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I just heard someone saying that inside the administration, its trump versus bolton. and a bunch of different swing votes. and i think to myself, here it is. senior white house official tells me its bolton versus trump versus how to proceed on iran. trump does not want conflict. pompeo, pence, esper are swing votes, et cetera. the president seems to be essentially a kind of pundit/commentator sitting at a bar on his own administration, as it moves almost inexorably towards actual military confro...

He makes hawkish statements one moment, then he says, its just a small thing, these tanker attacks are not a big deal. and you have people on left and right trying to give trump cover, saying, he doesnt want a war. and i dont buy that. i dont think you can give him a get out of jail free card on this. because hes the one who appointed john bolton, knowing that boltons lifelong mission has been to start a war with iran. he appointed mike pompeo who said, when he was a member of congress, that we ...

Pressure theyre feeling from the united states. >> thats one thing. what the iranians are doing to push back. what else are you looking at, though, today, in terms of signs that there is another shift happening in the region? >> well, i think the big question mark here, erica, is not so much in the region, its in washington, d.c. youre getting very conflicting and mixed signals from president trump. remember that last week, you had the tanker attacks. then on monday, president trump said theyre ...

Han and say sorry. thats not the way they work, so what happens now? >> in the way he has created a little maneuver room for himself but in another way its closed down around him because the revolutionary guard is not accountable to the state government. >> and they were also accountable for those tanker attacks. so is this part of a pattern of the iranian revolution guard trying to provoke a confrontation? >> remember, they are the hard-liners. nobody hated the iran deal more than them than may...

Intelligence sensors around the clock. so how much they want to declassify remains to be seen. i think we will see in the coming hours and day some addition -- and they have done it with they tanker attacks, and talking in details about the troops they are sending to the region, because they know theres doubter, and they know to have to get support from allied governments in the region if they want to conduct any kind of military action. this could not be a go it alone proposal for very long. th...

In. >> reporter: good morning. the pentagon is calling this an unprovoked attack in international airspace. it may be an indication, another indication of irans improvement in its surface-to-air missile targeting and precision capabilities, so that is going to be something very worrisome that iran would have this capability. this drones mission is intelligence gathering, and clearly it is part of the u.s. effort to keep its eyes and ears on iran right now to see if theyre moving their forces aro...

Deal with any form of aggression. he went on to say this is the way the iranian nation deals with its enemies. tensions still flaring up here after the attacks on the tankers. after the tanker attacks, the u.s. said the iranians also tried to fire at a u.s. drone at this point in time. this general also saying once again iran does not want any sort of war, but hes also saying iran is very much prepared for war, alisyn. >> please stand by for us and bring us the latest from tehran as soon as you ...

Drone had gone to the persian gulf area and made a turn towards iranian airspace and shot down by iranian airspace missiles going into their airspace. it was quite interesting to see because the revolution guard corps, erica, which is irans most elite military unit and the unit that shot this drone down. they came out very quickly and said this is something that they will absolutely react to if it happens again. they also said that iran does not want war. but they said that iran is absolutely pr...

Iranian context. our hardliners are empowering their hardliners and vice-versa. and think thats what youve seen play out in recent days. lets start with john bolton and mike pompeo the secretary of state and national security adviser who last year were -- helped to orchestrate the pullout of the united states from the iran deal. they promised that this campaign of maximum pressure that would lead to this so-called better deal. and i think in some ways the results speak for themselves. the united...

To pay. this administration is getting ready if that happens. >> hopefully there is planning taking place behind the scenes. we have a hornets nest. they know president trump has a tendency to be unpredictable. it could be an advantage or disadvantage in this case. we dont know. hopefully there is strategic planning that is taking place behind the scenes and not a situation where the president is going to have -- >> sandra: white house director of trade, peter navarro involved in the creation an...