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meeting to go through options on iran this after iran's alleged attack on a key saudi oil facility. tonight iran is threatening trump. it will respond to an american strike with all-out war. >> what would be the consequence of an american military strike on iran now? >> an all-out war. >> you mack a very serious statement there, sir. >> i make a very serious statement about defending our country. i am making a very serious statement that we don't want war, but we won't blink to defend our territory. >> cnn senior international correspondent nick paton walsh is in tehran and that was a very serious statement from minister zarif. does he mean what he says? >> reporter: i think the tone of that interview was to do two things. they know that the real person they're talking about iran policy is donald trump. john bolton's out. he was the iran hawk, mike
look forward to more jumps on the way to 100. thanks for inviting us into your home, that is it for this "special report," fair, balanced, and unafraid. "the story" hosted by martha maccallum starts right now. >> martha: setting the bar pretty high. >> bret: he is. >> martha: thank you, bret, good to see you. so, everybody, iran's foreign minister speaking out today and he is sending a crystal clear message to president trump and to those who are urging him to take military action against iran. >> what would be the consequence of an american military strike on iran now? >> an all-out war. we believe that military confrontation based on deception is awful, will have a lot of casualties. >> martha: good evening, everybody, i am martha maccallum and that is where the story begins. here is how general jack keane and former defense secretary leon panetta see the situation playing out in the wake of last
conversation. her reporting suggesting that it's donald trump speaking in the kinds of language that we're accustomed to assessing from north korea. >> i just had the opportunity last week to interview former cia director john brennan. he made an interesting point to me. he said after trump's fehr and fury comment, the north koreans actually backed down, and it was only a few days later when steve bannon gave an interview, i think to the new yorker saying that we have no military option that the north koreans were very attentive to what is said by administration officials, resumed their testing and their missile strikes. i just want to very quickly disagree with something that mark said. if we assume that north korea and kim jong-un is a rational actor, then you have to assume that he would not respond irrationally to a limited american military strike to take
intelligence community and backs them up and supports them and says what everyone else in this country knows, that russia interfered with our elections, all this is for thougnaught. >> jeffrey, unless you name radical islam or what the enemy is, how are you going to fight it, that was donald trump's criticism of president obama, rightly or wrongly. can you make the same argument on russian hacking? until he acknowledges that russia was behind this and will try to do it again, how can you -- unless you name it, how can you fight it? >> anderson, i hope you're sitting down, because i agree with you. my point is, let me just read you one part of a sentence from a "new york times" story on april 7 of this year. the american military strike against syria threatened russia relations on friday. in other words, when the
7th of this year. the american military strike threatened american relzs on friday as the kremlin denounced the use of force. in other words when the president perceive as basic interest of the united states to be at stake, come hell or high water he's going to act russians or not. what we saw from the obama administration was an unwillingness to act. >> what weir trying to focus on is what now. what's he doing then? >> well, i think he is going to take into account all the advice we're seeing here. the washington post says despite the dire warnings there were no -- >> but -- >> -- he was just meeting with cyber security people this week. he sat with all the leading people of the cyber world and
wbr id="wbr5400"/> the possibility of an american military strike grows day-by-day. the results of that would be massive refugee flows and american troops on the river. >> bill: my hunch the chinese government is doing more than we know. you don't believe that's true, correct? >> they have done this for decades. cosmetic changes in their policy and when america looks somewhere else it's back to business as usual. this is like groundhog day in north korea. if there is a real change, which is possible, i think it's because of trump's hard line after eight years of passivity. >> bill: thank you, sir, for your time. john bolton, excellent analysis in washington wealth -- we'll see where it goes next. >> shannon: chris wallace pushed mcmaster on that sunday and he said yes we're seeing /b>
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heart was moved by the signs of killing by chemical weapons. i'm delighted. i'm delighted that suddenly after six years, donald trump basically has seen the light, has seen the light of the suffering. yet at the same time i'm not convinced that donald trump cares a great deal about the syrian people. think of how he treats the syrian refugees. think how he talks about syria itself. at the end of the day, if donald trump would like us to believe that he really wants to help the syrian people and this particular blood bath, he has to tell us what kind of ideas that he has. he has to put his cards on the table. otherwise, this particular political process is not going to go anywhere and my argument, in fact, the american military strike could prove to be counterproductive. because it would really trigger more escalation and more by proxies by the iranians, hezbollah, not to mention the risk of a major confrontation by
following. does the american military strike limited and targeted one air field, does it really present a turning point in donald trump's approach towards syria? so far, even european diplomats, even the u.s. special representative keep complaining about the lack of ideas, the lack of clarity and my take on it is that i don't think we will see any sustained diplomatic engagement on the part of the donald trump administration and if so, obviously this particular attack will not have made any difference on the battlefield. >> well, it might be quite hard too now because we know the relations between the u.s. and russia are not at their best at the moment. the u.s. investigating whether russia was complicit in that attack. how easy do you think this could escalate? >> you know, what we need to them our viewers is that syria is one of the most complex war theaters in the world today. multiple conflicts in one. you have a civil war raging.
this strike hitting the airbase if central syria. they're saying this is only going to help isis and other extremist groups. but let's talk a little about the central impact on the syrian regime, it was a pin prick strike but it was a message. do you think it will act as a derer ent? >> -- deterrent? >> as you said in your report by the trump administration, i think this suggestion that president trump is now if you like a normal american policy establishment president in foreign policy terms. and i think it does suggest that there is an escalation on america's military role in that country and it could well be that it's going to change the situation quite seriously. >> even coming from really the most passionate opponents of the syrian regime, the political opposition outside the country. even though they expressed some