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Imagine national security adviser bolton is considering is not just how maduro will respond to enhanced aggression by the united states but how vladimir putin is going to respond to aggression. there are russian assets in venezuela right now, along with cuban ones, that are propping up nicolas maduro and so as we think about what other options may be on the table, the military option, that the president and john bolton have thrown around which frankly has no legal standing. more aggressive cover...

South carolina. kamala harris seems to be resonating in south carolina. but its so early. and a lot of south carolina voters are not even paying attention really yet. youre seeing some of the insiders pay attention. youre seeing folks start gravitating to who theyre going to work for on staff level but the fact shes getting this large of crowd in february 2019 is pretty impressive. >> one other thing. trek back to monday which seems now like seven months ago, but there were dueling rallies in el...

Proxy conflict. we saw this kind of thing in latin america all throughout the cold war, but frankly, we have seen it in the middle east, we have seen it in europe, we have seen it in asia, weve seen it all around the world, including in the post-cold war period. basically, you have the nominal sitting government of maduro, this is a successor to hugo chavez in venezuela, which is being backed with russia and china, with money, with weapons, politically and diplomatically. the united states has s...

You can find. if you called central casting and you said get me a career civil servant whos just going to -- sergeant joe friday. just give them the facts as she sees them and is going to be straight thats what she would be. let me say, joe, if you couple the presidents tweet on iran as he calls iran as testing rockets and getting very close to the edge and you put that against the backdrop of what his national security advisors have been saying, the speeches of the secretary of state have been ...

Mike: military base inside saudi arabia appears to be testing and possibly manufacturing ballistic missiles. that according to experts in satellite images. such a move could raise tensions in the region between saudi arabia and iran. kitty he logan has more from london. >> reporter: there are unverified reports about a new possible ballistic missile test in saudi arabia. experts say that satellite images show evidence of a missile test site. the concern is that if saudi arabia is developing long...

Eastern, dont miss it. mike: military base inside saudi arabia appears to be testing and possibly manufacturing ballistic missiles. that according to experts in satellite images. such a move could raise tensions in the region between saudi arabia and iran. kitty he logan has more from london. >> reporter: there are unverified reports about a new possible ballistic missile test in saudi arabia. experts say that satellite images show evidence of a missile test site. the concern is that if saudi ar...

And according to these reports, the satellite images appear the show buildings large enough to hold ballistic missiles. and experts say they show evidence of missile tests. now, some types of ballistic missiles can reach thousands of miles which is a worry for regional stability. saudi arabia has been fighting in yemen in support of the ousted official government there for the past three years. this long-running conflict has effectively become a proxy war with iran. iran backing the the houthi r...

Experts say it shows a military base deep inside the kingdom, testing and possibly manufacturing what appears to basketbalbepartly sunny ballist. kitty logan has more. >> reporter: these are new unverified reports about a possible test site to the west t of riad. the satellite images appear to show buildings large enough to hold missiles. also, the experts who have seen the images say they show evidence of missile tests. the concern is that if these ballistic missiles which do have a long range,...

The region. kitty logan has more now from london. reporter: settled images appear to show the saudi arabia may be testing ballistic missiles. expose this evidence of a new test site to the west. the concern is that if saudi arabia is developing long-range ballistic missiles, theres a potential of regional stability. saudi arabia has been in support of the official government in yemen for three years. this has turned into a proxy war with iran. iran backing the rebels fighting the government. the...

And want to continue his reign down there. >> the trump administration is doing the right thing here and as they map it just showed doing it in conjunction with a lot of other nations being very multilateral which the president is confused often of not being and also doing it in clear opposition to russia which the president is also accused of not doing very much. the united states is in the right position here. >> this feels like an old-school proxy war where you have traditional u.s. enemies t...