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Joe? >> so, jeffrey goldberg, this -- many people are looking at this announcement as a reordering of the middle east. isnt it actually the united states going back to the future where we are once again aligned with sunni/arab countries moving closer to israel than ever before because of their concern with irans growing influence, and once again, this sets up the united states where it has been for quite some time and that is the united states and the sunni middle east against iran and shiites a...

Them. >> joining me now to discuss president trumps decision to pull out of the iran nuclear deal, retired army colonel lawrence wilkerson, former chief of staff to colin powell. colonel, what colonel wilkerson. >> you may be familiar with an op ed that appeared in "the new york times" a few weeks ago by me that essentially said i see it all happening again. i indicated nikki haley as one of the ingredients of it happening again. now we have john bolton, another neo-conservative as the national ...

Thats what mr. netanyahu and his defense minister want. i think they want chaos in the region so that the arabs cant coalesce in a unified way to attack israel. they want persians gone. they want them out of their life in terms of a threat, particularly that they have infiltrated syria to the degree they have. i can understand that strategic concern on the part of israel. they dont want to do it themselves. they would get mired like when they invaded lebanon. they want us to bail them out. they ...

Terrorist. who is in that category? there are muslims, brown muslims, south asian hindus. christian arabs, sikh was turban was brown, white sikhs. the category is huge. >> valerie is right. despite a steady decline since 9/11 things are getting bad. hate criminals in the u.s. has risen since 2014. >> the first person killed in a hate crime after september 11th was a sikh man standing in front of his gas station in phoenix, arizona. he was a family friend. i called him uncle. and the man when he ...

Formed in the united states. that category is the muslim terrorist. who is in that category? there are muslims, brown muslims, south asian behind ewe. christian arabs, sikh was turban was brown, white sikhs. the category is huge. >> valerie is right. despite a steady decline since 9/11 things are betting bad. hate criminals in the u.s. haves risen 0% since 2014. >> the first person killed in a hate crime after september 11th was a sikh man standing in front of his gas station in phoenix, arizona...

>> we cant put the country together. >> perhaps we cant but there is evidence they can. a fascinating new report out from new america points at the bright spots, none more dramatic than the defeat of isis which prime minister al abadi announced in december. the iraqi government was able to beat back isis in the sunni heartland with fewer atrocities than have happened in the past. all of this had a restorative effect on the psyche. the defining weakness is the divide between shiite-arabs, sunni-a...

>> iraq doesnt exist except for lines on the map. >> we cant put the country together. >> perhaps we cant but there is evidence they can. a fascinating new report out from new america points at the bright spots, none more dramatic than the defeat of isis which prime minister al abadi announced in december. they were able to beat back isis in the sunni heartland with fewer atrocities than happened in the past. all of this had a restorative effect on the psyche. the defining weakness is the divide...

Has centuries of history as an important west african crossroads today it belongs to mali. timbuktu has long been the gateway to the sahara desert and the world beyond. today it is home to some thirty thousand people who seek to maintain a connection to the modern world while maintaining many of their old traditions. just a few years ago ethnic conflicts were rare most of the time people coexisted peacefully fair skinned arabs and one song guy bella and many other ethnic groups with their differ...

Signals to our allies in the pacific like japan, korea, australia, new zealand, that were no longer trustworthy. and i think we start a situation that will fold as trita indicated right into bibi netanyahu and avigdor liebermans plans, and that is for the united states to take iran on and change the regime there and keep the region restabilized because as long as its destabilized then neither the persians nor the arabs can get together against israel. >> trita, where do you think mattis is on th...

Rouhani, i would come to the same conclusion. the way to beat the united states is to build a nuclear weapon and then negotiate. and i would start forthwith. >> colonel, what do you see as the consequences if the u.s. were to pull out of this deal given that its negotiated with a bunch of other countries including russia, china, and some of our closest allies? >> i think we continue to put real ruptures in the trans-atlantic link. i think we continue to send signals to our allies in the pacific ...