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Are hard liners there and the problem they've got is the economy that continues to weaken with an increase on sanctions against iran, including on oil. who you is that working out? are inflation rates continuing to grow? >> reporter: yes. the economy is taking a battering here, ali. inflation is going up. the currency keeps weakening and those all in turn make more moderate elements in this country weaker. if you have a buoyant economy, if you're not being threatened by your traditional adversaries, it gives you a much wider canvas to work on. rouhani doesn't have that anymore. he has essentia...

Credit cards aren't paid and to steal your e-mails and maybe there's information in there about an inappropriate relationship that you have. it's not on the candidates to vet that information. they need to place had a phone call. there's no question. that's espionage. >> joe, the president is saying that before he places that phone call that he'd have to look at that information to determine whether it's bad or not. is that the way the law looks? >> absolutely no. that's nonsense. president trump likes to exude this idea that he is the map, right, that he gets to decide what laws he does and d...

Ways the president created more problems for himself by making it clear that he would actually sit down, listen to the information and then determine whether it was bad enough to warrant calling the fbi. alex? >> right. further mudying the waters. abby philip on the north lawn. white house, thank you. president trump also took the opportunity to blast house squeaker nancy pelosi for remarks she made about his moral compass. the speaker saying that the president doesn't know right from wrong and took part in a, quote, criminal cover-up citing examples in the mueller report. cnn senior congres...

C navy and not the iranian state navy, and there's a difference there, a whole different chain of command and a whole different mission set. aim convinced that there's more intelligence that they have beyond that video that leads them to the conclusion that iran was behind them. >> fred, can you speak a little bit more to that, that there are essentially parallel tracks. you have the foreign minister zarif coming out and saying iran wasn't behind this, but it's possible that the head. irgc carried this out on his own with direct leaders from the supreme leader, is it not? >> reporter: well, th...

President trump in new york. "the new york times" is reporting the senior aides to the president are trying to avoid this direct confrontation with rouhani. that holds risks if that happens. >> indeed, it holds a lot of risks. i doubt it will happen. rouhani doesn't want it to happen. he is portraying this is a country of resistance and i think the attack on the military parade adds another dimension to all of this and makes it tougher for rouhani to sit down with the president of the united states. many of us will be sitting down with the iranians this week. there are a lot of meetings here. ...