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Committee, chairman nunes apologizing for consulting with us on house about new development without filling in the committee members first. adadam schiff blasted what nunes did. >> i think that chairman has to make a decision whether to act as a surrogate of the white house, as he did during the campaign. or to lead a independent and credible investigation. i hope he chooses the latter. the country needs a independent, credible investigation in the house, we had this through monday. eric: how did this shake out? international security expert. for m.i.t. security studies program. jim, so far, t...

Negotiation, a discussion is possible for the first time in years. he is the negotiator in chief in theory. shouldn't get personally involved. but, you know, most of our policy tools here are weak. and when we had success in restraining the program, it has been through diplomacy. so i hope he uses this opportunity to explore that as a possibility, a possibility we have not really used very often in recent years this is something he gets for free for being the new president. >> jim walsh, m.i.t. security studies, i like your style, thank you for joining us. >> thank you, ari. have a good night....

Nuclear talks with iran may be on the verge of a deal. in broad terms, iran would reign in -- rein in its pursuit of nuclear weapons. iran's sanctions are lifted and a long-time enemy of the united states gains even more power in a volatile region. no surprise here many believe this deal will not make the world a safer place. those skeptics include u.s. lawmakers and critical washington allies. jim walsh is a research associate at the m.i.t. security studies program. he joins us from watertown, massachusetts. good morning. >> good morning. how are you, carol? >> i'm good. we've been hearing th...

Could blow an airliner out of the sky like flight 17? it has happened more than a dozen times unless history. it turns out just three months ago, israel's defense ministry says it successfully completed testing a system called sky shield, a laser system that protects commercial planes from possible missile attacks. could this be the next security step we need? jim walsh is an expert with m.i.t. security studies program and joins us now from boston. jim, they say they tested this on an a 737 and it worked deflecting a missile somehow. should this program potentially be expanded? i have bad news...

Kerry insisting that no one really saw the latest upheaval in iraq coming. now new reports that simply isn't true. the senior intelligence officialing telling fox news there was present warning about the deteriorating situation. we have a you know spokesman and diplomat and fox news contributor and jim walsh, international security expert at the mit security studies program. start with the first part of that question, rick. why does this matter? >> well it matters because there is a whole bunch of actual implications to putting together the pieces of intelligence. the one thing we have to reme...