and now his successor was of the baghdad airport last week and went in for meetings.assination program against some of the iranian top leaders with that put them back on their heels? >> certainly when the soleimani was killed it almost brought to a halt executions back home. the regime took a very strong message there's actually a graph you should check out between the number of executions in iran between the obama administration and the biden administration it was literally cut to half that's because of a much stronger position by the u.s. administration under president trump. the numbers have increased again. again to that effect the more pressure or certainly retaliation should and after the three americans were unfortunately killed we saw the retaliation that brought a lesser aggression or minimizing their attempts of attacks against american personnel and troops. it shows toughness does work to some extent it. but our problem is not going to be the result by the regime is slowing down on its aggression. we need to put an end to the regime at once and for all it i

and also the proceedings of the us crime case at the baghdad airport led to the assassination of the young and manly commanders of our beloved martyrs, the martyrs of sepah bad haj qasim soleimani and abu mahdi al-muhandis and the comrades of these resistance axis commanders. these were followed up and studied. in this trip, in line with the pursuit of terrorists , i request your presence as many documents and files as possible attention was given to the iraqi side of the terrorist currents and the head of the supreme judicial council of iraq issued strict orders to follow up and pursue the documents that were submitted to him. the issue of zionists' outrage and crime in palestine was one of the other issues discussed in various bilateral meetings during this trip . currently, the relations between the islamic republic of iran and the republic of iraq in all dimensions and angles, especially the legal and judicial aspects, are developing and growing. there is an upgrade. an example of this is the trip of 3 heads of the judiciary of the islamic republic to iraq in the past years there

the pure souls of the martyrs of imam shahada, from the martyrs of 15 khordad to the martyrs of baghdad airport, haj qasim, and the martyrs of the homeland until this day, god willing, they will all be our prayers. and let us be stable under the shadow of amir al-mu'minin, your presence. that first of all, it is an important issue , the position of different places has been discussed, but the point is that the new free zones , as mr. karimi said, have been approved by law . when a new free zone wants to be approved, all the organs of the republic must approve it , that is, it should become a text. text in the government in the supreme council in the government in the majlis in the shura in the guardian council. i would like to thank your honorable service. later, sometimes, in recognition of the expediency of all the organs of the republic , they pass a law. well, as mr. karimi said , they agree with me. they are the new judges because it has already been approved and is now being implemented. we should we were raising the question in a different way . what should we do with the approved free z

leader of most efforts that have involved threats to the united states a rocket attack on the baghdad airportost revered military leader when the us assassinated soleimani in 2020, the result my dip backfired, galvanizing iran and its allies. >> it was actually in many ways of goldmine because instead of him being killed by someone on an isis is being assassinated by the great satan >> iran is not a haizhu monic power. i would say is an opportunistic power. and 1982 is really invasion of lebanon created his bold line in 2003, us invasion of iraq, creating an opportunity for iran to develop a network of shia militias in iraq. 2015, saudi invasion of yemen created an opportunity for iran and to double down on its relations with the houthis in yemen. >> but has this proxy strategy worked for iran i sat down with iran president brahim racy and pushed him on this subject or country that used to be one of the richest countries in the region. now looks backward in comparison us iran seems more isolated is it worth the price you have paid to have taken all these positions that you will have taken in

they were in a car together on the roof of the baghdad airport to see the prime minister of iraq when they were both assassinated. so, this group does have some beef with the united states for having killed their previous leader. >> i will welcome you anytime you have the time to join us here on the broadcast, thank you for sharing what you know today. i appreciate that. meantime, he's one of the first attorneys to make donald trump a. now he's written a book about. it what can you learn today about the collapse of trump university if you years back, the attorney and author joins me next. me next. >> at trump university, we teach success. that is what it is all about. success. it is going to happen to you. if you don't learn from them, if you don't learn from me, if you don't learn from the people that we are going to be putting forward, and these are all people that are handpicked by me, then you just are not going to make it in terms of the world of success. i think that the biggest step toward success is going to be signing up to trump university. >> yeah, the thousands of people w

back to late 2019 when we launched a kinetic strike against the irgc soleimani at the baghdad international airportgood way to resort escalation dominance over iran. ashley: senator lindsey graham wants to take action against russia after the death of alexei navalny, listen to this. >> alexei navalny was one of the greatest people i ever met when he went back to russia he had to know he was going to be killed by putin and he was murdered by putin, why don't we do this i just got off the phone with two democratic senators let's make russia a state-sponsored terrorism under u.s. law and make them pay a price for killing alexei navalny. >> i guess the question should russia be designated as a state sponsor of terrorism i find it hard to argue against that, what do you say. >> china does the same thing to their political opponents. i think what we ought to do to support ukraine that is less than 5% of the department of defense budget and if you want to bring her giovanna reporting and make them pay a price, that is the way to do it pay alexei navalny that ukrainians will launch at the russian invaders

trump administration killed soleimani and the deputy head of iran's proxy militants at the baghdad international airport. >> but let me interrupt you. there was one big difference and that was the element of surprise existed. there is no element of surprise here. >> absolutely. i am getting to that. i totally agree with you. there is no reason to telegraph what we are doing before hand. also we shouldn't be taking potential strikes off the table. we should never have said we wouldn't strike in iran. while at the iranians believe we won't do that? this could be a center or a tactical success but it's not going to alter iran's strategic calculus about carrying on the proxy war against the united states. >> we've had nearly 200 attacks against u.s. soldiers in iraq and syria. that's an awful lot of attacks. they had one response. they made a big deal about it and it turned out they had two empty warehouses. we heard that great britain rebels. it was hoped that this would be impactful. it turns out the houthi were emboldened because they didn't have an impacts. they got even more aggressive to u.s. flagship

late 2019, the trump administration targeted qassim soleimani, the head of the irgc at baghdad international airport. and for a time, that did re-establish escalation dominance for the united states. >> neil: dan, i'm thinking back to the cia days in moscow. we not gotten any response or news out of russia and what vladimir putin makes of this or what china makes of this. what are your thoughts? >> i'm sure that russia is tracking this very, very closely. i would not doubt that the united states at all levels, for department of defense, intelligence community, cia, the state department is in touch with our adversaries, not just our allies. i'm sure the united states has reached out to the chinese and the russians now that the strikes have begun. part of that is for deconfliction as well. a lot of russian troops have been supporting al-asad in syria. >> neil: we're hearing separately before we got word of these follow up attacks that u.s. intelligence officials said that tehran does not have full control of these proxy groups, the very groups we're targeting right now. we'll get into that and more wi

late 2019, the trump administration targeted the irgc commander, kassem soleimani at the baghdad international airportand that restored deterrence, at least for a period of time. but this has been a challenge for us going back to the irgc directed attacks against the marine embassy barracks and beirut embassy back 40 years ago. >> bret: it's not like they have been stopped in their wish to help terrorist groups or to stir the pot in the middle east. >> you know the critics of president biden will say he ran on foreign policy. that was going to be his big addition to the white house. he had those decades of experience. yet, the disastrous fallout of afghanistan that cost 13 american lives. that's on his record now, the left is asking is he going to be out there starting a new unwinnable war in a place that has no resolution which is the middle east, he's not going to want that on his record, either. yeah, again, we don't know what the fallout from this is going to be or how long it's going to last, susan. will he have support up on capitol hill from his own party in this? >> i think they will be mixed.