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Invaded iraq. and that the iranian influence has expanded enormously due to listening to people like john bolton the last time around! >> indeed. john bolton and benjamin netanyahu testified in congress. they're the ones now complaining about the fact that iran controls iraq, allegedly. who allowed them to do that? and knock out the taliban, which was a good thing. nobody likes the taliban. but iran benefitted from that, too. they benefited from many u.s. military interventions in that part of the world. and now you have this situation where lindsey graham and co. are talking about retaliation...

Tanker being attacked. in fact, u.s. intelligence says it's iran that's retaliating. senator tim kaine said u.s. officials said that all of the iranian actions so far, all of them, are a response to trump's quote/unquote maximum pressure campaign. so let's get our framing right. it's iran that's been subjected to massive sanctions, iran that's had the nuclear deal undermined and violated. i'm not defending iranian actions, but who's brought us to this point? it's the trump administration. >> can you imagine what the reaction would be if the iranians happened to hack a u.s. columnist to death i...

Terrorism connection here. >> yes, there is. in fact, just two weeks ago, the islamist terrorist group al-shabaab, which is fighting an insurgency in somalia against the internationally recognized government there, signed a deal with the largest pirate syndicate in exchange for allowing the pirates to operate out of forts that the islamists control, they're going to get a 20 percent cut of these ransoms, some of which are running into the millions of dollars. jon: you have four americans now dead as a result of these pirates, you have seven taken hostage, including three children between the a...