marry about are if i go to a five star resort i m going to be fine, right? no. terrible. brian: mexico if they lose tourism and the american dollar, they are up against it big time. so they have got to find a way to secure that place. meanwhile, 19 minutes after the hour. steve: all right. it was just a couple of days ago that the wall street journal broke the story about apparently the department of justice and homeland security were negotiating with these families that were separated in 2018 during the trump administration. because you could not keep children in a detention facility. ainsley: with men, with adults. steve: w. adults, they would separate them. now apparently, the story according to the wall street journal was that the biden administration was negotiating with the families and 12 big law firms to settle it. and, in fact, peter doocy asked about that of the president a couple of days ago. remember this? there were reports that were
their behavior has been strange because they re still in the jcpoa, i understand that, and they re trying to work out a special funding deal and trading deal with the iranians that avoids using the american dollar. whether that s going to work or not remains to be seen. the japanese were clearly up-staged. i think they re very much in support of us and i believe they will continue to support trump s policy of coersive diplomacy. we have to you lay out what we think is going to happen here. paul: what is going to happen here? what do you think? where does this go if iran decides to escalate? well, first of all, i think what we need to do is begin to escort the ships. we did that in 1987 and 88 and it was done successfully. we have to be prepared for the iranians to take some action. when the iranians attack one of the re-flagged u.s. ships, a
because they re still in the jcpoa, i understand that, and they re trying to work out a special funding deal and trading deal with the iranians that avoids using the american dollar. whether that s going to work or not remains to be seen. the japanese were clearly up-staged. i think they re very much in support of us and i believe they will continue to support trump s policy of coersive diplomacy. we have to you lay out what we think is going to happen here. paul: what is going to happen here? what do you think? where does this go if iran decides to escalate? well, first of all, i think what we need to do is begin to escort the ships. we did that in 1987 and 88 and it was done successfully. we have to be prepared for the iranians to take some action. when the iranians attack one of the re-flagged u.s. ships, a merchant ship in 1987, it was a
president trump withdrew unilaterally from the agreement a year ago exactly a year ago the europeans as well as china and russia tried to keep that they deal alive in fact they even try to set up a mechanism within europe for european companies to be able to circumvent american sanctions against iran a deal or a mechanism that didn t really work because in the end the force of american sanctions the force of the power of american banks especially in the of the american dollar late to the fact that many european the very few european companies in fact were prepared to try and circumvent this united states sanctions so the whole thing seems very much shaky at the moment and at the same time i think one has to say it s regrettable that the u.s. foreign minister secretary of state pompei oh was not in berlin yesterday but chose to go to iraq instead because obviously this would have been one of the subjects
in a call starting right now, this hour, we ll bring you those when we get them. the president also readying his response directly at the president and let s go to the state department. michelle kosinski joins me for more. this is the first action after pulling out of the iran agreement that they would slap back these sanctions. but this is just part one, right, michelle. the tougher sanctions come in november. yeah, i mean this targets iran s ability to bank the american dollar, which is a big deal. aviation, that is expected to have an impact in the meantime leading up to this, so many companies and european companies included have gotten out of iran. so the white house wants to emphasize that they believe their regime is working but then this is kind of like a show that the u.s. is serious about doing this, including that the u.s. will sanction european companies