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forces in retaliation for the attack against u.s. forces in jordan that killed three u.s. service members and injured dozens. according to the white house and pentagon, u.s. military forces conduct the strikes on seven facilities in iraq and syria tonight that officials say irans islamic revolutionary guard corps and affiliated militias used to attack u.s. forces. the national security council spokesperson john kirby told reporters that of the seven facilities, four are in syria and th...

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Transition. putin was against that because he was against regime change. i dont think he has any particular affinity or even respect for mr. assad. ive heard president putin talk about him, but he has a lot of conviction that the united states cannot do regime change. regime change is not on the table tonight. lets be clear about that. so i think that gives, if he wants to use it -- i dont want to make any predictions about what he might say tomorrow as they wake up in moscow. but if he wants to...

Department. that gives us, im sure, the context of the difficult line the u.s. has to walk between ally saudi arabia and iran which has had this improving relationship over the past couple of years. >> reporter: yeah. this is where we really need to talk about the ramifications here, dont we? of this sort of rising shia/sunni divide. its already being seen with reaction in this region. the governments here in the uae, for example, in bahrain coming out in support of the saudi monarchy, mostly su...

Its very rare i do, but hes absolutely totally right on this. we need the arabs to fight this battle for us. we need sunnis. we need to find an assault #alternative to the islamic state -- >> how do you convince them, bob? if youre sitting around the president as his national security team, how do you convince them we need them to fight this fight? >> we have to convince them that iran is not an existential threat to them. we have to really sit down and we have to sit down with the russians. and...

Been the most successful franchise. if isis is able to make inroads there and take away recruits and support from the al qaeda fill, it could mean death to affiliate. >> in the chaos yemen has avoided the vicious sectarian violence that weve seen if iraq and syria. you lived there for a year many years ago. how do you think that until this moment it has avoided that? >> well the shiite offshootute shoot the is a -- offshoot is a moderate group. the shia/sunni divide is much nay ohher in yemen th...

From the pentagon. martin dempsey told the senate foreign relations committee wednesday that the u.s. is concerned about what iran will do down the road in exchange for its help against isis now. >> iran is going to be influence in iraq. has been influential in iraq. i am concerned about the way they wield that influence. they can wield it to promote a better iraq economically for example. there are ways they can wield that to create a state where the sunni and kurds are no longer welcome. >> le...

Iran is essentially, has its proxies on the ground, and the sunnis are going to say, were going to defend tikrit, and anbar province. and this is the shia/sunni divide you were talking about, which is worsening by the day. >> if youre a sunni sitting in tikrit, and you suddenly see this iranian force, this death squad coming in -- >> you are suspect. but i would contend that the shia/sunni divide is not what were all making it. in that area of the country, in the north, there have been kurds, sh...

This brings this old topic which is, are these ancient hatreds or are they modern politicians who are exploiting these divides? the shia/sunni divide goes back to the 7th century. is that what is at the root here? >> no. very simply no. you had people converting from shia to sunni, in iraq in the early 20th century. intermarriage all over iraq, all over lebanon. i challenge anybody to find an instance from the 18th to the beginning of the 20th century where sectarianism is the primary divide in ...

>> theyre trying to hand out the goodies. theyre looking at bahrain. they have a shiite/sunni divide. the sunnis control bahrain. 70% of the population is shiite. they have pretty good jobs, but theyre protesting, because they want a bigger stake in it. the saudis are saying, why dont we have a similar problem? shiites will want a bigger role. who are they? friends of iran. iran, shiite and persia. saudi arabia, arab and sunni. so that look at it as a proxy fight. megyn: if those are the stakes,...