that is the b team. and he tweeted, and i quote, with the #b team doing one thing and real donald trump saying another thing, it is apparently the u.s. that doesn't know what is to think, he quotes. we in iran have actually known what to think fsince 1953, whic of course is the time that iran's president was overthrown and the shah was reinstated. he says that is a good thing. so iranians essentially saying they have clarity, they have a clear thinks on all of this, they believe that it is the u.s. that at this point doesn't and referencing the fact that the iranians believe that there is a certain agree of disconnect between president trump and some of his most senior advisers. >> and we can certainly understand why they put saudi arabia and israel on the b team, didn't we. fred, thanks very much for your reporting. >>> first polls close in australia's nail biting election. we'll take you there live ahead. >>> also, a tornado touches down in the american heartland. we have the very latest on a severe we

the b. team and by that he means john bolton the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu as well as the saudi crown prince mohammed bin salma. what about reaction from other players in the region israel and saudi arabia for instance. saudi arabia has called for a regional meeting to deescalate the situation to discuss regional security it says that it does not want to go to war with the u.s. but rather but is prepared to defend itself israel of course the sworn enemy of iran we've seen those close relations between trump and netanyahu in recent months and certainly the israeli prime minister was delighted by washington's move to declare the iranian revolutionary guard a terrorist organization so i think we can certainly expect the latest rhetoric out of the u.s. to be welcomed by israel over the home from washington thank you. germany's constitution or basic law marks it 70th anniversary this week it came into effect in may $149.00 after being written under the supervision of the victorious all

talked about this so-called b. team that wanted a war with iran and all of this creates a climate of fear where rainy and are worried about the future worried about re about american intentions worried about u.s. intentions so it's hardly surprising then within all of this all of these actions that iran would start to say you know what we need to do something in support of ourselves the iranian economy has been damaged incredibly badly by sanctions and so it's decided that it needs to do something to try and reassert itself on the world stage and rouhani is now clearly questioning the actions of european nations and their intentions and what he said is that he's giving them sixty days to hold talks with iran and that iran will stop at sale if enrich uranium and could restart high level production if the world powers don't follow the terms of that twenty fifty nuclear agreement so what do you expect to happen in the next sixty days this is push your country is in an awkward position. it does the european powers were incr

from the iranian foreign minister himself saying that the president is being goaded by teen be the b. team and by that he means john bolton the israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu as well as the saudi crown prince mohammed bin salma. what about reaction from other players in the region israel and saudi arabia for instance. saudi arabia has called for a regional meeting to deescalate the situation to discuss regional security it says that it does not want to go to war with the u.s. but iran rather but is prepared to defend itself israel of course the sworn enemy of iran we've seen those close relations between trump and netanyahu in recent months and certainly the israeli prime minister was delighted by washington's move to declare the iranian revolutionary guard a terrorist organization so i think we can certainly expect the latest rhetoric out of the u.s. to be welcomed by israel of the home from washington thank you. now to ukraine where a former comedian volodymyr the landscape has been sworn in as president his 1st act was to announce that he would dissolve parliament and hold ne

that is why caution is extremely necessary. >> what is interesting about the b team is there is no b in arabic. that is interesting. differ in the fact that the iranian government is in no position to push back against -- to push back. >> the iraqi government is in a curious position, if i were to put it that way. it is a government that has just emerged from a brutal fight against a terrorist organization. the past iraqi administration -- useda prudent policy neutrality as much as they could . question -- that is thelicy iraqi government and all the actors in iraq. they have the same idea and desire of the conflict they don't want it to occur -- and we here in the u.s. don't. the question is do we have that consensus if conflict occurs? no. that consensus will be shattered. the iraqi government is not in charge of every aspect of iraqi life. they do not control all of the components of the conflict in that sense. we know the iraqi government probably will push for .eutrality and not get involved that cannot be said about many thating groups in iraq i've already said if something hap

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the things we need to tell our viewers the iranian foreign minister termed this what he called the b-team. the iranians have been pushing it on the one hand, you have president trump who doesn't want a further conflict or war with iran. but he says there are people trying to push him essentially against his will to get into some military contact with iran. he called them the b-team, and mohammed bin salman the crown prince of saudi arabia, and then john bolton, his own national security adviser. we've been talking about some of the perceived between president trump and john bolton as far as iran policies are concerned. now he tweeted, as we sa say, #bteam, saying one thing and it's apparently the u.s. that doesn't know what to think. we in iran have actually known what to think for millenia, and about the u.s. since 1953. at this point that is certainly a good thing. obviously referencing the fact that the iranians know exactly what to think about this situation. it comes of course at an interesting time. some of them talking about a possible miscalculation between the iranians and the un

to try to curtail the influence of pressure groups the so-called b. team as iranian leaders called a made up of the leaders of the united arab emirates saudi arabia and israel as well as u.s. national security advisor john bolton people that leaders into iran blame for pushing the united states towards conflict with iran well let's have more now on that meeting between the senate intelligence committee member and the iranian foreign minister let's hear from our correspondent in washington she have a ton say. trouble ministrations reaction to news breaking about dianne feinstein's dinner with the report at least on the face of it appeared to back up what the iranians are saying this wasn't some back channel negotiations using feinstein as a goober between between the administration and the iranians or top of the assertions as a very angry about dianne feinstein are the other democrats like john kerry the secretary of state communicating with the iranians and undermining trumps foreign policy of course if i was about television that would be was what the ame

and saying that the b-team is saying one thing and trump is saying another, claiming that it is thet's going on, and is the confused one here. but you are hearing people on both sides saying that war is not an option, that it's not possible, that it's absolutely undesirable on both sides, coupled with the possibility that iran may be moving some of these missiles, that it was -- it had on boats away. there does seem to be at least a sense here of physical de-escalati de-escalation, despite this back and forth of tweets and whatnot. >> now what are you hearing about these commercial flight warnings? just how common are they? >> reporter: yeah. well, they happen on occasion, but it's usually in areas of war, and sometimes the faa will prohibit u.s. commercial aircraft from flying over places. we saw that in southern ukraine just a couple of years ago. other war zones like syria and iraq, north korea where there is a risk of weapons hitting a u.s. plane, so it's unusual to see this over the persian gulf, and the faa i might add was careful to say that it's likely iran has no intention

on the political society and public opinion of america and of course the b. team. a reference there are uses to talk about the leaders of saudi arabia the united arab emirates and israel as well as u.s. secretary. u.s. national security advisor john bolton these are people that leaders and ron blame for pushing the u.s. towards more conflict with iran thank you for that zain bazarov a lot for us in tehran and as they mentioned the u.s. media reporting on a meeting between iran's foreign minister and a member of the senate intelligence committee. said to have dined with senator dianne feinstein several weeks ago and washington d.c. let's bring in. more on this she out how significant is this meeting and what do we know came out of it. we do very little and certainly might compare the u.s. secretary of state to bolster that iranian position that no secret negotiations are under way the dianne feinstein wasn't acting as some kind of back channel between the iranian government and the trump administration very critical of that meeting the state department not confirmin

secretary of state stopped by brussels or heard of meeting his head his plan b. team with russia's foreign minister she's day says that he'll be looking for answers from my. point was that arms when you will produce to. pompei you how the u.s. is going to deal with the crisis that was made by washington's unilateral decision . swedish prosecutors say that they will reopen an investigation into sexual assault allegation made against wiki leaks founder julian assange. extradition from the united kingdom. plus the us china trade war send stock markets plummeting himself to beijing retaliates the latest u.s. punitive tariffs by imposing penalties on $60000000000.00 worth of u.s. goods. joining us this evening this is r.t. and. the european union has warned the u.s. secretary of state might pump am against escalating the situation over iran's nuclear deal it comes as america's top diplomat made an unexpected visit to brussels to talk to you minister. correspondent peter. to tell us what more do we know about these talks. well they certainly would expected that's what we kn

to try to curtail the influence of pressure groups the so-called b. team as iranian leaders called a made up of the leaders of the united arab emirates saudi arabia and israel as well as u.s. national security advisor john bolton people that leaders into iran blame for pushing the united states towards conflict with iran are let's go live now to washington our correspondent there is alan fischer and so allan all the denials about this meeting then and what it could signify the meeting between dianne feinstein and everything iranian foreign minister but it does raise the possibility of there being at least some sort of back channel of negotiations taking place between the iranians and americans on certain levels. well no i think that's too big a leap to take and certainly you'd be in danger of breaking american law if you were doing that sort of thing it's not unusual for american politicians from both parties to go and meet diplomats from other countries slightly unusual for this is the iranian foreign minister certainly dianne feinstein's office is seeing

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to try to curtail the influence of pressure groups the so-called b. team as iranian leaders called it made up of the leaders of the united arab emirates saudi arabia and israel as well as u.s. national security advisor john bolton people that leaders into iran blame for pushing the united states towards conflict with iran. and more now on those u.s. media reports a meeting between iran's foreign minister zarif and a member of the senate intelligence committee dianne feinstein and fisher is live for us in washington any further details on this meeting and. while the meeting is it's not unique but it is unusual that a democratic senator when there's a republican president would be meeting someone from a run certainly dianne feinstein's office she is a senator from california they're seeing that the informed the state department of the meeting before it happened and that happened over a month ago the intention was that they would get a briefing of us and the run affairs of course in that month things have changed significantly the state department isn't sayin

to try to curtail the influence of pressure groups the so-called b. team as iranian leaders called a made up of the leaders of the united arab emirates saudi arabia and israel as well as u.s. national security advisor john bolton people that leaders into iran blame for pushing the united states towards conflict with iran but let's get some more now on that reported meeting between the iranian foreign minister and that senior democratic senator dianne feinstein his. but trouble ministrations reaction to news breaking about dianne feinstein's dinner with the report at least on the face of it appeared to back up what the iranians are saying this wasn't some back channel negotiations using dianne feinstein as a goober between between the administration and the iranians or top of the assertions as a very i agree about dianne feinstein are the other democrats like john kerry the secretary of state communicating with the iranians and undermining trumps foreign policy of course if i was about television that would be was what the americans would say but it's very

to try to curtail the influence of pressure groups the so-called b. team as iranian leaders called it made up of the leaders of the united arab emirates saudi arabia and israel as well as u.s. national security advisor john bolton people that leaders into iran blame for pushing the united states towards conflict with iran well as a mentioned today u.s. media is reporting a meeting between jobs and zarif and dianne feinstein who is the most the senior my stomach on the senate intelligence committee alan fisher has more from washington d.c. . it's not unusual for politicians across the board to meet with diplomats from other countries what is slightly unusual this time is that it was a senior democratic senator meeting with the iranians no dianne feinstein's office said. that they spoke to the state department before the meeting and they asked for a briefing on around u.s. relations the meeting happened 3 or 4 weeks ago so things have changed in the interim period and there's no confirmation from the state department in the meeting actually went ahead but th

to try to curtail the influence of pressure groups the so-called b. team as iranian leaders called a made up of the leaders of the united arab emirates saudi arabia and israel as well as u.s. national security advisor john bolton people that leaders into iran blame for pushing the united states towards conflict with iran as a mention the meeting that u.s. media reporting between jobs or a fence senator dianne feinstein. has more details about that. the trouble bit of structure news reaction to news breaking about dianne feinstein's dinner with the report at least on the face of it appeared to back up what the iranians are saying this wasn't some back channel negotiations using feinstein as a goober between between the administration and the iranians or top of an assertion says a very angry about dianne feinstein ad other democrats like john kerry the secretary of state communicating with the iranians and undermining trumps foreign policy of course if there was a back john in the ocean that would be was what the americans would say but it's very difficult t

to try to curtail the influence of pressure groups the so-called b. team as iranian leaders called it made up of the leaders of the united arab emirates saudi arabia and israel as well as u.s. national security advisor john bolton people that leaders into iran blame for pushing the united states towards conflict with iran i want to get more now on u.s. media reports of a meeting between enron's foreign minister mohammad javad zarif and a member of the senate intelligence committee. joins us from washington chad has there been any confirmation of this meeting. not from the state of pa but actually it's a little bit of zip we have contacted the state department and they refused to confirm or deny vats that they gave the ok for this meeting done feinstein's office who had that musing about dinner with the reeve says they cleared this with the state department she simply wanted to get an update on u.s. iranian relations the state department not confirming or denying that that was true might compare the secretary of state however has been very critical about th

the b. team and especially barton who is known for his hardinge policies and who even president tran described as. having been for him the u.s. had gone at least 4 wars across the world so yeah i think this is very hard and. the irony is that barton is himself a. major sponsor in advocate of the n.p.t. which is known as a very dangerous terrorist group. are though they describe him as you really and dissidents but they are very terrorists nature so i really mean it was 2nd one day i'm going to move on because we've got a famous italian hey let me give you this state here and pull the knife have a look and put a knife in what happened here so we've got iran to chaos us government a state sponsor of terrorism fest well as an iranian i love that because i mean 1st of all the u.s. has had. illegal military presence in many other countries and just take a look at them our military bases around iran like. iran is the only country in the region where the u.s. does not have military press presence becaus

to try to curtail the influence of pressure groups the so-called b. team as iranian leaders called it made up of the leaders of the united arab emirates saudi arabia and israel as well as u.s. national security advisor john bolton people that leaders into iran blame for pushing the united states towards conflict with iran. well as them mentions that u.s. media is reporting a meeting between johnson serious and dianne feinstein a single democrat on the senate intelligence committee and fisher has more from washington d.c. . it's not unusual for politicians across the board to meet with diplomats from other countries what is slightly unusual this time is that it was a senior democratic senator meeting with the iranians no dianne feinstein's office said that they spoke to the state department before the meeting and they asked for a briefing on come around u.s. relations the meeting happened 3 or 4 weeks ago so things have changed in the interim period and there's no confirmation from the state department in the meeting actually went ahead but the iranians hav

it through our assistance to qatar when qatar was being strangulated by some of the members of the b. team and we will stand by our friends in the region and we have stood by turkey when they were under a quid if we stood by iraqi kurdistan where they were being faced with a dicey attack we will always stand for stability and history we love nothing more than having excellent relations with saudi arabia united arab emirates and every other member. of the g.c.c. this is our hope our expectation but there are requirements we need to end this bloodshed in yemen before we go into the region let's talk about. what you've described so far it seems to feel that iran is the victim here but there is a consensus amongst many countries in the region and in the united states that iran is responsible for what is happening in the united states insists that it is the nuclear deal which favored iran your neighbors insist that it is meddling in internal affairs of other countries that the ditch they make and the basis for imposing these sanctions and coming out against iran do you not think that there is a

to try to curtail the influence of pressure groups the so-called b. team as iranian leaders called the made up of the leaders of the united arab emirates saudi arabia and israel as well as u.s. national security advisor john bolton people that leaders into iran blame for pushing the united states towards conflict with iran. well let's get more ellen is in the u.s. media report 7 meeting between iran's foreign minister and dianne feinstein a member of the senate intelligence committee alan fisher is live for us in washington any confirmation or details of this meeting. well this was a meeting that was organized between dianne feinstein who is the democratic senate and the iranian foreign minister happened more than a month ago according to dianne feinstein's office they inform the state department there was going to happen and look for some information on us a really in relations of course if that was a month ago things have changed in the intervening period this state department has made no comment although there are some reports suggesting that might pomp

shannon: this is a tweet from the foreign minister who is prolific on twitter who said goaded by the b team donald trump hopes to achieve of what other aggressors failed to do. iranian's -- economic terrorism and genocidal can'ts will end iran, never threaten an iranian. try respect. it works. >> that is idiotic bluster from the iranian regime but not surprising. that has been the status quo for a long time. the opposite of appeasement is not necessarily war. there are things you can do the administration is trying to do that are counter strikes against iranian aggression that have been unchecked for a long time. put this in context. the obama administration for eight years took a policy of trying to get the iranian's into this deal, wanted a foreign policy legacy, four hostages, this changed the obama administration's out without a deal with syria, yemen, iraq, every country in the region where iran's tentacles extend and the trump administration saying we are not playing to that tune anymore. of course the iranians will not like this and will lash out and test this administration's middle

this morning, iran's foreign minister fired back tweeting in part "goaded by the b team, the real donald trump hopes to achieve what other aggressors failed to do. iran has stood tall for millennia. hashtag never threaten an iranian. over the past month the u.s. has expanded its military presence in the region in response to iranian threats. at the same time the administration is keeping up its maximum pressure campaign to isolate the regime through heavy sanctions in hopes that the regime will give in and negotiate a tougher deal to replace the nuclear record. >> president trump: i ended the iran nuclear deal and actually i must tell you i had no idea it was going to be as strong as it was. the country is devastated from the standpoint of that. >> we are hearing cemex messaging from the administration. on friday a senior administration official told reporters at a briefing on iran that the u.s. has reached out to the regime and offered to negotiate but had not heard bac back. the fake news put out a typically false statement without any knowledge that the united states was trying to set

iran's foreign minister responded, quote, goaded by "b" team, and by that he means john bolton, donaldrump hopes to achieve what others have failed to do. aggressors are gone. economic terrorism and genocidal taunts won't end iran. never threaten an iranian. try respect, it works. with us tonight to talk about it retired u.s. army general barry mccaffrey, retired four stars on his shoulder. a heavily decorated commander in vietnam. general, i see you are smiling. how does a former combatant commander like you who's been dealing directly, indirectly with iran for say, what, 50 years give or take, how do you react to that kind of thing? >> well, it's almost hard to comment on it. these are non-serious exchanges. we've got three objectives dealing with iran as far as i can tell. we don't want them to go nuclear. we want to constrain their terror activities through the shea arc, iraq, syria, lebanon. and finally we want to keep them out of the persian gulf. what's our reward, and punishment. and part of that traditionally in foreign policy is publicly speak constructively. privately threat

people that are trying to get the president to go to war, even though he doesn't want to, with the b teamg one thing and donald trump doing the other, the u.s. doesn't know what to think. we, in iran have known what to think since 1953. at this point in time, that is certainly a good thing, as he puts it. so, a bit of trolling going on there from the iranian side. whether or not that could inflame anything, we have to wait to see. in general, we have to say, it seems things seem to be calming down between the u.s. and iran here in the greater middle eastern region. today, by the way, to say that quickly, the faa issued a warning to pilots and notes to airmen saying that they need to do precautions when they fly in the persian gulf area because of the increased military activity and the threat jets could be misidentified here. tension is going on. it seems to have eased on the ground. >> frederik pleitgen, a pleasure. thank you. >>> two weeks from the start of the atlantic hurricane season. the military is working to make sure that forecasters will have all the information they need to tra

saying the b team saying one thing and he said that the president says another. and it's the united states that doesn't know what's going on. so then you had this tweet from the president basically saying after days of his emphasizing he wanted to talk to iran, warning them if they wanted to fight, that would be the end of them. there's been this interview that's come out where he walks this kind of rhetoric back and emphasizing again that he doesn't want war, but keep in mind, this interview was taped days ago. it was taped before he sent out the tweet. >> we just don't want them to have nuclear weapons. they can't be threatening us. >> i'm not one b that believes i'm not one that want wants to go into war. war kills people. >> he makes what seems to be his stance pretty clear. saying that war would be the end of you. could it have been there was a rocket fired into the green zone and baghdad yesterday that landed right outside the u.s. embassy. so might it have been a a reaction at that. might it have been the back and forth he got into with the iranian foreign

with the b team, that stands for bolton and his folks, doing one thing and donald trump saying anotherhing, it is apparently the u.s. that doesn't know what to think. we in iran have actually known what to think for millennia and about the u.s. since 1953. at this point that is a good thing. what does it say, jeffrey, that donald trump is getting trolled on social media by the foreign minister of iran? >> well, it's a sign of the confusion of the policy here and the fact that we have walked away from a deal that the rest of our closest allies in europe were sticking to. they don't know what to think. the rest of the region doesn't really know what to think. it's put us in a tough situation. there is a couple things here we have to keep in mind. we had a process that was working and keeping us safe and keeping a nuclear weapon out of iranian hands. that has gone away and no one knows what the objective of the administration is. the trump administration no longer has a policymaking process where the voices from across the government are brought in before decisions are made. and this erra

military the "b-team," and about the u.s. since 1953. the united kingdom increased the threat level for its forces and diplomats in iraq due to the threat from tehran, that move coming a day after all nonessential american personnel were ordered to leave the iraqi embassy and consulate amid the escalating tensions. the fuel for this latest escalation was a drone strike that damaged a saudi owned pipeline. in a local newspaper linked to the saudi royal family blamed iran and called for surgical strikes on tehran in retaliation. the very thought of which set off a fierce debate on capitol hill. >> we will hold you, iran, responsible and you at risk. that's why you are seeing b-52s and strategic assets. >> that's absolutely petrifying, it should be frightening for the american people because it's augmented women whose lives could be at risk. >> that's a congressional hearing set for tuesday on the iran situation, bret, and the secretary of state mike pompeo will be there. >> bret: kevin corke live on the north lawn. transitory steve mnuchin

to try to curtail the influence of pressure groups the so-called b. team as iranian leaders called the made up of the leaders of the united arab emirates saudi arabia and israel as well as u.s. national security advisor john bolton people that leaders in teheran blame for pushing the united states towards conflict with iran. meanwhile u.s. media are reporting a meeting last month between iranian foreign minister jadzia reef and dianne feinstein a senior democrat on the senate intelligence committee alan fischer has the details from washington. it's not unusual for politicians across the board to meet with diplomats from other countries what is slightly unusual this time is that it was a senior democratic senator meeting with the iranians no dianne feinstein's office said that they spoke to the state department before the meeting and they asked for a briefing on come around u.s. relations the meeting happened 3 or 4 weeks ago so things have changed in the interim period and there's no confirmation from the state department in the meeting actually went ahead

iran's foreign minister seemed to reply with a tweet of his own writing, with the b team doing one thing and@realdonaldtrump doing another, it's apparently the u.s. who does not know what to think. earlier today, the iran commander issued a threat to the u.s. military warning that iran's short range missiles can easily reach the warships in the persian gulf, shannon? >> shannon: elson barber with the latest. thank you very much. some democrats put all of their eggs to the mueller basket. how they're blowing it by not moving forward on impeachment right now. will the stalled investigations for president trump for frustrated and divided democrats to change their strategy. our power panel weigh in next. we're family. we'd do anything for each other. but this time... those bonds were definitely tested. frog leg, for my baby brother don't frogs have like, two legs? so they should have two of these? since i'm active duty and she's family, i was able to set my sister up with a sweet membership from navy federal. if you hold it closer, it looks bigger. eat your food my big sis likes to make tiny

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into wars, and allowing the b team, talking about some of the president's advisers, to trash diplomacy crimes via massive arms sales achieves nothing but empowering that same complex. a little twitter trolling going on, but you're right, the iranians continue to say they don't want an escalation. but if there is an escalation, they are ready to one, and that is going to be painful for the 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 the swamp, back to the president. great to have you on the ground there. >> two of the big players beyond the

goaded by hashtag b-team on real donald trump hopes to achieve what alexander, genghis khan and otherto do. iranians stood tall for millenia while aggressors all gone. economic terrorism or genocidal taunts won't end iran. never threaten an iranian, try respect. it works. uss abraham lincoln trained along the amphibious assault ship kearsage. patrick shanihan who has not been officially nominated and briefed lawmakers on the latest intelligence that led to the pentagon new warning about iran. melissa. melissa: great reporting, jennifer, we appreciate that. connell: we're joined by retired lieutenant colonel dakota wood at the heritage foundation. listening to jennifer's reporting there, how close are we and how tense is the situation and how close are we with potential conflict with iran? >> it is similar to any other policy or announcement coming out of the white house or d.c. you want to look at what the actual policy being implemented is and ignore all the hand waving and heated rhetoric. what are the forces? what are their posture? are troops moving to the region. none of that is

to try to curtail the influence of pressure groups the so-called b. team as iranian leaders called it made up of the leaders of the united arab emirates saudi arabia and israel as well as u.s. national security advisor john bolton people that leaders into iran blame for pushing the united states towards conflict with iran meanwhile iran's foreign minister mohammad javad zarif is now in baghdad for 2 days of talks with his iraqi counterparts iraqis fan that country could be caught in the middle if recent tensions between tehran and washington continues to escalate but we go to libya now where at least 14 fighters no oil toward all 25 to have died in fighting south of the capital tripoli. forces belonging to the u.n. recognize got. say they push back against tough guys fight is near the old international airport more than 500 people have been killed since have to us forces began advancing towards tripoli in april. saddam's military chief has arrived in neighboring egypt on his 1st trip abroad since the army overthrew former president tomorrow bashir the visi

we have gotten a typical response from iran, from the foreign minister on this, saying that the b teamscribes u.s. officials, is at it again. from announcements of naval movements that actually occurred last month to dire warnings about so-called iranian threats, if the u.s. and clients don't feel safe it's because they are despised by the people of the region, blaming iran won't reverse that. so some mystery there on the part of the u.s. and a very typical response from iran, jim. >> michelle kosinski at the state department, thanks very much. >>> we are moments away from the opening bell on wall street. the dow set to drop again as trade tensions are rising with china. all this just days before a tariff hike now promised by the president on $200 billion of chinese goods, it's about to kick in, you and i pay those tariffs. we will keep on top of this. you should be mad at airports. excuse me, where is gate 87? you should be mad at non-seasoned travelers. and they took my toothpaste away. and you should be mad at people who take unnecessary risks. how dare you, he's my emotional suppor

that through our assistance to qatar when qatar was being strangulated by some of the members of the b. team. and we will stand by our friends in the region we have stood by turkey when they were under could just be stood by iraqi kurdistan where they were being faced with the attack we will always stand for stability in the streets we love nothing more than having excellent relations with saudi arabia united arab emirates and every other member of the g.c.c. this is our hope our expectation but there are requirements we need to end this bloodshed in yemen before we go into the region let's talk about. what you've described so far it seems to feel that iran is the victim here but there is a consensus amongst many countries in the region and in the united states. that iran is responsible for what is happening the united states insists that it is the nuclear deal which favored iran your neighbors insist that it is meddling in internal affairs of other countries but the ditch they make and the basis for imposing these sanctions and coming out against iran do you not think that there is any cred

iran's foreign minister fired back that, no, the "b" team, which is how he refers to trump's advisersohn bolton, they say one thing, trump says another. iran says it's the u.s. that doesn't know what to think. iran has been emphasizing there will be no war with the united states, that iran does not want war. they made a sort of snide remark over the weekend, too, that nobody is under the illusion that it can fight iran in the region. so trump may be responding to this. if iran wants to fight, that will be the end of iran. never threaten the u.s. again. this could be just more of the twitter back and forth between the u.s. and iran, which is amazing considering that we're talking about real and what the u.s. described as imminent threats here. or is this more of a response to information that's coming out of the information of those threats that supposedly iran was behind in the region. also just today, there was a rocket fired into the green zone in baghdad. it did not hit the u.s. embassy. so at this point, we just don't have enough information. we don't know if the president is resp

the b. team and especially barton who is known for his hockey policies and who even president tran described as if hadn't been for him in the u.s. had gone on at least 4 wars across the world so yeah i think this is very hard and. the irony is that barton is himself a. major sponsor in advocate of the n.p.t. which is known as a very dangerous terrorist group. are though they describe him as you really and dissidents but they are very terrorists nature so i said it doesn't really mean with 2nd one day i'm going to move on because we've got a famous italian hey let me give you this state here and pull the knife have a look and put a knife in what happened here so we've got iran to cause us government a state sponsor of terrorism fest well as an iranian i love that because i mean 1st of all the u.s. has had. illegal military presence in many other countries and just take a look at them our military bases around iran like. iran is the only country in the region where the u.s. does not have military p

the iranian foreign minister tweeting back goaded by the "b" team, trump hopes to achieve what otheriled to do. iranians have stood tell and aggressors all gone. economic terrorism and genocidal taunts will never end iran. never threat everyone an iranian. try respect. it works. forgive me. are these just belligerent tweets or does this matter in the sense of what's the off ramp here? >> it's both, john. it is belligerent tweets and rhetoric, but it does have an actual impact because not -- you can't count on everybody reading into the message of those tweets accurately, and so there's a real risk of miscalculation by proxies, by militias that aren't sort of completely controlled by iran who can go off and do something dangerous. we don't even know who it was that now fired rockets at our embassy in baghdad. could be one of these proxies. there's a real impact to this. never threaten an iranian. i've heard zarif actually say that in the room during the iran deal. that is a frequent tirade of his. >> yeah. it's just going up and down. i mean, just when you think that the president is

the b. team and especially barton who is known for his hardinge policies and who even president tran described as. having before him the u.s. had gone at least 4 wars across the world so yeah i think this is very hard and. the irony is that barton is himself a. major sponsor in advocate of the n.e.t.a. which is known as a very dangerous terrorist group. are they describe him as you really and dissidents but they are very terrorists nature so i'll say that i'm really being with 2nd one day i'm going to move on because we've got a famous italian hey let me give you this state here and pull the knife have a look at a point in life and what happened here so we've got iran to chaos us government a state sponsor of terrorism fest well as an iranian i love that because i mean 1st of all the u.s. has had. illegal military presence in many other countries and just take a look at them our military bases around iran like. iran is the only country in the region where the u.s. does not have military press pre

to try to curtail the influence of pressure groups the so-called b. team as iranian leaders called it made up of the leaders of the united arab emirates saudi arabia and israel as well as u.s. national security advisor john bolton people that leaders into iran blame for pushing the united states towards conflict with iran. as they mentioned u.s. media reporting a meeting between jobs or a friend senator dianne feinstein jabatan the has the details from washington. but trouble ministrations reaction to news breaking about dianne feinstein's dinner with the report at least on the face with appeared to back up what the iranians are saying this wasn't some back channel negotiations using dianne feinstein as a go between between the administration and the iranians and top of the assertions as a very angry about time feinstein are the other democrats like john kerry the secretary of state communicating with the iranians. and undermining trumps foreign policy of course if there was about travel negotiation that would be was what the americans would say but it's v

hoping that the us does the heavy lifting and that it's this this b. team that is trying to steer the us into into conflict signal security advisor john bolton israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu saudi arabia's crown prince the u.s. the u.a.e. all the abu dhabi's crown prince and i haven't been ziad i mean this is oh no documents. you know you have the notes and you know giving press conferences and saying that we are now coming together with the our countries because we have a common interest in war you how weak elites revealing what the king of saudi arabia said to the americans what m b z consistently was telling the americans in the 2010 period in which they want to war with iran and they don't want to work. that they would even fight themselves they wanted the americans to fight so that's why i would disagree with the notion that iran is the only potential suspect their idea that their only country that would benefit from this no actually u.a.e. saudi arabia and to a certain extent some folks here in washington as well will very much like this w

it through our assistance to qatar when qatar was being strangulated by some of the members of the b. team. and we will stand by our friends in the region we have stood by turkey when they were under could be stood by iraqi kurdistan where they were being faced with the tac we will always stand for stability in the streets we love nothing more than having excellent relations with saudi arabia united arab emirates and every other member of the g.c.c. this is our hope our expectation but there are requirements we need to end this bloodshed in yemen before we go into the region let's talk about. what you've described so far it seems to feel that iran is the victim here but there is a consensus amongst many countries in the region and in the united states. that iran is responsible for what is happening the united states insists that it is the nuclear deal which favored iran your neighbors insist that it is meddling in the internal affairs of other countries but the ditch they make and the basis for imposing these sanctions and coming out against iran do you not think that there is any credence

the b. team and especially barton who is known for his hardinge policies and who even president tran described as. having been for him in the u.s. had gone at least 4 wars across the world so yeah i think this is very hard and. the irony is that barton is himself a. major sponsor in advocate of. which is known as a very dangerous terrorist group. are they describe him as you really and dissidents but they are very terrorists nature so i'll say that i'm really being with 2nd one day i'm going to move on because we've got a famous italian hey let me give you this state here and pull the knife have a look and put a knife in what happened here so we've got iran to chaos us government a state sponsor of terrorism fest well as an iranian i love that because i mean 1st of all the u.s. has had. illegal military presence in many other countries and just take a look at them our military bases around iran like. iran is the only country in the region where the u.s. does not have a military press presence bec