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We're following multiple breaking stories this hour including the new reporting on the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. right now, the secretary of state mike pompeo is issuing a new threat, a new threat to iran. our global affairs correspondent, elise, sat down with him for an interview. he had tough words for iran and for one of his own predecessors, john kerry. >> that's right. secretary pompeo told me he does not believe a former secretary of state should be advising america's greatest enemy on how to undermine the current administration. he had a stark warning for iran, vowing that...

Interests will not prevent us from responding against the prime actor. >> a direct threat from the secretary of state against iran, after a pair of rocket attacks hit u.s. facilities in iraq, allegedly by iranian-backed militias. >> we will not let iran get away with using a proxy force to attack an american interest. iran will be held accountable for those incidents. >> even militarily? >> they're going to be held accountable. if they're responsible for the arming and training of these militias, we are going to the source. >> pompeo double-downed on his attacks against former secretary of sta...

Create a moderate sunni opposition on the ground? isis -- assad and russia have been bombing the heck out of the moderate opposition. assad's brutality has created a radicalizing dynamic. al qaeda and isis have a huge stronghold there. you need to beat them back and create a better proxy force on the ground. easier said than done. >> shannon: good to see you both. thank you. >> bill: one of the big messages in italy before he flew to moscow was our own national u.s. interests and what tillerson talked about was the danger of chemical weapons if left unguarded in syria, which has been the case ...

Friction, and then rhetoric, and then the action/reaction die nam sxik we don't know where it leads. >> jeremy, you mentioned yemen. you and i have talked about this off line. yemen fits into this puzzle. most americans probably aren't paying a whole lot of attention what'sappening in yemen, although we know a navy s.e.a.l. was killed there in an operation over last weekend. how does that fit with what's happening with iran? >> everyone needs to watch this space because yemen is where i think the action is going to be iranians are backing a proxy force, the houthi, fighting regional forces who...

Potentially these could get assistance as well and pressure isis to its western front, around a town called marea as well. the biggest question is who precisely are they assisting who aren't the kurdish ypg forces? the phrase syrian arab coalition, that's used here a lot. we really don't know what groups there are. you have to remember, the u.s. tried for nearly every year, spent half a billion dollars to train rebelles, a proxy force. that failed. they got 55 together. they had to scrap the plan all together. here they're looking for different groups. perhaps ones cia vetted for a well-known ...