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With overwhelming force, even n obliteration. but his national security adviser john bolton said the door is still open to negotiations. live to our correspondent fred pleitgen from tehran. what are you hearing in iran? >> reporter: hi, wolf. we're hearing tough talk from the iranians. a senior commander came out and said any nation that indulges in what they call adventureism in the region will not survive. clearly pointing to the united states. meanwhile iran president hassan rouhani on the one hand laughing off those sanctions that the trump administration put on iran supreme leader and sen...

Hezbollah. hundreds of millions going to hamas and a huge amount of money going to the revolutionary guard themselves and the ballistic missile program. all the money we've given iran they've spent on their adventureism abroad and why we saw people coming into the streets several months ago protesting against the regime. they were expecting to see some benefits from the nuclear deal and instead not surprisingly the iranian regime squandered those funds. >> jon: you mentioned syria a moment ago. mixed message coming from the president. the pentagon could plan to send more troops to that country...

North/south world. he is arguing it's europe, the united states and russia against islamic radicalism essentially. do you agree with that? >> there is an element of truth to that. there are more than 15,000 nuclear warheads in the world. russia 7,000. they're modernizing their arsenal. we have less than 7,000. we aren't modernizing ours. that's a basic reality. their influence is growing even though they're a t*engt the size of our economy. he is utilizing adventureism to solidify himself in his own nation. you have to deal with the realities as such. >> martha: will rex tillerson be approved ...

Everything you see in red on this map is what we believe isis controls today. the area where this plane went down west of aleppo is not according to our information controlled by isis. so it appears those are anti-assad forces operating in syria with the cover of the russian air force. if that is all true, what comes of this significant international development today? >> i think it is potentially significant. i think -- i lay responsibility here lp totally at moscow's doorstep. they shouldn't be in this region at all. they undertook the risk of adventureism by putting an air base in and this ...

When you combine it with russian adventureism here and elsewhere. what we have overall in the middle east is continuing deterioration of america's influence and the continuing influence of chaos and conflict. >> the next president is going to have their work cut out for them because there has been a lot of leeway and learning taken. >> it's not just iran. the nuclear deal and negotiations leading in the up to the deal has prompted the saudis and the turks to move ahead on their own nuclear weapons program. now they are moving to do it indigenously as are these other countries. the long-term co...