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Which includes at long last rallying the american congress and the international community to really isolate the iranians diplomatically. more economic sanctions, cyber activity, covert activity, armed sales to our allies who are vulnerable to iran, as well as, of course, having to think at the end of the day, as a last resort, when we're directly challenged by iran, to use limited military force, if necessary. >> dana: diplomacy is all preferred. adam, next week there's going to be that u.s. generated meeting of the middle eastern states and countries getting together. they're there to talk a...

>> your book is terrific. thank you, josh king. >> thank you, michael. let me check in on tweets and facebook. what have you got, katherine. hilt hit me with something. why are the saudis treating trump so well after the muslim ban. i tell you why. because of the sunni, shi'a split. we have a tendency in this country to regard the muslim world as being homogenous when it is not. it is all tribal. still to come. on the eve of his sexual assault trial commencing, bill cosby broke two years' silence. gave me an exclusive interview on radio. what did he reveal. the navy s.e.a.l. that shot an...

Let me check in on tweets and facebook. what have you got, katherine. hit me with something. why are the saudis treating trump so well after the muslim ban? isn't that from you? i tell you why. it's because of the sunni/shia split. we have a tendency in this country to regard the muslim world as being homogenous when in fact it is not. it is all tribal. that would be my short answer. still to come. on the eve of his sexual assault trial commencing, bill cosby broke two years' silence. gave me an exclusive interview on radio. so what did he vie veal? and robert o'neil is here, the navy s.e....

Of john kerry and others at the table in vienna. it's almost like the policy in afghanistan where we would build up but then we would set an exit date and it tended to be contradictory. we don't want to get into that situation here where we say what we're going to do but also, we hint at what it is we're not prepared to do. >> what about the challenge of how hard it is to kill an idea? we all read the stories about young people, whether recruited or not, who pack up and go off to fight with isis because they like the idea, they like the cause. >> well, what we can do is kill the momentum. i do...

The sunni/shia split. in large parts of iraq, there is so much resistance to the shiite-led government and the influence of iran there that you've got real divided loyalties there and no national loyalty to baghdad, because they believe that baghdad has so badly failed them and has been so hostile, frankly, to the sunni interests in large parts of iraq. >> andrea mitchell, stand by there. let's go to retired four star army general barry mccaffrey who has been listening to all of this. he is in seattle today. general, kind of a general question, actually, about what i asked jim miklaszewski at ...