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Spine, that they are looking for a reason -- they're pursuing a broader conflict with iran. are you kidding me? is there any positive outcome from something like that? >> the truth is no, we do not have to go to war with iran today. it sends chills down my spine too. the rhetoric i have seen coming out over the trump administration the last month feels so much like the lead up to the war in iraq. they're cheery picking intelligence, upping what they consider to be the threat. look, there is a real threat. i don't want to downplay that. but what worries me the most if the irans do something tha...

Channel of negotiations possibly with the iranians and now this new hostile tweet toward the irans, obviously provoking, strong reactions in iran. there was a senior aide to iran's supreme leader who said president trump referred to the united states as being crippled and surely president trump must know a crippled body cannot harm iran, and the head of iran's guard corp. saying the iranians don't want war. but the difference between the u.s. and iran is the iranians are not afraid of war. strong words coming from iran's military. by and large, you have had pretty much all iranian officials co...

Northeast there's going to be a safe zone between turkey and syria and our forces and others will help maintain that safe zone. and then throughout the entire purple area is where isis is hiding and we'll keep pressure on them so they do not retake territory. the third mission is in the half circle in the southern part of syria there, in the middle of the map. that's where the base is and we'll operate that base and we'll likely have some norwegians there and others to do that. the reason for that base is to block the land bridge, the southern land bridge that iran wants to establish through i...

And we, and now feel we're like lucy and the football and they're charlie brown and we pull it away, because they got the deal, took fire from domestic hard-liners and we're not paying off for the deal. with the irans, probably what the administration hawks are playing for. to build up so muches did trust and discredit iranian moderates it's impossible for the next american administration restart negotiations with the next iranian regime. >> to that point, admiral, your final thoughts on this diplomatic conundrum. why would a country, whether north korea or anyone else involved in negotiations...

Diplomatic friends and colleagues in the region and around the world about that decision? >> i think you know the answer to that, dana. there's almost no souls in washington who believe this is anything other than a complete and utter catastrophe. some people are predicting the apocalypse. there's no question that the way in which was handled, no consultations with congress or allies, no conditions, no effort to even negotiate with the turks or russians to determine whether or not the kurds could somehow find a niche in a post-american scenario. but i have to say, on balance, there's a certain...