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Resolutions. martha: so hows that going? a mideast journalist and fox news contributor and peter brooks, former cia officer and senior fellow for national security affairs at the heritage foundation, welcome to both of you. i also just want to put out there that it was in the iranian newspaper quoting a high-level military official in iran saying the united states has, quote: reached this conclusion that they cannot challenge the powerful iran. lisa, what do you think about this? >> well, this i...

Americans, and were going to ask them what they can offer us. and thats exactly what theyve done. theyve posed themselves in a position now where they have the upper hand, and theyre going to wait to see what concessions the u.s. can offer them. martha: yeah. you know, i mean, it reminds me of the you can get more with honey than salt, peter, and weve seen a difference in attitudes, certainly, between ahmadinejad and rouhani, but is the underlying mo of the iranians any different now? >> i dont ...

Is what you know and what you dont know, and now they know a lot. theres others, north korea, russia, china, and they will do things to their, to disadvantage our abilities to collect intelligence which is our first line of defense. bill: so then bring it back to snowden. that makes him even more vital, to find him in moscow and bring him home. and have him face justice just like any other traitor. >> well, absolutely. i dont know if we can prevent any more information from being leaked out. i d...

Bill: new details now on the raid that killed usama bin laden. leaked nsa documents show that the u.s. navy seals were guided by a fleet of satellites that gave them vital information. peter brooks is a former cia officer, senior fellow for national security affairs at the heritage foundation. peter, good morning to you. >> good morning. bill: i think the american fascination with this raid is never ending. >> right. bill: but in this case the only reason we know about this is because of edward ...

Centers. obviously, israel would be a main target for president bashar al assad if he decided to retaliate. the iranians have already promised that tel aviv and israel will burn if there is a strike on syria and, obviously, syria has chemical weapons, so gas masks are in high demand. the other thing were seeing is the israelis are quietly moving around their defensive weapons systems including the iron dome missile defense system, the patriot misis sill defense system and putting their reserve t...

States could potentially take out much of the air force of bashar al assad. is that, is that worth doing, peter? i mean, if you take out his aircraft, maybe crater the runways to prevent them from being used by anything but helicopters, is that worth doing? >> well, the question, jon, is whats the objective? whats your end state? what are you trying to achieve here? you dont want this to be a feel-good exercise. you dont want this to be eye wash, you know, for the obama administrations failed po...

Tools for, of national instruments of national policy. and once again if you dont use them, then, obviously, people will wonder if you ever will use them. so that creates the perception that you may not want to create. jon: peter brooks, senior fellow for national security affairs at the heritage foundation. peter, thank you. >> thanks, jon. alisyn: new developments in a brutal bus beating that was caught on tape last month in florida. the three teenage suspects are appearing in court today, and...

Possible cases could that have happened in. its a very big number. if you look at it in absolute terms, yeah, thats something to be concerned about, but with that out of, you know, the potential of 100 billion cases? alisyn: okay, youre making the same point that president obama made when people were expressing anxiety over this program. >> oh, thanks. alisyn: lets listen to what president obama had to say about the nsa program at his press conference a few days ago. >> all right. >> i am comfor...

Rules and overstepping its authority, but it says, dont worry, it was all an honest mistake. nsa tells fox news, quote: alisyn: peter brooks is a senior fellowr national security affairs at the heritage foundation and a former cia operative. peter, thanks for being here. >> good to be here. alisyn: the disclosures we learned today came from edward snowden sharing them with "the washington post." "the washington post" has now published them, and they are eye-popping. basically, what they have fou...

Bill: what does that say, and i mentioned this fox poll that came out late yesterday, what did you find about america about where were going or where we are? >> thats a great question. i mean, what we found are there are two fundamental american values and intention here. we are a generous people. at the same time, part of the american character is self-reliance and taking care of ones self. a brand new fox poll done for this special shows that weed the question -- we asked the question if someo...