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Tensions escalate as the U.S. and Iranian militaries trade shots over the strait of war moves.

Former U.S. ambassador to NATO Ivo Dahlder joins us.

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Reaction from civil rights activist Martin Luther King III.

Plus, energy expert Jason Bordoff shares with Walter Isaacson the potential global consequences of the Iran shock. Welcome to the program, everyone. I'm Bianago-Ladrigan, New York, sitting in for Christian Al-Mampur.

Tensions are rising in the strait of war moves as the U.S. military says that it blew up six small

Iranian boats after Iran launched multiple cruise missiles, drones and small boats at U.S. Navy ships

and at commercial ships being protected by the U.S. military. This is according to the head of U.S.

Central Command. U.S. Admiral Brad Cooper says that he strongly advised Iranian forces to steer clear of U.S. military assets.

Meanwhile, negotiations do not appear to be making much headway. Here's what President Trump said over the weekend.

Again, they want to make a deal. They're decimated. They're having a hard time figuring out who their leader is. They don't know who their leader is because their leader is gone. Their leader that their former leader, commending. But we'll see.

Iran, for its part, disputes these claims. So we start this week with the same level of uncertainty as we did last week. The conflict now in its third month.

Evo Daldor was the U.S. ambassador to NATO in the Obama administration, and he joins me now from Chicago.

Evo Daulder, welcome to the program. So let's just start with the breaking news, the UAE, saying that it has intercepted

three Iranian missiles and also issuing a statement saying that they call this a dangerous

escalation and that they reserve the right to retaliate. Given the ceasefire being as shaky

as it already is, do you see that at some point, sooner rather than later,

the United States or Israel, once again, resuming kinetic action?

Well, I think the possibility increased as a result of the events in the last few hours,

shooting missiles towards the UAE, although intercepted

and apparently no real casualties, is not something that the United States or Israel or the

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