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It comes to that. what i can tell you is that our job is to tee up options for the president, to make sure that he has decision space. in addition to the 3,000 troops that we're going to be getting into the airport there in kabul by the end of the weekend, we also have about another 3,500 to 4,000 that are going to be staged in kuwait just in case they're needed. it's all about making sure that the president has options before him. >> today you said kabul is not under, quote, imminent threat. but how can you say that when u.s. troops are evacuating americans? clarissa was saying it's not evacu...

Where the president will be holding a round table with supporters let's talk about the white house has sort of known that there are iranian backed rebel there is yemen, they are fully involved in a war that the saudis are in with them and the u.s. has been supporting but this drone attack was a serious weapon, serious damage to a serious plant nobody really believes the houthis have the capability to do that. so now what has ban suspected may turn out to be true that the iranians were either behind this or had the military capability to do it or that this was launched from iran what happens ne...

Came from iran and not yemen. the united states has dirty hands in this war, too. it's our weapons being used. if the dynamics on the ground have changed and the attack came not from yemen, but from iraq, how does that change things? >> major escalation because it implicates the iranians involvement in more of a way than for instance if they provided the arms to the houthis. so a dramatic escalation and what i worry about is that, a, there is no clear evidence and this administration doesn't have a reputation for credibility, and b, that as they talk about this they close down the decision spa...

Aware of the sensitivities. but when you have protest movements that get this violent and this virulent, they are closing down his decision space in a worrisome way. >> will is someone who has been on the ground here and has covered this issue and covered the broader issues at play here. what is the demonstrators -- to the degree that the leaders of the protest movement, do they see an opportunity for dialogue or do they think they essentially need to force something that brings global condemnation? >> it's hard to see what dialogue is going to solve at this stage. let's say carrie lam resigns...

Interview he did this time with nbc "meet the press" and compare with what you're about to hear with what we just heard from the president. listen. >> can't have a nuclear weapon. you want to talk good otherwise you will have a bad economy for the next three years. >> admiral, is he essentially describing the iran deal and that's what he's now trying to accomplish? yeah. the state department spokesman earlier this week was basically pledding with iran to abide by international commit ams about nuclear weaponry which is asking them to abide by the deal, and they have been. we're the ones that p...