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Post" reports that under the rework organization of the state department tillerson is considering eliminating from the state departments mission promoting and supporting democracy around the world. joining us now, david ignatious. he is also an msnbc and nbc news political analyst. also, senior counsel and former secretary of defense responsible for policy on russia, msnc analyst. the delay in signing the sanctions bill, not one word from the president about 755 americans from the moscow embassy...

World. >> as former defense department and former senate staffer i view that with a lot of concern. because you know, weve never dropped democracy from our mission even when the united states as most isolationist. we said we will stand as the city on the hill. example for the world. so were not going to intervene or try to tell people how to run their lives. what we want to still be an example of them of how to be prosperous. i think taking this out of the equation is a mistake. the administrati...

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David, welcome back, sir. >> good to be with you, chuck. >> so, first of all, what do you make of this story and as you just heard and i know you guys are dealing with the same thing, were getting three different versions from the same source. >> this needs to be unravelled. this is why its important to have investigations conducted by fbi or other law enforcement. if theres a question of violation of laws or committees of congress. just to get a clear account. this is the kind of thing thats al...

The downside i think is, these white house jobs involve political skills that military officers shouldnt develop. politicized military officers i think are a bad idea, you know, we have a history with al hague that gets into problems with that. he doesnt have those political skills and i think its going to be hard for him to run and inner agency process thats supple, that represents all the parties, all the different cabinet agencies. that said, the mcmaster appointment is i think the first thin...

Tensions at a time when they urgently need to be reduced. joining us now we have the president of the counsel on foreign relations, richard haas. in washington columnist and editor for the washington post david ignatious. >> richard haas, we have seen the soonny states sit back quietly as in some cases as irans power continued to grow across the middle east. at some point without the united states in the middle as sort of the official, this was due to happen, wasnt it. >> its partially a signal....

It tells you that people are taking this one seriously. >> but david, when the state department is getting involved in whether its syria or across the middle east, ive certainly heard this. i know you heard it. i know richard heard it. bitterness from soonny leaders talking about how they feel a n abandoned by the united states and by the way, this didnt start with an iran nuclear deal. this started with before then. they felt like we as a country and theyve said it time and again have abandoned...

Weapon city crown prince who has been the bribing force. he is a new and unpredictable force. the u.s. doesnt quiet understand him. in iran were seeing the hard liners are really at war with the president. theyre doing everything they can to squeeze his freedom of movement. theres two factors here pushing the situation more towards confrontation and danger. >> all right. david, thank you. bill neely, thank you very much. richard, stay with us if you can. well be right back.

They should challenge from those that are not soonnies. this is a way of going after them and this is a statement domestically and regional about how pure the saudis are. its also pushed back against iran. >> and by the way, hes talking not so much about the executions as much as cutting off relations with iran. >> this is a fault line. it gets more and more denounced. its a persian saudi one. theres also the soonny. the two are different but con flated. what youre going to see is this is now go...

Israelis in terms of our intelligence because by the way, we rely a great deal on a real depth of knowledge that the israelis have in the region generally and about the iranian program in particular. so i have to tell you, i think its pretty dangerous, the game the bilateral game thats getting played between the administration and israel right now. >> is that military option at all realistic at this point, david? remember the israelis did blow up the iraqi nuclear reactor in 1981. they blew up a...