make here general keane said that appleton so that very clearly. they are easy for the world to understand the message that we are seeing and hearing. the president went further and then interview to make the case that he would like to sit down with iran and go to the negotiating table with them. here is more from the president. i m not looking for war. if there is, it will be obliteration like you have never seen before, but i m not looking to do that. you can have a nuclear weapon. you want to talk, go to. otherwise, you will have about economy for another three years. sandra: he would be willing to sit down with iranian officials with no preconditions. do you support that idea? absolutely. look what he did with north korea. that doesn t mean he s awake. he s got to do the right thing for america. saying what he really believes. he doesn t want more. you can have iran having a nuclear weapon when they chant death to america. they say they want to obliterate
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
region would be, quote, unmanageable by any country. earlier my colleague ana cabrera spoke with u.s. house armed services committee about the president s decision to call off an attack he cocked and loaded. operating on instincts is never a good day. take a deep breathe. take time. all of that you need to take into context, always be prepared to defend. as you just heard in prior to my coming on board here, we have very numerous personnel, assets, bases in the area. we have a right to defend ourselves. so, if iran chooses to attack any of our assets, any of our personnel, we must defend against that attack. that doesn t mean we go to war. that means we defend the attack. now we are not in that stage now. we re in what we should call a stage of retaliation.
downed drone. he left it to bolton, who said no one should confuse prudence for weakness and left open the possibility that there may be a strike coming in the future if iran doesn t change its actions, apparently leaving an open-ended threat. and bolton concluded his remarks by saying, stay tuned. he seemed to pause before he said that, for effect. thank you. let s go to fred. tensions, fred, remaining high as president trump tightens the economic noose and iran saying they will not back down if provoked. how is this new threat from john bolton likely to go down? reporter: well, certainly not very well. i think one of the things the iranians have been saying is they believe that, for instance, the program of maximum pressure by the united states government, the sanctions that were put on iran after the u.s. left the nuclear agreement. obviously, that continued to be more. they view that as an aggression against iran rather than the other way around. also the fact that the u.s. is
not the first time this president has been accused of misconduct of some kind or another with women. we certainly know about the access hollywood tape. he certainly has the right to defend himself and his statement is more forceful than his statements have been on some of these in the past. but he has one thing that he tends to do with regularity which is to say he s never met someone when there s photographic evidence he has. this is another example of it and it doesn t help his case when he s trying to, you know, fight back against a very serious allegation. and for folks who might be seeing this picture for the first time, she is the woman on the left just over trump s right shoulder, the blond woman. she is the one who has made this allegation. you mentioned his response. it is forceful. it hits back on a number of levels here. but on that one point saying he never met when there is photographic evidence, but also alleging a political motivation here even comparing this to what