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trump corner. hello and welcome to to the point i m brian thomas thanks so much for dropping in today these are my guests to talk about our issue suzanne coble works for the weekly dish beagle she just came back from saudi arabia where she reported about those attacks she s convinced trump s policy of maximum pressure generated maximum counterpressure. all the fertility job is iran expert at the brookings institution in doha he believes iran seems to have overplayed its thus far well calculated strategy of task. and rick no act as a correspondent for the washington post here in berlin he says trump s so far hasn t in response. they both reflect concerns over
a similar situation exaggerations or do you think this is more credible to be honest it s a little hard to tell what we re dealing with here because it did seem to appear somewhat out of nowhere about a week ago we had a scheduled visit from secretary of state mike pompei 02 berlin which was called off at the last minute so that the secretary of state could travel to iraq to meet with counterparts there to discuss what the administration said were credible threats of iranian proxies planning an attack on u.s. resources and military assets in the region we saw a very quick movement of u.s. military assets to the region and all the sudden we re in this tit for tat moment of escalation between the iranians and the americans and yet when u.s. officials such as mike pompei i have tried to make the case of credible evidence to european officials. it s been met with increasing skepticism exactly rick no act europeans definitely pushing back on this point even
a similar situation exaggerations or do you think this is more credible to be honest it s a little hard to tell what we re dealing with here because it did seem to appear somewhat out of nowhere about a week ago we had a scheduled visit from secretary of state mike pump aoe to berlin which was called off at the last minute so that the secretary of state could travel to iraq to meet with counterparts there to discuss what the administration said were credible threats of iranian proxies planning an attack on u.s. resources and military assets in the region with very quick movement of u.s. military assets to the region and all the sudden we re in this tit for tat moment of escalation between the iranians and the americans and yet when u.s. officials such as mike pompei i have tried to make the case of credible evidence to european offish. ells it s been met with increasing skepticism exactly rick no act europeans definitely pushing back on this point even
city tonight the investigation is in full throttle at the same time new zealand s leaders are reaching out to the victims their friends and families and a damaged community while the nation great pose with a form of grief and anger that we have not experienced before we are seeking answers we are all we can to give the to give says it s quickly as we can and as i said in my opening statements if there was any suggestion that these individuals should have been known to us we are looking into that as we spake algy she was to keep everyone who is in new zealand of course and zealand sayf they has not occurred here so questions must be on since. we understand that the perpetrator in christchurch was motivated by right wing extremism to talk about them george at the big table by rick no act he s a journalist with the washington post who writes about security issues as well as foreign affairs and you also reported from new zealand for