CAMEROTA: The Trump administration is sanctioning Iran's foreign minister. And the move is likely to further escalate tensions between the two countries. CNN's Clarissa Ward joins us now with more. What's this about, Clarissa?</s>CLARISSA WARD, CNN CHIEF INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, according to the Trump administration, this is essentially about the fact that they view Zarif, the foreign minister, who speaks fluent English, who was very outspoken, who travels around the world, very skillfully putting forward Iran's point of view, they view him as essentially being a sort of pawn for the Iranian government and specifically for the Ayatollah Khamenei. And we heard yesterday from Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. He said, quote, this action represents another step toward denying the Iranian regime the resources to enable terror and oppress the Iranian people. Foreign Minister Zarif, a senior regime official and apologist, has, for years now, been complacent in this malign activities. Well, it didn't take long for us to hear back also from Zarif himself. He fired back with a somewhat sarcastic message on Twitter saying, thank you for considering me such a huge threat to your agenda. But what's really interesting here is the timing of this because it was just a few weeks ago that Zarif visited New York. He sat down with some journalists, including our own Fareed Zakaria, and he gave the first real indication that possibly -- or the first hint that possibly the U.S. might consider renegotiating the nuclear deal between Iran and the U.S. If that's the case, Zarif would be the front man of those negotiations. And so what kind of a message is now being sent by the Trump administration by trying to push him out, who becomes the person then that the U.S. would hold those negotiations with?</s>BERMAN: Right.</s>WARD: John.</s>BERMAN: Key questions. Clarissa Ward, thank you very, very much. All right, we have a big morning ahead here from Detroit. Four more presidential candidates will join us right here. What did they think about their performances? That's next.
U.S. Sanctions Iran Foreign Minister.