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Today. Secretary of state Antony Blinken meeting with the chinese counterpart and then chinas Foreign Minister has a sitdown with President Biden. Were monitoring that today. First, however, want to get to this now. The center of israel and its commercial capital under attack again. A rocket fired out of gaza slamming into an Apartment Building in tel aviv. Thats where we start. Good morning, everybody. Its friday. Youve almost made it, america. Im bill hemmer. Welcome back, aishah in washington...

Engage in ongoing discussions. >> martha: your thoughts. >> well, the iran nuclear deal came up short. lots of democrats didnt support it, including senator chuck schumer because of the nuclear sunset clauses, because of irans ballistic missile program as well as iran state sponsorship of terrorism. the biden administration they could get to those issues after we deal with the nuclear agreement. that is a fallacy. if you look at the attacks on our personnel in iraq and syria, which has required ...

The head of u.s. central command general frank mackenzie is in the region trying to form a coalition of allied navy vessels to escort the vessels through the strait of hormuz. julie. >> julie: thank you very much. lets bring in daniel. thank you for talking to us. a lot of moving here. iran shoots down a month ago. and then u.s. reports it shot down iranian drone which iran denies. the deputy foreign minister claims that the u.s. actually potentially shot down one of its own drones, which is dou...

There is a lot of crosstalk publicly. what do you think is at play here? >> the first key point that i would make is that this administration has showed extraordinary restraint in the face of black male and shooting down our drone, using their proxy militants to launch attacks, including against that has enabled us -- that very flawed iranian nuclear deal, the nature of the iranian threat, but some space domestically, where we can bring democrats and republicans together. which is essential to a...

They have 20 to 60 weapons. a ballistic missile is capable of targeting the homeland. iran is nowhere near that level. they are an aspiring nuclear power. north korea provided missile technology and sold arms to yemen and libya. the iranians are a state sponsor of terrorism supporting proxy militants in lebanon, iraq and bahrain. there are key differences but they represent significant threats. heather: one of the elements released from their sources is one part of the tentative deal being discu...

Superior. what the iranians mean, they will fight with us a symmetric warfare. thats cyber attacks. they have done that on our banks. they attack routinely our defense firms to steal missiles and other technology for their space program. they also mount attacks using their proxy militants in places like lebanon and iraq. they would take those actions against us. they also launched an attack in paris when the mayor, mayor giuliani was making a speech at the mek rally. that was to demonstrate to u...

Cargo because they couldnt get insurance from the petroleum company, that is putting pressure on iran. we need to pressure them in other places, proxy militants. remember, they are going to counter with symmetric war fare of their own. >> harris: worlds largest state sponsor of terror. jessica, nothing more in this administration and trump administration juxtaposition than their position on iran. how do you think democrats feel about this current pressure campaign when it looks like the iranian ...