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Reliable and credible evidence that iran is behind the tanker attacks. what do you think this is about, max? >> i think this is another part of this self-inflicted crisis that donald trump has created by the fact that a year ago, he left the iranian nuclear accord, even though our intelligence community said the iranians are actually abiding by the terms of that accord. since then, trump has imposed punishing sanctions, economic sanctions on iran, which the iranians call an act of economic war, ...

As we heard, the u.s. is sending 1,000 more troops to reliable and credible evidence that iran is behind the tanker attacks but from your standpoint, from the intelligence standpoint, do you still have more questions? >> i have more questions. i suspect iran did this. i think the evidence is there. but if you want to go from im 98% certain to 100% certain, i want to see stuff like the communications. i want to see if theres residue on those ships outside the blast marks and if that residue can b...

And this is one of the things we hear from around the world, concerned about a possible miscalculation by either side? >> oh, sure. theres always a concern. and, you know, you always run into proportional responses by the other side. this is always a dangerous situation, but in terms of protecting our allies, protecting our troops in the region, we have to put a size thats proper to defend that, and i think be very clear, that we will not allow the straits of hormuz to be shut down. we have the ...

Pulling hard on it. florida is a state where you have the margin for the top of the ticket races have been decided by 1.2 percentage points. i would not expect that to be any different in 2020. but as we discussed here, what we are looking at is a base election. what the president will be relying on is a very strong white vote. this campaign does see margins with hispanic voters, latino voters. they will be rolling out a latino coalition to further that agenda. >> marc caputo, thank you, my frie...

Reading the rhetoric from the u.s.? you have something of a tr contradiction. the president saying this morning the tanker attacks were very minor. do they tlaread that as a rampi down? >> reporter: i dont think they read that as a ramping down. i think they read that of chaos in the trump administration. what they are thinking, what they tell us is they believe that president trump fundamentally does not want to start a war in the middle east. doesnt want to start war in the persian gulf but th...

Removed an unexploded mine from the hull of one tanker. iran strongly denies any involvement in the attacks. lets bring in fred pleitgen. he is live for us in tehran and i think that the fact that the white house declassified or the pentagon declassified these pictures trying to show what kind of evidence they say they have to in some cases skeptical european allies. >> reporter: yeah, i think youre absolutely right, christine. skeptical european allies. skeptical, the japanese as well. the tank...

1,000 more troops to reliable and credible evidence that iran is behind the tanker attacks but from your standpoint, from the intelligence standpoint, do you still have more questions? >> i have more questions. i suspect iran did this. i think the evidence is there but if you want to go from im 98% certain to 100% certain, i want to see stuff like communications and residue outside the blast marks and whether that can be linked to an iranian weapon and see more about the interpretation of the ph...

Underestimate the iranian determination. >> reporter: really quick, another thing they said is they are preparing in case a confrontation does take place. one thing that one top level commander said, he said lit be in a broad area that seems to indicate the ie yan rranians sa will voinvolve their militias. >> its so great youre on the ground. barbara, to you at the pentagon. talk about the trip that mike pompeo is going to talk. the secretary of defense is not going but the goal that pompeo has ...

>> kennedy: thanks so much to charlie hurt for being the man in the middle. >> charlie: i will have to go shoe shopping. >> julie: i would hope so. >> kennedy: its mid-to-late june after all. we are back noon eastern tomorrow. heres melissa in for harris. >> melissa: fox news alert, secretary of state mike pompeo with a warning for iran after meeting with u.s. military commanders at central command. lets go "outnumbered overtime." im melissa francis in today for harris faulkner. secretary pompeo...

Up. vice president bidens advisers tell cnn that his campaign is keeping an eye on elizabeth warrens and pete buttigiegs rise in the polls. but his main focus, still president trump. tonight, he is calling out the president for dividing the country. >> and we got to stop letting these guys use the divisions that exist in the country as a means to divide the country. >> so, lets talk about this now. general james spider marks is here. patrick healy, max boot. gentlemen, so good to see all of you,...