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Can happen. so, a process started and we started to negotiate. what turkey is getting now is theyre not going to have to kill millions of people, and millions of people arent going to have to kill them. >> the president of the united states toeing the turkish line here and saying "cleaned out." what does that mean, "cleaned out"? >> well, i think it was astonishing that he talked about the turks not having to kill -- >> kill anybody. people having to kill them. go on. >> which is genocide, ethni...

They should do it. we will support them, and they should pay. but if thats what hes going to do, then he cannot -- exactly as you say, hes in a corner. if he keepingen ins on upping pressure, the iranians will retaliate especially since they see he will not use force against them. he has to decide now maximum pressure isnt working i.s only driving him into a situation that he has to choose a military retaliation orca pitchlation to iran yan demand. he needs to go back to the negotiating table, u...

Biden has done things embarrassing to the president. thats an old story when we talk about kids and candidates. indeed its true of president trump as well. there appears to be evidence from an inside whiesle blower, not a partisan on the campaign trail, that trump in fact asked a foreign government to investigate one of his political opponents. that, if true, is inviting a foreign government to intervene in our domestic politics on behalf of the president. that is a very serious offense. but tha...

Towards iran. in the art of war, he writes the victo defeat is all but guaranteed with a leader that is reckless, mur do you recall and prideless. timely analysis from the sixth century b.c. read my washington post column this week. and lets get started. lets bring in todays panel. there is much to discuss. the director of policy plans at the state department. robin wright is a contributing writer for the new yorker. shes one of the worlds foremost reporters on the middle east. and martin has ...

North, yemen is the opposite direction. cant be yemen. i asked, how are you trying to find out where the point of origin, where these were fired from? he wouldnt get into detail but he did say these devices carry gps devices for tracking. essentially they can follow the data bread crumbs back inside those devices to figure out where they came from. but he also said that the iranians even while the saudis have got these devices in their hands are trying to scrub the data remotely from these gpss....

The problem in july was zarif was demanding relief immediately from some of the u.s. sanctions. and the sense among the iranians was they didnt want to just give trump a big photo opportunity. a tremendous image of the iranian foreign minister in the oval office for the first time in decades but not get anything concrete from the u.s. there was a fear zarif told my colleague robin wright this was going to be another big photo opportunity similar to the north korea negotiations that wouldnt reall...

Ambassador nick burns. i want to read a quotation from robin wright. writing for the new yorker. about conversations about what has or hasnt happened in the neighborhood. she writes in dealing with the islamic republic, the challenge is finding the key to break the eye for an eye cycle. iranians have a long history and long memories. what is your read of whats happening here? and whats your best counsel of how to break that cycle? david, i think this is actually a serious crisis in the gulf and ...

So i wouldnt be surprised if the president got a more specific estimate, but thats sort of a tactical decision. what i found most striking about the tweet he sent out was his argument that he had time, and that he was putting more sanctions in place. because what that tells you is that they essentially believe that the sanctions that they now have, which have begun to cut irans oil revenues down to zero or closer to zero will over time choke off the iranian economy and force the iranians to act....

And talk show hosts. you really have to get the experts in the room to tell you whats going on and what the potentially repercussions are. i havent heard a lot of talk about advice from the chairman of the joint chiefs, who has the war plans and contingency operations and what might be done. all ive heard about so far on air is about the competing demands of the war hawks versus the peace-niks within the administration, thats not the way to do a process to develop a strategy for iran. >> robin, ...

>> i dont, not without some hard work behind it. this is not a reality show or a teaser moment, jake. this is something that requires some good hard work, diplomatic action, some information. your comment to robin a second ago about how we are perceived, we are not being as transparent as we should be. we are not using the power of information. we are not using our allying to help us on this. we are reacting in a knee-jerk reaction format. thats unfortunate. we are not trusted as much as we were...