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Just saw of the raid on the british vessel is there a real danger that we could see a military escalation or even a war here. we have to be clear this is in fact already you're seeing the start of an escalation cycle with incidents like this and we have to to bear in mind or recall all the time that this is absolutely unnecessary there was a nuclear agreement that has been working and there you go lead united states decided to withdraw from that we've been since then we are seeing escalation and that certainly worries them. they were talking about the americans pulling out of the nuclear deal ...

This is people that michael crowley said are eager to go with war in iran, and people in iran eager to go to war with america. both countries have these factions. for whom does this war, such a war make sense? >> nobody. this -- assuming this escalates which i unfortunately think a conflict between the u.s. and iran would escalate, whether it happens gradually or very quickly is a question. i think everybody would end up losing in the end. however, what you have is hard liners inside of the iranian system, and hard liners inside the u.s. system, both of whom have gotten control of the policies...

Implemented and in this case for whatever reason he decided to do that. >> the president is now tweeting about this, what led him to back off from this attack. he is saying it was -- and i'm going to read this tweet in a moment here. he's saying in effect it was the number of casualties possible, and cnn had its own reporting on this as well, that that risk is why the president pulled back here. a reasonable reason for a u.s. president to pull back from military action which was intended as retaliation for the iranian shoot down? >> well, if you don't want the situation to spiral out of contro...

Which i unfortunately think a conflict between the u.s. and iran would escalate, whether it happens gradually or very quickly is a question. i think everybody would end up losing in the end. however, what you have is hard liners inside of the iranian system, and hard liners inside the u.s. system, both of whom have gotten control of the policies of those two governments. we're in a situation right now where there's an escalation cycle started by the united states when trump pulled out of the nuclear agreement. >> because iran was certified to be in compliance with that agreement. >> certified ...

This is people that michael crowley said are eager to go with war in iran, and people in iran eager to go to war with america. both countries have these factions. for whom does this war, such a war make sense? >> nobody. this -- assuming this escalates which i unfortunately think a conflict between the u.s. and iran would escalate, whether it happens gradually or very quickly is a question. i think everybody would end up losing in the end. however, what you have is hard liners inside of the iranian system, and hard liners inside the u.s. system, both of whom have gotten control of the policies...