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Tensions, the united states claims to have images of iranian commercial vessels. cnn has not reviewed the intelligence that led to the u.s. assessment and the government has provided no proof the ships are carrying hidden missiles. after days of heated debate inside the white house, president trump is trying to cool tensions with iran. "the new york times" reports trump told acting defense secretary patrick shanahan he does not want to go to war. privately sources telling cnn trump is growing increasingly frustrated over the public perception his national security team is leading him into an a...

Credibly without this military service? >> well, i think at a moment when, obviously, people are looking for contrast, it helps me demonstrate the difference between how i'm oriented and how the current president is. >> reporter: jason mccrae still remembers the day he met buttigieg at their training in south carolina. he didn't know the man assigned to be his battle buddy was also an indiana mayor. >> one of my early members is he had an ear bud in and he was learning a language, i think it was dari. certainly, i don't remember other folks that were picking up a language at that point in time...

Him of trying to put his finger on the scale. that he was already talking about the possibility that the election would be rigged and president obama assumed that hillary clinton would win and didn't want to discredit or in many ways cast the legitimacy of her election into doubt by providing ammunition to donald trump. obviously, that was based on a miscalculation. and he's not the only one to think that hillary clinton was likely to win. but it did shadow and affect his account, his actions. >> peter baker, great to have you on cnn. any new peter baker book is a reason to rejoice. thanks ver...

Include exemptions for rape and insi ince incest. it is a direct challenge to roe v. wade. senator susan collins called the alabama law, quote, terrible. collins, whose vote for justice brett kavanaugh virtually assured his appointment to the supreme court, said she does not believe the conservative-leaning judge would uphold alabama's bill. >> we're learning this morning that walmart, america's largest retailer is warning that the president's tariffs on china will likely mean higher prices for customers. walmart's cfo did not say which items will be more expensive, but he did say the company ...

Interest. >> when i first met pete, it was just a wife going to say good-bye to my husband and we just happened to meet a battle buddy. >> reporter: so buttigieg mentions afghanistan at virtually every stop on the campaign trail. he does say it's time for a new u.s. policy there, noting that soldiers enlisting now were not even born at the time of the september 11th terrorist attacks. as for his own enlistment here in chicago in 2009, he said he was not doing that with politics in mind. he said, you never know if military service will be politically popular or not. jeff zeleny, cnn, chicago. >...