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But abandon nuclear ambitions, the brink act represents flog this effort here is senator chris saying we have to get tougher, not nicer with north korea. >> senator toomey and i and colleagues on bipartisan basis believe we need to keep on maxing economic pressure if we want to keep kim jong un's attention and achieve our goal and right now the sanction regime is like a sip, has lots of holes in it and until we plug holes we will not achieve goal of maximum pressure. >> is this like good cop, bad cop, the president wants to shake his hand and in capitol hill they are saying no in. >> might be ...

Franklin roosevelt, this guy, harry hopkins. henry kissinger was natural. he would do things without telling the state department, without telling the secretary of state. it makes policy making much messier, much more complicated. if you can pull it off, and if you can get success, sometimes that helps. so far, they haven't been many successes. the mexicans are such an imbalance of power. if you look at the trump -- sort of the unorthodoxed efforts the trump administration has had, whether directly or through the president, sort of maximum pressure and then hope for a deal, hasn't worked in no...

Policy of maximum pressure against iran as you look at the west wing of the white house despite fierce resistance from the islamic republic. today, iran's president said the white house is afflicted by mental and call the new sanctions against its supreme leader outrageous and idiotic. iran also says those penalties have closed the door to any negotiations. kristin fisher is here tonight with the latest on how the u.s. is trying to keep this war of words from turning into an actual war. >> president trump said this afternoon he doesn't need an exit strategy in iran. he's opening these punishin...

Campaign further. it will be, i think, the combination of sanctions and other pressure that does bring iran to the table. >> so the big question now is how will these two countries move forward? president trump says that these new sanctions and his campaign of maximum pressure are not going anywhere. but on the flip side, iran says, and they see this as an act of war, which closes the door for diplomacy, sandra. >> sandra: kristin fisher, thank you. >> trace: national political reporter. nice to see you. as kristin fisher was saying, the iranian foreign minister says this, but i want to put th...

The people of the country, no doubt, we left our foot off of the gas come off of the accelerator, and we give these countries different ways out. this idea of maximum pressure, it is rattling iran quite a bit. >> trace: how damaging are these sanctions and previous sanctions to the iranian economy? >> they are damaging. you have the iranian foreign minister of oil talking about how this has impacted them more than saddam hussein's attacks during the war from the '80s. so it is really damaging. we have seen inflation go up at least near five times inflation. of the cost of goods is way more. th...