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You dont know the real stories from the people who lived the fear and the pressure. until now. >> in the late 70s through the 80s into the 90s all around the world we had proxy wars. lebanon was raging. there were conflicts throughout africa. the iran-iraq war. the break-up of yugoslavia, the break-up of czechoslovakia, those all occurred because someone was willing to sell them weapons. they created havoc. millions of people were killed. if youre one of the top gray and black arms dealers in th...

Fear and the pressure until now. >> in the late 70s through the 80s into the 90s all around the world we had proxy wars. lebanon was raging. there were conflicts throughout africa. the iran-iraq war. the break-up of yugoslavia, the break-up of czechoslovakia, those all occurred because someone was willing to sell them weapons. they created havoc. millions of people were killed. if youre one of the top gray and black arms dealers in the world you can make fortunes by distributing weapons to whate...

Their names. you dont know the real stories from the people who lived the fear and the pressure. until now. >> in the late 70s through the 80s into the 90s all around the world we had proxy wars. lebanon was raging. there were conflicts throughout africa. the iran-iraq war. the break-up of yugoslavia, the break-up of czechoslovakia, those all occurred because someone was willing to sell them weapons. they created havoc. millions of people were killed. if youre one of the top gray and black arms ...

Spawned jihadism still plag iraq, syria and much of the worlds most volatile regions. >> right. and remember this, the nation states are not so far away from these groups. and what youre seeing now in iraq and syria and yemen are these proxy wars. where is going to be the line between the state and the none state actor and how is the west and the international world in general going to respond to this? are they going to take sides or are they going to insist with a very heavy hand ho some kind o...

The russians doing? were they meddling in the elections and the answer is yes, of course. they have been meddling in our elections for generations. go back to the beginning of the 1940s when they spent time and money and effort here in the u.s. trying to influence public opinion to keep us isolationist. this is what they do they were fighting proxy wars in africa and elsewhere against democracy. so my concern is, you know, i think its great that we have a special -- you know, a prosecutor. great...

They fight proxy wars. they do all sorts of things and they are very good at it. does that mean there is collusion? no. you cant swing a dead cat in washington, d.c., without hitting someone when business dealings with the russians were the former soviet union? >> kat: we havent heard anything from him, now he is going on the record in the hearing. >> eboni: were you surprised, aaron, that president trump did not provoke his executive privilege? >> aaron: i think he is doing what has to do. i th...

The region. in other words, pulling out of iraq. the tack too far away by leaving syria to burn and letting everybody including saudi arabia and everybody else wage proxy wars there. this is a chance for saudi arabia to get the president to be on their side and realign the middle east in that region. >> christiane and haroon, thank you. >> you are looking at pictures in jerusalem where the president just touched down. he will get out of marine one shortly. the first foreign trip of his administr...

Health, his mental sharpness, as you say, started the moment that he acceded to the throne but this is quite a long speech. you have to imagine this is beyond having the ears of the american president, this is an audience among saudis and really for the region there. vali nasr, if you could help characterize the level of tension now between iran and saudi arabia. theyre fighting two proxy wars in syria and yemen. what are the chances of actual direct conflict? >> if you listen to what the saudi ...

>> sean: bill clinton was so wrong about north korea and they got nuclear weapons on present obama was so wrong about the redlined, to me it makes sense if you have the country thats the number one state sponsor of terror that repeatedly says they want to wipe your country off the map and also fire weapons of the united states, burn the american flight, the israeli flag. >> they nearly assassinated the saudi ambassador in downtown washington, d.c., thats iran. >> sean: theyre fighting multiple p...

>> sean: bill clinton was so wrong about north korea and they got nuclear weapons on present obama was so wrong about the redlined, to me it makes sense if you have the country thats the number one state sponsor of terror that repeatedly says they want to wipe your country off the map and also fire weapons of the united states, burn the american flight, the israeli flag. >> they nearly assassinated the saudi ambassador in downtown washington, d.c., thats iran. >> sean: theyre fighting multiple p...