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A week after the waivers were rescinded, they started to attack. they shot a rocket near our embassy. they hit four oil tankers in the persian gulf. houthis sending drones with bombs in, and a recent rocket hitting 26 people in saudi. i think they're attempting to shut off all energy supply other than their own out of the straits of hormuz. we're there in a defensive posture, but also we want diplomacy. our aircraft carriers are a strong deterrent and provide that measure of diplomacy to work out an agreement with iran, which is obviously very hard to do when you have the ayatollah. >> but wor...

Who were describing the threat from iran in dire terms and diverting an entire carrier strike group to the region. what is the misunderstanding about the president's decision making on this? >> well, i wasn't indicating the reporting wasn't accurate or that wasn't the key. these were comments. but it was only one of probably dozens and dozens of alternatives that were being considered. and it was appropriate to send a carrier strike group. again, that's sending a message, putting yourself in a good defensive posture, but i think a lot of people assume, oh, man, we're about to go to war to iran...

We've been seeing at these special elections is republicans are not necessarily fighting on the positives. they are in an attempt to gin up their base turnout. they are running ads about immigration primarily. is that going to have to be the strategy if they have any hope of maintaining control of the house? >> i'm not sure it's going to work. also they're running this idea which seems to be a bannon idea that we're running against impeachment, right? that the democrats get in charge, there will be impeachment. i'm not sure the country wants impeachment but i'm not sure that's going to be comp...

Friends, there is frustration as to what happened in the leadership of the f.b.i. in the last two or three years. >> bill: what is the state of the f.b.i. at the end of this hearing? marie, what is your expectation when you know he testified for 11 hours and john radcliffe said i was there for 11 hours and didn't find his explanation for the text messages to be believable or credible and what is described as numerous interjek shuns on behalf of his attorney. i don't know who the gentleman is he is talking to now. i'm not sure if it's attorney, friend, colleague or even a relative. how he answe...

Conference with the australian prime minister after an address to the conference. abby phillip live at the white house with the very latest. abby? >> reporter: good morning, john. president trump seems determined to solve this problem of violence in schools his own way. he calls it an offensive posture versus defensive posture. and the centerpiece of this is a controversial proposal to arm teachers inside schools. take a listen to how he explained it yesterday. >> i think a concealed permit for having teachers and letting people know there are people in the building with a gun, in my opinion y...