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"to donald trump" cheered this nationalist politicians "now we can become allies and maybe america can stop funding nato." it was wishful thinking. it ended in a barrage of 59 u.s. cruise missiles aimed at russias syrian ally. this air base may have been moderately damaged but prospects for a trump-putin friendship were blasted in smithereens. >> translator: one could say the level of trust on a working level and especially on a military level have not improved. rather it has deteriorated. >> re...

Period of suspended animation. i was glad to see james mattis yesterday in the press conference did not commit us to further strikes in syria because thats a black hole when you go down there if you dont have an in-state in mind. you cant create an in-state unless you bring the american people on board. people dont want another big war in the middle east. the united states has less maneuver room than it thinks it does. >> chris, the meeting we are told with sergei lavrov and rex tillerson lasted...

Working with counterpart john kerry to affect the release. thats good. but at the lower operational working level, these are revolutionary guards. they took an aggressive assistance and i think its worrisome. . we ought to look at this not only in the context of iranian relations, but saudi arabia relations at sea in the persian gulf. this is a cig is cant flash point in the time ahead. >> admiral, thank you very much. >> pleasure, pamela. after a legal bat. l, a judge in chicago ordered the c...

>> the republicans are defending the bushed a%. people have forgotten why this program was started and dont want to be painted with this torture accusation so this is becoming very partisan conflict at this point, and the cia directors of course are out there defending it, whether they know they made mistakes or not, so this has all become very political. what i like about the senate report its taken from documents, its taken from the cia inspector generals report which is accurate, and they sai...

Adjustments as necessary. >> they said the next step is a series of technical meetings where they will get down to the working level where supposely they will put the meat on the bones of the super structure that was put together in the grand deal with secretary of state kerry and the iranian foreign minister. everybody is saying the bones arent the bones. so i dont know the technical meanings. this is all a whole series of delaying tactics. the west is getting played by the iranians, and what t...

Fought for his freedom. >> its unacceptable for an american to be thrown in prison for preaching his christian faith. >> statements calling for his release have come from secretary of state john kerry and the white house says president obama even took up the case in a phone call with the iranian president rouhani earlier this fall. but instead of progress, the pastors plight seems to be getting worse. earlier this month, the family learned he has been transferred to a notorious prison where they...

Context. >> the other controversy about the book is that secret service agents, i guess, are not supposed to write books. why did you feel it was important to do so? >> they are not encouraged to write books. theres no actual regulation prohibiting it. i chose to do it because there had never really been a book about the working level secret service agents and i chose to write a book that covered the 21 years of my career which, you know, span from 1983 until 2004, two tours on the presidential ...

We worked very, very well with them down at the tactical level, the day to day, the working level. theyre passionate about their space program. theyve been very safe. were friends with the cosmonauts. were friends with their engineers. the concern i have is what would happen at the very top level, the political level, things that are out of our control? we just dont know. as long as we can maintain good strategic relations with the russians we can continue this program. but down at the astronaut...

He got it done and understands not only the politics of it, the political courage it takes to take on all the interests. all the interests, business, labor, environment. everybody has a reason not to cut the budget. thoughts gone for that. he understands how to do that. thats going to be the central issue certainly in the republican primary, maybe in the general election. and hes the only guy who can say he did it at a very practical working level and i think thats going to be a powerful case. q...

We should be prepared to continue with them at a working level but unless there is real progress, we should then go think about our other options. >> so lets talk about them. negotiations are going nowhere. regime change in the short-term, we dont seem to be in 1989 in hungary and poland yet. what does that leave us with? you outlined the dilemma nicely. now, choose. you have go choices. youve got to live with iran on a path where it could develop a serious nuclear capacity. are you going to liv...