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It's clear this was not a mistake. why do you think he responds that way? >> you know, erin, i don't know why the president is responding that way. i hope he is trying to, you know, leave room to walk back the steady escalation that the united states has engaged in. but we need to look at iran from first principles. iran talks like this all the time. it's a very proud country. i don't think that they're going to back down easily. we need to stop escalating, and we need to have a sober and serious foreign policy here and not just go from crisis to crisis. so the president does not have authoriz...