we're joined live now by daniel mcadams executive director of the ron paul institute for more on this now what do you think was trump bluffing about being 10 minutes from striking iran. it's a good question and i wonder what the sources are it was reported by the new york times we don't know where they got their story i think it's very possible that it was indeed a bluff it would certainly serve the purpose of having a psychological impact on iran that we were about ready to strike you so i think that certainly is one possibility that it's all made up was leaked by one of trump's a right to try to let iran know that we're close to war well we did have trump actually tweeting putting posting on twitter 10 minutes before the strike i stopped it now proportionate to shooting down an unmanned drone so do you think he was sort of dramatizing the incident or is that really how it went down with him i think it's very possible that he realizes finally that a war with iran would have enormous consequences he just kicked off his reelection campaign and all of a sudden nobody's talking about the