Door. Joining me now, nbc news correspondent, tom costello. Tom, what kind of jobs are these . Is this factory workers, management . Whats happening . No, were talking about middle Level Management people for the most part. And lets break these numbers down. Because at the first, that 7,000 number is headline grabbing, but thats a global number. And in fact, most of these people are in europe. 2,300 people in the United States, midlevel manager types in the United States are going to be out of a job. However, 1,500 of those have already taken buyouts. That leaves about 800. And this week, 500 or so are learning that they are going to be losing their jobs. Another 300 to 400, well hear that news by the end of august. Ford says its making this announcement because it has to get leaner and more flexible as part of their program called the smart redesign at ford. They hope its going to save the company about 600 million overall. Listen, the bottom line here, stephanie, is that ford has rea
by saying that iran over thousands of years has responded and fought off aggressors like alexander the great and began gangis khan and he said, never threaten an iranian. try respect. it works. so this back and forth came after a weekend in which it looked like tensions were actually diminishing. iran backing off any aggressive warnings, even iran s revolutionary guard saying, we don t want war. but then the rhetoric ramped up again by president trump s tweet. and it s all led to a fairly unpredictable atmosphere. the u.s. oil company, for example, exxonmobil over the weekend, evacuating 80 foreign nationals from an oil field near basra in the south of iraq, just saying, look, no big deal. this is just precautionary.