really the escalator in chief with iran. he's taken a series of steps that's escalated the threat from iran. he's withdrawn from the iran nuclear deal and issued reckless tweets threatening iran, and he's real encouraged his team to make decisions that increase rather than mitigate the threat. for that very reason these 1,500 troops may be a first phase, and if he continues tweeting, if he continues advising his team to do things like designate the irgc as a foreign terrorist organization we could see more troops needed. >> he's telling his people or maybe in some cases like the pred -- like the successor to your boss is pushing him to be more aggressive, the national security adviser john bolton. i want to ask quickly about giving basically carte blanche to his attorney general to investigate the beginnings of the russia investigation and specifically saying that barr should look at the uk, australia and ukraine as part of this. >> i cringe when i think about the impact this is going to have on our foreign intelligence partnerships. when president trump designated