helpless and the other side of the door who had been doing research on how to keep him out. let s turn back to the big news of the morning, that historic nuclear deal with iran. joining the table we have former foreign policy adviser for the bush administration and former adviser to paul ryan and the rvm romney/ryan campaign. are you still speaking to me? no comment. indirectly. joe klein, for time magazine. you talk about how iran is a functioning state. it s a real place, a real history, and you say well educated people there. well they also have not so well educated people who are extremists. that s right. divided country. it is the greatest mismatch between a people and a government of any country in the world. and, you know i still can t get over susan rice s fist bump. i m in favor of this deal. i m surprised by how good a deal they got. but we re not negotiating with
yemen. the government pushed aside by this group known as the houthis who are predominantly shiias. they ve swept away the current government. they put in their own not recognized by the west government of sorts, but we ve seen violence escalate here, and what the fear is potentially today, that these mosques targeted are from that shia houthi grouping. potentially this may mark if it turns out al qaeda, predominantly sunni group claim responsibility for the attacks. this may mark a worrying escalation inside yemen at a time too, when the country is so close to collapse. it s barely got off the ground frankly, in terms of being a functioning state for years now. this is sectarian violence that s very troubling. we re hearing war planes above the presidential compound for the president who s still recognized in the west in the southern city of aden. so much violence on so many
of the state and that then, carries over into their military capacity. so, i think it is fair to say that in our consultations with the iraqis, there will be some short-term, immediate things that need to be done militarily, and our national security team is looking at all the options but this should be also a wake-up call for the iraqi government. there has to be a political component to this so that sunni and shia who care about building a functioning state that can bring about security and prosperity to all people inside of iraq come together and work diligently against these extremists. that is going to require concessions on the part of both shia and sunni that we haven t
if iraq falls to a group that is too extreme even for al-qaeda, whose fault is it? the united states for leaving too soon? for going in at all? or is it iraq s prime minister, nouri maliki, who was admittedly hand-picked by the united states. listen to what president obama said just hours ago. there should be a wake-up call for the iraqi government. there has to be a political component to this so that sunni and shiite who care about building a functioning state that can bring about security and functioning to all people inside iraq come together and work diligently against these extremists. and that is going to require
some of the weakness of the state and that then carries over into the military capacity. so i think it s fair to say that in our consultations with iraqis, there will be some short term immediate things that need to be done militarily, and you know, our national security team is looking at all of the options but they should be also a wake up call for the iraqi government. there has to be a political component to this so that sunni and shia who care about building a functioning state that can bring about security and prosperity to all people inside of iraq, come together and work diligently against these extremists. and that is going to require concessions on the part of both shia and sunni that we haven t