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Corruption of american foreign policy. we are being asked to do something that is not in our interests, that the american people would not support. >> yeah, there's this -- a while ago there was an onion article, john bolton when those tankers were hit in the gulf that said an attack on two saudi oil tankers is an attack on all-americans, but i feel like i'm losing my mind watching people talk about this. obviously you don't want it to escalate. you don't want a hot war between saudis and iran and there are steps to be taken. what the heck is the u.s. interest in defending the saudi government...

To reporting and whistle blowers. we don't know much else. it would be helpful to have the president's tax returns which have been requested under u.s. law but are being blocked in court. today another avenue was open with the manhattan district attorney demanding the tax returns for the last few years. what else is there? what are the financial arrangements with jared kushner. after he visited saudi arabia, the two princes are said to have stayed up until nearly 4 a.m. swapping stories and planning strategy. today the united states, our country, finds itself at the point where the president i...

Contributor. i guess let's start with just where we are right now over the weekend. drone strikes on the saudi oil refineries. the houthis, the rebels in yemen fighting with the saudis in yemen saying it was them. what do you make of the situation? >> well, chris, first of all, we have to be very clear. we would not be at this point were it not for trump's foreign policy. pulling out of the iran deal. piling sanctions on the iranians. giving a blank check on mohamed bin salman to wage war. it is logical it would follow from that and was predicted by many of us that if he followed that the iran...

Of this, this is not the first strike on the saudi infrastructure. this is part of a war that has been ongoing since mohamed bin salman became prince against the houthis in yemen that has led to the deaths of tens of thousands of people, famine that puts millions of lives at risk. when we were at the end of the obama administration, what were we trying to do? we had an iran deal in effect to provide a foundation of diplomacy with iran. we went to the saudis and urged them to open a channel with the iranians. we said you do not want this proxy war to escalate all across the region, in part beca...

>> exactly. so the way people need to think of this, this is not the first strike on the saudi infrastructure. this is part of a war that has been ongoing since mohamed bin salman became prince against the houthis in yemen that has led to the deaths of tens of thousands of people, famine that puts millions of lives at risk. when we were at the end of the obama administration, what were we trying to do? we had an iran deal in effect to provide a foundation of diplomacy with iran. we went to the saudis and urged them to open a channel with the iranians. we said you do not want this proxy war to ...