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Two u.s. officials, to me thats pretty risky. 5 feet is my height. thats not a lot. >> greg said it, russia is playing both sides right now. its a proxy war, who will dominate the middle east. united states and saudi arabia, or russia and iran? they play both sides, they will help us fight isis while they same time fight syria and iran, talking out of both sides of their mouth. we care about fighting isis, but there will be this big power vacuum. everyone is trying to claim territory after we de...

Aircraft. two u.s. officials, to me thats pretty risky. 5 feet is my height. thats not a lot. >> greg said it, russia is playing both sides right now. its a proxy war, who will dominate the middle east. united states and saudi arabia, or russia and iran? they play both sides, they will help us fight isis while they same time fight syria and iran, talking out of both sides of their mouth. we care about fighting isis, but there will be this big power vacuum. everyone is trying to claim territory a...

And this race, it was a bit of a jump ball. you had two people running against each other. karen handel said shed support the proposal. it allowed the two sides to run a proxy war where ossoff was running -- and the midterms i theng youre going to have an opportunity where youll have democrats running oen a platform uniquely taylored to their district and on their incumbents voting record. i really do think here that you have to tip your cap that the congressional leadership fund did in propping...

There could spread into something bigger. moscow and washington have been fighting a kind of proxy war in that country. might not take much to determine that into something much bigger, especially considering the u.s. shot down an aircraft this week and russia with some a pair -- apparent retailation. more coming up. stay with us. i know if the pain comes, im not gonna get my job done. pains kind of self-defining. when it hurts, it hurts. when i cant do something, it makes me feel isolated. with...

Find itself in a proxy war not just with russia but also iran. a day after a u.s. navy f-18 fighter jet down to a russian-made syrian warplane, russian officials warned u.s. and coalition warplanes operating over syrian government controlled areas would be tracked as potential targets. >> translator: we call on everybody to avoid unilateral actions, to respect syrias sovereignty and to join our work which is coordinated with the syrian government. >> russian defense ministry said it would no lon...

Bombs near u.s. forces. because of the new warning, neither the united states or anybody else will take any action to threaten russian aircraft. today a pentagon spokesman fired back said that we dont seek conflict with any party in syria other than isis, but we will not hesitate to defend ourselves or our partners if threatened. here we go. the next level rhetorically. jennifer griffin has some explaining. hello, jen. >> hi, shepard. it looks like the u.s. is inching its way to a proxy war with...

If youre in sagas, massachusetts, youll see that. we dont know what the motive is or how police have responded in accord with that. the story broke at 8:30 local time. one could argue the mall may not have been open for the day. were trying to piece this together and work through it and see how much there is cause for alarm today. >> shannon: good number of people wasnt high and theyre staying away. in the meantime still ahead a warning for russia. one they have for the u.s. has the u.s. started...

>> this is the first example weve had to do it. we are trying to equip in a way that will help. this is a way that sends a message not only to russia and to assad. well defend the people on the ground. no more chemical weapons. >> shannon: do you worry about it being a proxy war, iran, u.s. and russia involved. a lot of powers in that region involved. >> it is confused. iran firing missiles over the weekend. six or seven factions in there. terrorists, hamas, hezbollah, a very confused battle spa...

Very close vote in the senate, a bipartisan vote later this week that may result in the senate objecting to that arms sale. the dispute between the gcc and the qataris, i think its an important one to understand the subtleties here. the u.s. is making a mistake on going all in on the sunni side, the saudi side of this proxy war between iran and saudi arabia. the qataris, they are not perfect actors. they do support some pretty bad people in the region. they also try to be an intermediary between...

Reaction coming in from saudi arabia where the president began his trip and it comes as u.s. forces carried out a raid across the border from the kingdom into yemen. bret baier, the anchor of "special report" is they are and has this special report. >> im standing along the border between saudi arabia and yemen. this place has seen a lot of action in recent days. the saudis are using artillery fire to repel the militias who are attacking watchtowers here along the border. this is a serious threa...