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Taking military action against iran because of strikes they made against saudi arabia? >> no. i absolutely do not believe, joe, that that would be in the interest of the united states to go to war with iran on behalf of an attack on saudi oil infrastructure. strikes me as a very bad idea. and the reality, joe, is we are where we are because of what trump has done over the last couple of years. this was the predictable consequence of pull out of a nuclear deal that was working, of escalating the sanctions on iran over the objections of all of our closest allies who worked with us in that proces...

Arabia and that wasn't an attack on us. but we would certainly help them, they've been a great ally. they spend $400 billion in our country over the last number of years. saudi arabia pays cash. they've helped us out from the standpoint of jobs and all of the other things. so now they're under attack and we will work something out with them. >> [ inaudible ] you said it wouldn't be proportionate to the lethal strike. an attack on the oil [ inaudible ]. >> would this be proportionate, is that what you're asking? i would say yes. >> president trump says strikes against iran in the attack against...

All that unusual that someone, if, indeed, the victim hypothetically were intoxicated would not necessarily recall the attack. >> all right. coming up, sources tell nbc news that the attack on saudi oil facilities did not in fact originate from iran. and the president is -- it did in fact, excuse me, it did in fact originate from iran. and the president is signaling that he's opening to responding to lethal force. we'll discuss that with one former president obama's top national security advisers ben rhodes. we'll be back in a moment. ♪ (dramatic orchestra) performance comes in lots of flavo...

The source of the attacks on saudi arabia? >> i'll get more in classified form later today. but i think it is certainly fair to attribute at least the technological know how to the iranians. whether it was launched from iranian soil or by the iranians as opposed to their prox viies, have yet to make any determination myself so i dant won't to process to seyni more than say anymore dhan. but certainly this would involve iran at some level. now we need to be working with our allies to figure out how to consa contain this iranian action in the region, whatever their role was in this attack. it fo...

Part of the aim here by the iranians is to separate from us our allies. and that means more than we should simply outsource our military to the saudis as the president seems apparently willing to do. means that we need to work in concert so these actions are counterproductive for iran, not helping iran's cause. >> the saudi's believe this is an act of war. if we find out it was directed from iran, what should be the american response? should the american military be involved? >> i think that first of all whatever we do should be in concert with our allies. here i'm talking much more broadly th...