Saudi Oil Attack; New Controversy; Whistleblower Complaint; Russia Probe; Politics Of Distraction

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 17 September 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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0:00.0	Good evening.
0:01.0	There's breaking news tonight in the attacks on the oil fields in Saudi Arabia.
0:04.7	The president today is saying it appears that Iran is behind them.
0:07.8	He also didn't rule out the possibility of retaliatory strike by the U.S.
0:11.8	A little peers that some of the administration are trying to walk back the president's own
0:15.4	language.
0:16.4	Take for instance, whether we will attack Iran.
0:18.9	The president sounded very warlike in his tweet last night.
0:22.1	Quote,
0:23.1	Saudi Arabia oil supply was attacked.
0:24.6	There's reason to believe that we know the culprit are locked and loaded, depending on
0:28.3	verification, but are waiting to hear from the kingdom as to who they believe was the
0:32.2	cause of this attack and under what terms we would proceed.
0:35.9	Now obviously locked and loaded, which is what the president said, is a term we're all
0:39.8	familiar with.
0:40.8	It references our military posture.
0:42.8	It's a direct reference to weapon rates.
0:44.5	Pretty clear.
0:45.6	But then this morning, things got less clear.
0:47.8	Vice President Pence's Chief of Staff Mark Short was asked about the tweet and the term
0:51.9	locked and loaded.
0:52.9	Here's what he said.
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