method in which these two tankers were attacked. jennifer said they used mines instead of torpedos. first thing came to mind is that they weren t looking to destroy these ships but certainly send a dangerous message. that s probably right. the initial report was a projectile or torpedo. we are now hearing they were mines. an investigate eight has to be done to see what happened here. this is a very dangerous thing. these ships were seriously damaged. human lives were put at risk. i don t think we should write off the seriousness of this attack. reporter: the tankers which were heading to japan and all of this very ironic here and no coincidence carrying japan related cargo. they were attacked while japan s prime minister abe was in tehran. is iran trying to send a message? what are they trying to send the world? i m not sure if this was coincidence or not. there s a lot of ships that go
they have been engaged in the attacks and we have people in the state department who are inclined to see them and quick to claim that iran is the cult prit. the underlying intelligence and they are quick to go over the last decade. not traditionally, but it appears that small boats or vessels possibly according to this information provided by the state department possibly sponsored by iran is using magnetic mines or some other torpedos in the water. i don t think we know the weaponry. but it s precise. clearly a deliberate military operation aimed at the international vessels. these are not our ships. why would they pick other country s ships. they are not hostile.
leaders and the firing of constituents who demand it. put california s jimmy gomez in in group. quote, it has to be iron-clad. can t be done willy-nilly just because people want it and there are skeptic. those who remember the political backlash like democrat emanuel cleaver of missouri. he says i would like to show you i stood for maintaining the unity of the country and then the diehards. damn the torpedos who say i don t want to be judged in history asleep at the wheel. it s a great story as we watch this debate play out. every day there are different dynamics. from the reporting, what s your biggest takeaway? it s very personal. a question of impeachment and very personal. not really following traditional lines that you would think. yes, some folks on the far left are for impeachment and some of the folks in the swing district are against it and there s people on both sides of the democratic ideology going both way. freshman representative katie hill comes from a republican distr
so my guess is it is a rogue captain, but there is an atmosphere in the russian armed forces right now of hostility toward both nato and u.s. vessels at sea and our own aircraft. very dangerous situation. you would get a sense that the russians did not necessarily mean it in a in a aggressive way because you do have some there sun bathing on the back deck. but you get a sense there is an aggression within the military itself. does that come from the top of the russian government? well, i think so. yeah. some of the language, they re very senior officers on nuclear warfare and nuclear torpedos and threats to the east coast of the united states are very alarming. in terms of being destabilizing in a deterrent sense. by the way, we ought to remind ourselves, russia is actually a fairly poor country. the gmp is less than that of italy or california. russian defense budget is a
was unmistakable that iran used something like torpedos or ieds to attack four different oil shipping investigationvessels f. but at the same time, in the white house president trump has never spared mr. bolton from diminishing him, from belittling him in public and saying that he will try to get the trump administration into a war. so hard to see the bolton line, the aggressive line against iran prevailing in this white house. thanks for your coverage for us. coming up next, donald trump s trade war, the president said today he thinks china wants to make a deal, but there is no deal in sight and china is ramping up its rhetoric at home. we ll look at how one single move by china could hurt american manufacturing, technology and defense. but first, time for our monumental americans. today we honor specialist joseph