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Then this is probably a particularly bad time for one acting defense chief to be handing off to another acting defense chief. trump announces he will be going through the senate confirmation process. as this withdrew from the nuclear deal and began ratcheting up pressure, it has been unclear what its goal or end game is. now we've reached this point where to hear the president tell it last night -- last night, we may have been minute as way from a strike that could have led to a war. and we have little to no clarity about what happened or why or what happens next. joining us now, nbc national ...

What is the pressure of this pressure. is it really to talk or bring about the collapse of the iranian state. it isn't because they believe he wants to talk. secondly, they want to come to talks feeling that trump takes them seriously. they don't want to come to talks thinking, okay, i applied to pressure and put even more pressure on them at the table. they are trying to get some leverage from traum to say look, we are willing to be as wreckless as you and willing to ris b war and disrupt tankers a. >> juan of the things we've been discussing is that they have far

You are on the foreign relations committee. were you or your chairman briefed on the idea that we were on the brink of war? >> i cannot speak for the chairman but we were not briefed. we have in fact pressed for a vote to make it clear that the president does not possession legal ability. that is clear on that count. it is unbelievable to think that president didn't ask about casualties until 10 minutes before frankly isn't surprising to those of us who have listened to how uncurious he is and how he asks very few questions about the policy proposals being put in front of him and it makes us a...

Superior power. iran can wage a sim et trick war. sometimes in small and large ways that don't represent to the american air strikes for instance. >> first of all, iraq proved that. proved the technological superiority does not guarantee they can successfully manage a war. we won a war against iraq in two weeks and got stuck where it costs tens of thousands of american lives. iranians understand that the military might may be great but the political tolerance of the american leaders risking body bags and the wrath of the american people is actually very short. they know trump doesn't want to g...

Hit. why is iran responding in the way that it is? >> i think the iranians are frustrated with the economic pressure on them. they realize that washington is very comfortable applying pressure. their economy is in shambles. they want to bankrupt this economy and crush it. they want to change the impasse. put pressure on trump. send the signal that using maximum pressure is not cost free. if he doesn't want to go to war with iran, he has to think about this differently. it is a way to force a change in the impasse. >> when you say, if he doesn't want to go to war with iran, he has to think abou...