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Arch rival in the region. we saw that last month when president trump visited saudi arabia and talked about this coalition against iran. kuwait is trying to mediate this rift, trying to bring the two sides together, also u.s. diplomats not wanting to be seen taking sides, also offered their support to help mediate this rift, christine. >> thank you so much for that again. >> the death toll nearly doubling from last week's suicide plast in afghanistan t. country's president says more than 150 people were killed in the blast. he says at least 300 people were severely injured. officials have earl...

>> look, the mayor has been accused of taking sides, certainly. the politics aren't wild about him. that's what i'm reading all the time. that's what people are saying and that they think -- he turned their back on him. people come out showing support for the police. that's a protest. maybe the american people understand we appreciate what the police officers do. why in the world would you put a lid on that? why would you even wait for that if the people want to speak favorably to these police officers? stand up for the new york police? >> well, i don't think that he is -- i think he is really...

I'm hoping they will turn the volume down. >> i'm hoping that -- look, the mayor's been accused of taking sides, the police aren't wild about him, that's what i'm reading all the time. i am wondering if by no protests, he doesn't want prayer vigil. why in the world would you put a lid on that? why even wait for that if people want to speak favorably about the police officers. >> i think he's really talking about the protests of the eric garner case more than anything else. but not trying to defend the mayor -- >> i didn't hear him say that at all. >> i didn't either but i'm hoping that that's ...

Factions can try to form a coalition, a ruling coalition, and you can see where some of the kurds, some sunnies and some of the splinter shiite groups could get together and try to kick maliki out. but they tried that before and he is a tough guy to have stayed in power that long in that country, says something about him. >> do you wonder if we will be seep, given the action taken by the white house and beyond, if we'll be seen as siding with the shiites in the middle of this, that sunnies and others across the country and kurds in the mother may say what's the united states doing taking sides...

Sort of assess whether or not the training that we gave the iraqi military for eight years has taken hold, if they can effectively function as a military service. the problem with that, it seems to me as the mission, is it will be seen by the sunnis as our taking sides against them in a sectarian conflict, something which others on your show have already spoken to earlier today and in other days. >> so what advice would you give in. >> the extent to which we're in there at all, it should be strictly focus tond terrorists mission, the decapitation of isis or isil, whichever you want to call it ...