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Exactly seven days after iranian forces attacked that japanese and norwegian oil tanker placing those mines on their hull. on the very same day that iranian forces shut down a high-priced u.s. surveillance drone that the u.s. military says was operating in international airspace. president trump called off at the last minute a retaliatory tomahawk strike in response to the iranian attack and now we're learning u.s. cyber command did respond allegedly wiping out a key database used by iran's irgc wing. the details were first reported by "the new york times" which says that iran has not been abl...

Something in syria? >> that's a real question. i think that there's a high level of concern about that. one school of thought within the white house is that you will see a strike this weekend in part as a way to get comey off of television, knowing what we know about this president, it's impossible to say that that's not in the air and one of the options they're looking at. i don't have any indication clearly that that is where they're going to go. i do think the president is mindful of the loss of life in syria. i do think that those images trouble him just as the images from syria last year ...

>> well, i'm sure the joint chiefs of staff have already prepared those options and have given a different levels of kinetic strikes for the president to use if he so decides to use those. that might be the problem in and of itself, ana, and it's what we did last year, a year ago yesterday, when they conducted the 59 tomahawk strike. that is a tactic. it is shooting something and not having a long-term strategy for what you want to accomplish. if it's another one of those type of missions where it's just a kinetic strike against a series of targets, it's retaliatory response and it's not a str...

We're not going to hit china, we'd probably hit their refinery. they have one refinery for oil so probably a tomahawk strike. clearly when kim jong-un hears that, that puts him in a defensive position. mcmaster talking about war, and lindsey graham in a number of comments this week talking about how, for instance, the united states has a viable military option. and we're going to send a strong signal that it does late this week. and so clearly that is something that is driving the north korean regime at a point where they feel threatened. >> are they fearing the threat that we might do the fir...

Before. when people think it took it over the edge or caused concern when he said like the world has never seen before and -- that's where i'm going. has never seen before. he also used it when he was talking about the opioid epidemic, about the southern border. the country has never seen this kind of strength. so he returned to that there line. what do you make of that? >> that it's trump hyperbole. but he's throwing it out there in a very serious crisis that we have now. imagine you're in guam or hawaii, japan, south korea, this is a moment you have to start thinking about civil defense and ...