pompeo, but trump is making the calls and this was designed to give a bellicose statement that basically says if you hit us don t expect some kind of overnight tit for tat. this will be long and messy, but also the general tone of the interview was toing is th sugge iran doesn t want conflict, but won t shy away if it is actually attacked. so the trump administration is allowing the iranian president rouhani to come, and it was up to debate, and were they going to allow the visas? is there any chance that president rouhani meets with trump? reporter: no, in a word. you can t tell what donald trump might choose to do. he could go saddling up to rouhani in a corridor and there are circumstances that they will talk are slim and zarif laid that out. he will not talk on the side
we re having some very strong studies done, but it s certainly looking that way at this moment and we ll let you know. as soon as we find out definitively, we ll let you know, but it does look that way. mr. president, when you said you think iran is responsible for the attack, do you think that i didn t say that. why do you say that? i said i think we know who it was but i didn t say anybody. certainly it would look to most like it was iran, but i did not say it the way you said. there s two ways of viewing all of this, right? first is that the president if the president is looking to get into a war, iran doesn t want to look like, yeah, he did it, we have to get him back. you have to be sure your intelligence actually points to the person who did it. in this world where we sell arms and military weapons and things like that, you can have an iranian weapon that wasn t necessarily brought from the order of the top government. so they want to make sure they
trace: two weeks after jon stewart s blistering testimony on capitol hill capitol hill, mitch mcconnell has agreed to meet with first responders and other advocates for the 9/11 victims compensation fund. ahead of a vote in the senate on reauthorizing the fund which expires at the end of the year, we will continue to bring you the latest on the story. if they can t have nuclear weapons. you want to talk about it, good. otherwise, you can live in a shattered economy. do you feel like you are being pushed into military action against the lijana? iran? john bolton is absolutely a hawk. but that doesn t matter because i want both sides. sandra: sounding off on recent escalation from iran as we await details on what those new sanctions targeting tehran will actually look like.
it s not like they have a bad relationship with bob mueller. so i m kind of confused by all of that. so far, he s given a ten-minute statement, didn t take questions, and clearly, congress wants a lot more. go on, bianna. right now, bill barr effectively is a spokesperson for this report, and we have seen how his interpretation has not exactly fallen in line with how robert mueller presented it. i think you ll see fewer people who are sympathetic to robert mueller for not wanting to testify, especially now that you hear reports than one of his chief prosecutors has a book deal in the works. if people are willing to pen and make money off these investigations, testifying before congress shouldn t necessarily be such an uphill battle. quickly, on the sanctions, gloria, that the president announced today, against iran. tough new sanctions. are they going to be effective? well, if you listen to the iranians, the answer is no. these come on top of the oil export sanctions. but it s
new hard-hitting sanctions on tehran top leaders. adding the move was partly in retaliation for the downing of a u.s. drone last week. this, you could probably steve, add that into it but this is something that would happen anyway. reporter: as he s done in the past with other adverse air yours, the president said more tough action could be on the way if iran doesn t change its behavior. i won t say what i will do but i don t think they should do it. reporter: but it is the brinksmanship the president has used before with mixed results. consider what mr. trump discussed moments after he unveiled the sanctions on iran. that he s just received a birthday message from north korean dictator kim jong-un. the same man he once dubbed little rocket man. kind of bravado that doesn t always lead to big wins. he sent me birthday wishes but it is a friendly letter both ways. reporter: the president pulled back from his threats to round up undocument the migrants and tweeting he s delay