>>
>> WELCOME BACK. IN IRAN, A WHOLE NEW LEVEL. A BARRAGE OF MISSILES RAIN DOWN
ON BASIS AND AMERICAN TROOPS
INSIDE IRAQ.
THE PRESIDENT HAS NO AMERICANS
WERE KILLED.
IF THE U.S. DOES STRIKE BACK,
THE PRESIDENT SAYS HE WILL ONLY
RETALIATE WITH ECONOMIC
SANCTIONS.
THE TWO SIDES SEEMED TO SETBACK
THIS WEEK BUT THE CRISIS IS FAR
FROM OVER.
>> THE SUPREME LEADER CALLED
THE STRIKE A SLAP IN THE FACE,
I WOULD CALL IT A SLAP ON THE
WRIST.
IT WAS REALLY PRETTY MINIMAL.
THAT WAS CLEARLY THE INTENT OF
THE REGIME, WAS NOT TO KILL
AMERICANS.
>> SOMETHING THE ATTACK WAS NOT
THE REAL PLAN.
THERE IS A BACKLASH AFTER THE
ADMINISTRATION TRUMP
ADMINISTRATION, THE PRESIDENT'S
OWN PARTY SLAMMING THE
ADMINISTRATION.
>> THIS IS THE WORST BRIEFING I
HAVE SEEN ON A MILITARY ISSUE
IN THE NINE YEARS I HAVE SERVED
IN THE UNITED STATES AND A.
>> THE CONSTITUTION IS FOR US
TO DEBATE WHEN WE GO TO WAR.
AND WE FOR ONE ARE NOT GOING TO
ADD ABDICATE THAT DUTY.
>> MOST REPUBLICANS WERE
SATISFIED TO DEFEND THE
ADMINISTRATION.
WE SOUGHT TO START REPUBLICANS,
WHO, AS REPUBLICAN AS YOU CAN
GET.
>> THEY AREN'T ON NATIONAL
SECURITY ISSUES.
THE SENATORS I DISAGREE WITH
99% OF THE TIME WHEN IT COMES
TO NATIONAL SECURITY.
THEY ARE SO RELUCTANT TO USE
FORCE ALMOST ANY TIME, AND
THOSE TWO ONLY, MOST OF THE
REPUBLICAN SENATORS I SAW
INTERVIEWED THOUGHT IT WAS
JUSTIFIED AND THE BRIEFING WAS
SOLID.
I KNOW WHAT INTERVIEW I SAW, HE
WAS TALKING ABOUT HOW THE
ADMINISTRATION WOULD NOT GIVE
SPECIFIC RULES FOR WHEN THEY
WOULD TAKE THE NEXT STEPS.
I CAN UNDERSTAND WHY THEY WOULD
NOT WANT TO PUT THEMSELVES IN A
BOX.
THOSE WERE JUST TWO SENATORS.
>> IRAN, HOW IT'S BEING HANDLED,
>> WE ARE PICKING A WAR THAT
MOST OF AMERICA DOES NOT WANT.
THE REPUBLICAN SENATORS THAT
ARE AGAINST IT, I THINK THAT
PUTS THE QUESTION OF ARE WE
COUNTRY OR PARTY FIRST?
WHAT ARE THE DEMOCRAT
REPUBLICANS THINK, IN GENERAL
CONGRESS IS STARTING TO SAY,
THIS IS OUR JOB TO DECLARE WAR.
IT IS OUR JOB TO FIGURE OUT THE
PARAMETERS OF THE SITUATION.
AND NOT THE WHITE HOUSE.
TO DECIDE.
>> WE HAVE TO BE CLEAR THIS IS
NOT PICKING A FIGHT, THIS IS
ENDING A FIGHT.
THIS IS IRAN STARTED THIS
PROVOCATION, THEY BEEN DOING IT
MORE AND MORE OVER THE LAST
SEVERAL MONTHS.
OUR EMBASSY IN IRAQ WAS
ATTACKED AND THAT ATTACK WAS
FUELED BY IRANIAN REGIME.
THIS IS US RETALIATING AGAINST
ACTIONS THEY HAVE TAKEN.
THE FACT THAT THEY RESPONDED IN
SUCH A WEAK WAY, THE IRANIAN
REGIME, TO SHOWS THAT THEY DO
NOT WANT TO MESS WITH US.
THEY DO NOT WANT ANOTHER
>> OR A LOT OF PEOPLE FEEL
LIKE, THIS IS JUST THE
BEGINNING.
YOU MENTIONED, THE KILLING OF
QASSEM SOLEIMANI, I'VE HEARD A
LOT OF PEOPLE SAY, HEY,
FINALLY, TRUMP DID WHAT
PRESIDENTS HAVE NOT DONE.
THIS WAS A BAD DUDE DOING BAD
THINGS TO AMERICANS.
IT WAS TIME THAT HE WAS TAKEN
OUT.
THANK GOODNESS PRESIDENT TRUMP
DID THIS.
AND WHY DEMOCRATS DON'T
UNDERSTAND THAT, WE DON'T
UNDERSTAND.
THAT'S WHAT YOU HEAR PEOPLE
SAY.
>> IS THAT THE ISSUE?
IS THAT THE ISSUE?
OR IS IT CUT DEMOCRATS ARE,
THEY DON'T TRUST THE PRESIDENT
AND HOW HE HANDLED IT.
GOING FORWARD.
>> I THINK IT'S BOTH.
PARTIALLY, I FEEL LIKE THERE
WAS AN ACTIVE CHOICE FROM HIS
PREDECESSORS TO NOT TAKE THIS
GUY OUT BECAUSE OF THE
REPERCUSSIONS.
OF WHAT WE FACE NOW.
BUT I DO THINK IT HAS A LOT TO
DO WITH, THIS PRESIDENT HAS NOT
SHOWN THAT HE IS TRUSTWORTHY TO
HOLD THE OFFICE IN THE FIRST
PLACE AND HAVING THE CAPACITY
TO JUST TAKE OUT FOR LEADERS,
THEY DON'T AGREE WITH THIS,
>> HE'S NOT A FOREIGN LEADER
PER SE, HE IS AN ENEMY
COMBATANT AND WE ARE JUST
JUSTIFY DOING SO.
>> ENEMY COMBATANT, ...
>> HE IS DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE
FOR TERRORISM AND FOR KILLING
HUNDREDS OF AMERICANS.
>> NO DOUBT ABOUT THAT.
ON THE SAME TOPIC, AFTER
APPEARING ON FOX, NIKKI HALEY
SAID THE ONLY ONES MOURNING THE
LOSS OF QASSEM SOLEIMANI IS THE
DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP AND
PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES.
DO YOU THINK THEY ARE THE ONLY
PEOPLE MORNING?
>> IT IS CLEAR THAT I HAVE SEEN
SEVERAL INTERVIEW BUT THEY TALK
ABOUT HOW THIS WAS A TERRIBLE
THING THAT HE SHOULD NOT HAVE
TAKEN THIS ACTION.
THEY COULD'VE BEEN MUCH MORE
RESERVED, BUT THE DEMOCRATIC
LEADERSHIP IN THIS COUNTRY,
THEY CANNOT ACKNOWLEDGE ANYTHING
. THAT THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION
DOES AS BEING RIGHT.
WHATEVER HE DOES, IT IS GOING
TO BE WRONG TO THEM.
QUITE FRANKLY ...
>> WE SAW HIM COME OUT AND
BLAME THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION
THIS WEEK.
>> THEY HAD EIGHT YEARS OF VERY
WEAK FOREIGN POLICY, WE LOOK
WEAKER AS A COUNTRY AFTER THOSE
EIGHT YEARS.
AND HE IS HAD A MUCH STRONGER
POSITION.
AND WE ARE MUCH MORE RESPECTED
FROM A MILITARY STANDPOINT.
PEOPLE ARE LESS LIKELY TO MESS
WITH US WHEN THEY FEAR