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President trump first ordered and then called off a retaliatory strike. what do you think of the president's move? >> chris, obviously, i think retaliatory strikes were warranted when we're talking about foreign vessels on the high seas, i think they're warranted against an american unmanned aircraft. what i see is iran steadily marching up the escalation chain. it started out with threats, went to attacks at sea and to an unmanned american aircraft. i fear we're going to see an attack on a u.s. ship or u.s. manned aircraft. this is exactly what we saw in the 1980s when iran, for four years, w...

Here's what we know so far, the trump administration looking to choke their administration even further. more attacks on u.s. drones, and that conversation dominating the sunday show yesterday. >> i'm not looking for war, and if there is, there will be obliteration like you've never seen before. you can't have a nuclear weapon. >> there will be new sanctions. the world should know that we will continue to make sure it's understood that we are denying iran the resources to implement terror. >> it is like somebody setting fire to a basket full of paper and then putting it out. he helped create t...

Japan. so, look, i don't think we should have gotten out of the nuclear agreement, but at the same time i think iran is being provocative. but what is needed here is the campaign of maximum pressure but also diplomacy. get iran, get us to negotiating table at least to deescalate. leland: all right. as we noted, the president says he's ready to talk anytime. so far based on what the iranians have said so far, they're not exactly too interested in that. this is what tom cotton said earlier on "fox news sunday" about not striking and perhaps a prelude to how he would think about maximum pressure ...

This is not the first time a commander in chief or secretary of defense or regional commander has had to call back strike package or emission package, if you will. this is the first time we've had a president almost in real time tweet out that decision making. and it projects weakness. and of great concern and to the conversation regarding john bolt. this is john bolton's wish, i believe. it reminds me of just after 9/11, john woodward reported on a meeting at camp david where all the principals were around the table talking to the president about his options. wolf witz was a deputy secretary ...

Security decision-making at such pivotal moments. this is not the first time a commander in chief or certainly a secretary of defense or regional commander has had to call back a strike package or a mission package, if you will. this is the first time that we have had a president almost in real time tweet out that decision-making. and it projects weakness. and of great concern. and to the conversation regarding john bolton, this is john bolton's wish, i believe. it reminds me of just after 9/11 bob woodward reported on a meeting at camp david where all the principals, cabinet secretaries were ...