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The "b" team is something that jabhat zarif has long referred to being john bolton, the national security adviser and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and mohammed bin salman. praising trump in the end saying prudence prevented it. and went on to tweet that what he believes is economic terrorism is causing tensions. of course, economic terrorism is what the iranians refer to as america's campaign of maximum pressure. of course those very tough sanctions on the iranian economy. meanwhile, a senior iranian general coming on and essentially warning the united states, saying that if there...

It. remember george w. bush also believed the same narrative basically fed to him by dick cheney and the neoconservatives. iran is not punching back or surrendering. let's make it very clear, iran has vested tremendous sources outside of its society. it has infiltrated iraq, syria and others. the strategy of maximum pressure might bring about war. all it would take is a spot. the iranians will punch back. they are engaged in a calculated engaged escalation because they want to increase the costs of trump's strategy, increase the

Japan. so, look, i don't think we should have gotten out of the nuclear agreement, but at the same time i think iran is being provocative. but what is needed here is the campaign of maximum pressure but also diplomacy. get iran, get us to negotiating table at least to deescalate. leland: all right. as we noted, the president says he's ready to talk anytime. so far based on what the iranians have said so far, they're not exactly too interested in that. this is what tom cotton said earlier on "fox news sunday" about not striking and perhaps a prelude to how he would think about maximum pressure ...

President, the one who's asking for us to thank him for not ordering the strike, has taken a series of steps that are designed to escalate tensions with iran, his campaign of maximum pressure. he started by violating the international nuclear deal with iran even though his own government said iran was in compliance. by surrounding himself with top advisers who have for years been agitating for war against the iranian regime. now faced with the incredibly highest of stakes consequences of those actions, the president is firing off tweets about potential death tolls and the u.s. being cocked and...

There had been people on board it would have been very different, i do think he's established a kind of a red line and the iranians have adopted a position that they'll go up close to that red line and in the meantime continue to demonstrate to him that they're not going to be intimidated. and his maximum pressure will be met, in a sense, by their version of maximum pressure. think about what they're doing when they take down a drone, they're making it harder for us to look and see where their forces are. they'll continue to do what they're doing in the gulf, they'll continue to use the houthi...