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Question relation to nic robertson. regardless whether the iranians did this themselves i think their culpability is clear by the fact that all of that equipment can be traced back to iran. >> you know, weve seen very clear language from secretary pompeo. as recently as today. those words, "an act of war" meeting with mbs, we know and back home different reactions from president trump and senator lindsey graham. i want to play what weve heard. >> im looking for a response that would be unequivoc...

Think has the stomach or the kahunas to do. and clearly nobody wants to do that make people feel safe >> we havent talked much about the personal nature of the relationship between trump and kushner and the saudi royal family mbs donald trump stood out on the world stage for really buying mbs story about the brutal murder of jamal khashoggi. how is that relationship playing into these deliberations, if at all? >> so there are a few things first of all, yes. this is a white house that has really ...

Destructive self-defeating and immoral war in yemen do we continue more of the same and just keep following down that path, or has mbs gotten a little too far out ahead of his skis with washington >> let me just put that back to general mccaffrey. is there any sense that you have -- and i dont mean this in a snide or a snarky way. but do you think that donald trump is being briefed to the degree that elise just laid out the connection between the saudi-backed war in yemen? do you think in donald...

Unserious figure in international dip massf. they dont believe he will follow through we will have no allies at all if we elected to use military power. theres a widespread thought that mbs from saudi arabia wants war. he doesnt they have modern technology, but they have no real serious military capacity. and one can argue certainly that the president withdrawaling from the nuclear accord then started with maximum pressure the outcome that were now looking at the iranians have got to do somethin...

Scratching their head as to why this would be, but they dont that homelessness people with see these underlying movements mental health disorder and that keep these leaders, not to mention the military or substance abuse disorder are the authoritarian power they have. ones that are the primary victims. the reality in los angeles half the people on the streets and they are now at a stopping point where theyve taken sanctions as something that the mayor here far as they can dgo. told us, half of t...

Does he think that attacking obama may hold the key to winning a second term? and elizabeth warren may have taken a step closer to winning. we have the head of a group that just gave her a key endorsement that used to belong to bernie sanders. what do you say? lets get after it. locked and loaded, the catchy phrase president trump tweeted about a possible american response to the armed drone assault on the saudi oil fields. he thinks iran did it. he has the backup of u.s. officials. but look a...

And elizabeth warren may have taken a step closer to winning. we have the head of a group that just gave her a key endorsement that used to belong to bernie sanders. what do you say? lets get after it. locked and loaded, the catchy phrase president trump tweeted about a possible american response to the armed drone assault on the saudi oil fields. he thinks iran did it. he has the backup of u.s. officials. but look at some of the words that surround locked and loaded. theres reason to believe ...

Donald trump is part of the reason why your prices are going up. whatever mohamed bin salman is telling him. the other thing is, people talk about the iranians and theyre right. the iranians destabilize and medal in other countries. so do the saudis. theyre meddling in yemen, libya, iraq. they are doing the same things that people complain about the iranians doing, all of which could contribute to a rise in prices, risk in conflict, destabilizing the region. we know the saudis spent enormous amo...

Up a journalist for the washington post in another country who wants us to do his bidding. he wants a return on his investment. >> saudi arabia pays cash, thats what he said in justifying why he would maybe go to war. ben rhodes, thank you very much. >> thank you, chris. >> i think theres real fear about this getting very out of hand. what do you think the meaning of this sort of latest 72 hours is? >> the meaning is very clear. the saudis want to fight the iranians to the last american. >> righ...

Yemen. look at this picture, if that doesnt remind you of afghanistan in the 80s, what does? >> people will say, and i think rightly, that the u.s. has -- the u.s. foreign policy has always sort of bent over backwards for the saudis. the key interest is how much of the worlds oil supply do they control. when fdr made his pact through the bush administration to now. as someone who covers this region, what is different about this administrations treatment of the saudis versus previous? >> its tota...