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It demonstrates the-- this countrys commitment to israels security. >> admiral william fallon lost his job as the head of central command when he questioned the wisdom of striking iran in an interview with esquire magazine at the end of the bush administration. >> and what happens, step two, step three, step four, where does this go, what are the outcomes, what do you think. >> israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu reportedly told his cabinet today to quit the quote, chitchat about iran afte...

Its my understanding that president obama is also trying to reduce the chitchat. is that right? >> yes, while also tightening sanctions. he signed executive order sunday night freezing iranian assets in the u.s. and laying the groundwork to enforce sanctions against irans central bank. >> but my goal is to try to resolve this diplomatically the only way over the long term we can assure iran doesnt get nuclear weapon is by getting them to understand its not in their interest. >> iran meanwhile st...

international journalists. russians foreign minister is in syria trying to keep it from being the latest arab government to fall. many world leaders say moscow is ignoring the slaughter of civilians. ivan watson is in istanbul, turkey, covering this for us. is there any optimism that russia can rein in this violence? >> reporter: thats a big question. the russian foreign minister definitely got a heros welcome as he arrived in damascus. he seemed to be one of the biggest allies and fri...

wall street is celebrating. ali velshi will join me in a few minutes. president obama is speaking at a fire engine in virginia and is calling for a payroll tax cut due to expire at the end of this month. he also wants to boost federal grants to local governments to hire veterans at first responders. >> over the past three years, my administrations made it possible to keep responders on the job and now communities that make a prir tea to recruit veterans will be among the first in lin...

Sign of increasing s with iran? joining us to talk about that further is general jack keane. what did you make of our actions now in that area? >> well, certainly, if theres -- the ships are moving these things have been planned for sometime, first of all that is not at the request of the commander of central command. nonetheless, tensions are rising. they are rising because of the nuclear weapons issue. specifically, because some of our economic sanctions are finally starting to take hold with ...

That misrepresents his position. he doesnt want them to get a nuclear weapon. he does care. can we contain iran or go to war? >> the three previous heads of central command all say a preef preempted attack could have repercussions that could hurt us and israel. they said this week they need to quit saying its an attack against israel. the cuban missile crisis did we invade we blockaded it but eventually we negotiated and took missiles out of turkey and italy in order for russia to take missiles ...

Nuclear weapon. that misrepresents his position. he doesnt want them to get a nuclear weapon. he does care. can we contain iran or go to war? >> the three previous heads of central command all say a preef preempted attack could have repercussions that could hurt us and israel. they said this week they need to quit saying its an attack against israel. the cuban missile crisis did we invade we blockaded it but eventually we negotiated and took missiles out of turkey and italy in order for russia t...

Nuclear weapon. that misrepresents his position. he doesnt want them to get a nuclear weapon. he does care. can we contain iran or go to war? >> the three previous heads of central command all say a preef preempted attack could have repercussions that could hurt us and israel. they said this week they need to quit saying its an attack against israel. the cuban missile crisis did we invade we blockaded it but eventually we negotiated and took missiles out of turkey and italy in order for russia t...

He doesnt want them to get a nuclear weapon. he does care. can we contain iran or go to war? >> the three previous heads of central command all say a preef preempted attack could have repercussions that could hurt us and israel. they said this week they need to quit saying its an attack against israel. the cuban missile crisis did we invade we blockaded it but eventually we negotiated and took missiles out of turkey and italy in order for russia to take missiles out of cuba. sometimes can be dip...

He doesnt want them to get a nuclear weapon. he does care. can we contain iran or go to war? >> the three previous heads of central command all say a preef preempted attack could have repercussions that could hurt us and israel. they said this week they need to quit saying its an attack against israel. the cuban missile crisis did we invade we blockaded it but eventually we negotiated and took missiles out of turkey and italy in order for russia to take missiles out of cuba. sometimes can be dip...