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Well see whether theres appetite to debate and ultimately vote or whether lawmakers prefer to look the other way and allow the commander in chief to do what he feels is necessary. >> live for us on capitol hill tonight. thank you, mike. were getting reaction at this hour there now russia and syria. theyve been called out. iran as well, by this president. what are we hearing tonight? >> yeah, absolutely. we were watching with reaction from the russian government. they claim these strikes are an a...

The prohibition of chemical weapons and fact finding mission and undertaking the required investigation. the team is already in syria. im informed that their operations plan to visit the site is completed and that they are ready to go. i am confident they will have full access without any restrictions or impediments to perform their activity. mr. president, an i allow me to report what i said yesterday-- to repeat what i said yesterday, syria today represents the most threat to international pea...

Fighting proxy wars in yemen, proxy wars in the american press. i mean, it is everywhere you can look, this sort of battle. and the forces that are the most anti-iran are very aligned with jared kushner. we have reporting about attempts to essentially co-opt, to possibly use investment opportunities. do you have concerned essentially theyre watching a sort of successful operation by a foreign government to push the u.s. in one direction? >> well, listen, its hard to imagine this administration b...

Burned down posters of ayatollah khamenei, the supreme leader. that revolutionary guards -- theres a lot going on. >> the trump administration is firmly siding with the protesters. president trump tweeted this morning: "such respect for the people of iran as they try to take back their corrupt government. you will see great support from the united states at the appropriate time!" >> you have a president was spoken unequivocally on behalf of the people, said he stands with them. >> more than 20 a...

Sending agent lets to the olympics next month in south korea. >> heather: north korea not the only area of the world were concerned about right now. also widespread protests in iran. how serious is that getting? >> citing reports, a dozen are dead as a result of protests and an attempt to take military and police installations. protestors say they want more economic opportunity from their government instead of costly proxy wars with saudi arabia, arab states and the west. >> what you see is very...

On that key eastern front between ukraine and russia that it would escalate and i think theres a real theme emerging in national security for 2018. you have the russian proxy wars in places like ukraine and syria. you have iran throughout the middle east and these are the key issues that president trump is going to be facing even as he deals with north korea, what hes dealing with is the influences behind the scene, by russia and china. so you have these security threats all over and then you ha...

Admiral stavridis, she is laying the groundwork. what is it? >> she trying to hold together a shaky coalition of our european ourselves and with the sunni arabs so we can confront iran in all of these capitals, these proxy wars going on in yemen, in syria, in lebanon, and most importantly, i think, in iraq. so shes trying to hold that coalition together. i really disagree with the iranians on this one to try and say this as echoes of pollen powe -- colin powell. this is more substantive in terms...

Just sort of this week basically can president trump contain his anger, you know, contain his frustration through twitter, you know, and public comments, what he has sarah huckabee sanders say about this, and sort of pull back and see what happens. but right now, again, president trumps so invested in, you know, fighting these kind of, like, sort of proxy wars with robert mueller and his team and it doesnt seem to have much upside except to sort of rally the base to his side, which has been, you...

Secretary tillerson is his fatal flaw -- not his fatal flaw but the flaw he sees in the deal it doesnt address iran comprehensively. it takes the nuclear issue out of the broader context of everything else and isolates it. that was a very consciously made decision on the part of the obama administration. they said we wont try to address things that are problematic like their human rights atrocities, the fact they sponsor terrorism, the fact they engage in proxy wars around the middle east. well ...

We now have a commander in chief facing crises in north korea, potentially iran, wars being fought around the world, proxy wars between iran and its enemies. saying calm before the storm could have a whole bunch of foreign policy implications or it could just be as bob corker said a man displaying he lacks the confidence and stability for the job he has. which is it? >> the bar is so low, he gets to say pretty much whatever he wants. i wouldnt discount the idea this week he had a horrible trip t...