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All whi lets get the latest m kevin corke. This relationship has seen more downs than ups lately, although youve heard many leaders over the past several years talking about the importance of trying to reestablish a relationship. Were talking about two countries that have frankly had their governments accuse the other of disruptive behavior and that is making things complicated as you point out as the secretary of state makes his way to moscow. The two diplomats meeting amid rising tensions. Each man says his side is committed to working towards a mutual understanding. Our meetings today come ...

This situation but with talks we have a hard time when the united states has called for complete change in iranian behavior an iran continues to cause mischief in the broader missed missed so i don't know if talks are likely to yield progress. >> michael we appreciate your insights today. >> thank you kindly. >> if house democrats hold attorney general william barr in contempt what will happen? we talked with bill hemmer about it and looked back at when congress actually locked some people up. that's coming up. the experience better for you. now there's less pain immediately following injectio...

Standoff, ed. >> thank you for that let's bring in michael hanlan, senior fellow at brookings institution. he specializes in defensive strategy use of force and american security policy. welcome michael. >> nice to see you. >> how big a threat do you see this as as jennifer laces it out it may have been miscommunication. when the iranians are loading cruise missiles in boats it could be serious. >> yes. usually iran doesn't want to get in that kind of force on force confrontation with the u.s. because we will win that fight. they can try to put missiles on small boats an maybe cause some damag...

Want to send a message if you figure tout rannians are behind those four attacks. on the other hand it's pretty hard to find the right way to deliver just the right amount of punishment without risking an escalation. >> real quick michael. let's widen the lens about the stakes on the ground. these reports suggesting hard liners the white house like john bolton may have been pushing the president towards an attack on iran. some of those reports denied we should be clear but the same time that congresswoman quoted in jennifer's report saying maybe there should be diplomacy and talks. this admini...

Those compounds back. we should make sure we know at the end of this meeting whether or not that was discuss zed as well. frankly, i'm hoping for a read out from somebody other than the russians of what goes on in the meeting. there's the four principles, the two leaders of the country and foreign ministers translators. unless they tell us what they are talking ability, we won't know what will be discussed. >> i think rex tillerson will brief reporters after the meeting. that is something we will anticipate. we will get an official investigation from the united states, the trump administration...