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Would have been in a normal situation room raw transcript. so my initial thinking when i saw these ellipses was that somebody on the nsc staff, rather than having some clunky looking notation just put ellipses where the president's voice trailed off. >> reporter: lairie pfeiffer ran the situation room white house for two years under president obama. he oversaw more than 100 calls between obama and foreign leaders and says during those calls, some aides are huddled around another phone in the same room as the president while others are connected on phones in other offices like the situation roo...

He thinks these sanctions are a better response in response to them downing that u.s. drone, going after those tanker ships, according to the administration. and so the question now is going to be, essentially, does it work? and what you're going to witness over the next few days and few weeks is a waiting game on behalf of the administration to see if these sanctions actually do make iran come to the table, if they do surrender to the economic pressure that the u.s. is trying to place on them. because you've got to keep in mind here, the secretary of state, mike pompeo, said 80% of iran is al...

One of his senior policy aides who takes a hard line stance on immigration and that's showing how his thinking is increasingly surrounded by the people he's around. >> it shows how much he's isolated in his policy decisions. let's talk about the discussion you had with bremer who spoke with axios. you guys discussed what he called trump's foreign policy wins. what does he see as accomplishments? >> three things he considered accomplishments and that was the trade deal he struck the south korea, the air strikes he sent to syria after its president used chemical weapons and the pressure he's app...

Now 22 days away. we know his speech is going to be focused trying to bring the country together. the idea that it will be uniquely american essentially. steven miller who is one of his policy aides and will be joining him in the white house is also here at mar-a-lago and he's crafted basically all of trump's speeches including that kind of glo gloom and doom one. it should be a little bit of a different tone come january 20th. that's where donald trump is focusing at least today. he's also working on the last few positions, veterans affairs, agricultu agriculture. ellison murano worked under ...

on this debate before it's too late. and a disturbing new study revealing a widening gap between minorities and the wealthiest americans in the wake of a devastating recession. i'm wolf blitzer here in the situation room. first to what many say is shaping up to be an economic disaster of nearly unprecedented proportions if congress doesn't break the deadlock and agree on a deal to raise the debt ceiling only six days from now. the white house warning today there's no more wiggle room and beyond that date, quote, we lose our capacity to borrow. if that happens, interest rates could go...