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There. it is a very difficult situation, in which people have often feared something like this could happen, sandra. >> how is russia responding? >> theres a couple things that are going on. the russians have cut this communication link with united states and russia to prevent exactly this kind of situation. this link has been cut before back in april, when the united states struck the assad airbase after the chemical weapon attack. the hotline was essentially soft as well. that was put back in ...

Troopers in coalition forces, all of our air power, most of our air power that strikes in syria, iraq, except from turkey, comes out of the air base in qatar. so out of the airbase in qatar. this is an important piece of americas national security. we need the really transparentally talked about whats going on here. not do policy by tweets. frankly, if i was a secretary of defense or secretary of state in this situation i would throw up my hands. my credible would be shot. >> graham n qatar, did...

Arent serious financing issues throughout the middle east. there are, it is not to say that a iran is not doing malicious things in the region, they are. but the fact is that we need the gulf to hang together if were going to deal with counter terrorism and, as you pointed out, weve got ten 11,000 troopers in coalition forces, all of our air power, most of our air power that strikes in syria, iraq, except from turkey, comes out of the air base in qatar. so out of the airbase in qatar. this is an...

They have made progress. we recognize more work needs to be done. >> with the region and president posing qatar, its critics say qatar will have to alter its behavior. mohammed fahmy, former bureau chief in imprisoned in europe, is criticizing his former network. in a statement of fox news, he writes "qatar remains under an unprecedented siege until it shuts down al jazeera. and since financing of terrorist in support of the iranian agend agenda. airbase in qatar and its role in mediating confli...

Qatar. saudi arabia, egypt, bahrain, united emirates, among the nations accusing qatar of supporting terrorist groups. the qatari government rejects the claims, calling the measures unjustified. >> the country is strategically important for the united states the largest concentration of american military personnel in the middle east is located at a qatari airbase and a diplomatic feud could impact isis and counter iran in the middle east. we are joined live from istanbul. good morning. does this...

U.s. airbase in the middle east. air operations take off from the base. its also home to the combined air operation command which overseas the airstrikes the air operations in iraq and syria against isis. this also comes as mosul is on the verge of being completely liberated and rajka, that operation is about to getnd way as well. we we heard from secretary of defense james mattis saying he doesnt believe this will affect isis. how did we get here? one is qatar is supporting terrorist organizati...

Groups. they have made progress. we recognize more work needs to be done. >> with the region and president posing qatar, its critics say qatar will have to alter its behavior. mohammed fahmy, former bureau chief in imprisoned in europe, is criticizing his former network. in a statement of fox news, he writes "qatar remains under an unprecedented siege until it shuts down al jazeera. and since financing of terrorist in support of the iranian agend agenda. airbase in qatar and its role in mediatin...

The headquarters for that. >> the airbase is still there. one of the things that u.s. officials privately in their conversations with qatar had threatened was to move that airbase out of there if qatar didnt change its ways as far as funding terrorist groups. and communicating and facilitating terrorist activities. the fact that these other nations are doing that, severing ties is significant. there are some on the flip side say listen, qatar, you want as many friends as you can have in the regi...

Any idea what hell say? >> reporter: he is expected to give a speech this afternoon here at an airbase on the sicilyian airbase. he has not taken any questions in any kind of press conference setting instead focusing on his foreign trip. he heads back to washington tonight. >> jeremy diamond, thank you for the update. well dig more into this breaking news. fbis russia probe bringing in new controversy to the white house. jared kushners relationship with two russian officials pulling him into t...

David: life shot out of sicily, marine one. we saw another chopper that looked like marine one. a lot of staff got out and supported personnel, we are still in sicily, naval air station a little distance from where the president was meeting with members of nato. the president will use that are station to give a speech on this memorial day weekend to troops that are assembled there at the air station, we believe he will be summarizing the importance of the trip as well as saluting members of the ...