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The things i was very impressed with is one of the introductions by sam nunn, a former democrat, somebody who did a lot of history in arms control and realizes important how dialogue is. we have so dumped down and simplified this whole idea of whether tillerson would be a friend of russia and all that. we want dialogue and engagement and the one thing that sam nunn mentioned you know what, in the deepest darkest throes of the cold war when we were at great odds with the soviet union and when w...

The british foreign secretary is headed to saudi arabia. boris johnston may receive a chilly reception following rather undiplomatic remarks he made about the uk ally. >> thats why youve got international -- youve got the saudis, iran, everybody, moving in and puppeteering and playing proxy wars and it is a tragedy to watch it. we need to have some way of encouraging visionary leadership in that area, people who can tell a story, that brings people together, from different factions and different...

He called saudi arabia -- accused saudi arabia, rather, of engaging in proxy wars and a puppeteering. take a look at what he has to say. >> thats what youve got, the saudis, iran, everybody moving in and puppeteering and playing proxy wars and its a tragedy to watch it. we need to have -- we need to have some way of encouraging visionary leadership in that area. people who can tell a story that brings people together from different factions and different religious groups into one nation. >> repo...

Cuba. the bay of pigs invasion failed. now in about the soviets camp, castro in 1962 invited moscow to secretly place nuclear missiles on the island. discovery of the missiles led to a 13 day standoff between the u.s. and soviet union. nuclear war appeared imminent until the soviets agreed to remove the weapons. castro and the u.s. would remain engaged in proxy wars as the cuban leader tried to foment socialist revolutions around the world. for many, the failed soviet style economic policies mad...

On the island. discovery of the missiles led to a 13-day standoff between the u.s. and soviet union. nuclear war appeared imminent until the soviets agreed to remove the weapons. castro in & the u.s. would remain engaged in proxy wars as the cuban leader tried to permit socialist revolutions around the world. for many cubans, u.s. trade embargo and soviet file economic policies made life intolerable. communism was the only ideology permitted on the island. critics of the government faced lengthy...

U.s. invasion with the bay of pigs. now cuba invited moscow to secretly place nuclear weapons the island. discovery of the missiles led to a 13-day standoff and nuclear war appeared eminent until the soviets agreed to remove the weapons. remained enganled in proxy wars. for many cubans the -- made life intolerable. communism is the only ideology permitted on the island. and in 1980 declared that anybody who wanted to could leave on a boat to the u.s. nearly over 1,000 cubans took his offer. crip...

Saudi arabias foreign policy warning the kingdom take additional measures if they continue to escalate tensions in the region. what the ongoing feud means for the u.s., former white house middle east advisor, ambassador ginsburg, talk about what this means for the region in particular for u.s. efforts coordinate ig the u.s. response to try to take out isis. >> good morning. well, you have essentially the two sunni and shiite super powers, saudi arabia being the super sunni power, and iran being ...

Cnns senior international correspondent nick paton walsh live in beirut with the latest, hitting them in the wallet. nick? >> reporter: commercial damage certainly, flights being canceled. saudi removing its ambassador and embassy from tehran, other allies following suit, too. they are trying to de-escalate the situation, get some sense of peace back in here. this may be paying off one of the key short-term issues that the u.s. so badly needs saudi arabia and iran to try to cooperate. remember, ...

Militia. they had only just begun to talk, you know, it was a few week ago i think the foreign minister sat down around the stable for the first time and now they have cut off relations, cut off flights. the saudis got people in the governments to cut off relations so all of a sudden i think its two big steps backward for one step forward. >> they are not going to end up fighting each other directly. that would seem unlikely. how does this play out? does it become sort of a cold war? does it con...

Purposely killed this cleric, saudi arabia, to inflame iran. i disagree with that. they killed this -- executed this cleric, sentenced in 2014 with a whole bunch of al qaeda fighters. and this was a domestic political issue for them. they had this problem, they just went through elections. that upset the salafice. thats how we got to where we are. whats happening is, iran, now that they have new cash from the iranian deal is engaged in proxy wars, theyve upped their game in yemen and upped their...