mr. fallon: it draws a line. iran has been allowed to get away with an incredibly disruptive amount of behavior in the neighborhood, destabilizing other countries, attacking western interests, attacking oil tankers, oil refineries. finally, the president has said there is a line beyond which you cannot go. you cannot start killing or threatening u.s. servicemen. he has drawn a line. we have seen a response from iran, and i hope we can get iran back to negotiating some kind of normal relationship with the rest of us. francine: but how big of a gamble was it actually? where we almost on the brink of world war iii? mr. fallon: i don't think it was a gamble, i think it was necessary to protect american service personnel from ethereum that threat. -- a very imminent threat. if we had to act in a similar circumstance, we would, in similar circumstances, do everything we could to protect reddish personnel and interests. francine: do you think the iranian nuclear agreement is dead? mr. fallon: no, it has to be built on.