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Were following multiple breaking stories this hour including the new reporting on the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. right now, the secretary of state mike pompeo is issuing a new threat, a new threat to iran. our global affairs correspondent, elise, sat down with him for an interview. he had tough words for iran and for one of his own predecessors, john kerry. >> thats right. secretary pompeo told me he does not believe a former secretary of state should be advising americas greatest e...

Interests will not prevent us from responding against the prime actor. >> a direct threat from the secretary of state against iran, after a pair of rocket attacks hit u.s. facilities in iraq, allegedly by iranian-backed militias. >> we will not let iran get away with using a proxy force to attack an american interest. iran will be held accountable for those incidents. >> even militarily? >> theyre going to be held accountable. if theyre responsible for the arming and training of these militias, ...

Create a moderate sunni opposition on the ground? isis -- assad and russia have been bombing the heck out of the moderate opposition. assads brutality has created a radicalizing dynamic. al qaeda and isis have a huge stronghold there. you need to beat them back and create a better proxy force on the ground. easier said than done. >> shannon: good to see you both. thank you. >> bill: one of the big messages in italy before he flew to moscow was our own national u.s. interests and what tillerson t...

Friction, and then rhetoric, and then the action/reaction die nam sxik we dont know where it leads. >> jeremy, you mentioned yemen. you and i have talked about this off line. yemen fits into this puzzle. most americans probably arent paying a whole lot of attention whatsappening in yemen, although we know a navy s.e.a.l. was killed there in an operation over last weekend. how does that fit with whats happening with iran? >> everyone needs to watch this space because yemen is where i think the ac...

Potentially these could get assistance as well and pressure isis to its western front, around a town called marea as well. the biggest question is who precisely are they assisting who arent the kurdish ypg forces? the phrase syrian arab coalition, thats used here a lot. we really dont know what groups there are. you have to remember, the u.s. tried for nearly every year, spent half a billion dollars to train rebelles, a proxy force. that failed. they got 55 together. they had to scrap the plan a...

The world was outraged by the american militarys recent bombing of a hospital in the half began city. president obama personally apologized to the head of doctors without borders which ran the hospital and offered condolences to afghanistans president. did you hear about a much worse air strike last month when a wedding party was struck, killing 131 people. a few days later another wedding was hit killing more than 20 others accordi ining to local officials. these were sites in yemen. to refresh...

World segment." the world was outraged by the american militarys recent bombing of a hospital in the afghan city of kunduz. president obama apologized to the hospital and offered condolences to afghanistans president. did you hear about a much worse air strike last month when a wedding party was struck killing 131 people? few days later, another wedding was hit killing more than 20 others according to local officials. these were strikes in yemen, the site of a massive saudi air campaign. to refr...

Of a subset of the sunni sec. when you look at iran, iran is shia dominated. it has the proxy force of hezbollah, south lebanon. we know hezbollah has been operating in syria fighting alongside assads forces against militant jihadists of the sunni sect. so there is only one real sunni extremist organization in iran. the cia and the fbi know about this organization, but it will be interesting to see how this plays out in terms of what this chaps motives were. what his motives were in terms of why...

Likely that the pakistani government knew about bin laden. what do you think pakistans role will be once we start pulling out? theyre going to try to fill that vacuum probably. >> i think its already clear theyre determined to see a resurgence of the taliban. theyre supporting them. theyre encouraging them. theres been a spade of attacks. i was in kabul two days ago. we had suicide bombing almost every day that i was there in the last week. and thats all coming from pakistan. theyre all going in...