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Reestablish deterrence as a policy, but its not clear if that will continue to work at this point. >> abby at the white house, thank you so much. joining mess is admiral her ling, and robin wright a distinguished fellow and leading expert on iran. >> general, let me start with you, assuming the goal is to avoid war with iran, how does the united states deal with the fact that the iranians shot down a drone? >> its going to be very complex and very complicated to figure that out, jake. many of ...

Arraigning ships and at one point believing that iranian plane was flying overhead shot down an arabian passenger aircraft that killed all 290 people on board so the dangers of a reef lagging or a u.s. military intervention on behalf of tankers could well get far more complicated conflicts have a way of doing that that they have unintended consequences these are worrying times robin wright from the new yorker magazine thank you so much for joining a doubly thank you. of the world health organiza...

Attacks. no proxy group in the area has the resources or skill to act with this level of sophistication. iran however has the weapons the expertise and the requisite intelligence information to pull this off secretary pump aoe outlined a litany of incidents which i also shared with the council that demonstrate the clear threat that iran poses to international peace and security united states will continue its diplomatic and economic efforts to bring iran to the negotiating table and iran should ...

Attacks. no proxy group in the area has the resources or skill to act with this level of sophistication iran however has the weapons the expertise and the requisite intelligence information to pull this off secretary pompei or outlined a litany of incidents which i also shared with the council that demonstrate the clear threat that iran poses to international peace and security united states will continue its diplomatic and economic efforts to bring iran to the negotiating table and iran should ...

Away territory in effect from u.s. allies. theyve interfered in election, russia has, theyve deployed space assets. what has the american response been? some sanctions here, some sanctions there have not fundamentally changed either countrys behavior. thats a failure by any other definition. >> jim, fascinating book. thank you. robin wright, always a pleasure. >> thank you. next on "gps," the united states is already in a war, a trade war, with china. but what is the end game? ill be back many...

In iran. robin wright is a contributing writer to the new yorker. her book on iran is "the last great revolution." jim sciutto is cnns chief national security correspondent and the author of a terrific new book, "the shadow war: inside russia and chinas secret operation to defeat america." we will get to that, jim. but first, let me ask you, what is going on? it seemed as though the administration, john bolton, the national security adviser, mike pompeo, was setting up a kind of aggressive serie...

But that seems to be from its perspective in chinas national security interests. now to get iran back to he negotiate a nuclear deal that its showing no intention of renegotiating. at least today, trumps approach to all of those issues as well as venezuela appears to have failed. so what is the plan "b"? theyve certainly articulated no tri alternative to trumps policy. the world is left with the consequences of that just not being supported by the facts. >> robin, what do the iranians do? they a...

Look, russias occupying a european country. theyve interfered in election, russia has, they deployed space assets. what has the american response been? some sanctions here and there. have not changed either countrys behavior. thats a failure by any other definition. >> jim, fascinating book, thank you. robin wright, always a pleasure. >> thank you. next on gps, the united states is already in a war -- a trade war with china. but what is the end game, ill be back in a moment to discuss. ♪

This is the most powerful weapon in americas military arsenal, when you think about it. great alarm, and now the president in the span of that time now saying, i dont want war, lets find a way to talk. as happens with so many things in this administration with foreign policy or national security issues or threats, was there any discussion of a broader policy here? was there a consensus built within the administration over this. the fissures have been playing out in the public eye. the presidents...

These questions are on peoples minds all around the world? lets try to get answers from todays guests, both of whom have reported extensively on and in iran. robin wright is a contributing writer to the new yorker. her book on iran is the last great revolution. jim sciutto is the author of a terrific new book "the shadow war" inside russia and chinas secret operation to defeat america. we will get to that but first let me ask you. what is going on, it seemed as though the administration, john bo...