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Former ambassador and chairman of the gatestone institute. we're hearing a lot about jared kushner and the prince who has made the meeting possible. iran radical terrorism at the top of the list. >> it's an important meeting. i think it's a follow-up from president trump's first overseas visit where he went to riyadh and rallied the sunni arab states on the counterterrorism issue. i think with the may data approaching by which everyone think the president will make a decision one way or the other whether to get out of the iran nuclear deal, that certainly is going to be a major topic. >> eric:...

Nato countries actually meet that benchmark. those are the issues he wants to be focused on. instead today he will be facing tough questions and a tough conversation when he meets with the prime minister of the uk. stef? >> thanks, kristen. i want to bring in terrorism analyst malcolm nance. malcolm, what is your take on this? how big of a deal is it with regard to uk/u.s. relations and is it just a counterterrorism issue? >> it's not just a counterterrorism issue. this is a vote of no confidence in the administration being able to keep secrets. as we've seen, we've seen a lot of leaks, but th...

Terrorism. yemen, for example, has responded in the last 24 hours saying they're not going to so cooperative anymore and not allow us to do ground missions. the other is to think about the terrorism threat today. the terrorism threat today is not aligned with a country. it is aligned with individuals. and they can have french passports, they can have german passports, or they can have u.s. passports. one of the reasons why, as a counterterrorism issue, not a legal one, we have always avoided these sweeping bans, is it takes away focus from the more particularized individual assessments that we...

And i think we might want to dial that down a little and try to, you know, look at some of the major issues and not try to, you know, socially re-engineer the country. >> embassy, it strike me what the president is say he needs to do in afghanistan, keep a significant number of troops to deal with counterterrorism, you know, i look at it and say, why afghanistan and not doing the same thing in syria? i understand why not syria, maybe it's a quagmire that you can't ever get out of. but we're sort of saying we have to do here in afghanistan but we have the same potential counterterrorism issue i...

These refugees are not going home to syria and not to jordan. they need enormous help. can i come back to one thing that chuck was talking about? he used the phrase yemenization of iraq and i think that is a big idea but the administration has to make a fundamental choice. it's one thing to send military advisers to iraq that is essentially there to carry out a counterterrorism mission and something else to send military advisers to iraq to work organically with the iraqi government which means to iran to prop on it up. to me that is a fundamental difference. so i would favor doing a very limi...