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Defensive counter air that are -- that could be used to counter any kind of potential attack at sea. >> and there are several other ships part of the carrier group with the lincoln. do you get a sense, i know we spoke last weekend about the u.s. military getting prepared for possibly war. do you get a sense that things have ramped up in the last week? >> reporter: to be honest, kendis, i've seen the tensions have gone up and down since we've been in the region for the past couple of weeks. at times it seems like the maritime threat seems to -- the tension seems to go down and then now of cours...

Republican foreign policy theory that isis loves a vacuum, that russia loves a vacuum. what does donald trump create? a vacuum. there can be some discussions about how he would take down our force structure in afghanistan, in syria. what would be the rules of engagement for strikes against isis targets. i think those are legitimate issues. but when you announce out of the clear blue sky without consulting, you say, we're out of here because i want one win every day to -- >> i want this bring up this reporting that we have that both pompeo and mattis and other members of the national security t...

That is the exact example that comes to mind, and when president trump reads nice words, i start a stopwatch. because it's only a matter of time because he reverts back to type. now, he did in the first half of what he said was still reading, saying the right words, but he couldn't help himself. and we might see another charlottesville situation where tomorrow or somewhere in a couple of days he goes full on -- >> maxine waters, hillary clinton, eric holder, bill clinton, george soros, exercise what i call their first amendment obligations, not just rights. i think it's an obligation, the peop...

First amendment obligation call there to be a qualification that perhaps you should be subject to a mail bomb, a potential attack. somehow the president is not understanding he's conflating these two things. critics of what you stand for do not call for death in america. >> that would sort of be a basic premise in democracy. but you're right, there's a disconnect. and that's because words and facts don't mean anything to this president. he uses them indiscriminately. he weaponinizes language. he really doesn't care whether they wound physically or otherwise. he doesn't care whether they have a...

According to three senior officials. joining me now, the former british ambassador to the u.s. ambassador wendy sherman, former undersecretary of state for political affairs who served as a member of the u.s. negotiating team with north korea. and of course negotiated the iran nuclear deal. and nbc reporter courtney cuby. since i'm losing my voice, courtney, tell us about the iranian capability. >> so iran has been laying the groundwork for potential attack against a couple of thousand individual targets that include critical infrastructure here in the united states. it also includes some priv...