negotiations because he, and i paraphrase here, believed they were a trick. the maximum pressure campaign of the united states was designed to force iran to the table without sanctions being lifted against them. he goes on to say that sometimes the americans steam have no preconditions. sometimes they seem to have 12 conditions, he said. and regardless, they re not going to be talking. he held out the possibly humiliating circumstances nat donald trump apologizes, retract s his statements he may be part of multilateral talks, but iran at a time when the region is deeply concerned about what may actually come next, particularly given president trump s sort of vacillation around the use of military force, diplomacy on iran s side certainly isn t an option right now. nick paton walsh live for us in tehran. let s go to the white house. joe johns is there. following up on reporting from nic robertson and nick paton walsh, the white house is sending mixed messages here. you have the line
and they re good with process. and i m not saying that because i m a gun owner. most of the ones i know are like that. there s a win for him. what is wayne lapierre going to do to this president? he doesn t need his money? this is all upside for him. his followers can t leave him. he did bump stocks. why not move on this and again, i can t speak for him. i haven t spoken to the thinking behind the vacillation. i think he s probably for sensible things related to guns. i think he s indicated where the policy falls, congress is out of session this summer right now. so we re going to have more formative in terms of legislation he could call them back and say all sales should be covered by background checks there s a lot of data, chris, that says not one of the massacres would have been
minutes later saying he s nervous as hell. this conflict of what he s saying, that he expected to die and then didn t, he s nervous as hell and the plan wasn t quite re ready. what does that tell you about what was going through his mind if this is indeed connected to him? if it is i think what you re seeing is the vacillation of a 21-year-old, very specific to his age. since 2006 we ve had 11 mass shootings committed by 21-year-olds. and you have to understand his station in life. we believe and understand he was a student at the local community college in colin where he s from near allen, texas. he is looking at his life, he believes that he s been promised a certain future. he s been working toward it and following the rules. but because of what he calls technology and immigration the future he s envisioned is not attainable. sew specifically mentions he went to el paso, he drove 650
we ve seen here i can t think of a strong parallel. you have the president going on twitter and the next morning saying hey, i was set to do this and painting a somewhat dramatic scene where he considers supposedly this civilian casualty issue. do people take away from this there was vacillation, instability? do people take away from this, hey, he multly didn t do this and maybe that s a positive? it depends if you supported donald trump or you didn t. the same line skblxt breaks down on the same line. what i think is worth noting is that he still has not said exactly what the political goal is here. i mean, what s the goal? if it s just no nuclear, then there s nothing to discuss. but donald trump seems more interested in just coming up with any deal say he has a deal. he doesn t show respect for the white house. he didn t do it with kim. and i m old now remember when john mccain said when barack obama said no preconditions and john mccain said that would make
would refrain from that kind of activity now their protection from prosecution is in jeopardy because of their role if any in this to do with jeff bezos and that s why the national enquirer is sort of backing off today and saying well we ll take another look at this we ll see if anything was done wrong so. at least gotten some concession from the national enquirer that they at least need to look at their own ways jeff bezos says in the pace that he wrote for recent still to be better understood the saudi. vacillation seems to have hit a particularly sensitive nerve why do you think that might be a. well the baseless version of this is one that they re putting out there as a sort of sort of circumstantial evidence but there s really no hard evidence for it they. are things is that the national enquirer was helped along the way by the saudi government that the enquirer had been putting out