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With anything that's been said about this whole situation than what he just said. i think anybody who tries to grandstand this or politicize it at this point risks making a total fool of themselves. this is a personal situation. there doesn't seem to be any security implications at all. if it had happened to another agency head, it would have been a one-day story at most. so i think we ought to all take a deep breath and certainly we need to make sure that there were no security implications -- or that there was any kind of an issue with coordination between two very important security agencie...

Whether or not the president should have been informed at an earlier point. once the fbi concluded there was no national security breach by the cia director, there was really nothing there to raise. and so i think as we look at this bigger picture, leave aside the personal part of it and focus on what are the security implications? anybody in congress who's talking about some sort of joint committee to investigate this, really? we need to be focusing on bigger issues because there was no national security breach. the fbi said it and i think that's the end of this story. >> in that case, should...

>> mr. ambassador, nothing happens in a vacuum. iran has, of course, denied this today, and said that it had nothing to do with it. we are a week away from the start of the olympics, with everybody sort of on edge, certainly, in terms of the security implications. we're in the middle of a presidential election campaign. there are politics involved. is israel simply going to follow its own direction here? or will you take into consideration the fact that things could escalate very quickly here? >> israel will take whatever steps are necessary, andrea, to defend its citizens. that's our duty, it...

counties across 26 states. the bone dry conditions are destroying farm crops and one analyst estimates that 75% of the corn crop in the drought region is now wiped out. that could drive up food and fuel prices across the entire country and brings us to rob marciano live in bu. >> we have corn that should be taller than it is right now because of the drought and because of the heat. this stalk should be well up and over my head. there's a couple of examples of ears of corn. this was tough to find, a decent one, what you would typically see in a healthy environment but this is what we'...

Official say they are increasingly concerned about the safety and well-being of all civilians, in particular, women and children. there is also the greater concern as talked about by the state department spokesman victoria newman this could spread to a much, much, wider conflict. >> that is precisely the sort of spillover that we are trying to avoid. we would not be putting this much effort if we did not think it has security implications for the region and our friends but for the united states, as well. >>jonathan: that's why action is deemed so urgent but why they desperately need and are tr...