the sovereignty of israel last saturday now a question to you, mr. clapper when you look at the situation, i think anthony blinken said the more de-escalation, at least a half-dozen times as he tried to answer questions how do you see this moving forward? >> are we going to start seeing this sort of proxy war return as opposed to israel and iran going directly at one another well, last night when i smoked it as speculated that perhaps israel and iran were getting past the messaging phase on the escalation ladder. >> well, i think we are very much still in the messaging phase and it appears to me that both israel and by its, the limitations on its strike or strikes as well as a ron's so far are non reaction to this tells me that they both want to step back from the cloth and