. >> joining us now with an inside about the drill is chuck nash.lcome, good to see you. >> let's talk for a moment about the drills. since mr. trump is taking office Ãwhat do you make of this? i am glad he was clear to point out that this is a regular drill. it just so happens that it occurred in the timing of when president trump took office. i don't think the navy is taking the as a provocative action. the aircraft carrier is in the mediterranean now .i think the united states navy is comfortable and allowing the iranians to conduct their yearly exercise and basically, not be somewhere you could precipitate the unwanted action. >> nonetheless, do you think it's a way for iran to show the world that got its own arsenal there or want to remind people of that? we did not see the elite guard take part in it doesn't send a message? >> it does. this is part of the stagecraft and a lot of it is for the neighbors but it's also for the internal consumption. the iranians regime needs to show the people that part of the reason why the standard of living is

with me now to discuss, captain chuck nash. we saw of course where iran tested a ballistic missile. then this houthi attack. apparently they thought they were aiming or the target was an american ship. it did not work out that way but we got the message and we sent one back today, didn't we? >> absolutelily. the i think the national security advisor, general flynn, was being intentionally vague as what candidate trump and now president trump talks about which is, you don't telegraph exactly what you're going to do. you want to keep them guessing. you want to keep them off balance. i think he was intentionally vague with his remarks. charles: they did say that the particular missile launch didn't violate the iran nuclear deal with you violates u.n. security council resolution 221. is that just semantics or does that mitigate or limit the recourse we have, retaliation action we can take? >> well, i think it is a little bit of both, charles, but really what's happened is, the iranians have been getting away with murder literally f

joining me is captain chuck nash and christopher.ou had firsthand experience dealing with these guys, we know president trump is not going to release these prisoners. i think people are itching to repopulate gitmo. >> actually charles, bad dudes do bad things, that's not surprising, what's surprising is when you find out these people were paid. we paid these people and released them. extremely troubling. american policymakers, european policymakers need to take a hard look who these people are and reconsider releasing them. president trump is right. he gets criticized for the way he uses words and things he said. when you load up guantanamo bay with bad dudes, need to be sustaining it, if not keeping these people. there it's unbelievable to think we paid these people before releasing them. charles: yeah, captain nash, it is unbelievable, and a lot of people, the british government actually -- he was a british citizen, they appealed to us to let him go, we were treating him inhumanely, and gave him a million pounds, he lived in a quar

charles: captain chuck nash, we know the seven countries, it's easy to understand why we would want can real deep vetting. it might not even be possible for some of these nations. >> if there is no data base you can search, how do you know what you are getting. some tbofts have been lawless on without governments like somalia and yemen for years. charles: do you think the floodgates have opened up? if you were someone prepared to come to this country to do harm, you know you better hop on right now. >> you can actually follow this through the courts. you don't have to run out and buy a ticket or apply for a visa tomorrow. you can probably wait a week or two. this will be tied up in the courts. and you will throw lawyers at this thing. you can read it. i read it. and i'm not a lawyer, i didn't even stay at a holiday inn express it's straightforward language. i don't know why we are jerking around. charles: we are jerking around and this is serious stuff. i think i found the headline. this will be the headline. i want your thoughts. this fritz court. states have offered evidence of statem

retired navy captain chuck nash is what he makes i'm not.do you think of the unusual restraint we've seen? what do you think is going on? >> what happened at the time this was announced, the president was meeting with president abe, the prime minister of japan keeping a muted response, but also standing in solidarity with the prime minister, were they both called it intolerable. this is one of those things where the leverage that he had now is going to be shown. keep an eye on what happens with a list of missile defense affairs that the united states makes for some of our allies in the region, in particular japan. in south korea, a land-based system and passing system and sm threes on charlie burks,, which can shoot down ballistic missiles. neil: what would happen if we did that, if we tried to shoot down, lift debris and do something like that, north korea do something like that. we are told that would be deemed provocative, even though the shooting of missiles is provocative. what do you think the file that would be? >> i think the fallout

retired knave navy captain chuck nash is a fox news military analyst here with us now. nash, so you have iran launching new military exercises in response to fresh u.s. sanctions on iran which those sanction were implemented in response to iran's ballistic missile testing. >> right. arthel: what is happening here? is this merely a hard core game of bluffing, or is there something more serious with dangerous consequences? >> i think what the iranians are doing is they are trying to get in the face of the new american president. this is a test everybody pretty much figured that the iranians or someone would test him early, and it's probably not going to be a one and done. there'll probably be multiple occasions where president trump and his national security team are going to be tested. now, as far as this exercise is concerned, i think it plays in from the iranian perspective, it plays in very well with some of the demonstrations that have of curred in the united states -- that have occurred in the united states and what some of the allies have been saying and, essential