake of those attacks noticing that iran is under tougher and tougher economic sanctions and wants a...

That one of the people is injured and receiving medical treatment. this appears to be a significant es la indication over the attack on four commercial vessels a month ago off the coast of the united arab emirates. why do i say it appears to be an escalation? these ships were on the move. they appear to be targeted by missiles of some kind. that previous attack on the four ships, the ships were at anchor. they were stationary. they appeared to be attacked by mines placed on the ships overnight. ...

Bezos, in response to that article, launched his own private investigation, and then wrote an article in medium, where he basically lays out what he says was a blackmail attempt by ami to get him to stop his private investigation. he then went on to throw out some series of how he thought the "national enquirer" got its hands on all of those pictures and texts, including a kind of elaborate plan that he said might have been in the hands of a state actor, some had hypothesized that was saudi arab...

One point i wanted to make in reference to whether this is public or not. we are not dealing with an intern here in the 90s with a starr report. dealing with sensitive information about a state actor of russia. there is deftly going to be things redacted here.i absolutely am confident the democrats will use this as an opportunity to say the doj is not sharing everything. in the end i think we will know everything we need to know in the mueller report. chris: wait, let me bring in juan. you been ...