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>> reporter: yeah, hi there, michelle. a lot of breaking news from tehran. the iranians for the first time responding to some of that video evidence that the u.s. put forward after the tanker attacks in the persian gufls. the u.s. saying they implicate revolutionary small guard boats and they were taking an unexploded mine off of one of those ships. the iranians have been denying that. they came out and said, first of all, it's unclear when that video was taken. he said the iranian small boats, when they go to a rescue operation like they did when the tanker was stricken, they go around the ta...

Disruption they can do in the economic markets. it's not clear from the video, that certainly doesn't seem to prove iranian complicity. it shows them taking a mine off. it's not clear where that boat went. there are not that many doubts that the iranians were responsible here given how close this was to the iranian coast, but that's a far thing from proof, so now the president's got some big decisions. can sanctions alone do it? well, you could argue sanctions is what's tryinging this. can recreate an area around the ships as barbara suggested before that's sort of off limits to small boats. t...

They are a nation of terror. >> martha: a tense situation. president trump saying iran is behind the attacks on oil tankers near the straits of hormuz. the administration pointing to this intelligence video. very fascinating to take a look at this. it was taken obviously overnight it. shows the iranian national guard pulling up alongside the tanker and removing, pulling a magnet mine off of the side of one of those tanks as its proof. iran denies these charges. tensions are quickly mounting. national security correspondent jennifer griffin has the back story. >> martha, officials say the unexp...

Done. but president trump can't just walkway from this. his involvement, his support is going to be critical. look, they said that only president nixon could go to china, maybe only president trump can preside over actual bipartisan immigration reform. >> let me share with you something we received from president -- from senator john mccain about the president's decision and point out that the senator is actually in washington, in his office today, and over the weekend was at a national security conference in italy. so clearly his brain cancer is not slowing him down. he says president trump's...