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Students, people on the street that they were, in his opinion, very proamerican. it brought the question about how much light there is between the regime and the people that are inside the country. of course we have to consider all factors when we consider our policy, michael. what do you think about that? is the regime very much the minority in the country? >> i think this is incredibly important, jenna, and i think yes is the answer. that we and the iranian people have essentially the same problem, and that's the iranian regime. it can't be stressed enough that america's problem is not with ...

Actual construction of an atomic bomb. does that mean that an israeli military strike on iran's nuclear facilities would be postponed? michael sing is the former senior director of middle eastern affairs at the national security council. michael, what is the specific meaning of this conclusion that the iranians on the u.s. have come to about iran and its nuclear ambitions? >> well, jon for a longtime now the u.s. conclusion has been that we don't have sufficient evidence to say definitively that iran is putting together a nuclear weapon. that is very different jon from saying that we have conc...

Already there's too much lose talk of war. >> michael sing is managing director of the washington institute and a former senior director at the national security council. always good to see you. the president's speech was a tight rope. he needed to demonstrate his commitment to israel, but not signal american support for a preemptive strike on iran. how do you think he did? >> chris, clearly he was trying to convey a tougher position than in the past. in part, the real question will be do they trust him? will prmpl benjamin netanyahu look at the speech and meet with the president today and com...

Underneath the surface they're trying to protect their nuclear program from attack and put it beyond the reach of israel or the united states by burying it under rock and that's what israel is most concerned about. they're less concerned about the bluster than they are about what is happening behind the bluster. >> mikeat sing, good to talk to you. hopefully this is bluster. michael, talk to you soon. let's turn to the economy. a look at the dow today was quite something. now we're about even on the day at 12,951. earlier the dow hit 13,000, and went above. if it were to close above 13,000 tod...

The rara. what's the story? >> there's a bizarre development. pentagon officials say those warships, those two iranian destroyers, never docked in syria. there had been reported in recent days that the iranian destroyerers had gone as far as the syrian port. there will reports from iranian officials as well as syrian activists, saying they saul the -- saul -- saw the ships there. now usual officials say the ships waited in the mediterranean and then turned back. now we're told the destroyers passed back threw the suez canal. >> let's turn to michael sing. currently managing director of the was...