potentially hit. plus congresswoman liz cheney says she is ready to part ways with her party if donald trump becomes the nominee in 2024. we ll tell you how she plans to keep fighting to prevent the former president from running for the white house. and making a direct appeal to russian fighters being called up into harm s way. plus, a hollywood actress st stalked for more than a decade. we ll tell you about the dna technology that helped solve this crime. the start of a new week, sunday, september 25th. thank you so much for waking up with us. amara, good morning. it s always so refreshing to hear you say it s the start of a new week. we are watching one storm, all of florida watching the caribbean this morning as tropical storm ian continues to gain strength. the latest forecast shows it s growing to a category four hurricane over the gulf of mexico before slamming into florida. it would be the first major hurricane to hit the state in four years. so yesterday f
is the difference in this equation that president trump has made it clear as opposed to presidents past that military action is imminent if north korea doesn t begin the process of permanent denuclearization? i m not sure you can draw a direct line. they want to say that it was his earlier rhetoric that essentially caused north korea to come to the table. i m not sure that you can definitively say that particularly because they ve given so much to north koreans. they ve elevated them. they had the pomp and circumstance. they allowed kim to be seen with trump and negotiate directly with the u.s. president. that put the north korean leader on a level that he hasn t been on in the past. i m not sure we can say specifically it was earlier essentially trump threatening t bro him t the table.althought we ll be about this for a long time. maybe it will come to be.
miguel? athena jones, something tells me those cupid shuffle videos will not be going viral. new information on the threatening t letters sent to president obama for a new york mayor michael bloomberg and a gun control group. test results are in and they confirm the letters did, in fact, contain the poison ricin. cnn national correspondent suzanne candiotti joins me now from new york. suzanne, you ve obtained a copy of one of the letters. what does it say? all right. this is a letter and they all all the wording seems to match precisely. this one that we obtained was one of the three letters. it was sent to mark glaze. now, he is the director of mayor bloomberg s group called mayors against illegal guns. and the wording goes like this. you will have to kill me and my family before you get my guns. anyone wants to come to my house will get shot in the face. the right to bear arms is my constitutional god-given right and i will exercise that right tell the day i die. what s in th
more time that goes on, the greater the likelihood iran will disperse and better protect additional duplicate facilities, why, in my opinion, israel will need to strike soon and should have struck long ago. eric: what if the obama administration is against it? it will be tough for the obama administration. israel is not going to ask our permission, the fact that panetta couldn t get a straight answer is no surprise, it has been true a long time, israel didn t ask permission in september of 2007, before they struck the north korean reactor in syria. we ll know about it when bombs are falling on espahan and natanz, is my judgment. eric: you don t think jerusalem will give up the. absolutely not. they know the consequences would be, under this administration, in particular, it would simply give the white house advanced notice and time to prepare to impose our own sanctions as we have been in place itly
threatening t -is ich implicitly threatening. eric: what without the iranian reaction, would they unleash hezbollah and hamas or play victim. it is uncertain but if you go through the various possibilities the most likely iranian response is precisely to have hezbollah and hamas fire missiles into israel, targeting civilian population. this is a very, very difficult decision for israel to make, and, very, very risky. but, remember, the alternative is not life as it is today. the alternative is iran with nuclear weapons. so, if you don t like iran as it is today. imagine how much worse it would be, once it gets nuclear weapons. eric: speaking of iran, let s look a second at mahmoud ahmadinejad, when he sat down with me last year, they ve always denied they are pursuing nuclear weapons and they say they are doing it for electricity. here s what he said, when i asked him.