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>> thats right. theyre also challenging what weve been doing, which is ensuring the freedom of navigation in the persian gulf and what thats doing is its potentially setting oil prices higher, its making insurance more difficult to obtain. so theyre trying to i think make it more difficult for the united states to maintain the leverage that we have in the gulf and perhaps get us to stand down on some of these sanctions. in the meantime, threatening an asymmetric conflict that could really ex act...

Just because trump says lets talk, it doesnt mean that the iranians believe he wants to talk. secondly, iranians want to go into talks feeling that trump takes them seriously. they dont want to come to talks with trump thinking that, okay, i just applied pressure and theyre surrendering, waving a white flag, and i can put even more pressure on them at the table. so theyre trying to get some leverage from trump by saying, look, we have sophisticated military. we cant shoot down a drone 30,000 fee...

Issue in laying into him, president trump among them, for breaking through that red line. >> youre absolutely right. and i remember in 2013 how vocal i was with my own party. i said you have to treat president obama and this decision with the same standard you would treat a republican president. you would give a republican president the authority to do this and if you remember, there was some in kind of the extremes of our party that said we dont want to give this president leverage to do it. i ...

I said you have to treat president obama and this decision with the same standard you would treat a republican president. you would give a republican president the authority to do this and if you remember, there was some in kind of the extremes of our party that said we dont want to give this president leverage to do it. i think thats happening in the democrats with president trump on some of this. the reality is if you were here in 2013 and you made statements and you see the similarities, you ...

Relief, and the question remains that we deterred iran for continuing to escalate. what do we have to do to avoid the risk of escalating this to a war that neither country wants? that is the challenge i think from the policy perspective. >> that is their inability now to send oil on the world market, and our ability to take out iran, at a moments notice if the president decided to do so, how does the president best leverage that so iran doesnt get out of control and spins it up more and more?

The streets lined with cheering north koreans that shows the world and to president trump that kim is still a player. >> reporter: a message to trump which kim seems desperate to send. until kim sent president trump a birthday letter last week, there had been a silence between the two leaders when a summit failed on denuclearization talks. experts say the savvy chinese leader could be on the verge of playing a powerful card using trumps desire to advance a nuclear deal with north korea, and xis ...

Relief, and the question remains that we deterred iran for continuing to escalate. what do we have to do to avoid the risk of escalating this to a war that neither country wants? that is the challenge i think from the policy perspective. >> that is their inability now to send oil on the world market, and our ability to take out iran, at a moments notice if the president decided to do so, how does the president best leverage that so iran doesnt get out of control and spins it up more and more?

He has a national security team that are hawks. trump says, lets talk. look whos standing behind trump, john bolton, secretary pompeo. these are people who dont want to talk, they want to crush the iranian regime. as a result, its not very clear to them. whats the purpose of this pressure? is it really to talk or is it to bring about regime change and the collapse of the iranian state. secondly, iranians want to go into talks and think trump takes them seriously. okay, i just applied pressure an...

Relief, and we have seen this kinetic action in the persian gulf. the question remains that we havent deterred iran from continuing to escalate in the persian gulf. and that is the open question im sure the president is asking his intelligence community and military: what do we have to do to deter or run but avoid the risk of escalating this to a war that neither country wants? that is the challenge, i think, from a policy perspective. >> jason: colonel, as they talk about -- the iranians talk a...

Weak now hes full of praise the 2 have agreed that canada will export rare earths to the u.s. essential for computers and military technologies that will make the us less dependent on china president xi jinping recently hinted he would use his countrys dominant position in the rare earth sector as leverage in the trade dispute with the u.s. something justin trudeau is well aware of. we discussed some of the challenges that china is presenting not just to canada but to different sectors of the gl...