NIGHT FROM NEW YORK.
KENNEDY: PRESIDENT TRUMP PUTS
RON ON NOTICE -- IRAN ON NOTICE,
MESS WITH US THERE WILL BE HELL
TO PAY, BUT WILL THE IRANIANS
LISTEN?
OR ARE WE HEADED TO WAR?
GREAT.
PRESIDENT MADE THREAT LAST NIGHT
TO ROUHANI, EVER EVER THREATEN
THE U.S. AGAINST OR YOU WILL
SUFFERER CONSEQUENCES, WE'RE NO
LONGER'S COUNTRY THAT WILL STAND
FOR YOUR DEMENTED WORDS OF
VIOLENCE AND DEATH, BE CAUTIOUS.
SO STERN.
IT APPEARS PRESIDENT OF THE
RESPONDING TO ROMAN WHO ROUHANIW
DIPLOMATS YESTERDAY.
TENSION WITH IRAN HAVE BEEN HIGH
SINCE THE PRESIDENT WITHDREW
FROM THE NUCLEAR DEAL, TODAY
SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS SAID THAT
PRESIDENT IS TRYING TO PROTECT
THE U.S.
>> PRESIDENT HAS BEEN I THINK
STRONG, SINCE DAY ONE IN HIS
LANGUAGE TOWARDS IRAN.
HE WAS RESPONDING TO COMMENTS
MADE FROM THEM, HE WILL CONTINUE
KENNEDY: BUT CRITICS HAVE
QUESTIONED THE TIMING OF THE
THREAT SAYING THAT PRESIDENT
COULD TRY TO CHANGE THE
NARRATIVE AFTER LAST WEEK'S
CONTROVERSIAL SUMMIT WITH
VLADIMIR PUTIN.
COULD PRESIDENT TRYING TO GET
THE IRANIANS BACK TO THE
BARGAINING TABLE LIKE WITH NORTH
KOREA?
TONIGHT JOINING US, THE PRESS
AND THE PRESIDENT SEAN SPICER,
WELCOME BACK.
>> THANK YOU.
>> WE'LL TALK ABOUT THE BOOK IN
A LITTLE BIT, LET'S TALK ABOUT
THE PRESIDENT.
MISSTEP, IF HE IS TOO SOFT ON
SOMEONE THEY ATTACK HIM FOR
BEING IN PUTIN A POCKET, IF HE
IS TOO FIRM HE IS LEADING TO US
BRINK OF WORLD WAR 3, WHO IS
GOING ON WITH IRAN?
>>, I THINK JUST THAT, ROUHANI
MADE A STUPID MISTAKE BY
CHALLENGING THIS PRESIDENT.
AND I THINK THAT PRESIDENT HAS
SHOWN TIME AND AGAINST HE IS
GOING TO PUNCH BACK.
HE IS NOT GOING TO STAKE LIGHTLY
TOO THREATS, THAT IS WHAT YOU
SEE NOW.
YOU HAVE SEEN IT ON A WHOLE HOST
OF FRONTS, WHETHER ECONOMIC OR
TARIFF FRONT, HE KNOWS WHAT HE
WANTS TO DO.
I THINK IT WAS SOMEWHAT CARELESS
OF THE IRANIAN LEADER TO DO
THAT.
KENNEDY: IT HAD BEEN A VERY
CONFUSING RELATIONSHIP WITH
IRAN.
THE PRESIDENT ACCUSED PRESIDENT
OBAMA OF DOING WHAT HE WAS
ACCUSED OF WITH VLADIMIR PUTIN.
THAT IS BEING SPINELESS AND WEAK
AND GIVING IN WAY TOO MUCH,
AND GIVING IN WAY TOO MUCH.
>> WHERE DO WE GO WITH SANCTIONS
IS THE DEAL, HIS SUPPORTERS' TO
BELIEVE THERE IS SAN OVERALL
PLAN, AND THINGS GOING ON BEHIND
THE SCENE THAT PERHAPS WE DON'T
UNDERSTAND.
BUT PERHAPS PRESIDENT HAS A
ULTIMATE GOAL.
>> WITH IRAN IT WOULD BE TO GET
HOLD OF WHAT A BETTER ASSESSMENT
OF ABOUT WHAT THEY HAVE, AND
PREVENT THEM FROM GROWING
NUCLEAR CAPABILITIES.
KENNEDY: IS IT A NEW DEAL?
>> HE DID NOT LIKE THE CURRENT
IRAN DEAL, WE LITERALLY BROUGHT
PALLETS OF MONEY OVER.
HE WOULD LIKEN FORCE.
, TANK
--TANK
-- ENK
-- ENFORCEABLE AND INTANGIBLE
STEPS TO VERIFY.
AND ENSURE THEY DON'T CREATE A
FUTURE THREAT FOR US OR THE
REGION.
KENNEDY: HOW DO YOU DO THAT?
YOU DON'T WANT ANOTHER WAR.
YOU DON'T WANT TO OPEN A NEW
THEATER IN THE MIDDLE EAST, THAT
IS A BAD IDEA.
>> CORRECT.
KENNEDY: A BAD IDEA FOR THE
REGION, AND HORRIBLE FOR
AMERICANS.
MIKE POMPEO SEEMS TO BE WALKING
IN STEP WITH THE PRESIDENT.
WITH TILLERSON IS SEEMD THERE
ON.
>> THAT IS IT WITH PUTIN HOW DO
YOU CONTAIN IRAN.
SO, I THINK HE MADE IT CLEAR
THAT HE HAS NOT TAKEN ANYTHING
OFF OF TABLE.
HE DIDN'T LIKE THE DEAL HE SAW.
>> ARE PEOPLE AROUND HIM WHO ARE
PUSHING HIM FOR MILITARY ACTION
IS IRAN.
>> I DON'T KNOW, I DON'T TALK TO
HIM ABOUT THAT.
KENNEDY: DO YOU TALK TO HIM.
>> I DO, WE GENERALLY DON'T GET
INTO IRAN.
KENNEDY: WHAT DOES HE ASK YOU
ABOUT?
>> DEPENDS, I TALK TO HIM WHEN
KENNEDY: IS HE CHAT SNE. CHATTY?
>> VERY CHATTY, ABSOLUTELY, AND
FUNNY AND CHARMING AND FUN.
THERE IS A SIDE TO HIM THAT I
WROTE ABOUT IN THE BOOK, THAT I