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He's worried about iranian influence and the potential dangers to isreal from having a super highway from beirut to tehran in terms of delivering weapons into lebanon. and he will be talking to turkey about making sure we don't have a war between the turks and our allies the kurds. >> so breaking news. that was senator lindsey graham discussing the substance of his lunch meeting at the white house with president trump and according to graham, one of the president's chief concerns is you heard there is iran's influence in the region. potential threat to isreal. let's bring in jeanine, middle ea...

Forth between damascus and baghdad and to tehran. the strategic importance of this base is they're deterring isis from coming into this area and transing along there but also there as a road block to the iranian hope to build some sort of shia crescent in that region. a u.s. military base right in the middle of that, ali. >> that's a tricky dual set of goals because the assad regime is also fighting isis but backed by the iranians so it becomes trickier, is the enemy of your enemy your friend? you spoke with the direct of central command there. what did he say? >> i asked him exactly this. as ...

Carafano, what needs to be in the deal, and he made a snarky remark and he said, everything in the iran deal that the president blew up. there was a big thing in the iran deal, which was other president, president obama, sent that private jet with a billion dollars in cash to tehran and also, on froze about a hundred billion dollars in assets. i think that is something that was in the iran deal that president trump that with a terrible mistake, and the idea of putting all of this upfront goodies for the enemy, or the adversary, or the other negotiator, negotiating country, in the deal, i would...

Stepped in to make sure this de-escalates. the white house has sided firmly with israel. the white house saying israel absolutely has the right to defend itself and condemning iranian aggression. russia, hemeanwhile, taking a mh more measured approach speaking with both israel and iran and urging restraint. it's the russians that have the influence and power to de-escalate this. that's what they're urging, a step back, a breather so this dissipates and doesn't continue. it's still very early here. this all happened less than 24 hours ago. though it is deceptively quiet here, that can change as...

>> sandra: the attorney general in his statement when he announced this investigation into the obama administration said this, the justice department will leave no stone unturned to eliminate threat to our citizens from terrorist organizations and stem the tide of the devastating drug crisis. what did you learn what they may have done, the obama administration, in order to push this iran deal through? what did your report reveal? >> sandra, this is all very complicated stuff. the story as you noted is 13,000 words. there is a lot of nuance that sometimes get lost in the headlines. what happene...