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Reasons you have to think about is political isolation enough? must they not also see that something they highly value can be put at a military strike. the danger is once you launch a military action, does it stop at that point. how do you bring it to an end? do you have a strategy for taking it and turning it into some kind of a political outcome? can you tush it into diplomatic leverage? i come back to what you were asking before, i do think it is essential for us to make a public case that is...

Know about trump, hes risk-averse in the sense of using military force. generally a good thing. but i think, again, go to 30,000 feet because the parallels between china and this iran situation are similar. in both cases theyve created enormous leverage, but its never clear to me trump can actually close, close a deal with them ultimately, because closing a deal requires compromising. and compromising means saying to your base, im not going to actually get everything. well, every time weve seen ...

Counterleverage. and what may be going on here is the iranians pushing back now to create counterleverage on their part. to be able to say to the trump administration, well, you want to take our oil supplies all the world market? how about if we take off half of saudi arabias. and our oil supplies come in much more demand and that gives us leverage. i kind of see it in that context. >> it shows you the danger of an administration which repeatedly has a problem with the truth. >> ive always said,...

Its currency now near record lows. meanwhile, because of americas newfound energy independence, thats right, we, the american people, u.s. citizens, we are now shielded more than ever from the chaos in the middle east. in other words, make no mistake, oil, gas, is the lifeblood of every single economy on the face of this earth. evgeopolitically, this is less important than ever to us, but americas massive crude oil production, refinery capabilities, provide this country now with economic securit...

Iran with 15 $150 billion in cah and other currencies. deflation in iran can now reach a staggering 40%. its currency near record those. meanwhile, because of americas newfound energy independence, thats right, we, the american people, u.s. citizens, we are now shielding more than ever from the chaos in the middle east. in other words, make no mistake, oil, gas, is the lifeblood of every single economy on the face of this earth. geopolitically, this is less important than ever to us, but america...

Questioning him. until representative hank johnson decided to just lower the temperature and start questioning loewandowski about the mueller report and he got the admission that they were seeking that under oath that yes, indeed, the president did ask him to convey this message to jeff sessions that many people view as a request to obstruct the investigation but this hearing is also a story of you how it is really responsible if you are intent on doing so to sometimele any congress, to essentia...

Prime minister tomorrow, that person would need to have a close and friendly relationship with the american president. right now the american president is donald trump. i think between these two gentlemen who have certainly enjoyed reinforcing each other over the last couple years, trump has more leverage. >> thank you so much for being was. lots to watch, as you mentioned with bill, over the next day or two. in the next hour, two former border patrol agents speaking out against the trump admi...

Getting paid while theyre striking, which means this thing could go on longer. lets talk about the political implications. i think its interesting you have politicians on both sides seeming to support the union here. youve got the presidents tweet, joe biden and his comments. i mean they seem to have a little bit more political weight behind them now than even a few years ago. >> thats for sure. the president tweeting about this last night asking the two to come together for a deal. we know that...

Would escalate tensions in the region but also our withdrawal from the jcpoa -- >> the nuclear deal with iran? >> exactly. its driving us apart from our allies but also to increase iranian leverage to try to bring about an end to sanctions. >> i think an escalation of the war would be a big mistake. this all comes from the yemeni civil war where saudi arabias heavily involved in another country indiscriminately bombing civilians, killing children and then the houthis are supported by the iranian...

Someone else take risk responsibility which which gives you political leverage and if deniability which is important i guess politically we have the united states saying that theyre locked and loaded what do you make of that lets bring. might be dangerous and on the thrum but on the other hand on the trump has repeatedly made such remarks on iran. for example in the ball to take on iran a couple of weeks back so. its a dangerous situation i guess but the rising oil prices indicate what would hap...