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it got a prigozhin, the leader of the wacker group, abruptly called off his armed rebellion. mid march to moscow. after agreeing to a mysterious deal reportedly brokered by the president of belarus, alexander lukashenko. prigozhin may have a problem back down for now, but he has exposed some very real cracks in putins power. its hard to imagine things going back to where they were. over the next, hour were going to continue digging into a number of the big questions around the events i...

50. Im. It was go until it was not cocked and loaded to attack iran President Donald Trump pulled back from the precipice would just moments remaining calling off military strikes on iraq crisis averted or deferred tehrans downing of an american surveillance drone prompted the aborted retaliation by the u. S. Bringing the arch enemies dangerously close to war fanning the flames of war and posturing with lives on the line where do washington and tehran go from here on. This is the day. The presid...

About that? well thank you very much for having me on firstly. l much for having me on firstly. frankly, putin doesnt care about sanctions, all the indicators continue to point to further incursions by russian forces and what i would tell you is, the next steps, any one of many possible escalation options probably are going to involve an effort to capture the remainder of don bus. but from a strategic perspective of and thats what i think a lot of commentators are missing today, what is at play ...

But thats their doctrine. and i think he was reminding us of that. >> do you actually think he would use battle field nuclear weapons? >> i think no matter what his state of mind is, i think he understands if he were to use tactical nuclear weapons on the battlefield, that would trigger the third world war and he wouldnt go down as a historic figure because there wouldnt be anyone else to talk about it. but you worry when someone begins to run out of escalation options and left with things like ...

Escalating further and not just in the area that you mentioned which is you know pushing back an un-american a military sense in the persian gulf i think we can expect to see more of what we saw in may in countries where iranian proxies are active such as iraq and syria out expect them to do want to target u.s. forces or u.s. assets or u.s. interests in the cyber domain i would expect iran to be quite active the missile test in world as well as well as irans nuclear program president rouhani of ...

Iran is going to be escalating further and not just in the area that you mentioned which is you know pushing back an un-american a military sense in the persian gulf i think we can expect to see more of what we saw in may in countries where iranian proxies are active such as iraq in syria out expect them to do want to target u.s. forces or u.s. assets or u.s. interests in the cyber domain i would expect iran to be quite active in the missile testing world as well as well as irans nuclear program...

Grounds of the white house. why do you think he had such a reluctance? >> i think hes had an ambivalence about the civil war and is very, very reluctant to have another intervention that really could quickly go beyond his control. the escalation options of the opposition are many. we want a limited strike according to what the president says. that doesnt mean they will oblige. >> water the decision the president would have made, he would have been damned if he didnt or damned if he didnt? >> tha...