the fact that it s happening now, happening at a time when this department could really use a bit of stability and they are not getting it right now. dana: kristin fisher, thank you. we offer our congratulations to stephanie grisham. president trump hit iran s leaders with new sanctions and the president was firing back with a series of tweets. national security correspondent jennifer griffin is live at the pentagon. what has been the reaction from iran to the new sanctions? one day after president trump signed a new sanctions order, top iranian officials mocked the sanctions in the white house and said the potential for talks are now dead. here is iran s president. translator: the white house actions mean it is mentally retarded. you say you want to negotiate. if you are telling the truth and really want to negotiate, you would not put sanctions on our foreign minister at the same time. this shows you are full of lies.
with $150 billion going to them, they were doing very well. 1.8 billion in cash. you had no real right of testing. you couldn t test properly. most importantly, the agreement ends in a very short period of time so they had a path to nuclear weapons. we cannot allow iran to have a path nuclear weapons. by the way, we have tremendous support, tremendous support. people are very happy with what i did the other day by not doing something. okay? we had tremendous and we have tremendous support. nobody wants to see iran have nuclear weapons. thank you very much, everybody. dana: president trump in the oval office taking a lot of questions, hitting immigration. we are going to talk about it in a moment. also iran and introducing stephanie grisham. she wasn t there but he talked about his new white house press secretary and joining me is luke tomlinson and jessica tarlov.
first time in 50 years helping us and we really appreciate it, we are able to make certain changes that we wouldn t have been able to make it for. reporter: a back-and-forth with the leader of iran via tweet. what message did you want to send to him? president trump: there is no message. i will tell you what the messages. when they are ready, they will have to let us know. when they re ready, they will let us know. very simple. reporter: ready to negotiate? president trump: ready to do whatever. it doesn t make any difference. whatever they want to do, i m ready. reporter: jared kushner is in bahrain right now. israelis or palestinians officials. president trump: we want to get economic support because the palestinians don t have money. we have to help the palestinians with some money because they don t have it. one of the groups that you get are some of those countries in the middle east that do have money. so they re going to play a role
inflation as well. jennifer griffin from the pentagon, thank you. we are lucky to have bret baier, anchor of special report. i wanted to read something from the wall street journal because as the acting secretary of defense goes to europe and we know secretary pompeo is on this international trip, the wall street journal writes now would be a good moment for europe to get off the fence and joined the u.s. pressure campaign. giving iran s leaders hope that they can ride out mr. trump. the same goes for the many democratic presidential candidates who keep saying they will return without conditions to the 2015 nuclear deal. i wonder what you thought about that as the president tries to shore up the allies and we are still in the middle of this presidential election. good afternoon. i think you re exactly right. the difference in the messaging is dark. joe biden went overseas to the munich defense ministers conference and said hold on. wait. help is on the way. it s the same mess
done a fantastic job. the first lady loves her, things she s been just incredible. she s very talented. i ask so many people, who do you like. a lot of people wanted the job. a lot of people wanted to do it. i asked people, who do you like and some of the people said stephanie. she s here, she knows everybody. she gets along with the media very well, as you know. a lot of you folks in the media like her very much, and i think she s going to be fantastic. i think she s going to do a great job, so i offered her the job this morning and she accepted. the first lady is very happy for her. it s a big job, very big job. we think stephanie is going to do a fantastic job. hogan is going to be with her. hogan recommended her. he recommended her very strongly. i said hogan, who do you think. he said stephanie grisham. reporter: the strategy for iran. do you have an exit strategy for iran?