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War. joining me now is cnn's chief national security correspondent, jim sciutto. he's also the author of a brand-new book, an excellent book you should get called "the shadow war: inside russia and china's secret operations to defeat america," which also explains various ways that iran is working against the u.s. jim, thanks so much for joining us. we're hearing very different messages from democrats and republicans on this, but there's also a serious divide between the president and his advisers on iran. why? >> that's the thing. and we're so used to seeing differences between republicans and...

There's some talk that could be as part of an effort to de-escalate things. so here is senator graham coming out and saying that iran based on the briefing he just got from the national security adviser, is behind these attacks. >> michelle kosinski, it's very important. thank you for the reporting. jim. >> no question. so what do the iranians think of this? we have someone in the ground in iran. cnn senior international correspondent frederik pleitgen in iran. an interesting message in iran from public officials even a general saying we don't want war, making the message clear, but if attacke...

While a top iranian general says tehran is not looking for war. makes that clear, but is fully prepared to defend itself if one were to start. let's speak to michelle kosinski. and i understand you have new reporting about the intelligence that led to this latest crisis. >> this is coming from republican senator lindsey graham, and last week, he was among senators who were briefed, a small number of people were briefed. there were a small number that were briefed, okay, but other senators, including graham, came out and said that more should be briefed because he said that so many senators fee...

Administration, the clinton administration, the bush administration, for missing these threats in the past. fact is, the president, certainly on russia, not willing to articulate a strategy or call out russia for some of its bad behavior. that's different from what you hear from the submarine commanders, the guys flying the spy planes, the guys fighting cyberattacks in the nsa. that disconnect is important. >> it's a great book, if you haven't bought it yet, "the shadow war." jim's new book. we'll keep talking about it. >> still ahead, presidential hopeful senator kamala harris unfailing her p...

United states. the iranians certainly standing firm and at the same time, saying, and i think this is very important, under the current circumstances with the current sanctions in place, they say there are not going to be any negotiations with the trump administration. i talked to a senior diplomat just a couple minutes ago, and he told me exactly the same thing. they want the white house to bring things down, to take some of the sanctions away. otherwise, there's definitely not going to be any talks. >> interesting, the iranian foreign minister quote back one of those twitter hashtags, drain ...