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Pursued malign influence in all regions of the world to mitigate their inferior conventional capability. russia has a growing and demonstrated capacity and willingness to exercise maligned influence in europe and abroad including in the united states. quote, countering russian gray zone efforts are not specific to just the u.s. defense department, but must be part of a whole of u.s. government effort that leveraging all elements of u.s. national power. russias gray zone tactics are most effectiv...

Chris: now, thats the same offer he made to north korea, that if they gave up their nuclear weapons, that he would turn them into an economic -- or help them become an economic powerhouse. do you really think that repressive regimes like north korea and iran are going to give up their nuclear ambitions in return for the blessings of western capitalism? >> chris, id probably hear hear to what ronald reagan once said about the soviet union, trust but verify. the presidents policy as outlined by se...

Chris: now, thats the same offer he made to north korea, that if they gave up their nuclear weapons, that he would turn them into an economic -- or help them become an economic powerhouse. do you really think that repressive regimes like north korea and iran are going to give up their nuclear ambitions in return for the blessings of western capitalism? >> chris, id probably hear hear to what ronald reagan once said about the soviet union, trust but verify. the presidents policy as outlined by se...

Chris: now, thats the same offer he made to north korea, that if they gave up their nuclear weapons, that he would turn them into an economic -- or help them become an economic powerhouse. do you really think that repressive regimes like north korea and iran are going to give up their nuclear ambitions in return for the blessings of western capitalism? >> chris, id probably hear hear to what ronald reagan once said about the soviet union, trust but verify. the presidents policy as outlined by se...

Proxy forces in the area as well. >> thank you, fred. joining mess is senator ben cardin of maryland. nor, have you been briefed on the latest intel? is there definitive proof it was shot down with the pentagon says it was shot down, as opposed to where the iranians say it was shot down? >> jake, good to be with us. we were briefed earlier in the week. theres no question that iran is the bad actor. theyre the ones doing these things against international norms, violating international agreemen...

Damning but its not accepted by much of the world and so i think there will be an ongoing investigation that a lot of countries will be interested in in seeing further details if you run was behind these attacks why would they why wouldnt they say. well iran has often engaged in attacks with plausible deniability that was true in some of the attacks by its proxy forces whether in iraq lebanon or afghanistan the one big question of course is why would this have happened against a japanese tanker ...

Damning but its not accepted by much of the world and so i think there will be an ongoing investigation that a lot of countries will be interested in in seeing further details if you run was behind these attacks why would they why wouldnt they say so. well iran has often engaged in attacks with plausible deniability that was true and some of the attacks by its proxy forces whether in iraq or lebanon or afghanistan theyre one big question of course is why would this have happened against a japane...

Collapse. they collapsed the government when the prime minister was in the oval office. iran backed proxy and lebanon did this. if its confirmed its iran. >> whether its iran or its proxy forces. across the board, they denied they had any responsibility on all of this. but the big question is, if there was any involvement from iran. why? >> i think its directly because the ramp up of u.s. sanctions. i think the administration is going to continue to further ramp those sanctions up. >> but iran h...

Anythings happened or will happen, but if it does, it will be met, obviously, with great force. well have no choice. >> irans foreign minister said the country doesnt want to provoke a war, but will hold its ground. >> there will be painful consequences for everybody if there is an escalation against iran. thats for sure. the united states is engaging in economic warfare. it has to stop. iran is not interested in escalation. we have said very clearly that we will not be the party to begin escala...

Tells cnn new images show. its this intelligence thats partly behind the increased tension between the trump administration and iranian leaders. but could those movements have actually been a reaction to the united states? the "wall street journal" is reporting this morning that irans leaders believed it was the united states that was preparing to attack them. and so they were preparing. that is a potentially catastrophic misunderstanding if that is the case. where do things stand between washin...