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You know, i would say that the more the united states is there, the better. >> robin, let me ask you, the point at which there seems to be some agreement is that what we're headed for is a kind of regime change like strategy. press iran, probably economically, but not -- the united states is not going to go into syria, yemen, lebanon to push back against iran. what you end up with is trita right, regime collapse and a very messy kind of situation? >> one of the things that everyone in washington is concerned about is what happens even if you get to the point that the regime is confronted, is v...

Jerusalem, a very controversial move, on monday. this is happening monday. the u.s. embassy in jerusalem will open to great fanfare on monday, reports "the new york times" that the american ambassador of israel will not yet work permanently out of his new offices, this he may also help get around diplomatic awkwardness because other countries don't recognize this. at the same time you have the u.s. using israeli intelligence to make this case that iran was in noncompliance because they couldn't get that intelligence from the u.s. what do you make of all of these chess pieces? >> joy, i agree w...

Trita was getting at -- isn't that primarily what helped to empower iran? >> absolutely. we stopped, reversed, 40-plus years of u.s. policy. i know, i was part and parcel of doing the war planning for that policy for 30 of those years. we reversed everything when we took the leader in iraq, the balancer of persia, if you will, out of the scene. we put iran in a cat bird seat and trita is absolutely right, this is a regional struggle for the balance in power that we destroyed. each of the powers in the region that is contending with iran wants the united states to be their sugar daddy in regard...

Missed that this was coming, was because we had focused so much on the middle class because they had tended to be at the center of iran's political developments for the last 20 years. but this came from the working class, people who have been tremendously suffering under economic mismanagement of the government, who saw in this new budget that was presented that so much of the benefits that they had been enjoying would be taken away from them while at the same time increasing fuel prices 50% and forcing some people to be able to go to islamic charities to get help rather than getting it direct...

Its face on what the united states constitution's supposed to guarantee you in this country. >> i agree. i mean, and the difficult thing is that it targets the most vulnerable populations. if i were advising a u.s. citizen coming into the border and i was told that a law enforcement or other government agent asked them about their religious or political beliefs, my advice would be to say mind your own business, that is not a question i'm required to answer. but i can't safely say that to a green card holder or someone with a visa because they could very well be detained and turned away, which ...