apparently not doing a good job in dumb games. we should be able to fire someone for doing a terrible job and abusing power and putting the country s leverage at risk in order to further their own political prospects. ezra, thank you very much for joining us tonight. i really appreciate it. thank you. that is tonight s last word. the 11th hour with brian williams starts now. tonight the push to impeachment. passes its first public hurdle, and the republicans don t like it. the hearings are about to go public, and the president is trying to lock up his support, even as more closed door testimony comes in. as to just how big a moment this is, the one we re currently living in, one over our experts tonight is prepared to say it s the whole shooting match. this is now about the republic and the kind of country we want to have. and previewing what one of our guest predicts will be a november to remember. it s possible the democrats running may find it tough to get attention. a
this needs a bigger team on his side. the new york times reports on how close president trump came to striking iran after the attack on an unmanned u.s. drone back in june. he called it off without consulting vice president pence, secretary pompeo or adviser bolton, who is now gone. how much longer can the president hold off these talks? i think he s fired both of them. that is a pretty dramatic demonstration in addition to the words he said. he does not want to go to war. he has an election next year. if he said he is the man who promised no more war and promised to draw dawn and reduce the american footprint, he does not want to go to war. but if the iranians keep provoking, the fear is he might stumble into one. we might find ourselves in the middle of a shooting match without any clarity about why we re there. that s the worst possible
iran s top diplomat. the iranian president saying that shows that the u.s. is lying about its true intentions and wanting to iran get back to real negotiations, poppy. fred, it s so rare to have reporters with access like you have on the ground in iran, especially in tehran itself. can you give me a sense of what the average iranian citizen thinks at this point? yeah. look, i mean, the average iranian or average person here in tehran we ve been speaking to, a lot of people, of course, are extremely concerned about the situation, about where this could go between iran and the united states. i would say right now there s a lot of concern here amongst people. there s not a state of panic, however, about the security situation, about this possibly escalating into a shooting match between iran and the united states. what people are concerned about is their economic situation and the sanctions certainly have had a massive effect on regular folks. people have lost their jobs and incomes,
course, as we heard there, saying the situation, especially in the persian gulf, but in the wider region at this point in time is extremely dangerous. of course, one of the things we ve heard, not just from the iranian government but from the iranian military leadership, as well, is that they say if it does come to a shooting match, it d be extremely painful for this entire region, alisyn. understood. it is interesting to hear from his side. fred, thank you very much for that interview and the reporting. new york city mayor bill de blasio is running for president. what does he bring to the crowded field? we ask him, next. culpted brow. new tattoo studio brow pomade from maybelline new york. for up to 24-hour sculpted brows. new, from the tattoo studio brow family. only from maybelline new york.
this to get out of the hand and the supreme leader said there will be no war between the u.s. and iran but at the same time you have senior iranian commanders saying, look, if if does come to a shooting match between iran and the u.s. and it is costly for american. there was a former senior revolutionary guard commander that i talked to yesterday and said the united states needs to understand if it does come to that, that iranians are not only going to use their ballistic missile and next to almost every american military base in the middle east, iran has some sort of militia on the ground and those would be mobilized and used as well, brooke. wow. okay. fred with color there from tehran and strong words from the leaders there. thank you for that. and a quick review of the recent incidents that led to many thpoint. intelligence shows iran was moving short range ballistics by boat in the persian golf and the new york times reported an image of that has been