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About national security advisor robert o'brien and joining us tonight from washington after getting across town and christmastime traffic. we preach at the time. >> thank you for having me, bret, i hope you're enjoying my home town. >> bret: we are in data. we started the show considering the plan that had 7,000 national forces to the middle east to counter iran according to two senior defense officials, genre talking about it on the senate services community here today. if the president being president plans with adding additional forces to the middle east to counter iran. >> the president ha...

Our national security interest. john: we have u.s. ramping up sanctions to iran, withdrawing from the jcpoa, which you yourself did not vote for. iran is countering shooting the drones, and launching missiles at oil facilities. they are in a shoo shooting war. if you let someone fire at you and yo you don't shoot back, are you not showing weakness. >> there were conversations with european about strengthening santions again iran for nonnuclear violations, we could have had that international support, tighten the economic pressure but still stay within the nuclear agreement. by pulling out. it ...

It is true, and i don't know if it is, even if they turned off the tracking device. >> if it is in international water, it is, absolutely. but what you want to do in those circumstances is you want to deescalate. rule one is always protect your people and your individuals, protect your kid. then number two is de-escalate as best you can. rule three is if you can't get your tanker back, go get your tanker back regardless of how you have to do it and don't escalate beyond that. so i'm convinced all of the activities are connected. >> and iran's motivation is attention, aggression, to flex back a...

Here. >> you go and you see a group of cops having a bite to eat or something to drink, does that make you uncomfortable personally or do you feel safe? >> personally i would feel more safe. >> that is something people don't appreciate, how important they are, the things they do, a story like that just makes me sick. >> what you think about a person that would say that about an officer that wasn't causing any problems but was just there getting a cup of joe? >> eight days common sense eight so common. ignorance is not bliss. >> a bad move by starbucks, a bunch of bad moves they have made over ...

Trafficked over the border and i think that having a physical barrier there in addition to the technology, the drones, the ports of entry enhancements, all of that makes us safer. >> but you already do have physical barriers in many of these places. you could use more but this is about how much and where, not just -- >> my expectation is that the 1.3 in change that we approved tonight will be enhanced by an additional $6.5 billion. and you'll see them kind of round out the major contributions to that fund and at the end of the day, you and i both know the country doesn't want to go through ano...