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Government officials, including the head ol security council a visit during another moment of inflamed tensions following suspected iranian attacks on oil tankers and irans shootdown of an american military drone back then he shared with me this warning >> translator: in the case of war, the u.s. will be in a very terrible situation. >> reporter: will iran use asymmetric warfare? >> translator: iran has multiple instruments at hand, including the proxy war. >> reporter: a reference to iranian-ba...

Needs to be viewed in a broader context. if they are saying we need to show politics and everything else, we know they have done so with authoritarian regimes like pakistan and turkey who have asked them to take down information. they have some of these tools. they have quoted themselves in free speech arguments, mark zuckerberg said facebook began to protest the iraq war. i was not there, i dont think thats true. its a justification not just about the political ads but every ad thats on there. ...

The other issue that i am very concerned about is russia. russia entered the game in 2015. controlling the skies for president bashar al assad and they were the bombers and the ones who bombed the hospitals, schools, civilians and in aleppo and in homs and in currently idlib as well as the iranians who controlled the ground. and now with trump pulling out, and with him saying that this is not going to be our game anymore, and we are handing the ball over to president putin. this means that he is...

She also left the administration in august, and so she is free to give testimony and to give it freely. another thing about her, according to a source, is that she was unaware, however, of much of the dealings and the controversy the on going controversy regarding the ukraine scandal, but what democrats are going to want to know is what would be the impact of holding up that military aid to ukraine, being in a proxy war with russia? what was -- who was mind the decision-making process going into...

And kind of internal politics of ukraine straight. when youre there, it is just so clear that what guiliani was doing was basically smearing some of the most devoted anticorruption figures in ukraine because of a very corrupt prosecutor who has a grudge against them. >> im curious. how does this story look to folks in ukraine? what are you hearing from people? how is it playing over there? >> first of all, theyre quite frightened about being dragged into the middle of american domestic politics ...

Good allies. >> shepard: at the bodys civil war in syria has been going on for more than eight years now. and it has been become the breeding ground for a proxy war between russia, iran and the united states and turkey. and u.s. troops have been fighting side-by-side for those kurds against the islamic state. turkeys president has demanded 20-mile buffer zone of sorts along the border, and that follows turkeys invasion. thats a quote a idea and adding that he does not want the united states to f...

On life. i like president trump, ive tried to help him. this to me is unnerving to its core. >> shepard: former ambassador to united nations, nikki nikki haley tweeted, leawe must alway have the backs of our allies, if we expect them to have our back. it is a proxy war between the united states and russia. along with iran and turkey. just one goal in syria, that was defeat the islamic state, both russia and iran have been popping up in the bloody dictatorship of assad, who kills his own people w...

Forces in northern syria and at the same time the united states will be trying to work with turkey to create that safe zone for the civilians that complex situation in the middle east as this part of the milings east does continue to deteriorate. arthel. >> very complicated because then question becomes does that put us in a proxy war and which would not be good and then also hopefully do you know if there are any back door or backline conversations happening right now to try to prevent this fro...

Into a proxy war with turkey, i mean, theyre going to be fighting u.s. back kurds? >> thats a great question. i dont think so. both the united states and turkey have a re-- many reasons to prevent this from becoming -- a conflict to our country from turk fish side they bought that s is 400 missile system that subjects turkey on paper, to sanctions under what is called counteramerica threats to sanctions act. giving the president a menu of 16 different sanctions he can impose on turkey and he had...

Allied troops in yemen responsible for the killing civilians its assassinated a journalist. suppresses of course women and is a world leader in executions so many are asking why should the west be allied with saudi arabia. the world has a responsibility to ensure the safety and security of this region to ensure and to deter iran from engaging in aggressive behavior by saudi arabia and sold from the grandson the journalist jamal khashoggi lived in exile in the us and was visiting the saudi embass...