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But the united states in order to get concessions, get some kind of relief from the sanctions, perhaps send a message that it can play tough as well from the security perspective, just like the united states is doing. so, this is likewise seems to be a very deliberate move on the iranians part. now, whether it provides some kind of off-ramp to the current tensions or it will just continue to escalate things beyond where they are now, thats i think one of the $64,000 questions. >> yeah, there are...

Kim jong-un and stepping onto north korean soil. the first sitting u.s. president ever to do so. that brings us to your weekend presidential brief. a segment where we highlight the most pressing national security issues the president will face when he wakes up tomorrow. with us now, cnn national security analyst sam vinograd. she helped prepare the presidential daily brief for president obama. so president trump did make history by meeting kim at the dmz. walking into north korea. is this a net ...

And as we start looking towards other ways of driving people back into mexico, i think what concerns me is were going to see the pattern weve seen at the border for over 50 years, and that is people trying to going through the most difficult stretches of the border to evade capture. from a security perspective its actually worse than were facing now because we dont know who those individuals are if they successfully make it into the country. from a humanitarian perspective as well its going to r...

However to fire directly from its territory using a surface to air missile against an american drone shows that there may be a change going on in irans national security thinking about red lines about american escalation and about how far they can push and if this change is sustained over time that would mean that iran would become more old in the region and that itself would be needless given the tensions in the regional already and given the 40 years of enmity between the u.s. and iran but tha...

However to fire directly from its territory using a surface to air missile against an american drone shows that there may be a change going on in irans national security thinking about red lines about american escalation and about how far they can push and if this change is sustained over time that would mean that iran would become more bold in the region and that itself would be needless given the tensions in the region already and given the 40 years of enmity between the u.s. and iran but that...

His comments was on the heels of what was a process the president loathed, the takeaway from the special counsels investigation was not what we heard him say on television, right? this is -- this is the exact opposite. why would he have done that? >> we actually dont know if the counterintelligence investigation in president trump ever ended and from a security perspective his comments last night make you kind of wonder why one isnt in place? everything we learned from the mueller report is that...

From a security perspective is president trump saying, im okay with foreign election interference. im okay with kim jong-un making statements about my political rivals and in the same way he said its okay if russia interferes in our election. at this point, president trump is kind of green lighting any despot that says bad things about american politicians getting a carte blanche on every other bad thing they are doing as long as they support his 2022020 re-election campaign. >> joe biden isnt j...

Iraq or syria, or u.s. ships at sea. >> were taking all the appropriate actions both from a security perspective as well as our ability to make sure that the president has a wide range of options. >> reporter: the state department recently designated irans revolutionary guard corps a terrorist organization. iran responded by labeling centcom a terrorist military organization, as well. >> martha raddatz with us live tonight. and martha, officials say they have clear indications that iran was prep...

Was the assistant secretary of state for public affairs under president obama. admiral kirby, thank you very much for being here. lets start with the u.s. response, okay. so current president nicholas maduro wants u.s. diplomats out in 72 hours. the state department says theyre not going to honor that. whats going to happen in the next 72 hours? >> i think its going to be a tense situation and i suspect the state department will be monitoring this closely from a security perspective. youre right...

Things they have wanted in the past. extension on daca. a lot of money for humanitarian purposes. but, they seem sort of flexible about we dont want to give him a nickel for that stinking wall. >> we work with a lot of folks along the border from law enforcement to mayors to business leaders and they tell us, you know what? putting up a big wall that doesnt really help them from a security perspective or from a trade perspective. so, we think if were going to secure our border. lets put money at...