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Know, president zelensky has agreed to hold elections in eastern ukraine. the contested area with russian proxy war going on. without the russian proxy forces with drawing, its an inconceivable he would have agreed do that, which is a concession to russia were we not in this context. he agreed last week. so you can see very, very quickly the reaction of other countries to acknowledge of trumps complete unreliability in the fact that his tweets make him a paper tiger, that he doesnt follow throug...

What happens with bannons power real or perceived if he wins or if he loses? >> they have to see him, but they can excel him, and itll be sure be a hell of a case to do it. in the bannon unit there is a bit of a proxy war going on. its not typical, so i think the normal conservative republican establishment is not that worried about bannons phantom aurally in other places. but here in an alabama primary with a guy like moore, its kind of perfect storm for bannon, and they have power. >> tamara, ...

Vote to expel senator bob packwood in 1995 after nearly three years of investigating sexual harassment claims and other claims against him. and then packwood ultimately resigned right before the senate would have taken a full vote. >> mike, is this all a bannon proxy war? you and i talked about this last time you were on. what happens with bannons power, real or perceived if moore wins, what happens if he loses? just quickly, im not sure if i agree with tamara. they -- it will be a huge politica...

Sexual harassment claims and other claims against him. and then packwood ultimately resigned right before the senate would have taken a full vote. >> mike, is this all a bannon proxy war? you and i talked about this last time you were on. what happens with bannons power real or perceived if he wips or if he loses? >> they have to see him, but they can excel him, and itll be sure ofbe a hell of a case to d it. in the bannon unit there is a bit of a proxy war going on. its not typical, so i think ...

You know, were -- this is the new year. lets make some predictions. the war in syria, the saudis are losing in a sense with the russians coming in. the iranians are fighting there as well as hezbollah and a bunch of iranian officers have just been killed. hezbollah is losing a lot of people, but they are not slowing down. they intend to defeat them. we have this proxy war going on. what were worried about, of course, is a direct conflict between saudi arabia and iran. >> is this conflict that we...

Leland vittert is live in jerusalem with the latest now. leland? >> reporter: and, jenna, this was really the fear, that the syrian civil war, that proxy war going on would spill outside into the neighboring countries, lebanon being one of the prime targets. twin suicide bombs outside of the iranian embassy. remember, the iranians are the top of the triangle here. they support president bashar assad inside syria, they also support the militant group hezbollah that is fighting in syria to help pr...

Made any changes to our force posture to this point. the credible threat of military force has been key to driving diplomatic progress, and its important that the assad regime lives up to its obligations under the framework agreement. so this obviously means the u.s. will keep warships in the region. that is showing the force. is that enough to sink teeth into this to forcibly get the assad regime to comply? >> potentially, but the worry is the regime could use the excuse of a proxy war going on...

Assad regime survive and possibly will result in the death of tens of thousands of more syrians, but also this massive refugee crisis in jordan and turkey. there are even 200,000 syrian refugees in egypt. that is destabilizing all the regimes in the region and send the exact wrong signal to iran. >> weve got a region here that is being, its not only lebanon as you point out and iraq and the rest of the region, youve got a proxy war going on, shia versus sunni. iran engaged so deliberately throug...

>> trace: give me an idea of what other powers are keeping the war going. >> exactly. this is a proxy war going on. russia may be trying to play both sides of the coin. iran is not concerned with diplomatic niceties, theyre supplying most of the weapons to the syrian regime. on the other side, turkey/g:.?un qatar providing money but people are getting scared, especially the western intelligence services, about where the weapons are going and in whose hands theyll fall into the hands of, meaning ...

To try to shape the environment if were really serious about getting rid of this regime. we need to be able to understand who were dealing with. this is critically important for us, jenna, to understand that. then we should understand we should make decisions about what we want to funnel that, whether its information, whether its intelligence, are these people we can deal with, and then, of course, down the road whether we would want to give them weapons. now, some members of congress are callin...