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Loved one have Mesothelial Mac will send you youre in the cnn newsroom. Im Alex Marquardt here in washington. Thank you so much for joining us today. We begin with President Joe Biden urging the senate two quickly send a foreign aid package to his desk so that he can sign it into law. Senators are expected to take up this series of bills this tuesday. It was just past moments ago by house lawmakers a special saturday session. Therell be combined and they include 95 billion in military aid for ukraine, israel, and for hi won as well as billions and humanitarian aid. President biden says the hou...

Syria from targeting iranian diplomatic facilities and that's why the iranians, i think adopted a different approach. >> ali, before i let you go, do you think that these sanctions that the us the uk, and eu rolled out this week are going to have any real impact look, alex, we're now basically still implementing the previous administrations, maximum pressure policy. and one of the side effects of pursuing a policy like that is that you basically maxed yourself out of leverage and i don't think there much more that could be done today. iranian economy that would have an impact on regional polic...

People on the street and that's something that's hard to ignore according to washington you know and many respects what my pump a.o. said and that press conference was sort of sort of hinting or just direction saying it and i mean the figures sort of back it open that's what what's being said over here in the united states iran's g.d.p. is it is dropping considerably more so than was expected and they're saying that that has a direct it's because of this maximum pressure policy which is exploiting essentially the weaknesses in iran's what they claim is already a weak economy and also one of th...

Interrogating the crew of the british vessel. >> and we'll see if this back and forth continues. certainly, the volatility is there. we appreciate your time and perspective on this today, thank you. we'll talk more about it with the chair of the contemporary middle east studies at the london school of economics joining us from lon n london. and a foremost expert on iran. always glad to have you with us. first up, britain warned friday there would be serious consequences if iran does not release that flagged tanker. is iran wanting to push things here to the break. >> iran is engaged in what ...

Question is how did we get here and the administration has been thumping its chest and saying they restored the tariffs against iran and if this is an iranian attack, it doesn't look like that iran is deterred, it looks like provoked in maximum pressure policy in doing increasingly dangerous things. >> if iran is attacking tankers in the gulf, is the appropriate reaction by the u.s. military action? do you think we're closer to that? >> we have to defend our partners in the gulf. we have to defend shipping in the gulf. but the administration's focus is not that, it is to sell arms to saudi ara...