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They have throughout the civil war. as you know, syria is a very, very important country to iran and they dont want to lose their foothold there. for now, iran, i think are relieved. we dont know what any future actions will be, especially leading up to the deal, if theres action against iran in that region to sort of get iran to react in a bad way that would make it easier to pull out of the nuclear deal. >> let me ask you, from the perspective of the iranians, we hear from the west, the united...

Regime change. at least the president has not articulated that. i believe nikki haley arctic la arcticlated that. the question is, what is the policy going forward? are we going to support some of our moderate allies in the country? are we -- what are we going to do about iran getting a greater foothold in syria, a threat to israel? so, i think there are lots of questions. >> let me read to you something else that the president wrote. he says never said an attack on syria would take place, could...

And especially that iranian assets were not targeted in syria. so iran can take a step back. not something they wanted to get embroiled in right now with everything going on with the u.s. threats from president trump to pull out of the nuclear deal. calling iran the main protagonist in the area. they dont want to give the u.s., to come down on iran like a ton of bricks. theyre going to be relieved this seems to be over for now. iranian assets were not targeted. but they very, very strongly conde...

Saying he would like to withdraw all two thousand u.s. troops who are in syria that was against the advice of his military advisers who are wary of another situation like afghanistan or iraq who want to stay there and make sure that the islamic state cannot get another foothold in the region before backing out but this directly contradicts what he was saying earlier this month and so its unclear from his words alone and from what the white house is saying what kind of action were going to see. y...

Transition with the united states regaining its foothold in syria and having negotiating power in syria and saying we have an interest in what the final syria solution looks like. >> but, michael, theres still a question of long term u.s. involvement syria when you have president trump openly reluctant to keep military troops there. >> absolutely. and in fairness to the trump administration, i try to be, this is not a problem that he created. it is a problem that he inherited and he has proven u...

Targeted assassination like they tried in britain a few weeks ago. it is really important for our allies like britain and france to stand with us and show that these guys cannot get away with these atrocities. >> sandra: how should we deal with assad? >> let me be clear we cannot fix syria. but we have to make sure that isis does not get a foothold there and we have to work with our allies to try to keep a lid on things or else we may get sucked into some wider conflict. and it is by being there...

So right now, i know that china has like 10 industries out there that they are off limits to foreigners. you cant even get 49% and if you do end up getting a position in a foothold in china you can only own 49% of a joint venture. is that the kind of restrictions you want to see in the u.s. because i know youre a free markets guy so how much of the government bite do you want to see here? >> well i think we have to have some reciprocal relations which means if they put a tariff of 25 % on our ca...

Well is if we leave the first thing that happens is turkey tries to wipe out the kurds and they can do it without our support. neil: were all but giving them a date when this will happen. >> like i said it sounds nice but i think hopefully this is mixed signals so we can keep people on their toes. neil: you think now it -- >> if we leave now itll be just as bad as it was before because everything from the poison gas that the regime uses against his people will kind of bring the sunnis to rise up...

They know their business model is to reach everybody. its true, especially conservative news sites, the smaller brands trying to get a foothold. they beat their business on how facebook used to distribute information. that changed as sheryl sandberg explained. they had a good reason for changing it. the problem is a lot of smaller sites, liberal ones too but mainly conservative ones. their traffic has gone way down. they want to feel like they have a level playing field. i believe that next week...

Saying is be careful, two can play this game and you are just as vulnerable as we are. there will be no winners here. the idea were going to win and theyre going to lose, thats not how it works. either were both going to win or were both going to lose. >> richard, lets talk about an issue that youve been concerned about and a lot of foreign policy leaders have been concerned about and that is whether america was going to bid a speedy retreat out of syria and once again allow isis to gain a footh...