and through local partners on the ground. the concern is if you do not have that nested with a broader regional strategy as well as an overall grand strategy, and we still don't have a national security strategy from this administration, all you're going to be doing is playing whack-a-mole. particularly in the middle east. it will not add up to actually improving stability in the region and, as i mentioned before, if you lay into that getting back into the iran deal, you're just going to have g.i. terrorist sponsored by the iranian regime going after the sunni terrorists and our allies in the middle are going to suffer. you're going to have carrots in the region. >> bill: thank you. we will see how the president explains it to the american people. >> dana: one baltimore high school sounding an alarm after revealing that students are testing far below their grade level. spotify ceo addressing the controversy surrounding joe grogan as the country demott company announces new measures.