so the palestinian, hamas iran as the party of change and reform. they were running against, not running on islamic terrorist but as the anticorruption party. obviously, they had another agenda, as well. suddenly they say 2 million people in gaza essentially a political rosin is erased because hamas is a terrorist organization and the world will basically throw a little bit here are there and try them but hamas said this is a man-made humanitarian crisis. i'm not an expert on every conflict in the world. i cannot think of any conflict for the world has essentially said we hate the rulers were actually going to abandon the people completely or almost completely. in the conflict where we are actively supporting, by the way. one-sided military and security perspective. it doesn't hold up as logic and it doesn't hold up as a national security contract for the us. >> thank you, lara. chris, any comments? the issue of the blockade, what impact does it have and he said there's been development can you say more about that mark and how do you see potential r

places that i iran to spend the money in there one of the main ways that they iran pushes the power and destabilizes the region. hamas, there's another wonderful group of humanitarians. iran backs them and they are causing no end of death and destruction. the other thing i'd like to note and put up another thing on its head is israel is a great ally. can we get back to that again? we go from having iran as an ally in israel as a friend enemy under the obama administration unto israel being are only true friend in the region and iran being the enemy to peace in that region. just as we have changed nothing else but that thought process i think we have established a much better and much more realistic world order. some of the other groups are backing iran the disease in yemen and there's a bit of a dangerous situation there because you have the gulf arab states uae and the others helping and it's not like they're really helping the good guys there but there helping less bad guys in some cases against them but we have a shiite, sunni, little scrap going on there which is dangerous and that something we have to keep an ey

iran is also stepped up its hostile activities, targeting the jewish state and provided thousands of increasingly capable long-range rockets to hamas and palestinian in gaza in addition to an estimated 150,000 rockets and missiles to hezbollah. in case the israeli government had any doubt about the nature of iran's hostility, the revolutionary guards helpfully provided a sign on one of the missiles they tested in march 2016 which said in hebrew, not in farsi, but in hebrew israel must be wiped off the earth. iran also as escalated its threat to arab adversaries. since the nuclear agreement was signed its wants to regulate shiites and by rain, back militant groups such as hezbollah and trained militants from bahrain and revolutionary guard camps in iran. bahrain is an intercepted several arm shipments and that's in violation of un security council resolution 2231 which enshrines the nuclear agreement and prohibits these arms exports. iranian hardliners have also is quite a pressure against bahrain claiming that it is a long lost province of iran that should be i'm not a proponent of the deal and i'm not focusing on the deal here and

. >> could you share with us or thoughts what iran is doing with hamas and hezbollah and pakistan?. >> hamas a relationship has gone up and down a lot for iranians. they originally had a bad relationship but milliliter was beating with the foreign minister because of course, connected to the muslim brotherhood in the early phases of the war but the relationship with thomas never had ben as it was with hezbollah in lebanon there is a completely different strategic nature but it is extremely difficult the iranians would completely cut off hezbollah. it is far more instrumental but here's the important thing to understand. the objective of any final negotiations to establish a new equilibrium that states need to deal with states instead of dealing with the iranians that many others have done to have been on stage actors to be in competition with other states that weakens the states and what we see right now with that geopolitical environment that is a greater threat than almost any the iranians are just doing a better quite extensively usually the of wahhabi extremist organization the

impacted meaning there were no taxes on merchandise coming through the tunnels and hamas' relationship with countries such as iran and saudi arabia were on the rocks and in egypt meant that hamas was swept up in the policy of marginizing. and between the gaza strip and egypt were closed. all of these factors together r ulted in a situation where the hamas government was isolated and presented an opportunity for president abbas. on the other hand, there was also an increasing effort by president's rival to come back into the political establishment to do the gaza strip. there were discussions happening between he and powers within gaza with the backing of uae to position himself as someone who could come back into the political establishment. for the threat of him coming into partner, the possibly an american administration that would be supportive of some policies that president abbas was taking culminated in his decision to increase measures that would isolate hamas and possibly weaken the government to the extent where the pa would be able to come back into the gaza strip and take over control. territory. and o

president trump understands the threats that they are addressing every single day from hamas and hezbollah and of course iranident has made it clear that he is going to be fully committed to israel. so we had many discussions over the course of the week. they understand that we're going to be with them. and they understand that america has many vast concerns all over the world, but we do have a president who has a clear understanding how to turn our ship around inside the united states, dealing with our economy, fair trade, our borders, healthcare. the american people support this president. and particularly they support the national security concerns that he's addressing right now. arthel: okay. and congressman, you're also here to promote unity, if you would tell us more about your relationship with congressman keith ellison of minnesota, the initiatives in legislation that you both have worked on. >> sure. keith ellison and i are vastly different in terms of our political perspectives. certainly keith would say that he's more on the socialist tradition. i'm a conservative. we have looked for common ground

were no attacks and the relationship with countries such as iran and saudi arabia were on the rocks and the emergence of the regime meant hamas was also swept up in the policies of marginalizing the muslim brotherhood in egypt which meant it whe was closed. all these factors together isolated so this presented an opportunity. on the other hand, there was also an increasing effort by the president's rivals to come back into the political establishment so there were discussions that were happening with the backing of egypt and to position himself back into the political establishment. so both coming into power had the idea of the american administration that would be supportive of some of the policies the president was taking to increase measures that would isolate and possibly weaken the government to be able to come back into the government controlled. and of course what we saw in the crisis with saudi arabia escalations accused of supporting it for the rest organization that it is reflected in some of the dynamics happening in the gaza strip and the challenge to know show is playing in his hands with further weakening so tha

hamas government in the gaza strip was quite isolated. in the past few years, the tunnel economy had been severely impacted. which meant that there were no taxes collected on goods coming through the tunnels and iran and saudi arabia were on the rocks and the emergence of the cici regime in egypt, which meant that the -- all these factors together resulted in a situation where the hamas government was quite isolated. so this presented an opportunity for presidential habas. on the other hand there was also an increasing effort on president haba s's rifle to come through the gaza strip. so there were negotiations that were happening with the powers within gaza with the backing of the uae and egypt. so both the threat of the hanan coming into power, the hamas in egypt, and possibly an american administration that would be supportive of the actions president habas was taking, all culminated in efforts that would weaken hamas. and of course what we saw in the gulf crisis with saudi arab arabia's -- a country that was accused of supporting terrorist organizations, that is reflected within some of the dynamics that are happening in the gaza strip. and qatar, the challenge for qatar now to show that it is