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This shows black smoke as you could see billowing from the tanker after it was hit by what the owner calls some kind of shell. Now this all happened as the tankers were sailing through the gulf of oman. A busy and strategic shipping lane in the middle east. They are drawing comparisons to attacks on four ships in the same area months ago. There is a lot to discuss. I want to bring in correspondent Michelle Kosinski and Lieutenant General mart kurtling and mark kirby, a former spokesperson for the state department and the pentagon. First to you, michelle, you were at pompeos news conference, what does this attack mean for the u. S. . Well, it shows that the u. S. Stance of deterrence and increased pressure on iran is effecting iran. The u. S. Was so quick to call iran out as the culprit for this one. It took a long time in the attacks on may 12th, very similar attacks, ....