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Region would be, quote, unmanageable by any country. earlier my colleague ana cabrera spoke with u.s. house armed services committee about the president s decision to call off an attack he cocked and loaded. operating on instincts is never a good day. take a deep breathe. take time. all of that you need to take into context, always be prepared to defend. as you just heard in prior to my coming on board here, we have very numerous personnel, assets, bases in the area. we have a right to defend ourselves. so, if iran chooses to attack any of our assets, any of our personnel, we must defend against that attack. that doesn t mean we go to war. that means we defend the attack. now we are not in that stage now. we re in what we should call a stage of retaliation. ....
Welcome back to viewers in the u.s. and all around the world. we appreciate you tuning in. this is cnn newsroom. i m natalie allen live from atlanta. here are our top stories. new warnings for iran as israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and john bolton meet in jerusalem. they spoke last hour. after president trump called off an attack on iran, bolton warned military action is still possible and no one should question u.s. resolve. mr. netanyahu said iran conducted an explosion of terror after striking the nuclear deal. president trump insist more sanctions are coming against iran. he says they will drive tehran to the bargaining table. he claims that will happen. and in his words, make iran great again. for its part, iran shows no ....
It has specific language about not authorizing force against iran. as you know, that s probably not going to get very far against the republican-led senate. would that inadvertently give the president a constitutional loophole to order an attack? no, i don t believe so. clearly, iran does not come under the 2001 authorization to use force in afghanistan. it is just not appropriate to use that at all. although, i might say the administration has tried, i think, without any success to shoe horn iran into that. doesn t fit. a new authorization to use force would be necessary. there are two different ways to attack this. one is what we re working on in the armed services committee with the national defense authorization act and that is to say the president has no authority to attack iran unless he gets an authorization to use force from the congress. ....
I think there s broad republican support for that. and given what the president did by pulling back on his military attack, i believe that strengthens our hand to put that legislation in place. it will be a must pass piece of legislation. and i think the senate will go along with it. on another front with iran, we are learning that last week the u.s. launched a cyber strike against an iranian spy group. it was in retaliation for attacks on oil tankers earlier this month in the gulf of oman. a u.s. official says the cyber strike targeted computer software used to attack the tankers. a source tells cnn there s been an increase in iranian cyber activity against gulf targets in recent months. north korean state media say kim jong-un has received a personal letter from the u.s. president. ....
Russia, much more on iran s side than israel or the u.s. at this time. now let s go to sarah westwood at the white house. the president said he believed economic sanctions would drive iran to at least the negotiating table. what s the strategy now? we re hearing more hawkish language from bolton. reporter: that s right. but president trump seems to be indicating his administration is shifting from a focus on pnishing iran militarily to punishing iran economically. the president saying he wants to focus on imposing new sanctions on iran rather than reviving the strike he called off friday night. in fact, when he was speaking to reporters yesterday, the president even downplayed how close he was to pulling a trigger on a strike that by his account could have ended up killing 150 iranians. the president suggesting he wants to follow an approach he ....