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A carefully curated strategy. setting the stage for the trump administration to put sanctions back on iran in three weeks. i'm joined by national security and military reporter courtney. love having you on. we debunked the wag the dog theory yesterday, but let's talk about what officials are pointing to, based on your reporting, andrea mitchell's and others. they say the crackdown started with the may 8th announcement to withdraw from the nuclear deal. june 4th, the administration threatened to stop doing business with european countries doing business in iran. sunday, you had the feisty speec...

Peter strzok two days after trump was elected to page there is no there there. what is he talking about? he was doing the investigating from the jump from jump street. what trump was basically saying in helsinki is this, listen. we are tough on them. we are slapping sanctions, we are closing embassies killing their mercenaries in syria. we are doing all that at the same time the ball is in their court. we can either be friends or we can be foes. that's exactly what hillary said when she was secretary of state, do you know what she said, juan, it's funny the internet has all that out there. our...

Himself in an international stage and you can make the argument that we haven't asserted ourselves. >> lisa: what could he do that would have a bigger impact? b3 how far you go with this? if a situation with china going on at the same time, so do you want to have two verbal battles going on potentially, to a true trade battles going on at some point, are they going to start slapping sanctions or making issues with our imports and exports like we do right now with what's going on in china? do you want to fight two of those battles at the same time, i don't know. >> kennedy: i think it's better ...

Allies in the world. particularly some of the strongest potential allies when it comes to the chinese flooding the market with cheap steel. so the europeans should be our natural allies on this. they're also suffering the consequences of the chinese dumping steel on the global market. why aren't we reaching out to them to have them help us solve the problem with a case in front of the wto, and instead of slapping sanctions on them, and inviting them to retaliate against our job creators here in the u.s.? it is an incredibly stupid policy. i guess we just don't know given that it is still in fl...

We have to involve our allies and involve countries that can, perhaps, influence north korea. but we have no guarantee. this to me is a most dangerous situation that we face today in the entire world. >> if north korea tests a nuclear missile, how should the u.s. respond? >> well, i think we have to respond again by slapping sanctions. it hasn't work in the past. you know, we had the cold war with the soviet union and the united states. and there was never a nuclear war because there was a deterrence. they understood if they made certain moves there would be a price to pay. at some point, nort...