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Always get, you know, the department of justice in there and international legal aspect of this. so we have always had sort of a committee approach to understanding the issues, and by the way, bringing in our allies and keeping them apprised of our thinking. i think most of that process has evaporated and we saw it if the reporting is correct, and i'll bet it is, that he actually ordered a strike and then stopped it during launch. this is the kind of miscalculation that will lead to a shooting war. by the way, i don't want to overstate this, but we actually have devastating capabilities to go ...

Maritime units in particular. we can't keep the gulf open if the iranians wanted to stop it. we could never find all the missile batteries and the artillery, but we definitely, they've got something to lose out of a war also. we could go after their oil industry. >> yep. >> they've got a collapsing economy at the moment, and that has been. and i guess that's the point, sir, because you understand the region well, you understand the military well. there are lots of things between now and war. >> yeah. and, you know, at the end of the day, what we try and do and national security issues is write...

That america was ready to strike iran tonight in the early dawn hours iran time. is that -- will that signal help, general? >> well, you know, it may well be appropriate from a tactical viewpoint, but again, the question is what are we trying to achieve, if we want to renegotiate the nuclear accord, one of the lesson number one of diplomacy is talk nice to people in public, and threaten them if you must in private. we've got it reversed. it's unlikely to change iranian behavior by public belidge renzi -- belligerencs, and to some extent, the president ought to understand he's bluffing. militar...

Obviously the administration didn't ask "the new york times" to withhold the story, they're okay with the signaling to iran that america was ready to strike iran tonight in the early dawn hours iran time. is that -- will that signal help, general? >> well, you know, it may well be appropriate from a tactical viewpoint, but again, the question is what are we trying to achieve, if we want to renegotiate the nuclear accord, one of the lesson number one of diplomacy is talk nice to people in public, and threaten them if you must in private. we've got it reversed. it's unlikely to change iranian be...

A dozen tornados and we could get a repeat in the new workweek. we'll look apt the satellite radar. had he every snow over the gulf of mexico . see the -- gulf open with ape lot of moisture. we could have severe weather in the central u.s.. again a multifaceted storm with cold temperatures and the snow. some areas seeing a foot of snow . we'll see it again unfortunately in colorado and toward the northern rocky. it is 18 inches more. we'll continue to watch the threat for the storms starting in wednesday and thursday. this is spring and now we