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Of the iran deal, and that may have led iran to retaliate? >> well, of course, it led iran to retaliate. as weve said, many times, trump, his favorite weapon is the dollar. the weaponized dollar. now he has turned that up to max, right? he really wants to starve iran as much as possible. okay. whats iran supposed to do. surrender? no, its not going to surrender. he may want to give it, in fact, i think he is trying to give it a way out by talking to him, but it is not going to go farther or sign...

Americans to saudi arabia, to help the apparently not terribly competent saudis, deal with their air defense, and missile defense systems. but in fact, it is not just a question of defending the exo skeleton of the oil industry, which is spread all over the map, it is also a question of defending things like desal nation plants. saudi arabia gets its water through desalination, very easy for iranians to hit, and the saudis are vulnerable, trump knows it and the iranians were careful in had this ...

It remains seared into the memory of a future world. >> and joining us is historian and senior lecturer shawn lang. shawn, what to you is the significance of this commemoration happening today? >> well, its always good hearing from christopher. my father was at d-day as well. >> i think were having some audio issues with the professor. so were going to circle back to him when we get a chance. shawn, stand by for us as we get that fixed. but i want to bring in bill neely now who has been standing...

With a lot of us. you can see this here. the music, you can hear it from where our set is. its further away. the flag flies at half staff behind us. >> hallie jackson, stick around for us. were going to christopher dicky, with daily beast and msnbc contributor. christopher, in one of your columns this morning you brought up the four freedoms. franklin delano roosevelt talked about freedom of expression, freedom to worship in ones own way, freedom from want, freedom from fear. are those among the...

There was no talking. there was testing. right now you have no testing. you have no nothing. lets see what happens. but i would be very disappointed if i saw testing. >> joining me now, christopher dicky, world news editor at the daily beast and msnbc contributor. thank you for joining us. what do you think? do you think were about to see a new round of testing here? >> yeah, i think were going see a new round of testing of launch missiles and also a testing of donald trump. very clearly a testi...

At a time when it will have maximum impact. and not divide that impact with a diplomatic initiative. >> which makes it sound like this is a lot about optic, and speaking of optics, president trumps national security adviser john bolton canceled plans to travel to south korea ahead of next weeks summit. his spokesman says he decided to do so to focus on venezuela instead. do you buy that, christopher? >> i think he wants to focus on venezuela. but i dont buy that about south korea. it is pretty c...

Is drawing down u.s. troops a consideration in your meeting with kim jong-un? >> no, it is not. that is not a consideration. that is not one of the things on the table. >> what is on the table? >> you really want me to discuss that now? >> i do. >> everything is on the table. >> that is president trump who is set to travel to vietnam this coming week to meet with none other than north korean leader kim jong-un. despite the presidents optimism for a successful trip, those around him are not so su...

They can figure out a way to do some business with iran without actually being in violation of the sanctions. >> christopher, many experts are panning this weeks led u.s. suit minimum in poland as a failure. what are you hearing about that? >> that it was a spectacular failure. that for the reasons courtney is talking about. the yureuropeans are not gettinn board. rudy giuliani gave a speech to a group that used to be dubed a terrorist group and that is a militantly anti-iranian or at least anti...

In north korea. that has not stopped. >> it all culminated with that little rocket man comment he made not long ago. president trump spoke about being nominated for the nobel peace prize by japanese prime minister abe, listing what he sees as foreign policy accomplishments. lets listen to that. >> if you look at idlib province in syria. i stopped the slaughter of perhaps 3 million people. he had rocket ships and he had missiles flying over japan. and they had alarms going off. you know that. now...

Arsonist get credit for putting out the fire? thats what were talking about here. as courtney pointed out this was a period in which trump was ratcheting up the level of rhetoric and the level of threat and talking about war all the time. then we have a period of relative calm when in fact north korea has established it has a deterrent nuclear force. what have we seen in term of north korea giving up that deterrent nuclear force? nothing. weve seen nothing on that score. so if trump was threaten...