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Iran. thats well and good, but we also have bases in qatar, and also in the united air emirates that we can use, and those bases are definitely keeping an eye on iran. theyve been doing that for a long, long time, and they can continue to do so. so yes, its good to keep an eye on iran, but you want to make sure youre doing it in the best way possible, so i see this as kind of a mixed message from the president. >> and david, the president said this week his intelligence chiefs were misquoted whe...

For the country. intelligence doesnt always get it right, but it always tries to get it right, and i think thats the key ingredient here. regardless of what the president or other political leaders are saying, the intelligence community will provide the nation with its most important asset, and thats information on our adversaries. >> colonel cedric leighton, david rhode, thanks for being here. appreciate it. >> you bet. jussie smollett speaks out for the first time since he fell victim to a p...

Before we came on air, they said the state department would be preparing a statement and once thats approved shortly, it will be obviously made public. hoping to have a bit of clarity then about what exactly this is all about, pamela. >> lots to discuss here, matthew chance, thank you so much. joining me now cnn global affairs analyst david rhode, executive editor of the new yorker website. as we heard from matthew, details are sketchy. we dont have a lot of information. but how concerning is th...

Saying if anybody but donald trump did what i did in syria, they would be a national here o he also said isis is mostly gone. were slowly sending our troops back home to be with their families while at the same time fighting isis remnants. this is in stark contrast, david, to his announcement last week, saying that withdrawals of u.s. military would be full and rapid and that isis was largely defeated or was eradicated, he said. whats going on here? >> its confusing. whats odd about the tone of ...

Co-organized the miss universe contest for the u.s. president and it appears business and politics in russia have often mixed. matthew chance. cnn, moscow. >> joining us now defense attorneys mark geragos and randy zelin. mark, president trump argues he was a businessman at the time all of this was going down. he did not elect president yet so he didnt want to lose business opportunities so even if he had decided to go ahead with this project he said there would have been nothing wrong with it. ...

Marked for death by the crown prince. >> david, the president has basically said theres nothing to confirm that mbs was directly involved in the murder. heres his secretary of state, again, this weekend defending the white houses response. >> today were working with the saudis in afghanistan. were working with the saudis to push back against the ayatollah khamenei who killed hundreds of americans, wolf. they are very important to us. a relationship thats mattered for 70 years against administrat...

There are republicans in congress, lindsey graham in particular, who is a big defender of the president but has said confronting him on the murder of khashoggi is just too much. republicans in congress are calling for them to punish putin somehow. youre right, some steps, but, you know, taken only under pressure from the presidents own party. >> real quick, what i said to you, max. >> sometimes it seems like we have two russia policies, the policy of the rest of the u.s. government and the polic...

Goes is the hearing, and they can hear things, so they got the kids on the phone, and each one of them smoke to him and he spoke back or mumbled back anyway, and then they got 43 on the phone and 43 said i love you, dad, and he -- and i just -- and ill see you in heaven, and 41 said i love you, too, and those were the last words that he ever spoke. >> heres what happens next. this plane is standing by to fly the presidents body to washington, d.c. tomorrow. president bush will lie in state at th...

Whether its putin in russia and mbs in saudi arabia not feeling any concern in terms of violating international norms, any threat from the united states. as max said, you know, president trump is not holding them to account. theres a real, you know, lack of american leadership, and that continued at the g20 and, you know, other countries see this, you know, and mbs and putin look strong and china looks strong. i agree with max that there was not a big step forward with china, so all of this is a...

Crew members. >> this the outrageous that a week ago the russians attacked ukranian ships in international waters. this is a violation of the most basic tenets of international law, and nothing whatsoever has happened with russia. putin was smiling like the chesire cat at the g20 meeting. we need to ramp up the sanctions. theres a lot more on the sanctions front that we can do to make russia feel some real pain from its aggression. we need to make them understand this is unacceptable behavior be...