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Reliable and credible evidence that iran is behind the tanker attacks. what do you think this is about, max? >> i think this is another part of this self-inflicted crisis that donald trump has created by the fact that a year ago, he left the iranian nuclear accord, even though our intelligence community said the iranians are actually abiding by the terms of that accord. since then, trump has imposed punishing sanctions, economic sanctions on iran, which the iranians call an act of economic war, and they are essentially retaliating. i do think they are responsible, in all likelihood, for these ...

As we heard, the u.s. is sending 1,000 more troops to reliable and credible evidence that iran is behind the tanker attacks but from your standpoint, from the intelligence standpoint, do you still have more questions? >> i have more questions. i suspect iran did this. i think the evidence is there. but if you want to go from i'm 98% certain to 100% certain, i want to see stuff like the communications. i want to see if there's residue on those ships outside the blast marks and if that residue can be rinked to an iranian weapon. i want to see more about the interpretation of the photographs on t...

And this is one of the things we hear from around the world, concerned about a possible miscalculation by either side? >> oh, sure. there's always a concern. and, you know, you always run into proportional responses by the other side. this is always a dangerous situation, but in terms of protecting our allies, protecting our troops in the region, we have to put a size that's proper to defend that, and i think be very clear, that we will not allow the straits of hormuz to be shut down. we have the capability to prevent that. that's really iran's decision at this point. >> so, the pentagon relea...

Pulling hard on it. florida is a state where you have the margin for the top of the ticket races have been decided by 1.2 percentage points. i would not expect that to be any different in 2020. but as we discussed here, what we are looking at is a base election. what the president will be relying on is a very strong white vote. this campaign does see margins with hispanic voters, latino voters. they will be rolling out a latino coalition to further that agenda. >> marc caputo, thank you, my friend. we will see you next week. juana, i ask you to stay where you are. the white house makes the c...

Reading the rhetoric from the u.s.? you have something of a tr contradiction. the president saying this morning the tanker attacks were very minor. do they tlaread that as a rampi down? >> reporter: i don't think they read that as a ramping down. i think they read that of chaos in the trump administration. what they are thinking, what they tell us is they believe that president trump fundamentally does not want to start a war in the middle east. doesn't want to start war in the persian gulf but they believe there are certain people in the administration who are trying to push him in that direc...