built on stolen data. they do it really well. they ve been doing it for decades. they are now associating themselves with hacker groups that kind of do this in the criminal space because their official government and military hackers are damn good at their job. we ve known about it for ages. the idea they re contracting out the way we know russia does, that means they re expanding. they re not going backwards. what s not new in this is what is the u.s. going to do about it? it s new to come together with the allies, china, we know what you re doing. we re not going to tolerate it, we re banding together. that s the difference of the biden approach. trump s approach was america first, we ll do this alone. we don t need you guys. what they have not delineated here is what is the stick, right? are we going to sanction chinese officials? are we going to block transactions, you know, and financial markets so you can t profit from this or go after your bitcoin, whatever. they haven t said th
president trump first ordered and then called off a retaliatory strike. what do you think of the president s move? chris, obviously, i think retaliatory strikes were warranted when we re talking about foreign vessels on the high seas, i think they re warranted against an american unmanned aircraft. what i see is iran steadily marching up the escalation chain. it started out with threats, went to attacks at sea and to an unmanned american aircraft. i fear we re going to see an attack on a u.s. ship or u.s. manned aircraft. this is exactly what we saw in the 1980s when iran, for four years, was allowed to attack ships on the high seas. over 190 attacks in the iran/iraq war. ronald reagan finally lost his patience after one of those mines hit a u.s. navy frigate, and he launched one of the largest naval engagements since world war ii. i hope that s not the case. i hope the president s statement on friday and yesterday that we
here s what we know so far, the trump administration looking to choke their administration even further. more attacks on u.s. drones, and that conversation dominating the sunday show yesterday. i m not looking for war, and if there is, there will be obliteration like you ve never seen before. you can t have a nuclear weapon. there will be new sanctions. the world should know that we will continue to make sure it s understood that we are denying iran the resources to implement terror. it is like somebody setting fire to a basket full of paper and then putting it out. he helped create the crisis, then stopped at. steadily marching up the escalation chain. i fear that if iran doesn t have a firm set of boundaries, we are going to see an attack on a u.s. ship. sandra: we have live
japan. so, look, i don t think we should have gotten out of the nuclear agreement, but at the same time i think iran is being provocative. but what is needed here is the campaign of maximum pressure but also diplomacy. get iran, get us to negotiating table at least to deescalate. leland: all right. as we noted, the president says he s ready to talk anytime. so far based on what the iranians have said so far, they re not exactly too interested in that. this is what tom cotton said earlier on fox news sunday about not striking and perhaps a prelude to how he would think about maximum pressure and negotiation. take a listen. i think retaliatory strikes were warranted for what i see as iran s deadly marching up the escalation chain. it started out with threats, it went to an attack on vessels in ports, to an attack on vessels
this is not the first time a commander in chief or secretary of defense or regional commander has had to call back strike package or emission package, if you will. this is the first time we ve had a president almost in real time tweet out that decision making. and it projects weakness. and of great concern and to the conversation regarding john bolt. this is john bolton s wish, i believe. it reminds me of just after 9/11, john woodward reported on a meeting at camp david where all the principals were around the table talking to the president about his options. wolf witz was a deputy secretary not that table but behind and he spoke up and said mr. president, we have to talk about iraq. and it hushed the room because he showed his cards. bolton is showing h he started the escalation chain when he pulled out of the iran nuclear deal.