in terms of allies he probably didn't consider israel an ally at all, certainly not by his behavior. the fact he let a congress be swept into this is a shocker. shows he thinks congress is a toothless tiger. sometimes you have to spy on an ally like in the early part of the last decade on schreuder who was close to putin in doing strange things. unless you have exceptional circumstances it should be hands off. >> what bothers the israelis most is they were specifically target i targeting benjamin netanyahu because he disagreed with the iranian deal. i spoke with a former israeli ambassador on this earlier. let's play the tape. >> i hope there was no cyber implant. that would be an invasion of privacy and a disgusting act, not only, you know, from the u.s., but against such a close friend. >> so they really object to that specific targeting in a private office of an ally. >> i think if i were in their shoes i would be more mad we didn't know there was a cyber device in the prime minister's office. that's what i could be concerned with. secondly it wasn't just netanyahu. it was preside

the pyd is not only ally for america but ally for russia and iran and for the syrian regime. the opposition think the place for the pyd is with the delegation of the regime and they feel if they are going to attend it's not - they must not be able to represented within their own delegation >>> the main opposition group, the syrian opposition group, has said they're going to decide whether or not to attend. they have been invited, of course. they seem to have been pushed into a corner here. what is their move likely to be? if they do decide to attend, they're in a weaker position >> absolutely. they're in a difficult position. if you take the meeting between john kerry, the u.s. secretary of state, and the leadership of the opposition in riyadh last saturday, it was a very difficult meeting when he said if you don't go to geneva, you will lose your allies. i think he was threatening them. if they decide to go, this is going to be very difficult because that would antagonize their basis on the grounds in syria. the base of the syrian revolution does not want the syrian oppositi

turkey is still an ally is still an ally and partner me to have an absolutely frank conversation becausee have different priorities only a trade-off on these issues can get us on the same page. >> ambassador crocker and have a couple of seconds left. you point out that germany has a million plus refugees and i think jordan has 1 million, something like that in the u.s. is willing to take 2100. do you have an opinion on the house passed elvin and security against foreign enemy act and its potential impact on being able to deal with refugees from iraq and syria? >> i appreciate the fears in this country in the wake of paris and particularly san bernardino. these are real fears. .. welcoming of the refugees that they are helping to create. we are the protectors of muslims,muslims, not them. they are the tormentor, we had a protector. and i just hope we do it. i hope the legislation is intended. it is actually counterproductive. >> thank you, mr. chairman. ambassador crocker, you notedcrocker, you noted we need to stand with the sunnis because of others that have taken a position. what effor

we do have allies and partners. even with rune, we will have unilateral sanctions on iran, we will confront them in matters of terrorism and human rights. whereas with the other side we have extensive relationship, ses, ship, missile defense cooperation, billions of dollars of strategic partnership. we have partners, and we have an adversary. that is clear. the question is -- and i do agree with my colleagues, that notwithstanding everything i have said, we have a perception problem, and we have to deal with it. and we should. but nobody should misunderstand that we are somehow right in the middle between iran and our gulf partners. the question is does picking a side take you all the way to doing things that might not be in your interests, like not having a nuclear deal with iran or going directly to war in syria? there is a limit to the degree to which we take sides. we have our own national interests, and that has to be a part of our dialogue with our partners. >> i think the model with the soviet union is a good

and that in my view is with our traditional allies. saudi arabia and the other gulf states, with turkey, with israel, with egypt. we have differences with some of them, particularly with saudi arabia over yemen. but we have to take a stand here, mr. chairman. the russians have taken a stand and they are all in with iran and assad. i think we all know they are not there to fight islamic state. they do not care about islamic state, nor does iran. they care about shoring up assad. that axis, damascus, tehran, moscow, is perceived in the region as an axis. the more we don't take sides, the more that perception takes hold among the sunni arabs, the considerable minority of the population of that volatile region. the more islamic state can make may out of it -- hay out of it. you i would mention several specific steps we need to take. i would agree with general keen on the importance of establishing a no-fly zone. it has gotten harder now that the russians are there. i would like to see us pursue it. i would imagine this committee is heavily

and also to get the allies to pull their weight in it. knows -- i know you spend a portion of your time and vast portfolio on that. what are isis partners looking to us for? and what are the things we are expediting for them? heidi: this is one of the biggest success stories. when i look at the air coalition, 12 partners in there with us, dropping munitions with us every day, it is a huge succccess story. if i can highlight one country in particular to give an example, one would be the uae. the relationship we have with sailing and aircraft over 15 years ago. since then we have trained with them, we have exercised with them. a have been very successful in conflicts going on in the middle east. that is one story. as well as to answer your question on what we are seeing, we are seeing requests for the replenishment of munitions. it has been a success story how we have been able to expedite some of these ururgent requests. the past several years you mentioned isil as being a priority issue. over the past several years many of our allies have

the big three allies that were allied against the third right threatened the united states and soviet union. the leaders of the former two, churchill and roosevelt had met several times. they met in washington a couple times, met in quebec and casa blanca. they wanted to get together with stalin and have a big-3 summit conference having everybody together in the same room to discuss the strategy for defeatinging the third reich. -- defeating -- i had access to the diplomatic cables running between the three guys and i excerpted them into a conversation or more argument. roosevelt said, you know, joe, we would like to get together. why don't you and i meet in alaska. joe said no. churchill and roosevelt got together and asked stalin we will be meeting in cairo. why don't you come down and meet with us there? and joe said no. churchill got biblical and talked about setting up three tents in the desert in iraq and having each one of the big three in the tent and have their meeting there. and joe said no. joe wanted to meet in iran because it was close to the soviet union. and he wanted t

so the big three allies that were allied against the third rike, the u.s. and soviet union, well, the leaders of the churchill and roosevelt, they met several times, they met in washington a couple of times, quebec, casa blanca but they really wanted to get together with stalin, they wanted to have a strategy for defeating the third rike. i actually had access to some of the diplomatic cables or virtually all that were running back and forth between the three guys and i sort of excerpted them and crafted them into like a conversation, actually more of an argument between the big three. roosevelt, said, you know, joe, we would like to get together. why don't you and i meet in alaska. he said no. well, roosevelt and churchill got together and they asked stalin. we are going to be meeting in cairo, we have a conference in november, why don't you come down and meet with us there and joe said, no. churchill got biblical and talked about their being -- about setting up three tents in the desert and iraq and having the big three in a tent and have their meeting th

-- a group of allies. i think you know the members. mr. ford: i think it is possible that some of the states in the region, gulf states, jordanians and others, would be willing to insert ground force into a place like syria. they're not going to do it without the blessing and even the support of the united states, that's sleer -- that's very clear. what the mission of that force would be would have to be defined and i don't think it's the answer by itself. it might be one part of a longer list of things to be done. by itself, it's not enough. in terms of your question about how do you rebuild trust, i think two things. number one, the administration needs to show people in the gulf, in particular saudi arabia, but also countries like kuwait, united arab emirates, qatar, that we may disagree on a lot of things, human rights issues and other things, but where we have a deep disagreement, but fundamentally we stand for their security. in the tit for tat between iran and saudi arabia, i have not heard the admi

we do have allies and partners.with our brain even after the nuclear deal we will have unilateral u.s. sanctions on iran, confront on a grand entrance of terrorism, human rights and other issues. we both have diplomatic relations with iran. where as with the other side we have extensive relationship, bases, ships, missile defense cooperation from cell millions of dollars worth of weapons. i think the starting point should be done to understand we have partners and adversaries. that's clear. the question is, added agree with my colleague that notwithstanding everything i just said we have a perception problem and we have to deal with, and wished. nobody should misunderstand where some of right in the middle between iran and our golf partners that the question is this picking a side take it all the way to doing things that might not be in your interest, like not having a nuclear deal with iran or going directly to war in syria. i think there's a limit to the degree we take sides and we have our own national interest a

important ally in the world. why would north korea antagonize china? >> really ally might not be the right word. china is a patron of north korea, the relationship especially over the course of the past three years, since the last north korean nuclear test, has been quite worn, and there really hasn't been the frequency or intensity of leader-level contacts between kim jong-un and the chinese leaders that existed under his father. kim jong-il. >> you underscored my point better than i did. allies have something they do for each other. with china as north korea's patron as a world where north korea isolates itself, where north korea doesn't have enough money why again would they be doing this? wouldn't they be wanting to say to china you're our oanld friend, let's kee only friend,let's keep on good ? >> north korea a pretty self-centered isolated place, china needs north korea for its own stability. they know that china cares in fact about north korean stability and they're betting that that desire to see north ko

many saudi allies in the middle east have followed suit but unease that saudi arabia and its allies alreadyeel over a newly ascendant iran. home of islam's holiest shrines but shia iran openly challenges that asen dance asen assen asse. new sanctions on iran's missile program and separately, congress has voted to tighten visa restrictions on travelers to the united states who have been to iran. both have the iranians crying foul and warning that any new sanctions will put the nuclear accord in jeopardy and that is why the saudi-iranian power struggle is bound to drag the united states into the fray and there is a growing realization that last year's nuclear accord gives iran more space to project its power instead of curbing it. iran considers itself a superpower in the middle east. and it wants the world to give it the respect it thinks it deserves. and despite agreeing to curbs on its nuclear ambitions, iran's regional influence is bound to grow as sanctions are lifted and its economic isolation ends. >> it's time for american leaders some european leaders to realize that iran is a major

allies parting the arms. it didn't end with the peaceful thesition of power and regime giving up its leader. it ended with the death of gaddafi and everything we've seen since. kosovo, we weren't asking for the regime to give up power portions out of the country. threat ofnd the ground invasion. there may be other reasons to do these things. i would be awfully careful about those steps will lead to the political transition that we're trying to bring about. >> well, thank you all again. ambassadorery much, crocker, for your statements with respect to refugees. willingness tour speak out on that. gillibrand. >> thank you, senator shaheen. i'm going to continue the line of questioning. i hear the answers about the difficulties of the response. turkey has the second largest standing military and nato is almost 700,000 active personnel and 400,000 reserves, most arabia is the powerful army of any arab nation troops,r 200,000 active 70,000anks, jordan has active troops and 60,000 reserves. iran has been the most ac

this came in a very hard time for the allies unlike the situation in 1865 when the war was over. this took place in 1943. it was -- it was the turning point of world war ii although you wouldn't have known that to look at the situation on the battle front, the germans had been defeated at stalin but still in control a huge slice of the western soviet union. 1200-mile front. controlled all of western europe and the anglo-american allies had formed in north africa and invaded italy and were expecting to make steady progress against the germans in that peninsula but by november of 1943 when this takes place they had run into a little stone wall in form of the line and had been in a dangerous position and such was the situation of the war at that time. so the big three allies that were alied the third ranks, u.s., soviet union, the leaders of the former two, churchill and roosevelt had melt several times. they had met in washington, quebec, casablanca. they wanted to get together with stalin. they wanted to have a three-men conference. they wanted to stalk about a strategy of defeati

he one of our allies feels that way. israel, look at the way we treated israel and the way we dealt with our allies in egypt. we aloud our allies to be overthrown by the muslim brotherhood. and we continue to support the muslim brotherhood coming back in egypt. the president has been on the wrong side. and this conflict between saudi arabia and iran, he's trying to take a position of mediating. iran is our enemy. iran says they want to take wor. saudi arabia has tried to partner with us and work in cooperation. we won't take side when it comes to those who are clearly have interest in the united states and those who have been our reliable allies in the past. that many why our enemies don't fear us and our allies don't respect us and trust us. jon: last type around 30 days out you were not in the front running but you went on to win iowa. >> i was at 3% or 4% at this time. jon: i wonder if your victory can potentially hurt you? they would say they hand you the ball. >> even after that coming in second and mitt romney havi

as they evacuated came similar action from some of the kingdom's allies. among them neighboring bahrain. after two days of protesters from shia muslim majority. the gulf state that is closely allied with saudi arabia accused iran of blatant and dangerous interference in support for terrorism. the actions follow the attack at the saudi embassy in tehran and accused iran of doing nothing to prevent it. a war of words is escalating. >> we're determined not to allow iran to undermine our security. we're determined not to let iran mobilize or create or establish terrorist cells in our country or in the countries of our allies. >> unfortunately, the government of iran is creating clashes and escalating tensions. it has taken measures in policies in line with that. >> demonstrating after the execution of nimr al-nimr. he and 46 others were charged with plotting and carrying out terrorist attacks targeting civilians and security forces. saudi arabia adamant he got a fair trial. it is not the first time that diplomatic relations have been cut, but there are fears i

the victorious allies cut up the capital, berlin, like a pie, with each ally controlling its own sector. the area where people lived in freedom was called west berlin. the area where people lived under the iron boot of soviet communism was called east berlin. this film by the u.s. government helps to explain what it was like to live in postwar berlin. >> two and a half million people, more than half of berlin's population, lived in the american, british, and french zones. but the whole city was surrounded by the soviet zone of germany. supplying the two and a half million people of the western canals, and roads. >> but the soviets wanted berlin all to themselves. so, they set up a giant blockade, cutting off the roads and railroads to west berlin. >> the suspension of all traffic successfully blocked all surface access to the city. the soviets claimed that technical difficulties caused the stoppage. the truth was that they were trying to force the western allies to surrender their position in berlin. and the weapon was hunger. >> with no food or supplies able to get in, the soviets expe

the victorious allies cut up the capital, berlin, like a pie, with each ally controlling its own sector. the area where people lived in freedom was called west berlin. the area where people lived under the iron boot of soviet communism was called east berlin. this film by the u.s. government helps to explain what it was like to live in postwar berlin. >> two and a half million people, more than half of berlin's population, lived in the american, british, and french zones. but the whole city was surrounded by the soviet zone of germany. supplying the two and a half million people of the western sectors was a system of rails, canals, and roads. >> but the soviets wanted berlin all to themselves. so, they set up a giant and railroads to west berlin. >> the suspension of all traffic successfully blocked all surface access to the city. the soviets claimed that technical difficulties caused the stoppage. the truth was that they were trying to force the western allies to surrender their position in berlin. and the weapon was hunger. >> with no food or supplies able to get in, the soviets expec

china is north korea' north kory biggest ally if you will. and what this latest incident appears to be is a further erosion of the relationship between the two nations. china just after 24 hours ago after this was announce they'd this is what north korea said was an h bomb test firing china said they didn't know about it and that's a difference from the previous test. the previous three tests that north korea has carried out because they gave china their ally a heads up this was coming so they could expect it so they weren't taken off guard.

a number of allies were selling arms to the opposition. it didn't vlf÷ end with the pef exchange of power. it ended with the death of qaddafi. cost obvious volunteer, we weren't even asking for the regime to give up power. we were asking for security forces to get out of the country. we had a nato bombing campaign with the threat of a ground invitation before they did that. iraq, we had no-fly zones for years and it didn't bring about the political settlement. so again, there may be other reasons to do these things. i would be awfully careful about thinking that those steps will lead to the political transition we're trying to bring about. >> thank you all again. and thank you very much, ambassador crocker, for your statements with respect to refugees. i think i appreciate your willingness to speak out on that. gillibrand. >> thank you, senator shaheen, i'm going to continue your line of questioning. i hear, at least the answers that you gave to senator shaheen, about the difficulties of response. but given that turkey has the second large

the british said, we are not ready, we being the allies. we do not yet have enough landing craft, we are going to be fully occupied in the mediterranean. . here are the two sides, the americans pressing for an earliest as possible attack and the british holding back, wanting to further solidify the situation in the mediterranean. this went on for a couple hours. a good deal,aking fdr mostly sitting and listening and at some point amused at this angle between the british chiefs of staff and the american chiefs of staff. finally, the chairman of the british military group reached for a pencil and pat and rode out a tentative answer to stalin. he passed it across the table to the chairman of our chiefs of staff and roosevelt personal staff. he did some editing, read it aloud. it was not giving stalin what he wants to know, it was explaining the difficulties we were facing in planning the next step. a lot of jargon that didn't address stalin directly, because they could not agree on what to tell stalin. to me to smooth out, and after they left

in the region, especially our vital ally israel. this is a step this body can and should take, and to do so would be much in the spirit, the bipartisan spirit that we saw in the foreign relations committee between chairman corker and ranking member cardin that produced the iran nuclear agreement review act. i think passing the iran policy oversight act would be a strong and important contribution by this chamber. speaking only for myself, i'll also say that i think we should reauthorize the iran sanctions act which is set to expire this year. having that bill reauthorized, that law reauthorized would provide a viable framework through which the united states could snap back sanctions if iran violates the jcpoa. each of the ideas that we've outlined confirming vital national security nominees, passing enforcement legislation and fully funding reliably and for the long term the iaea, the inspections watchdog that is supposed to keep a close and persistent eye on iran's nuclear facilities, these represent critical, concrete steps that

at ally bank no branches equals great rates. it's a fact. kind of like shopping hungry equals overshopping. at ally bank no branches equals great rates. it's a fact. kind of like ordering wine equals pretending to know wine. pinot noir, which means peanut of the night. >>> all right. ring in the new year by raising the minimum wage. more than a dozen cities and states will start with such hikes. ben stein says get ready for the jobs to take a hike. very few in the $15 neck of the wood but higher than the national average of $7.25. ben, you're worried. why? >> because it's a simple matter of arithmetic. if the jobs will be twice as expensive per hour there will be fewer jobs. that's the way it is. not apple manufacturing which makes $600,000 per employee but at burger king, taco bell or del taco there will be fewer employees. it's arithmetic. i would like for retail and salespeople to be paid more per hour. i would cough up to pay more but it won't happen. it will cost jobs. it has to. it's math. >> he may not happy to pay more. there is a li

they would understand, and that's a very powerful set of allies. i don't know yet since i'm just making that was scandinavians, -- that discovery of linking that with the scandinavians, how that gets organized. those would be the extremes. and probably not somebody in the middle. whether they had oil or not. [laughter] >> let me start with the point on alliances, which is a terribly difficult one. there is no question it is an enormously difficult question and requires trade-offs, but there's a lot of creative work that can be done there. the u.s. has really interesting alliances. in the u.n., or potential allies that i do not feel are being cultivated enough on this issue. the big voices in women's rights debates this year and last year were small and not very powerful countries -- uruguay, philippines, south korea, and middle size countries that are enormously interesting. chile, argentina, brazil. there's many more. most of the central american countries -- they are complicated because of catholicism, but there are some very interesting allies.

at ally bank no branches equals great rates. it's a fact. kind of like playing the boss equals the boss wins. wow! >>> all right. ring in the new year by raising the minimum wage. more than a dozen cities and states will start with such hikes. ben stein says get ready for the jobs to take a hike. very few in the $15 neck of the wood but higher than the national average of $7.25. ben, you're worried. why? >> because it's a simple matter of arithmetic. if the jobs will be twice as expensive per hour there will be fewer jobs. that's the way it is. not apple manufacturing which makes $600,000 per employee but at burger king, taco bell or del taco there will be fewer employees. it's arithmetic. i would like for retail and salespeople to be paid more per hour. i would cough up to pay more but it won't happen. it will cost jobs. it has to. it's math. >> he may not happy to pay more. there is a limit on how many americans would. that's what leads to these company that is lay off people, right? i wonder what happens. >> if you raise prices people buy

allies are beginning to take sides.nd maiden voyage to the united states, one of the world's largest cargo ships. ♪ >>> president obama made it clear today gun control is his first major issue as he begins its final year in office, and he is taking executive action. the president met today with the attorney general, fbi director, and the head of the atf to discuss possible executive action to combat gun violence. mike viqueira has more for us. mike? >> reporter: well, good evening, tony on the first day of his last year in office, president obama is taking on the one issue he says has frustrated him the most, gun violence. after going over plans with the attorney general in the oval office, president obama says it's time to act on guns. >> we have to be very clear that this is not going to solve every violent crime in this country. it's not going to prevent every mass shooting. it will potentially save lives in this country. >> reporter: as he has on immigration and the environment, mr. obama will use executive action,

the british were adamant that we are not yet ready, we meeting the allies. we don't yet have control of the air, we don't have enough landing craft. we will be fully occupied in the mediterranean. sites of the two americans pressing for the earliest possible attack across the channel and the british wanting to further solidify the situation in the mediterranean. this went on for a couple of hours. churchill speaking a good deal. fdr mostly sitting and listening and was somewhat amused at this tangle between the british chiefs of staff in the americans. chairmansir john, the of the british military group reached for a pencil and a pad and wrote out a tentative answer to stalin. he passed it across the table to admiralty, who was the chairman of our chiefs of staff and roosevelt's personal chief of staff. he did some editing, read it aloud and it was a basic answer. it was not giving stalin what he wanted to know, it was explaining the difficulties we were facing in planning the next step. a lot of jargon that did not really address them directly because they

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as they evacuated came similar action by some of the kingdom's allies. among them neighboring bahrain after two days of demonstrations by protesters from its shia-muslim majority. the gulf state that is closely allied with saudi arabia accused iran of blatant and dangerous interference in arab countries and support for terrorism. the actions follow the arson attack at the saudi embassy in tehran. and saudi arabia accused iran for not doing anything to prevent it. a war of words is escalating. >> we have cut off diplomatic relations with iran. cutting off air traffic to and from iran and commercial interactions with iran and a travel ban against people traveling to iran. >> unfortunately, the government of saudi arabia sees its interest in creating clashes and escalating tension in the region. it has taken regions and foreign policies in line with that. >> shia people right across the middle east have been demonstrating after the execution of nimr al-nimr. he and 46 others were charged with plotting and carrying out terrorist attacks, targeting civilians

our allies are gaining ground.we need to make this clear that what happens in the middle east is a of financial importance to us and at a time when states are failing and non state taxes are rising that has become all too clear that as my good friend and former wing man general david petraeus says what happens in the middle east does not stay in the middle east. that was the lesson of paris. so we have an urgent national security imperative here. let me say briefly on iran, that obviously is the issue of the hour around tell, some pretty momentous developments and they are important. the implementation is important for regional security and global security. we have to be very vigilant to see that iran follows through. we are delighted that our hostages of come home but as i look at this over the sweep of recent history, these are transactions. they are not transformations. i am reminded of our arms control agreements with the soviets in the 80s. they made the world safer place with a nuclear power, but they didn't

he thought we were frittering away allied forces and strength in side tracks. we ought to be attacking the mainland europe and not nazi germany directly. so, in effect, he was demanding an answer. when are you going to act on the western front? well, this was rough. we had not decided. so, late one evening, i was on duty alone. i had the night watch that night. and the front door, the map room door suddenly opened and in came roosevelt, churchill, our chiefs of staff and the british chiefs of staff, all of whom had had dinner upstairs, a very convivial dinner, as one could tell from their laughter and their behavior, but they came in and settled down to business, what are we going to say to uncle joe, as they commonly referred to joseph stalin. they couldn't agree on an answer because at that point, britain and the united states had not agreed on what the next steps were going to be. general marshall, taking the lead for our side, was insistent on the earliest possible attack across the channel, normandy, to someplace. normandy itself had not yet been decided o

an ally is actually an enemy and our enemies are actually allies. they turn facts and reality upside down. israel has been treated like an enemy for 7 years under this administration. charles: we do hear more and more from our allies that they are not sure we've have their back which is one of the reasons. i want to shift gears and go to the judge on this. i want you to hear the focus on hillary clinton. the legal walls are closing in on her at the same time the political walls seem to be closing in. we could see nothing the form an indictment in the election. >> there have been a couple developments in the past week which indicate the f.b.i. is focusing intently on making a recommendation for indictment or against indictment. but it's nearing the end of its investigation. one of its indictments will extend the investigation. we were originally told by director comey, expect a recommendation by january 15, that's next week. but the fine recently revealed through our colleagues catherine herridge and pamela brown that it has begun a parallel investig