tehran is behind alarming provocations. it is the campaign beat. just three days to go until around one. the race is tight as candidates continue to battle for those top slots. >> latest polls from today. you can see emmanuel macron the centrist at the top with 25%. right behind him is marine le pen, the far right candidate. francois fillon the conservative and jean-luc melenchon tied for third place. these candidates are virtually the end neck. -- the end neck. -- next and neck. -- next and neck. not -- not -- and neck.nd neck -- neck and let's start with the conservative. francois fillon met with the president, nicolas sarkozy. their relationship has been a little bit frosty. this meeting took place behind closed doors. sarkozy was the big loser of that primary but he still has a very loyal voting base. met with himjuppe yesterday. >> they have also had a frosty relationship since primary because alain juppe lost to francois fillon in the primary and then at the height of penelope gave -- gate there were calls for him to come back. all of that is

and in northern tehran, there were fabulous mansions. all of the french couriers were there, the french jewelers. it was a wealthy person's rodeo avenue out in los angeles if you've had the amazeing opportunity to walk down that street and lick the windows a little bit. [laughter] and, but all was going to be sweetness and light once the americans got out. today iran is 80 million and growing, perhaps 85 million now. tehran itself is about 20 million. of which probably 19.5 million live in abject poverty. there are has been -- there has been no trickle down. not that there has been here in the united states either, but that's another point. people are still dirt poor over there. there's still a terrible education system. if they have the ability to go to college, they can turn out a literate replica of the middle class. the college students that were our captors, a lot of them were second first-year college students. some of them radical students, but we found their knowledge of history, social sciences, that sort of thing, the liberal a

and isn't it interesting how quiet h -- quiet tehran has been the last couple days. i think that tells us a lot. judge jeanine: is there truth that the deconfliction channels between moscow and china were down? >> the administration in the kremlin said they don't want to use it. there is always showmanship. the movement of that russian vessel as well. but they have to make some kind of noise. but it's only noise, judge. judge jeanine: i agree. now the question is, when people say what is the end game, is there an end game here? >> there is an end game. but let me tell you one thing. i bumped into the vice president coming into the west wing right after the attack. he stopped and said what a night, what did you think of that? i said superb, mr. vice president. he said we sent a message to the world. nobody gets to use chemical weapons against woinl and children. do you think they heard the message? i had one reply to him. yes, mr. vice president. judge jeanine: america showing its leadership on the world stage. the issue of that trump-putin bromance hopefully is dead

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we read that russia is considering selling $10 billion worth of arms to tehran. >> the russian-iranian relationship is not without its problems, but in syria they are joined at the hip and if anything, iran is more committed to keeping assad in power than the russians are. the table is not well stacked in favor of early win for the top -- for the trump administration. at the same time, showing he is willing to use force and keeping them guessing as to what he does next. tells tehran and pyongyang that this administration is different, and maybe tells the chinese, who have the leverage to deal with the north korean problem, that it is time to get more serious. tim: thank you for joining us on the program. dominated thekes white house press conference. white house, and press secretary sean spicer caught many offguard when he said that even adolf hitler never used chemical weapons. in comparison, he said, to syrian president bashar al-assad, who u.s. officials said had used such methods in the past and again last week. north america editor jon sopel has this. jon: the president's spokesma

i've got a friend that lives in tehran with his mother. she has m.s. and he is a dual citizen. he is a u.s. citizen. when he comes home, he tells me what's going on over there. like you said, everyone's wanting to back out of this nuclear thing. if they didn't want us in there to do what they said they were going to do, they would just back out plain out and not let anybody in. they are a people when they say what they are going to do, that's what they are going to do. don't get them mad because like they said, they do not -- iranians will not fight against iranians. that's why they go to the outside and get outside help. if you try going in there, going to be like trying to go into japan during world war ii. the whole country is going to come out. men, women, and children. they just -- that's just how they are. it these i know for a fact. you have a great day. host: the trump administration, this is some of the analysis of the mechanics of what's going to take place. the nork sometimes reporting the administration has given itself 90 days to complete its review. it will need t

look, his only allies are putin and the ayatollahs in tehran. russia needs him to assure they have access. tehran wants assad in power because they need him to support hezbollah through syria into lebanon. the only solution to the problem of chemical weapons and the carnage of the civil war is getting rid of assad. the only leverage point is russia. the previous administration gave the ayatollahs everything they wanted. our president is the master of the deal. he needs to offer russia a deal they can't refuse. russia needs to offer assad with eddie snow den in moscow because they deserve each other. it's all possible because we don't want first of all what happened in libya when obama/clinton used u.s. air power to take off qaddafi. what has to happen is our president needs to make a deal with putin, as difficult as that may be. there is a lot of leverage with russia. they're called sanctions. sanctions done the right way can op this and cause russia to pick their guy up. they know the inner workings and hidden mechanisms of the syrian governmen

what does that mean with tehran and moscow. assad isn't going anywhere, it seems. >> i know everybody is talking about what are we going to do with syria and assad. that's not if the question. neither is the question what should we do about iraq. the real question is what are we going to do about iran. its continued pursuit of nuclear weapons and its continuing successful effort to get an arc of control in iraq through the assad regime in syria and the hezbollah terrorists. barked by the russians. it may be much more than that. that's what this trip to moscow suggests. that's the force that's developing. once we destroy isis which i think president trump is committed to. that's the issue. how do we deal with the iran-russia axis in the middle east. nobody is going to defend assad. that's not question number one. eric: what would you suggest? , the arc of control. there is talk of a new coalition of the arab states and israel to face down tehran. what do dupre detective? john: right now we are losing. but the imminent focal poin

nuclear deal with tehran. >> tehran is the most state sponsor of terrorism and undermining u.s. interests in countries such as syria, yemen, iraq and lebanon and continuing to stage attacks against israel. an unchecked iran has the potential to travel the same path as north korea. nicole: meanwhile, defense secretary jim mattis isn't saudi arabia isn't saudi arabia saying the destabilizing influence must be overcome to win the conflict in yemen. saudi arabia supporting the government while i read this back in the rubble grow. lauren: russian bombers flew close. two russian jets were well within the area known as the alaskan air defense element tuesday. this comes just a day after the russian bombers flew southwest of the air force base in alaska. the u.s. military said two fighter jets and they flew alongside the russian jets for 12 minutes. officials say the planes reversed course and headed back to their base. nicole: a soyuz space capsule blasted off from kazakhstan just a few hours ago. the first two-person spaceflight in 14 years because the russian space agency decided to

so far tehran hasn't made public comments on the latest developments, but it's sure to infuriate the regime here. no more so than the hardliners who are very against this deal in the first place and said iran should never have embarked on any sort of deal with the united states. renegotiating or trying to renegotiate the jcpoa, especially so close to the may 19th elections is going to rock the apple cart here. hardliners are going to lay into rouhani for making a deal with the united states, and obviously this does not bode well for president rouhani who favors better relations with the west and is seeking a second term in office. he's invested all his political capital in this deal. if this deal is in trouble, he's in trouble. he could be replaced by an ultra conservative hard liner, making it almost impossible to negotiate with iran further down the road. a lot of elements at play and we have to see what the move mood from both sides will be. >> nbc's ali arouzi in tehran, thank you. >>> after more than two decades including 15 years as the highest rated cable news program, bill o'

earlier today, president trump slammed tehran for breaking the agreement. watch this. >> they are not living up to the spirit of the agreement, i can tell you that. we are analyzing it very, very carefully and will have something to say about it in the not-too-distant future. iran has not picked up to the spirit of the agreement. and they have to do that. >> sean: my message could not be more clear. these rogue regimes must never, ever be allowed to develop or acquire nuclear weapons. letting them do so would put tens of millions of lives in immediate danger. north korea, like we sought to date routinely threaten south korea and america with their nuclear attacks. the iranians were repeatedly called for the destruction of america, israel, they say they want to wipe israel off the map. president trump is nowe being forced to face all of these threats after years of timid and completely naive appeasement policies of the bill clinton and barack obama. for example, back in the 1990s, the clinton administration struck a deal with the north koreans giving them $4

we'll have the latest from tehran and seoul. >>> back in the legal limelight, this man. judge curial was attacked by donald trump on the campaign trail with a case over trump university. now, it's about the dreamers. >>> i'll talk to the attorney who represented one of the women who first brought a sexual harassment lawsuit against bill o'reilly. the latest now that o'reilly is no longer a factor. >>> good morning, everyone. i'm ali velshi in washington. we begin with a new escalation of tensions on multiple foreign policy fronts. among them, north korea warning this morning of a, quote, super, mighty, preemptive strike, as the trump administration considers its next move. russia talking aggressively -- or taking aggressive, new action. two nuclear capable bombers, like the one you see here, twice this week flying close to the alaskan coast. one causing u.s. fighter jets to scramble to intercept them. now the trump administration is opening a new front with iran. secretary of state tillerson accusing tehran of sponsoring terrorism throughout the middle east. he is also c

line in the sand, they got rid of chemical weapons, you add to that equation the idiotic deal with tehran home, you wonder when are we going to learn the lesson? thoughts? >> they're never going to learn the lesson because their left-wingers who live in a t fantasy land where nothing is ever real. in 20 years in korea it doesn't matter. all the years we've had experience with the ran, doesn't matter. the total fiasco of syria it doesn't matter. the failure of libya where they got rid of qaddafi and replaced him with chaos doesn't matter. if you're a really deeply committed left-winger, you live in a fantasy world. none of this is real, none of this matters. you go around drinking your white wine at the college faculty reception speaking pious baloney and what they call an intellectual idiot. this is people who have big words and no knowledge, and that results is that while they have a phony education, they have no wisdom. so i'm never surprised by it. you watch hillary clinton with the russian foreign minister, then you watch john kerry, then you watch rex tillerson. the difference betwee

there's been little public comment from tehran in the latest developments. the only person who has weighed in so far is foreign minister zarif who led the nuclear negotiations. he tweeted earlier war and u.s. sanctions can't mask its admission of iran's compliance with jcpoa. obliging the u.s. to change course and fulfill its own commitments. zarif and president rouhani are heavily invested in the success of the nuclear deal. rouhani touted this deal as a panacea for many of iran's problems tying his political fortunes to the success of the deal. if it's in trouble, then he's in trouble. also, secretary tillerson's tough words last night are not going to fare well for the moderate mr. rouhani as he seeks a second term in office in next month's presidential elections. in fact, it's going to be ammunition for hard liners who want to shoot down his chances of re-election. hard liners who have argued he should never have done the deal in the first place. if they get their way, then in iran's next president could be an ultraconseverive not open to talks with the

they were just average, middle to upper middle class tehran residents. so the surprising fact is that most of them supported the revolution when it happened but including some of them who were civil serve servants in the shah's regime that was always a warning for the hazards of political frenzies that can take over because you had an imperfect state that was socially permissive and progressive in many ways. it was definitely not a democracy but in a fit of national -- i would say political madness, many of the people who carried out the revolution came to regret they toppled that and replaced it with a profoundly liberal and quasi totalitarianism regime. it will anchor the story. we are not at a threat of seeing an islamist revolt take over the west not in that way, the way that it did in iran but it just to be careful about rocking a boat that might be not perfect but replacing it with what? so when professor george invited me to give this talk it was last summer. i just publiced a cover essay titled "liberalism the worldwide crisis. and we were in the

they were not, they're just average middle to upper middle class tehran residents. so the surprising fact is most of them actually supported the revolution when it happened including some of them lower civil service in the regime. so to me that was always something that was with me as a warning for the hazards of political frenzies back and take over because you had an imperfect authoritarian state in iran that was socially permissive and progressive in many ways. it was not a democracy but in a fit of national i was a political madness that many of the people who carried out the revolution immediately came to regret a top of that replaced it with a profoundly illiberal, quasi-totalitarian islamist regime. i mentioned that because i think it will help anchor the talk in a personal story because now i think were not at a threat of saint is, and islamist revolt take over the west. at least not in that way, and the way it did in iran that it's just to be careful about rocky about that might be not perfect but replacing it with what. so when officer george invited me to

sent more than $1 billion in cold hard cash and opened up tehran to the global markets. meanwhile, iran has stepped up its support for terrorism, increased its human rights abuses and rach ramped up its ballistic missile program, all while keeping its sights on a nuclear weapon. republicans repudiated this deal and for good reason. it is dangerous for the united states and for the world. [ applause ] so where does this leave us? well, for starters, i think it is long past time that we rig lou -- rigorously enforce this deal and hold the iranians accountable when they violate it. that's just not enough. a fatal flaw in this agreement is even if iran cooperates, it provides them with a pathway to a nuclear weapons capability. in about seven years, key restrictions onner iss centerfu development begin to sunset. this is totally unacceptable. so we must tighten the screws and continue to hit the regime with punishing sanctions for its range of illicit activities. [ applause ] very clear. the trump administration already did this in february, by swiftly imposing fresh sanctio

the main problem not only for us but for the entire world it's in excess of evil from north korea to tehran to damascus and beyond. the main link in this chain is iran. they know that they're trying to undermine the stability. in the end in iraq and syria and lebanon and of course activity against israel through their proxies. we are sharing the same values in the same views and i hope that with your support we will be able to overcome the threats to bring peace and stability to this part of the region. we appreciate your success in your operation and the great step forward to overcome the tear all around terror all around the world. on behalf of myself and the people of israel i would like to extend that. led by the president donald trump we are happy to see the first member of the cabinet to visit us and we hope to see president donald trump as well. thank you minister lieberman and good morning everyone. i am honored to return to israel once again to show my respect for this country and for the israeli people i'm keenly aware that we stand together this morning just a week before the hol

the administration has given tehran the seal of approval saying technically iran is cooperating with the iranian nuclear agreement and is filling its responsibilities. but delays big but, and that's iran's behavior. john: i think that certification was a fundamental mistake. i have reason to believe it was not clear at the white house, one may call it the state depth certification. i think secretary tillerson was given poor advice to send that letter. i think it's perfectly clear iran has violated the deal in multiple respects. that's just what we can tell from publicly available information. they have denied the international atomic agency access to military sites. they exceed the limits of heavy water production. they exceeded the uranium enrichment limits. they violated the ballistic missile provisions. how much cooperation has iran been engaged in with north korea. interestingly the state department did not need to certify come plains or certify non-compliance. if you have reid the statute they could -- if you read the statute they could have said we are not in a position to cert

relations withut the supreme leader in tehran. let me ask about the supreme leader in jerusalem. there has been this pragmatic trade relationship that has been sustained even while politics has been rather sour between ankara and jerusalem. how do you think this relationship will evolve in the new era? think that is also another compartmentalized relationship where the economic part of it is going to grow. that is driven by necessity. turkey has a growing economy. it is the only one that has no nuclear, no natural gas, and no oil. it is completely dependent on energy exports. yet it gets three quarters of its gas and oil from russia and iran. everywhere the russians are undermining him and i think while there is compartmentalization, iranians are not -- extremely unhappy with turkish policy in syria. that is a warning sign for erdogan going forward. what that compartmentalization with iran also means, and that rivalry with iran, means that he doesn't want to buy as much gas and oil from them going forward. he wants to buy less russian oil and gas going forward, which means he's g

despite the compliance, tillerson ratcheting up the rhetoric against tehran. >> unchecked tehran has the potential to travel along the same path as north korea. >> reporter: stopping short against threatening additional sanctions or dismantle the agreement. one of donald trump's campaign promises. >> my number one priority is to dismantle the disastrous deal with iran. >> reporter: tillerson's attempt to clarify the administration position is the latest in the string of mixed messages on foreign policy. earlier this week, donald trump called the turkish president to congratulate him on the referendum that strengthened his rule. hours after the state department noted reports of irregularity in the vote. the white house struggling to get the story straight why the administration said in april that an aircraft carrier was racing toward the korean peninsula in response to north korea's provocation. >> we are sending an armada. very powerful. >> reporter: when in reality, the fleet was headed in the opposite direction. >> the president said we have an armada going toward the peninsula. th

deal, president trump asked for a multi-agency review to determine lifting sanctions in exchange for tehran curbing its nuclear program is really in the national interest. >> secretary of state rex tillerson says they completely ignored all the other serious threats that iran poses. listen. >> the world's leader state sponsor of terrorism, is responsible for multiple conflicts, in countries such as syria, yemen, iraq and lebanon, they are continuing to support a tax against israel. an unchecked iran has the potential to travel the same path as north korea. and take the world along with it. >> tillerson's comments coming a day after he certified congress that iran is complying with the deal, but questions whether sanctions shouldn't be re-imposed because of eastern's alleged sponsorship of terrorism. >>> secretary tillerson mentioning north korea, which already has sky high tensions with its neighbors and with the u.s. well, today, american and south korean forces are conducting a max thunder drill, the largest exercise on the korean peninsula. paula hancocks is in seoul at the airbase with

doubt the main problem not only for us but for entire world, it's an excess of evil from north korea to tehran to damascus and hezbollah. and no doubt the same, the main link in this chain, it iran. iranians, they are trying to undermine stability in all middle east, in yemen in iraq syria, lebanon, and of course the activity against israel. we were sharing the same views and i hope that with your support we will be able toover come all these threats and of course to bring peace and stability to this part of the region. we appreciate your success your operations against terror, in mosul in -- it's a great step forward to overcome the terror all around the world. on behalf of myself and the people of israel, i would like to extend our gratitude and appreciation to the american administration let by the president, donald trump, we're happy to see the first member of cabinet visit israel, and of course we hope to see during this year president donald trump in jerusalem also. thank you. >> thank you, minister liberman, my friend. and good morning, everyone. i'm honored to return to israel again to

. >> one day after president trump effectively accused tehran of cheating, he proceeded with caution. it is affiliated with m.e.k., 15 years on the state department's list of foreign terrorist organizations. yet r in-- >> representatives from the national council of resistance of iran said in washington today that iran is secretly developing two nuclear facilities. >> to assess the imagery, fox news spoke with david albright, who agreed plan 6 has the hallmarks of a site where they're made. >> i take their work seriously enough that i think the international inspectors, international atomic agencies should go to the site and see what's going on. >> fox news also asked the former number two official at the aiea what he sees in plan 6. >> we see the buildings are surrounded by burns. they are from distance from each other. this is typical design for high explosives. >> mikel ca michael anton said best supporting analysis for the united states. >> bret: what is tehran saying about all of this, james. >> nothing in direct response to this news conference. we reached out to the iranian mis

a lot of people said why don't you do air strikes against tehran to intimidate the iranians to buckle and let the hostages out. carter didn't do it. since then he said he feels if he would have done those air strikes he might have gotten reelected but hostages might have been killed. when carter did that that was so much in line with what carter had been saying and doing, that people weren't surprised. i think the thing that strikes me about what happened last night was that donald trump on syria only a few days ago was almost 180 degrees from what he did last night. and i think this is jarring to us, whatever you think of what he did last night, jarring in foreign capitals around the world. >> look at the backgrounds of the men you talked about. jimmy carter came up as a navy man, trained under the admiral affectionately called father of the nuclear navy. >> right. >> ronald reagan was a hollywood man, governor of california. they both the learning curves when arriving at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. has there been a learning curve like the one we are seeing now though? >> nothing as sh

about foreign policy, all these relations between the free leaders in ankara, the supreme leader in tehran and there's some emerging rivalry and competition it seems to me. >> there's always been competition. for centuries between turkey and iran and they manage to internalize their relationship i think. and i mean, they were on the opposing sides in syria and yet they find trade deals and work together so i don't expect that to change because officially turkey needs iran to, it's dependent on iranian energy. so i don't think, no matter how, this is a variance in syria obviously prevailed but i don't think that they will come to a point in turkey and ran relations. >> that said, i agree completely with gonul that turkey has been effective in compartmentalizing that relationship. >> but increasingly you hear much more sunni, sectarian tone in the rhetoric which is causing i think quite an annoyance shall i say in tehran. >> and i think the, a lot will be determined by the position of the trump administration takes on iran whether it's much more aggressive than the obama administration and w

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in beijing, moscow, tehran, they are recalibrating their strategies. you can't denight because they don't have any idea how trump will respond. that might be great in the short term, he says, but it's not really a long-term strategy for asserting leadership in a world desperate for american leadership. and this is obviously speaking to -- the name of the article is bold unpredictable foreign policy lifts trump, but has risks. we heard from the president this week telling fox news he's not gonna telegraph his plans. >> well, frankly, i think that's the healthy challenge this president has put before us and before the world. some of that statement from senator warner could easily have been written in 2001 when people were drawing up theories about a cowboy from texas with swagger and a new approach to foreign policy. so there's a lot of this that echos of the past. but frankly, we are in a tumultuous world because of a total absence of strategy for the last eight years in the obama administration. i'd give the first 100 days and the first year of a new a

he calls it the troika of moscow and damascus and tehran, they are very ice later now in the world. we know iran has been fighting all these proxy wars using groups like hezbollah and other others. there is the new emerging alliance of jordanians, egyptians, the saudi's, and the israelis to prevent iranian hegemony in the region, whatever alliance they might have with russia or syria and assad. >> absolutely, that's the push to try to stop this sheer crescent that was evolving over the last eight years. they really felt emboldened, the iranians, the russians, bashar al-assad, they were conducting chemical weapons attacks we know based on evidence that they were not dispersed, not pushed out of syria, we know that they are still there. there's a lot of other significant steps of the united states could take. if bashar al-assad continues, if the russians continue to push, there are other airbases there that don't have russian presence that they could take out. there is hamas airfields and doom are airfields, that could be something that we see in the future. >> sean: brigadier general

nbc news tehran bureau chief joins me by phone now. what is the likely reaction going to be from iranian leaders? >> the sanctions or renegotiating the jcpoa so close to elections on the 19th of may will seriously upset the apple cart and doing a deal with america was never a good idea and bound to back fire. it's also very doubtful that the iran was involved on any type of renegotiation of this deal. none of this bodes well for a second term in office. he's a moderate. he's favored relations with the west and invested almost all of the political tactical and nuclear deal. it's in trouble. he's in trouble. the real question is how will the supreme court leader ret, e bucktops with him. he already warned of sequences if the u.s. violates terms of the deal. part of the deal were reinstated and sanctions for human rights or ballistic missiles imposed on iran. if deals with boeing in the works or iran's banking system was toppled he'll be undoubtedly furious and see the deal as fallen apart and only reluctantly gave approval to the deal an

cruise missiles against a syrian airbase sent shock waves around the world from damascus, and tehran, presumably pyongyang. apparently, not so much to wall street. >> reporter: the u.s. government says it launched 59 to himahawk missiles last night from two u.s. warships in the eastern mediterranean. the pentagon released this video. the target of the missiles, an airfield in western syria. the pentagon says was used to conduct a chemical weapons test earlier this week in the syrian civil war. >> that came around the world from more than 100 people. >> syria used to ban chemical weapons, violated its obligations under the chemical weapons convention and ignored your defenses of the u.n. security council. >> russia which supports bashar al-assad, calls for an emergency meeting of the u.s. security council and condemned the attacks. the u.n. ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley says the u.s. is ready to do even more and slammed russia. >> it could be that russia is knowingly allowing chemical weapons to remain in syria. it could be that russia has been a confidante in its efforts to remov

the phone lines out of moscow have been hot today with calls to washington, to tehran, and to anch anchora in turkey. russia is saying president put tan had a phone call to iranian president who is a russian ally in syria and they agreed that the u.s. missile strikes are, quote, unacceptable. that's the translation of what they said. they also said russian, iranian and the lebanese hezbollah group would increase their support for president assad. in saying the missile strikes are unacceptable, that's not a threat, it's just a bit of finger wagging from moscow and tehran. a call, too, between turkey's foreign minister and the russian foreign minister with the turks apparently saying russia has to stop insisting that president assad should remain as syria's leader, and as you've heard, yes, a phone call between rex tillerson and sergei lavrov, the russian foreign minister. mr. tillerson made that call. it's the first chance the two men have had to speak since the u.s. missile strikes, and according to russia, mr. lavrov condemned the strikes, said they were unacceptable and also claimed, aga

by the way, the trump administration also sanctioned syria just like tehran. the white house also introduced this week a massive tax reform plan and that would slash personal and corporate taxes. that means putting more money back in your pockets and giving american companies the mean they badly need to create jobs. and earlier this week, the president started of the process to begin renegation of nafta with mexico and canada, like he promised on the campaign trail. the president has also created a task force to reduce crime and is focusing on stopping gangs like m.s.-13. he signed executive orders to finally protect police officers and to go after drug cartels. and the president is also working on sending education. he did it this week, to the states by signing the executive order to review federal control over the educational system. also this week, the white house is working to fix the department of veterans affair. another big campaign promise. the president signed an order to improve accountability and to protect whistle blowers. now, all of these are rea

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not only in damascus, but also in moscow and tehran as well. >> all right, doctor. it's a great pleasure to talk to you. thank you for joining us with that insight and perspective. >> not to be missed is the president's decision to fire missiles into syria as he met with chinese president xi jinping for the very first time. joining us from seoul, south korea is general nice mar -- je mackey. the crisis in north korea, the threat that country poses. a lot of people interpreting what happened tonight in syria as a message to the chinese president we will act alone when our international security interests are at stake. and we're willing to do the same in north korea. that a message that is playing out on the korean peninsula tonight? >> well, it is a valid interpretation the. and what has happened will most definitely reframe the discussion that president trump and xi jinping will be having about north korea. this is the one urgent issue that they share. the regime of kim jong un has shown a steady escalation over the last couple of months with tests and escalations.

a lot of people said why don't you do air strikes against tehran to intimidate the iran yans to buckle and let the hostages out. carter didn't do it. since then he said he feels if he would have done those air strikes he might have gotten reelected but hostages might have been killed. when carter did that that was so much in line with what carter had been saying and doing, that people weren't surprised. i think the thing that strikesly about what happened last night was that donald trump on syria only a few days ago was almost 180 degrees from what he did last night. and i think this is jarring to us, whatever you think of what he did last night, jarring in foreign capitals around the world. >> look at the backgrounds of the men you talked about. jimmy carter came up as a navy man, trained under the admiral affectionately called father of the nuclear navy. >> right. >> ronald reagan was a hollywood man, governor of california. they both the learning curves when arriving at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. has there been a learning curve like the one we are seeing now though? >> nothing as sha

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and my ta ke damascus, moscow and tehran and my take on out, probably the russians and iranians are very upset by assist‘s —— assad's alleged use of chemical weapons in idlib. the fact he did it, he undermined the credibility of russia. make no doubt about it. even though assad will not, unlikely use chemical weapons, he has am massive aristocrat natural, a massive conventional arsenal he will continue to use. in fa ct arsenal he will continue to use. in fact today he reiterated his commitment to continue the war till he wins this war. so the morn after nothing change, sadly in syria. how isolated in the region is president assad after this? this? he very isolated w the except nun of iran and a few other country, you are talking about really a coalition of state, you have turkey, jordan, they are all against assad. what is happening in syria is is not assad versus the rest. . you will have regional aware, we have talked about it many time, on the one hand you have assad, on the other hand you is flourishing and saudi arabia. you can me how will assad feel about the attack, the