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Democratic defenders or allies on the ground, they view as terrorists because erdogan feels threatened by them. what are we doing about abandoning our allies? what is the signal from the diplomats that ive been speaking to, this was a shock to the brits, the germans, the french, people with troops on the ground, the jordanians. the israelis are not happy because this empowers iran. erdogan talked to putin today, who is his closest ally in all this. so russia and iran are the winners here, and as...

Ally of the united states in many ways. what type of sanctions should we have against him and change his behavior or is that even possible with the strong man like that and why is is he a nato in the first place? >> well, nato -- turkey is nato ally has been important for many decades. whining you look at the strategic position of tkey when you look at the influence of iran and influence of russia having turkey as nato ally in that region is big. itit is huge for united states d nato with respec...

So you first, what are the potential implications now that we know that houthi forces can successfully target sites. >> what we learn second degree that what happens in yemen doesnt stay in yemen. there is direct implications from an oil and market perspective. about 5% of world oil output has been taken offline as a result of these attacks. that will have an effect on the market particularly as we wait to hear details as to how long the facilities will remain offline. from a security perspectiv...

Advisers, republican and democratic, deploying the national security council as envisioned back, you know, 50 years ago. >> right. one of the challenges in the trump administration is just how much of a departure from the structures that have been built up to provide advice and analysis and input for supposed to come back. presidential decision making have been shattered. might as well get that straight. the senate did not come back to this will be the first president in the modern era to have...

Delegates have been discussing how to protect places of worship at a time when attacks on sacred sites are on the rise do they come up with any solutions to this problem. so far there hasnt been anything concrete that has come from the assembly on this issue however on the on the 1st day the united nations high representative of the alliance of civilizations spoke here at the conference he directly addressed the recent attacks on the question mosque in new zealand but also the tree of life since...

A social media post, a text to an ex-girl friend talking about this kind of threat here. white nationalists, at least one of them, is this an indicator of the broader, arguably bigger terror problem being domestic? >> jim, from a security perspective in the aftermath of consistent stream of high-profile events, were in a higher threat period. would the attackers feel inspired by what they are seeing on television. see people that did perpetrate attacks, their names all over tv. were seeing the p...

South korea are over. trump tweeting out today that kims request came in a new letter sent to him by the north korean dictator. samantha vinograd is joining me. good to see you, sam. what do you make of the timing of this letter and the presidents tweets? >> thats a big problem from a security perspective. kim jong-un is linking u.s. joint military exercises to denuclearization. joint military exercises are critical for force readiness with respect to the united states protecting its interests i...

Stuff all over again. if thoughts and prayers worked this would have been solved a long time ago. we need to be taking action, strong action or well be right back here again. >> yeah. you see these kids, young people leaving the mall and its an awful, awful situation. julia kayyem, what goes through your mind as we continue to get more information, multiple fatalities, 22 people injured and 22 people taken to local hospitals, a suspect is in custody. >> so three things, professionally. why, of c...

And he has latched on to mcconnell who understands how the president views this thing to stop any kind of passing of these bills at least that the moment. under president trump there are, you know, agencies of government that still take this very seriously, even if he does not. just the other day, dan coats, the director of national intelligence, appointed somebody specifically just to harden our defenses, that kind of thing. it is seen by a lot of people in the government as well as in congress...

About that issue. i think he feels its urgent because it is now. and i thought he broke a little bit with his pattern by saying this is going on now. thats certainly beyond his report. so it is an emergency and it makes you understand that if this is going on now in 2020 is approaching us, then the obstruction makes a lot of sense because we have to keep a lid on this so we can steal the next election. >> malcolm, theres another thing that happened here where they say sometimes the most interest...