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Fundamental rethinking of how we deal with saudi arabia. we have to be careful because it is so likely we will come back to something approaching normal pretty fast. we have to find a way to make a strong statement, at least rhetorically with some symbolic measures. this is too egregious to paper over. >> shephard: michael, at the center is the saudi crown prince. three years ago when he was a 29-year-old defense minister, he pushed for a war in yemen, started a month after he took the position ...

Since. all figures pointing at saudi arabia. they have set up this joint investigation unit with turkey and today finally after days and days of waiting, we saw them arriving to check out the consulate, first, the saudi team and then the turkish forensic police. they have been in there for four hours. we do not know when to expect their report or what format it will come in. last week, they did offer to allow turkish officials inside to conduct a search. they insisted it could only be a visual s...

Tariff in oil. you are right, the outrage you are expressing is right and they have to here it. >> michael, thank you. >> shephard: a very busy "newsday." we will get to president trump on "60 minutes" last night. a look ahead. stay with us. we had early on, was entering agreements with the epa on cleaning up the property. were recycling over 98% of the products on site. the impact that this project will have on the community will be enormous. ♪ ♪

Michael? >> hi, shepard. i start with the 9/11 attacks. it helps put this in perspective. that was not a did deliberate act of the saudi government but they had tolerated a form of preaching that led to the kind of extremism that we think resulted in nearly 3,000 american deaths. we spent several years re-assessing the u.s./saudi relationship, investigating what they could have done differently to try to discourage that. we ultimately did most of our business as usual with them. we put a lot of ...

American soil. >> in the past four decades, six american presidents have made that vow to keep the nation safe from terrorism. september 11th stands as the most visceral example of that threat, one that has evolved, changed to adapt to new intelligence and law enforcement techniques and tactics. >> todays terrorism threat still includes sleeper cells, al qaeda, all the kind of major terrorist organizations that you would think of. but were also very focused now on homegrown violent extremists. >...

That president obama had only gradually developed over time. trump beefed it up. >> but ohanlon says like his predecessors president trump has not been successful in draining the global swamps that give rise to terrorism. even as isis was being contained, the threat continued. last year, 8 people were killed in a vehicle attack in downtown manhattan. the perpetrator was following almost to the letter instructions posted on social media by isis. >> terrorism today moves at the speed of social med...

>> shepard: whats your level of concern that will escalate and involve others around and about. >> its possible, shepard, but this is no longer the number one problem for most of the middle east. you and i both remember times when it was. when everything was about, you know, arabs and israel disagreeing fundamentally over israels right to exist but also over israels treatment of the palestinians. and so all through the 70s, 80s, 90s, this was sort of seen as the central issue in much of the midd...

>> if necessary, were going to make our way in to a bomb shelter, thats that brown building you see over my shoulder off in the distance. we are in the city of sderot. this is a community of about 25,000 because of its proximity to the gaza border, about one mile away it frequently comes under rocket attack. and that was the case last night. a rocket landed right where im standing just a few feet away. the debris is gone. but you can still see some of the damage to this car. the damage extensive...

Brookings. what do you say michael. >> could easily be the brewing of the fourth war. in a sense this is better thought of as maybe the fourth battle. because there really isnt any victory by either side. you know, hamas is not going to be strong enough operating out of the gaza strip to somehow take part of israel away or enlarge its territory israel doesnt want to rule gaza. they left voluntarily because they didnt want the burden. what you are seeing are battles that really just sort of retur...

Countries. be cautious. now the iranian regime is threatening counter measures in the united states tries to block their oil exports. lets go to michael ohanlon from the brookings institute. hi, michael. >> nice to be with you, shepard. >> shepard: aside from the rhetoric is there anything here? >> i dont know. you mentioned the word "counter measures." thats a benign word. i hope what were seeing is a deescalation of the rhetoric. the real deal is the economic sanctions and the trump administra...