Looking for opportunities, simply to mess with the u.s. they love a warm water naval port and they love ticket america. they can find anyway to make make our life more difficult. from intelligence perspective, they have the clear intention to remain there. cia director said he does not see a future with assad, and that s going to be one of the sticking point with russia because of their long relationship. sandra: pompeo was very critical of the iran deal and the congressman. did he have anything to say about that? there is no daylight between his hawk s position in congress and what we are saying in his new job as a cia director. he made this interesting analogy of the deal, a lot of us may be able to identify it calling iran compliance a nightmare. i kind of think of irani in compliance with the nuclear deal like a bad tenant, they don t pay their rent and they sent
Who investigators say is likely to blame, we ll talk about that up next. and mike pompeo says that vladimir putin has no intention of leaving syria and will continue to meddle in u.s. affairs. general jack keane here to weigh in on our options for handling the russians. they love warm water naval port and they love to stick it to america. you don t let anything keep you sidelined. that s why you drink ensure. with 9 grams of protein and 26 vitamins and minerals. for the strength and energy to get back to doing. .what you love. ensure. always be you.
Naval facility. to some extent he s absolutely right. where do we have our bases? we have them to protect our national interest. i think that russia has a lot stronger base, certainly when it comes to syria, of national interest in syria than we do. because that s the single naval port that they have a long limited training, they ve been selling arms into syria. as colonel schaefer mentioned, they have been building up their alliances in that region, specifically to iran. with the announcement that we are pulling the support from the cia backed rebels, and i we have to look at this and say what policies can we put into place that work. historically that hasn t been effective. i m not looking at this as a capitulation russia, but maybe
At the same time you ve got russia and bring up their military presence on the ground, which is new in syria. mike pompeo offering this blunt assessment of moscow s interest in the war-torn country. what is russia s interest in syria? what s there and came? because they love a warm water naval port and they loved us to get to america. i m sort of kidding, but i think they find any place they can make our lives more difficult and i think they find something useful to them. from an intelligence perspective it s clear they have the intention of remaining there. martha: tony shafer is a senior fellow at the london center for policy research, and ben collins special forces officer who served three tours in afghanistan. gentlemen, good evening. i ll come to both of you. i want to start with mike pompeo s comments.
That is how cia director mike pompeo was describing u.s.-russian relations. pompeo was speaking yesterday. he expressed hope for improved relations with moscow, but also saying that russia continues to be a thorn in our side here at home and in syria. they love warm water naval port on the logistics to americ america. i m sort of kidding, but i think they find any place that they can make our lives more difficult and they find it something that s useful to them. from an intelligence perspective, it s clear they have intentions of remaining there. heather: joining me now is a retired four-star general jack keane, he s the chairman of the institute for the study of war and a fox news military analyst. thank you so much for joining us. glad to be here. heather: is a right? to the left to stick it to americans? oh, yes. when you think about it from a