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There is stuff going on in lebanon. and then there is the persian gulf. there are all kinds of flash points. and by ratcheting up the pressure and being so ultra anti-iranian, it makes it difficult for the united states to back down. what we find in situations like this for america is it's very hard to back down because then your prestige is on the line, your credibility is on the line. this is a lot of what happened in vietnam where you just can't find a way to back down so, you ratchet up. i'm worried. obviously, most likely this will be resolved. but as i say, i can't think of a more danger...

World. there are iranian militias in iraq. there are iranian militias in syria. there is stuff going on in lebanon. and then there is the persian gulf. there are all kinds of flash points. and by ratcheting up the pressure and being so ultra anti-iranian, it makes it difficult for the united states the back down. what we find in situations like this for america is it's very hard to back down because then your prestige is on the line, your credibility is on the line. this is a lot of what happened in vietnam where you just can't find a way to back down so, you ratchet up. i'm worried. obviously...

Questioning this. >> yeah, i don't think that congress has ever really stopped its investigative powers or using the power of their chairmanships of either party. i think what we've seen in the past, they've not infiltrated into foreign policy terms. i think it would be odd if they were holding some big high profile hearing about u.s. relations with north korea while the president was overseas. but this is you know, as you know, michael cohen is getting ready to go to prison and so this is long been on the agenda item and i can't imagine that democrats would think they need to halt this becaus...

If you have real problems about what anyone should, then you have the meeting. diplomacy is not a favor. you have the meeting and you call putin out. you basically say.stop it or here is the price you'll pay if you don't. and you have a big show against him. so the idea that this was dropped because of ukraine, i don't think it makes any sense on foreign policy terms. you would have to be a real believer to think this is not what we've been talking about for the last 15 minutes. >> so the theory is out there that putin is testing trump in terms of possible weakness for the united states, now h...

Pols. if there is anything we should do with advice from the likes of ben rhodes, it's do the opposite. brian: david, here's the thing. i'm sure dick cheney disagreed with barack obama he would speak out. i'm sure that george bush disagreed with barack obama especially when he was trashing heck georgia's for six of first 8 years. he didn't speak out because he had respect for the people in place. not only are you guys not showing respect. you are forming anti-trump think tank. that's inexcusable. >> i'm not part of it so it's not you guys. i would say what's missing in foreign policy today is ...