lindsey graham talking about a briefing he received related to these threats. bring us up to speed. yeah, good morning, hallie. first the rocket attack. it was what the state department describes as a low-grade rocket. it hit an abandoned building in the green zone that houses government buildings in the u.s. embassy, but it landed about half a mile from the u.s. embassy and there s no evidence that the embassy itself was targeting. nonetheless, the state department warning iran will be held responsible if the u.s. embassy is targeted or attacked by iran s proxies here in iraq. and after that, as you say, came the tweet warning from president trump. it was all because the weekend had been all about cooling tensions. everyone saying we don t want war, but restraint one moment and then threats the next, as you say. it was a pretty apocalyptical threat.
down his rhetoric. and the president saying he doesn t want war. did that assist in potentially, you know, dialling down or at least cooling tensions? reporter: actions have consequences on the campaign trail and as president. he woke up on the different side of the bed a few days ago. the president s actions led us to this point. it didn t happen by accident. by withdrawaling from the iran deal, he knew he would be putting more pressure on iran. they designated them as a foreign terrorist organization, he was warned this would increase threats to assets on the ground. when president trump is personally engaged in a war of words with the iranians and a warfare against the regime, he led us to this place. he decided he does not want to go to war, thank goodness, the policy team has to play catch up and figure out how to dial down tensions. samantha, we ll levitt there for now.
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mastercard is facing big technical issues. hackers have crashed into the web site. the company cut its ties with wikileaks yesterday, and, wikileaks says it will attack companies that are, quote, hostile to julian assange and the cause of today s technical problem is not clear and needs to be hammered out throughout the rest of today and in the meantime, this, a prison fire in chile. killing at least 81 people. a police spokesman saying the cause of this is under investigation. bill: what we know, the vice president is going to capitol hill, a few short moments from now, and in charge of cooling tensions between the white house and democrats, only hours after president obama challenged his own party, calling the critics to score his first two years in office. president barack obama: take a tally. look at what i promised during the campaign. there is not a single thing that i ve said that i would do that i have not either done or tried to do. and if i haven t gotten it done
we know he s launching a look into chinese trade practices, we have north korea on the horizon here. cooling tensions with north korea it feels like if you look at the way the stock market reacted. we ll talk about that when you come back. thank you, sir. meanwhile, james fields, the 20-year-old ohio man accused of plowing his car into a crowd of charlottesville activists, being held without bond. he made his first court appearance monday from prison via video link. he faces charges that include second-degree murder for the death of heather heyer. fields told the court he could not afford an attorney on his security guard salary. the ohio security firm that employed him just announced he has been terminated. 13 minutes past the hour. game on. defense secretary mattis warning north korea about threats to the u.s. now it appears pyongyang is backing off. laquinta presents how to win at business. step one. point decisively with your glasses. abracadabra! the stage is yours. step two.