dangerous but taking a grandmother, a bread winner, a parent away from children, that seems to be immoral and now it s not something that the administration knows how to pull off. reporter: both houses of congress are set to take up spending bills this week to deal with issues at the border. unclear as of yet whether they ll meet the president s new two-week deadline. eric. eric: that is perhaps one reason why he decided to delay it, because of the looming legislations, to he see if they can get a deal. arthel. arthel: president trump speaking out about his decision to pull back on an iranian strike, saying he ll hit the islamic republic with new sanctions but that military action is still on the table. tensions flaired after iran shot down an unmanned u.s. drone off its coast in what the u.s. says was international air space. here s the president on why he called off the air strike. they targeted something without a person in it, without a man or woman, and certainly without anybo
states in it. so we want to be proportionate. we re getting a lot of praise for what i did. arthel: critics oppose the president s ordering the strikes in the first place. david spunt live at the white house with more. hi, david. reporter: good afternoon. the president said multiple times today he wants dialogue, he doesn t want to go to war with iran, he wants dialogue. but it looks like sanctions are going to come before dialogue, we re talking about additional sanctions that will be imposed on monday. the president mentioned sanctions on the south lawn this morning before he headed to camp david. but he tweeted from camp david that there will be, quote, major additional sanctions coming on monday. he didn t get into specifics about those sanctions. he did a 25 minute q & a on the south lawn, talked about a myriad of topics, sanctions in iran top of mind. the president did mention iran s economy, perhaps a way to convince iran to make a deal with the united states. he talk talked a
iran negotiatessed wit negot, very quickly. would the negotiations involve the other five countries in the eu who signed off on president obama s iran nuclear deal. presumably. that s one of i the reasons he makes the threat, then he pulls back. he says he does that in order to get them to the negotiating table. the theory here is iran will be more aamenable to a new agreement because of the fact that the president shown he s willing to attack them if necessary. we ll see if that works out. in terms of the new deal, i think people are confused about that too. basically wants iran to give up the means to make nuclear weapons and i think other people will say, well, they did that with the iranian nuclear deal that president trump killed. arthel: in six years they will have the option to build their nukes. there s the problem. exactly. that s one of the things he wanted to deal with, longer term deal, wants them to permanently agree not to make nuclear weapons. that s one of the thi
maintaining power at all cost and imposing iran s will on the region. for the people of iran, of course they want to be a prosperous nation and live freely. so the president is absolutely right. they have an town come out of this conflict have an opportunity to come out of the conflict with the united states and some of the western allies to come out in the right place. the regime has got to change its ways or it those be pushed out of office by the iranian people. the status quo just does not work. it s brought us to this horrible point and it s caused decades of oppression for the iranian people themselves. enough is enough. it really does have to change and iran has proven that it does want to in the past and as the president said in six years, the sunsetting clause of the iran nuclear deal expires and iran has legal rights in terms of international law if you re going to look at that agreement as far as the other people, signatories of the agreement is
will not be that generous next time. reporter: european leaders are also praising the presidents decision to call up the strikes and are pushing for diplomatic efforts to adjust the conflict we may see some of that on monday when the un security council meets to discuss the american drone that iran shot down on thursday. eric: thank you so much.and going over potential options. he did say the regime will face major sanctions this week. saying that when he left the white house to board marine one for camp david as we can. david spunt at the white house with the very latest on that. reporter: now we know sections will be on monday. just a few hours ago the present was talking about general sanctions over the next may be week or two weeks. now the president tweeted their going to happen monday. i want to read this to you, this is just in from president trump at camp david talking about the sanctions. he writes quote - we are pretty major additional sanctions on iran on monday. i look forw