Iran responds to Trump's threat of 'blowing up the whole country'

Overnight, Iran responding to a new deadline from President Trump, who's threatening to bomb Iranian power plants and other infrastructure, unless the Strait of Hormuz is opened by tomorrow night. Iran's Navy command now posting on social media, the Strait of Hormuz will never return to its former state, especially for America and Israel. The response coming hours after President Trump's profanity-laced threat warning, Tuesday will be power plant day and bridge day all wrapped up in one. Trump ordering Iran to, in his words, open the expletive strait, you crazy expletive or you'll be living in hell. He signed off with the words, praise be to Allah. Trump later telling ABC News, if Iran does not make a deal, we're blowing up the whole country. Experts warn bombing civilian infrastructure could be a war crime. This could turn into more of what would be a total war and essentially there is no target off limits. And that is something that we've tried to avoid since the end of World War II as an international community. Some Democrats blasting the president. Donald Trump has gotten us into this reckless war of choice without ever clearly laying out the strategic objectives, the plan, how this is designed to actually make life better for the American people. While some Republicans say it's about time. If you don't undertake the conflict, if you just step back and watch as the Obama administration was going to do while Iran became a nuclear power and they became North Korea, we wouldn't be looking at the Strait of Hormuz. We'd be looking at at what's, you know, host, you know, having Europe be at risk. The heightened rhetoric comes as we learn new details about the rescue of a U.S. airman trapped deep inside Iran. Hundreds of special operations forces carried out the nighttime raid to bring him home. One of two on board an F-15 Strike Eagle shot down Friday. The pilot was rescued in hours. But the weapons systems officer spent more than a day hiding from Iranian forces in a mountain crevice. This is an incredibly perilous situation. You've got to locate them. You've got to assess their mobility, assess their health status. Are they compromised? Are they, you know, is there any other threats around them? It was during the mission that the colonel made a brief radio call. President Trump claimed the pilot said power be to God, but a U.S. official now confirms the actual message was God is good. Trump says he was initially thrown off by the unusual message, worrying Iran might have been using it to lure U.S. forces into a trap. During the rescue mission, an A-10 Warthog was shot down. That pilot ejected after flying to Kuwait. And two U.S. aircraft suffered technical malfunctions and were deliberately destroyed by U.S. troops to avoid them falling into Iranian hands. President Trump told us he thinks this conflict could be over in days, not weeks, and he claimed Iranian civilians want him to bomb their infrastructure to weaken the regime.