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Dont have as much information as the congressman or the general but i believe there is a credible threat from iran and it is appropriate for us to move these ships into the gulf and other forces to prepare for iran and deter iran. there is a real threat. this is what iran does. when is unhappy with something the us does it engages in retaliation but doesnt retaliate head on. it uses its proxy forces and engages in terrorism and other things to strike civilian targets. one of our targets are pers...

Proxy forces, iranian-backed forces that both bill and ali were talking about that this country is surrounded by those kind of forces not least hezbollah in lebanon which has 130,000 estimated rockets able to fire into israel and defeat israels rocket defenses. so this game of brinksmanship is very real for the israelis and at the same time, the israeli government benjamin netanyahu is a catalyst for what is happening because as the israeli government sees it and members. >> president trumps adm...

Southwestern iran was attacked. this video coming in to cnn just minutes ago. [ gunfire ] >> a governor there told local media that terrorists disguised themselves as islamic revolutionary guard members. a military spokesman says that the attackers were connected to a saudi arabian terror group. secretary of state mike pompeo has a warning for iran saying the country will be held accountable for any attacks on u.s. forces even by proxy forces. he sat down with cnns elise labbot. >> we have tol...

Regime that could only serve to under cut our work for the american people and told them to wait out the trump administration. >> and yesterday he responded to the bill maher show. >> its the first president i know of who spends more time reading his twitter likes than his briefing books or the constitution of the nights. >> kerry also responded to the presidents tweet with one of his own, saying he should be more worried about paul manafort than his meeting with the iranians and he included a p...

>> i will note the double standard is all too common in this chamber and working overtime today. last week iranian forces attacked small positions -- sorry, last week iranian forces attacked israeli positions on the golan heights by launching rockets from syria. this was a reckless provocation and escalation that must be stopped. it is an example of regional violence that should occupy our attention here in the security council. also last week, iranian proxy forces in yemen launched missiles int...

Of israel. the new iranian base is located near syrias capital and operated by the special operations arm of irans islamic revolutionary guard. these images show the two new white hangars roughly 20 by 30 yards used to house short and medium-range missiles, a similar iranian base in syria was destroyed by the israeli military in december. on capitol hill the top u.s. military commander in the middle east said iran has ramped up its support to its proxy forces in syria and yemen since the nuclear...

Our u.s. intelligence agencies that russia meddled in the 2016 election which, of course, remains the subject of much investigation in washington. but secretary of state rex tillerson, speaking in vienna this week, cited another issue entirely. >> in syria we can have differences in other areas, but when one country invades another, that is a difference that is hard to look past. or to reconcile. and weve made this clear to russia from the very beginning, that we must address ukraine. it stands ...

End of the cold war. meantime the kremlin responded angrily today to the new u.s. military strategy released by the chairman of the joint chiefs calling it quote confrontation stall. >> since the last national military strategy was published four years ago, global disorder has trended upward while some of our comparative advantages have begun to erode. >> reporter: russia is mentioned seven times in the 24-page strategy even more than isis. quote russia does not respect the sovereignty of its ne...

Accept these changes, but you have to. and the country has moved forward as a unit. >> the more things change the more one thing stays the same. the need for american heroes willing to put it all on the line on the front lines of combat. >> it doesnt matter how many bombs you drop or how much -- how powerful your air force is. unless you have boots on the ground there, thats the only way to hold terrain. >> were using proxy forces. were using drones smaller footprint. you think that can work for...

Jeremy scahill, also the author of the book, dirty wars, the world is a battlefield. this looks amazing. lets start, first of all, with the book. and what, you know, the overall unveiling is in the book. what we dont know about whats going on around the world and what were trying to carry out. >> this book tells the story of how a very popular democratic president barack obama who by trade is a constitutional lawyer expanded some of the most egregious secretive aspects around the world expanding...