still more classified documents at the private club, closed quote. that signals there was potentially additional material there of interest to the u.s. government, even after trump turned over those 15 boxes to the national archives earlier this year. and last night, the director of the fbi chris rwray refused o answer questions about this search. he expressed real concern surrounding violent threats against fbi agents. take a listen. any threats made against law enforcement including the men and women of the fbi as with any law enforcement agency are deplorable and dangerous. and this morning, cnn has learned that some within the justice department believed that the department should have provided a public statement on the search. so let s start right there with our cnn senior justice correspondent evan perez. evan, we have been talking a lot this week about the real escalation from a meeting that investigators had back in june, with trump lawyers at mar-a-lago, leadin
washington, d.c. he allegedly had money that he was willing to actually give to this fbi informant, $300,000. he sent images of bags of that money to the informant. now, we should note this eiranin is still at large, still in iran and we re hearing fons rrespons the eiranians. the islamic public of iran strongly warns against any action against iranian citizens, under the pretext of these ridiculous accusations. and emphasizes that it reserves the right to take any action within the framework of international law to defend the rights of the government and the citizens of the islamic republic of iran. now, we should note that we also heard yesterday from the current national security adviser, of course, john bolton was the national security adviser during trump, we heard from jake sullivan yesterday saying that there would be severe consequences if iran were to
minister. he says iran is crossing a red line. in your opinion is war coming? i wish it s not coming and i hope it s not coming, but its determination will keep moving the determination to block iran from syria very close to our border. as long as they understand the europeans are still in the deal, the eiranians will behave cautiously. they are worried that the president might be looking for the slightest mistake they might make in order to consider moving further, probab further. i believe it will drive them to be more cautious. president trump s decision to pull the u.s. out of the iran
he says the deal is a terrible deal. he pointed out that president trump has until may 12 to decide whether the u.s. will continue to support the agreement. he says it never should have been concluded, and he adds that i m sure he, the president of the united states, will do the right thing. josh rogan, you ve been covering this story for a long time. what new information, although the eiranians have always denie they had a nuclear program, it s well known they did have a nuclear program, what is the takeaway? the iran deal was in big trouble, okay? he s saying fix it or nix it. now he s saying nix it and, i m sure trump will do the right thing. netanyahu made four big claims, right? iran lied about their program. okay. that s not really news. we assumed that iran was lying. that s why we had the deal in the first place. if they weren t liars, we could just trust them not to do these
it is possible that president trump is quite changeable in his attitude toward international deals. he was just nominated mike pompeo to be secretary of state. he is vehemently opposed to the deal. i think he and john bolton and the president think it was a bad deal. the french president will argue for two things. eiranians have gotten most from the deal and let s not give it up when it perhaps can do some good even if the good is minimal. the other thing is the french like the other european nations want to continue to trade heavily with the iranians. they have billions of dollars to lose. that is why angela merkel and macron will argue with trump to stay in the deal. a lot to talk about here. and macron seemed to really play