Words of violence and death. Be cautious. The u. S. President appears to have been responding to this quote from Iranian State media, speaking to diplomats sunday. Irans president reportedly said, mr. Trump, we are the honest man and guarantor of the safety of the waterway of the region throughout history. Do not play with the lions tail. It is regrettable. Peace with iran is the mother of peace and war with iran is the mother of wars. President trumps top diplomat also taking aim at iran. Listen here to the u. S. Secretary of state mike pompeo, what he had to say on sunday. The bitter irony of the Economic Situation in iran is that the regime uses this same time to line its own pockets while its people cry out for jobs and reform and for opportunity. The iranian economy is going great but only if youre a politically connected member of the elite. Mike pompeo there on sunday. For more cnns ian lee joins us live from jerusalem. Ian, dont know if theres been any reaction there to these exchanges yet. But certainly Prime Minister netanyahu has been one of President Trumps Biggest International supporters. Reporter yeah, natalie. It is a bit early to get a reaction from israeli politicians. Even in iran were not seeing much reaction there either. But for Prime Minister netanyahu, youre right. Hes been against the jcpoa from the very beginning, from when the Obama Administration was negotiating it. He failed even though he tried to get the United States not to sign on to it. And that agreement went through. But under President Trump he also pushed, and this is something that President Trump campaigned on, is pulling out of what he said was a bad deal. And the United States did pull out, breaking their agreement with the jcpoa, also known as the Iran Nuclear Deal. And this has sent the region literally scrambling. You have president rouhani, hes going to the other members of the jcpoa, the p4 plus one. So you have britain, france, china, russia and germany trying to see if theres some way they can circumvent this u. S. Sanctions that are supposed to go in place on november 4th. Now, the United States has been very firm on this, saying that other companies from other countries will not be exempted from these sanctions. And theres more than 50 International Companies inside iran that reinvested in iran once the jcpoa was signed. These companies are reassessing their situation. You have Big Companies like ge, total, and simmons who have invested in there and theyre looking to pull their investments in. And for iran this has been a huge blow. Especially for the president , rouhani, who has championed this Iran Nuclear Deal within his own country. Also, you have, you know, the United States saying that they want to hit irans oil exports, saying they want to get that down to zero. Also, that is a huge blow to the Iranian Regime as they get a lot of their cash flow from the oil exports and weve heard iranian officials in the past say that they will close the straits of hormuz, which is a very vital waterway that about 20 of the worlds oil goes through. And its not just closing it. Even threatening to close the straits of hormuz could send oil prices up. And so this is where youre seeing kind of this tit for tat from the president of the United States as well as the president of iran with this very harsh rhetoric. And this is just kind of the continuation of what weve been seeing since the United States pulled out of it. Right. Tensions bubbling up. Mr. Trump had wanted and hoped that iran would come to talk, to make a deal. That has not happened. Well continue to follow these developments. Ian lee for us. Thanks so much. Now over to george. And now a closer look with steven erlanger. Steven the cheep Diplomatic Correspondent for the new york times. Good to have you on the show with us, steven. Lets begin with this latest tweet from the u. S. President in bold letters to the president of iran. The context here surely important. We just heard a moment ago as ian explained this, but its all part of a territorial war of words with irans president over the strait of hormuz, which is a very important waterway that iran has threatened to shut down in recent days if provoked. Well, thats right, george. And dont forget in 1967 when egypt shut the straits of hormuz it created a war. The israeli arab war of 67. This is very important. A good part of the worlds oil comes through the strait of hormuz. What we have here is all caps, its true. But i think that President Trump doing two things. One, hes trying to change the topic. Hes trying to change the subject away from his disastrous summit in helsinki with Vladimir Putin. And the chance that his lawyer Michael Cohen has flipped, talking to the mueller investigation. So this is something trumps very good at doing. His Early Morning tweets set our agenda. So we immediately stop talking about one thing and Start Talking about another thing. But at the same time trump has made an alliance with israel and the sunnis of the region, especially the saudis, who are extremely antiiranian, all of them. And what hes implying is war. I mean, these sanctions are designed, Rudy Giuliani has said so, others have said so, to cause a revolt against the iranian government, the islamic government of iran, which obviously had been looking for a Nuclear Weapon but then stopped doing that. Which did do a deal with the United States and the other members of the Permanent Council of the u. N. Which weve now pulled out of, and which is playing a sort of revolutionary role in the rest of the region. It is supporting hezbollah. It is supporting hamas in gaza. It is supporting most importantly bashar al assad. Quite well, it seems to me, in syria. So this is an antiiran coalition. And the temperatures getting hotter. Thats for sure. Whether it means something right now, im not sure. It may simply be a tactic of the president to change the topic. Interesting that you see this as a topic changer. And lets talk just a bit more about that because again, the tweet that we see, it is in all caps, it is directed toward the president of iran. It is tough talk. But compare that and juxtapose that to tough talk from this u. S. President about his predecessor on the very topic of iran. We found these tweets in president Donald Trumps twitter feed. Lets take a look here. From 2011. If we can pull that up. In order to get elected barack obama will start a war with iran. Again, that back from 2001. And then this tweet that we found from 2013. Take a look. I predict the president that president obama at some point will attack iran in order to save face. Steven, your point here that you raise, the president deflecting in your view from the summit in helsinki that he saw a great deal of backlash. You see this as that. And compared i see it as part of that, yes. Its also a response to a speech by president rouhani of iran which warned the United States in very fluorid language which is kind of typical of the entire region that a war with iran would be the mother of all wars. Now, if you remember, Saddam Hussein used the same words about iraq, it would be the mother of all battles. Everythings the mother of something. So i i think trump has used that heightened rhetoric because rouhanis in some difficulty with these economic sanctions. Hes trying to find leverage to get them lifted. The europeans who continue to support the Iran Nuclear Deal with trying to help iran with business deals to keep up the treaty, which after all means that iran stops nuclear enrichment. Now, iran is wondering whether its worth, it whether it can keep going. My sense talking to people is iran would like to stay in the deal because it has enough on its plate with syria, with hezbollah, with Everything Else going on, but it wants the europeans to come up with some kind of financial help to make up for the american sanctions in order to stay inside. So it is a very tense moment. There are a lot of people working to save the deal. In the meantime the rhetoric, as weve seen, is going up, including pompeos speech. But those in tehran do understand i think that the Trump Administration with the saudis and the israelis want to pull them down, and that creates a whole different level of tension in iran and could lead to something explosive. All right. Steven erlanger with perspective and analysis. Thank you so much for your time live there in brussels. Thanks, george. President trump is also tweeting about russias interference in the u. S. Election, and he is reversing course yet again. He tweeted on sunday that its a big hoax, and he slammed his predecessor, acougs barack obama of failing to inform the Trump Campaign about russia. Of course we factchecked that. That is not correct. In august of 2016 then candidate trump was briefed by u. S. Intelligence officials that russia would try to infiltrate his campaign. Sundays tweet by the u. S. President follows his stunning refusal one week ago to call out russian interference as he stood side by side with president putin. A day later he backtracked. Dan coats came to me and some others. He said they think its russia. I have president putin. He just said its not russia. I will say this. I dont see any reason why it would be. The sentence should have been i dont see any reason why it wouldnt be russia. Sort of a double negative. So you can put that in, and i think that probably clarifies things pretty good by itself. One of the president s staunchest supporters, though, who says mr. Trump needs to do a better job clarifying his stance on russia. Listen. The evidence is overwhelming. It can be proven beyond any evidentiary burden that russia is not our friend and they tried to attack us in 2016. So the president either needs to rely on the people that he has chosen to advise him or those advisers need to reevaluate whether or not they can serve in this administration. But the disconnect cannot continue. The evidence is overwhelming. And the president needs to say that and act like it. That from one of President Trumps staunchest supporters. Meantime, the top democrat on the u. S. House Intelligence Committee had this to say about mr. Trumps behavior regarding russia. Well, i certainly think hes acting like someone whos compromised. And it may very well be that he is compromised or it may very well be that he believes that hes compromised, that the russians have information on him. We were not permitted to look into one of the allegations that was most serious to me, and that is were the russians laundering money through the trump organization. The republicans wouldnt allow us to go near that. I hope that bob muellers investigating it because, again, if thats the russians are using it would not only explain the president s behavior but it would help protect the country by knowing that in fact our president was compromised. All right. A lot to follow here for sure. Look, the u. S. President also accusing the fbi and the Justice Department of misleading the courts after they released evidence about russias election interference. The target of that evidence, former trump adviser carter page. Cnns shimon proek pez explains the implications of this release. Reporter the more than 400page document which is heavily redacted gives us a look inside the highly sense tip process by which the fbi went about getting surveillance warrants for cater page, arguing in the affidavit that page knowingly engaged in clandestine intelligence activities. The affidavit certainly significant in how the fbi characterizes carter page. At one point writing that they believe he had been the subject of targeted recruitment by the russian government. In another part saying that they believe page has been collaborating and conspiring with the russian government. You know, certainly serious accusations here from the fbi. They say in the affidavit that there is probable cause that his activities involve or are about to involve violations of criminal statutes of the United States. Now, carter page has denied extensively denied that he was working for the russian government and as of now theres no indication that carter page is going to be charged by the special counsel, which as we know is investigating russian interference in the 2016 election. Now, the accusations in these pages are certainly serious. And while conservative critics of special Counsel Robert Mueller have argued that the fisa warrant is tainted because the fbi relied on information from the dossier, there are things that we just dont yet know because so much of the document is redacted and we cant see what other information the fbi used in this affidavit. Shimon prokupecz, cnn, washington. And again, the target of this evidence, the former Trump Campaign adviser carter page, speaking with cnn. He told our colleague jake tapper the accusations in the warrant application are ridiculous and a complete joke. You did advise the kremlin back in 2013, or 2012. Somewhere in there. Jake, thats its really spin. I mean, i sat in on some meetings. But you know, to call me an adviser is i think way over the top. Except in the 2013 letter you wrote, it says, over the past half year i have had the privilege to serve as an informal adviser to the staff of the kremlin in preparation for the presidency of the g20 summit next month, where Energy Issues will be prominent points on the agenda. Thats august 2013. Thats yourself calling yourself an informal adviser to the kremlin. Informal, having some conversations with people. I mean, this is really nothing and just an attempt to distract from the real crimes that are shown in this misleading document. You know, page 8 it says it talks about disguised propaganda including the planning planting of false or misleading articles, which is exactly what this is. So thats kind of the pot calling the kettle black. By mr. Comey. It says the fbi believes carter page has been the subject of targeted recruitment by the russian government, and then its redacted and then it says undermine and influence the outcome of the 2016 u. S. President ial election in violation of u. S. Criminal law. It says that the russians were trying to recruit you. We know youve said that you went to russia in the summer of 2016 to deliver a commencement address. Is it not a possibility that russians were trying to recruit you even if you didnt take the bait . Is that not possible . It seems to me like that would be their job and you were working for trump, youd worked with the kremlin in the past, that would be a reasonable thing for them to try to do. Its totally unreasonable, jake. And it actually speaks to another misleading testimony related to the indictments that eric holder and Preet Bharara submitted on january 2015 talking about that prior case. And a lot of that is incorrect spin. That individual, mr. Podobny, a young diplomat in new york, i talked with him about my class. You know, i sat we had coffee one time. I met him at a conference at asia society. We met once for coffee, and i gave him some of my class notes, you know, that my students at New York University were looking at. And it was in one ear and out the other. He never asked me to do anything. I mean, its just so preposterous. Carter page there speaking with our colleague jake tapper. Ahead here on cnn, breaking news from toronto where more than one dozen people have been shot. Police are working multiple crime scenes. Well have the latest on the victims and the investigation. Thats next. Still aheadl the u. S. President not known for holding back, but his private opinions on north korea are reportedly very different from what he says in public. Well explain as newsroom pushes on. burke at farmers, weve seen almost everything so we know how to cover almost anything. 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