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Invariably in the 100-year quest weve seen for intervention, its always set back the iranian peoples aspirations. the 1953 intervention to unseat the democratically elected prime minister mossadegh is the prime example. the government itself so far, were not seeing any signs of panic. certainly a tremendous amount of discontent and protests that look very different from with an we saw in 2009. this is coming from the smaller cities that have not reached tehran yet, a class that is usually seen a...

And the other five members of the team negotiated with iran for this historic nuclear deal have said theyre going to stick to it. that includes britain, germany, china, france and russia. >> mike pompeo also made a speech and that seemed to outline and reemphasize what robin is saying. this is a new policy toward iran. >> we do have new policy, walking away from the jc -- the president and secretary pompeo have said they want to have new negotiations with the islamic republic. certainly much of ...

Said the war between two nations would be the mother of all wars. president trump, of course, responded late that night with a tweet that said, in all caps, never, ever threaten the united states again, or you will suffer consequences the like of which few throughout history have ever suffered before. irans foreign minister responded similarly, in all caps, color us unimpressed. and the leader of irans powerful force threatened thursday if trump began a war, it would be iran that ended it. tough...

You know, i would say that the more the united states is there, the better. >> robin, let me ask you, the point at which there seems to be some agreement is that what were headed for is a kind of regime change like strategy. press iran, probably economically, but not -- the united states is not going to go into syria, yemen, lebanon to push back against iran. what you end up with is trita right, regime collapse and a very messy kind of situation? >> one of the things that everyone in washington ...

Interference or efforts from the outside help or undermine it? invariably in the 100-year quest weve seen for intervention, its always set back the iranian peoples aspirations. the 1953 intervention to unseat the democratically elected prime minister is the prime example. the government itself so far, were not seeing any signs of panic. certainly a tremendous amount of discontent and protests that look very different from with an we saw in 2009. this is coming from the smaller cities that have n...

The 2018 elections. first of all, it must be clear to them that they cant get away with it, that were capable of detecting efforts by the russian government to interfere. theyll have to calculate the benefit versus the cost in terms of additional damage to trumps credibility and his ability to deliver what the russians want from him if theyre seen from supporting the presidents party. and in terms of congress. and finally it seems to me its a little more difficult to intervene in midterm electio...

Lack of preparation going into the meeting more dangerous. >> robin, if you are going to empathize, and putting that aside he openly didnt prepare for this meeting. we are hearing the "washington post" reporting. he didnt take his advisers advice. he says he has been preparing for this all his life. it is not even like he was looking for success. >> yes, and when you think about what he did over the weekend playing two rounds of golf at his resorts in scotland. it is worse that the president did...

And he is becoming more familiar with the word appeasement. against his own intelligence agencies. now perhaps it is reasonable to suggest that an american president who endorsed the position of a hostile leader to his face has engaged in something worse than appeasement. i am joined by robin wright and jason johnson. thank you both for being here. you speak, you write in your piece about kennedy and krushov meeting.

With the word appeasement. against his own intelligence agencies. now perhaps it is reasonable to suggest that an american president who endorsed the position of a hostile leader to his face has engaged in something worse than appeasement. i am joined by robin wright and jason johnson. thank you both for being here. you speak, you write in your piece about kennedy and krushov

The meeting more dangerous. >> robin, if you are going to emp athi empathize, and putting that aside he openly didnt prepare for this meeting. we are hearing the "washington post" reporting. he didnt take his advisers advice. he says he has been preparing for this all his life. it is not even like he was looking for success. >> yes, and when you think about what he did over the weekend playing two rounds of golf at his resorts in scotland. it is worse that the president didnt do basic fundamenta...