tried to topple iran.onduce to peace in the region and the world and not conversely contribute to bloodshed and war. >> are you willing now to have direct, open talks with washington, with president trump? >> problem we have is not in dialogue, it is in the commitments that arise from talk and dialogue that we will have to commit to. we held talks with five plus one, lengthy talks. we upheld all of the commitments that we had to commit to, but unfortunately it was the other party which did not live up to promises and obligations. israel and the united states are beginning to talk about whether a military strike against iran might be necessary to stops it nuclear program. if that were to happen what would iran's reaction be? >> you see naturally enough we will react to any action. we do not fear war but we do not seek it. >> do you think an attack against iran is likely given the current circumstances? >> i strongly hope this will not transpire because it will be to the detriment of all of the actors, not o

and in the case of iran, of course, in the early eighties, iran had been, as it still does, sponsoring terrorist organizations in the middle east. and one of them was called in is called hezbollah. and it had taken hostage --, american hostages in beirut. so this complex scheme where the reagan administration officials were negotiating with iran, agreeing to sell them arms in exchange for the release of these hostages, some of the funds from those sales and other fundraising activities would then translate to the support of the contras. so this that's that's that's what the iran contra scheme was. and the reagan administration had kept this secret. but then it became known and we can get into how that all occurred and what occurred afterwards, when when investigations ensued. well, how was it discovered? how was this plan discovered? well, it was sort of two phase is the what had been occurring with the funds that were being raised is that arms were being shipped and delivered to the contras in the nicaraguan countryside or in honduras, neighboring honduras and what members of the admi

iran. iran has lost its primary proxy, hezbollah, in terms of its effectiveness as a strike capability. it's missiles have proven to be quite feckless against israeli, u.s., and allied partners in defense. is it inevitable that they go nuclear now? that is the third leg of their deterrence and defense with the other two having proven to be weak. how do you see that you evolving and what advice would you be giving to the incoming administration on how to develop the relationship with iran? >> no doubt, this has not been a good year for iran and we are seeing that play out every single day. i think iran has to make some fundamental choices. one choice it could make and should make is to focus on itself and focus on trying to build it better, more successful company that -- country that delivers for its people which is clearly what most iranians want, and to stop getting involved in these adventures or misadventures throughout the region and beyond. either it will be wise enough to make that c

we had a big part of iran's nuclear program in a box with the iran nuclear deal and was focused on iran and what that deal did was to ensure iran could not produce a nuclear weapon in less than a year's time so we would have plenty of time to see it if they break out of the agreement and did that but unfortunately pulling out of the deal and not replacing it with anything, iran can produce the material for a nuclear weapon within a week or two. they don't have the weapon itself and is another part of the equation but is in a more dangerous place than it was when it was boxed in with a nuclear agreement. iran is looking at this and the incoming administration is looking at this. we'll have to see if there's actually an opportunity on on the nuclear side to get another deal. president trump at the time talked about getting a better, stronger deal from his perspective. ok. let's see. maybe there's an opportunity to to do just that. if "sportscenter's not top 10", there's a share determination to ensure iran never gets a nuclear weapon one way or the other. i happen to believe doing this pu

he was bribing iran. and in return bribing iran, he wanted one thing. he wanted iran to keep americans hostage as he wanted to prolong incarceration. i don't i haven't seen any democrat do anything like that. and, you know, i'd be surprised if if former presidents like obama have never had conversations with foreign leaders since. but i don't know that they intervene to contradict, say, george w bush's foreign policy making is that he's sitting unhappy with what carter did. i don't know which to be fair. i know, right. i guess i i'm not familiar with that. sorry. and we do we do have another question and forgive me if i'm not reading this one right. i can do my best. can explain if true, the good relationship between bill copley and lyndon larouche placing casey. sorry, bill casey, lyndon larouche and his people. thank you. okay. well, at the time. well, the short is no, but i've been somewhat aware it. and i did go back. i mean, there's no question i've always kept big distance from when the duration is people and i. yeah, but there's no question they,

new uavs also from iran. increased technological expertise from iran and extensive training, again from , iran. and what is the result? the number of houthis the number -- the number of houthi terrorists has exploded to over 350,000 compared to just 30,000 in 2016. the houthis are a crucial part that links to iran proxies. iranian support for the houthis violate security council resolutions and 2722. it is an assault on all tenets of sovereignty and international law. let's talk about money. the estimated houthi annual budget is $1.2 billion. derived from illegal activities, crimes, stolen assets and covert trade in the gulf of aden. much of the money also flows directly from iran. however iran's support proximity -- is not limited to arms and finance. the houthis received technical assistance and training from iran. houthi combatants trained in iran with expertise in producing missiles, drones and advanced weaponry. training from iranian forces including the ig rc quds force increases their ability to accura

is that gonna fly with iran? is that going to be something they are willing to negotiate on what, what the red lines that i think they really is where clear back in 2015 that they will move towards regional agreement with the west provided that the nuclear deal would stick. and that would work for the right hands economically. i think the that the iranian experience is quite the opposite. that does not materialize. now i don't, i don't see any reading an objection to deal on a uh, on a bigger basically deal with the west on a bigger platform. actually it was you rhonda personally propose the grand bargain back in 24, but did not receive any answer from the united states that included regional aspects of course. now with regards to trump, i think uh, i think uh, i mean, no matter what that excuse was one of the biggest deals that has been signed by who run the past 4 decades. what with was with boeing. so the ranges understood that they need to get engaged with the, with the, with the get the american companies en

, as iran in israel, as the iran wanted to recuperate. the sort of sense that the parents in the sense that they are serious and that also to show that they have that capability of some missile because of cost their restraint on the 13th of april when they followed miss house full, was in type. misinterpret completely as well we'll just, you know, they will no doubt 99 percent were not taught by a us above the defense systems. and so now they've had to demonstrate that actually israel's ad defense systems on not very effective. i'm not quite capable of blinding ballistic missiles i saw on target in israel in a very short notice. yeah. blankets, idea of censorship at the moment of the impacts and the results of it. just some ripple is the tile of maze. we have 15 is we didn't have it in the f 35 and it had to him and based in israel, that 35, that 15 and not a single is riley casualty. it'd be, is to be bought uh, as regards the sell for spring criticisms can be made that like that about certainly would've, i'm advantage over the libya to

he returns as us president this month, but well, strongly hostile to iran. he said then must be another deal is ready to tax the weakening of key allies and the collapse of the aside raising have shaken to iran in the past. yeah. so what is each side looking for and could a wrong because you a more hard line stones or is a deal really possible? well, hey, from august surely. first, this report from victoria gates and b, as it's been nearly a decade since world power assigned to land. well, you'd see a do with a rand under the 7 nation, a quote to rand agreed to scale back its nuclear program. at western nations agreed to list financial trade and oil functions that is isolated and crippled around the corner. me. but donald trump pull the united states out of that agreement in 2018. he said he ran was a threat in the middle east and the new plan was needed. he re impose sanctions that squeezed a rams economy to run into and suspended some of its commitments. and then you could do as increased uranium enrichment european powers have been battling to save the 20

k. gemini, reaching out to iran and vice versa? at this particular point, a folder, there hasn't been really much in terms of the j. c, p r, a, or developments for data to it. what is common and is the president trump that back to power in washington and also and all the uh, basically the snap back in the account is invest was imbedded in the deal is to come up in october. so to these 2 issues, have the potential to escalate the things between a ron and the uh, you know, the, the, your cans and the united states. the right hands of course, are trying to stop this kind of disconnection. reaching to consensus or reconciliation with europeans, though there are other issues that are affecting to the connected to the relationship with euro in particular that, that you create an issue and i was doing an issue. but i think these 2 matchers are the new things that are uh, add that are added to that, that are to be added to the uh, the file that has been basically uh, has been stopped by the united states. uh, back in 2018. now they, they a

um, so this being a lot of anger in iran and a lot of soul searching soul searching because iran has been very careful and it's reactions. it is shown grades. so for spring, really dating back to the killing of cut some sort of money. but also off to the attack on the syrian on the consulate in syria and damascus, where it radium generally was killed. at that point, they did mitigate very much what drones and miss house 5, but it was costly, orchestra, true. and of the lot here and who was a for a minister that time off to it's both. and he said that you know what we call to get this right. i mean, in the sense that we are trying to be restraining and lost a lot of this conflict to escalates into a wider war. but we've called to maintain that sort of sense of deterrence. and we've got to maintain a sense of strength. so there is of been a lot of criticism. this is a restraint, much advocate it if you like, by that or a full missed wing. been wrong, has contributed to some extent of play, but contributed perhaps to israel of feeling and todd to be able to take out the whole of that ha

but characterize a bit the threats we face with north korea and iran. obviously very different ones. >> they are very different and here, at the basic level is with your most different. north korea is a nuclear power, and they view nuclear weapons as the best deterrent to regime change. nuclear weapons are how they're going to maintain control internal in their own country and to fend off of the world powers like the united states and remain relevant. iran doesn't have that. they aspire to be a world, i mean a nuclear power. we all have the capability to stop one of those two countries from getting a nuclear weapon, and that's iran. the thing about iran response in the intelligence community is i mentioned north korea using nuclear weapons as a deterrent as we maintaining power. we don't know what the iranians would use a nuclear, a deliverable nuclear weapon for. when you before a effect or for an offensive effect? talk about a regime that is based on religious zealotry and is essentially a terrorist nation, a terrorist designated state, the concern is

, as iran in israel, as the iran wanted to recuperate. the sort of sense of to tyrants a sense that they are serious and that also to show that they have that capability . and so miss all because of course, their restraint on the 13th of april when they followed miss house full wasn't misinterpreted completely as well. we'll just, you know, they will not, uh, 9 to 9 percent, but enough to buy a us above the defense systems. and so now they've had to demonstrate that actually, israel's ad defense systems on not very effective. and that quite capable of landing ballistic missiles as to saw on target in israel in a very short notice. yeah, blanket idea of censorship at the moment of the impacts and the results of it just of some ripple. it's a town of mays. we have 15, so we didn't have it in the f 35 and it had to him and based in israel, have 35 that fifteens and not a single is really casualty it'd be, is to be bought uh as regards the silver spring criticisms could be made that like that about certainly would've, i'm advantage over the l

and now look at iran. did you ever think we would be we are at iran and the smoke?cable attacks by hamas october 7, iran directed attacks twice. hundreds of ballistic missiles and drones, and twice they failed because the united states organized a coalition of countries to stop them and ordered u.s. aircraft to come to the defense of israel. now iran's air defenses are in shambles. the main proxy hezbollah is badly wounded. and as we test iran's willingness to revive the nuclear deal, we kept the pressure with sanctions. now iran's economy is in desperate straits all told, iran is weaker than it's been in decades. if you want more evidence, seriously weakened iran and russia, , just take a look at syria president assad, neither neither could keep him in power. quite frankly neither cutting try very hard. now i cannot claim for everything that led to iran and russia going weaker the past years. they do plenty of damage all by themselves. but israel did plenty of damage to iran and its proxies. but there's no question, or actions contribute significantly. significantl

we saw this past weekend the israeli strikes in iran. you and i in the pentagon been talking about israeli strikes in iran a few years ago. that was a very big deal. it is a very big deal. what's your sense of where this goes next and just how dangerous it is going forward? gen. milley: first, let me thank you and the team for inviting me and, uh, i recognize that i can't see hardly anybody but i know that the people in the road are controlling basically $24 trillion or $25 trillion of a $30 trillion economy. so good on you for doing that. and you may or may not quite realize it, i know people thank all of us in uniform for our service, but i want to thank you and your service because the two key components of national security and the international scene is a strong military and a strong economy. and i, and i'm here to tell you that the banking community of the united states is strong, 4500 banks across the country. we've got an incredible economy as you just saw with the economists and the envy of the world and a lot of that has to do

and indeed, in 1977 he did make a trip to iran.boy there, but i remember it like it was yesterday. i was actually out there welcoming his motorcade as it drove slowly through teheran. what i could tell you is there was a real belief, euphoria, that this new american president was going to rev. course on america's long-standing support for the shah. and looking away at all of the human rights violations that were taking place in iran. and then, of course, quite famously there was the state dinner in the shah's palace in which jimmy carter stood and gave that famous toast to the shah where he called iran an island of stability in an unstable region. and i think that was the moment in which iranians felt emotionally betrayed by jimmy carter. and i can tell you, it was experience that i think most iranians, particularly those who supported the revolution never forgave him for. and it created this sense in iran that carter couldn't be trusted. and throughout the 444 days of the hostage crisis, there was a real sort of desire, particular

iran is losses over land supply route.f the regime weapons factories and weapons including have been destroyed by israel. it's not just what we achieved but also what we prevented. when i travel across the region after the days of october 7 i heard from hundreds regional war was coming. the combination of diplomatic and military action and assistance pervert and strengthen israel help to print that from happening in the weeks after october 7 multiple moments since. allies and partners, particularly in the middle east take note of who they can rely on to stand by their friends and who they cannot. which powers work to defuse crises which stand back and do nothing?hi or make problems worse. theak balance of power in the middle east is shifting dramatically and not in the white hamas and his backers hoped or planned. and yet the region means ripe with risk, to iran's in desperan to distort deterrence with nuclear ambition to the ongoing attacks to israel with the dearth of opportunity human rights in several countries. what i

that's where iran is right now.trying to develop the relationship with china and russia because the u.s. position has been so strong in the maximum pressure campaign has hurt them so much and i think this really reflects where this is we have to make sure not just the united states but our allies are working with us to counter that and we shouldn't let china or russia rehabilitate aspects of the iranian regime that right now are struggling. is a good thing when iran doesn't have the ability to engage in the kind of mayhem that they been allowed to engage in for the past 20 years. >> building on that is interesting how it's now multidimensional world where in. the alliances that are made. could you say a word about turkey turkey is playing a very interesting role. >> we talk a lot in the intelligence community about marijuana and turkey and what he's trying to accomplish right now in turkey and as you alluded to, there becoming a bigger player a more active player in so many places. in libya and other places you see

iran was a terrible burden on us. inflation was a terrible burden but he did many, many good things. not just a great ex--president. peter: i'm sure you saw on president carter's 100th birthday, phil gram, former senator from texas had an op-ed praising jimmy carter's de regulation policies. stuart: i did and i was thrilled that had senator gram -- gramm did that. i nu him when i was in the administrations, both clinton and carter and i thought it was very important that a republican said say what i had said years before in my book and that is that he made the american economy more competitive. de regulation meant allowing private enterprise to compete on prices, on routes to air lines, de regulated banks, de regulat ed railroads so that companies using railroads had price competition and it lowered costs. it was tremendous and very unusual for a democrat. after all, you associate f.d.r. and democrats, the great society with regulation. he was, i think, peter, what i call the first new democrat. very similar to what b

, as iran in israel, as the iran wanted to recuperate the sort of sense of to tyrants a sense that they are serious. and that also to show that they have the capability of some missile because of cost their restraint on the 13th of april, when they followed miss house full, was in type. misinterpret completely, as, uh, well we'll just, you know, they will not, uh, 9 to 9 percent, but enough to buy a us above the defense systems. and so now they have to demonstrate that actually as wells, as defense systems on not very effective and very quite capable of landing ballistic missiles as to saw on target in israel in a very short notice. yeah, blanket idea of censorship at the moment of the impacts and the results of it just have some ripple. it's a total of mays be of 15, so we didn't have it and we have $35.00 that had to him. and based in israel, have $35.00 that fifteens and not a single is rarely a casualty, it'd be, is to be bought uh as regards the ssl for strain criticisms could be made that like that about certainly would've, i'm advantage over the libya to backlash over put in allo

and now, look at iran. did you think we would be with iran at the moment. after those attacks by hamas, iran directed toe attack israel. hundreds of missiles and drones and twice they failed because the united states organized coalition of countries to stop them and ordered us air craft to come to the defense of israel. now iran's air defenses are in shambles. main proxy hezbollah is badly wounded. and as we tested iran's willingness to revive a nuclear deal, we kept the pressure with sanctions. now iran's economy is in december plate straits. all told, it is weaker than it has been in decades. if you want more evidence, just take a look at syria. president assad closest ally in the middle east neither could keep them in power. now i cannot claim credit. they did plenty of damage all by themselves. and israel did plenty of damage to iran and its proxies. but there's no question, our actions contributed significantly. and now major authoritarian states are aligning more closely, iran, russia, china, north korea. but that is more out of weakness than that of

iran is weaker. iran is weaker than it's been in decades. hezbollah is badly degraded. and after more than 15 months of war, hamas' senior leaders are dead. thousands of hamas fighters are dead. anti-military -- and the military formation vs. been destroyed with nowhere -- formations have been destroyed. with nowhere to return hamas finally agreed to release hostages. there was no other way for this war to end than with with a hostage deal. and i'm deeply satisfied this day has come, finally come for the sake of the people of israel and the families waiting in agony. and the sake of the innocent people in gaza who suffered unimaginable devastation because of the war. the palestinian people have gone through hell. too many innocent people have died. too many communities have been destroyed. and this deal, the people of gaza, can finally recover and rebuild. they can look to a future without hamas in power. the bible says blessed are the peacemakers. many peacemakers helped make this deal happen. including an extraordinary team of american diplomats who have worked nonsto

iran is boarded very extensively by the soviet union. iran has iraq as one of its neighbors. the soviet union and the communist dominated government of iraq ir iran and iran is an allied state. it is my strong feeling that we ought to sell arms to iran for its own national security and a strong ally of the united states. the history of our relationship with iran goes back to the days of president truman. when he decided it was vitally necessary for our own security as well as that of iran that we should help that country. iran has been a good ally. in 1973, when there was an oil embargo, iran did not participate. iran continue to sell oil to the united states. i believe it is in our interest and in the interest of israel and iran and saudi arabia for the united states to sell arms to those countries. it is for their security as well as ours. >> a question for president ford. >> the policy of your administration is to normalize relations with mainland china. that means establishing full diplomatic relations and doing something about the mutual defense treaty with taiwan. if yo

would be given to iran, which it was. ray: as 1979 became 1980, this began to eat heavily into the political year of 1980, the year in which you had been planning to run for reelection, fighting off primary opponents from your own party. pres. carter: one. ray: well, two for a while. was there a point when you realized, they are still there and this is starting to be a problem for this enterprise? i want to stay president, i think i'm doing a good job. pres. carter: even eight days before the election it was very close. you mentioned november 4. november 4, 1980 was the anniversary of the hostages taken as well as election day. our news media was fascinated with the anniversary of the hostages and was not interested in what i was saying or president reagan. it was a burning issue in americans minds, the hostages, and president carter was in a bill -- unable to get them free. the second issue, for the last two years of my term, senator kennedy was running against me. very effectively. whenever senator kennedy made any comm

are neighbors of iran and iran is an ally of the united states. it is my strong feeling that we should fulfill arms to iran for its own national security and as an ally, a strong ally of the united states. the history of our relationship with iran goes back to the days of president truman when he decided that it was vitally necessary for our own security, as well as that of iran, that we should help that country and iran has been a good ally. 1973, when there was an oil embargo, iran did not participate. they continued to sell oil to the united states. i believe that it's in our interest and in the interest of israel and iran, and saudi arabia, for the united states to sell arms to those countries. it's for their security as well as ours. ms. frederick: mr. valeriani, a question for president ford. mr. valeriani: mr. president, the policy of your administration is to normalize relations with mainland china. and that means establishing at some point full diplomatic relations and obviously doing something about the mutual defense treaty with taiwan.

successfully and iran did not. then, you know, further retaliate. but what they did and faced a lot of criticism for was to eliminate the leader, the political leader of hamas last summer in tehran. while he was there, haniyeh was assassinated by one of those israeli targeted assassinations that they don't acknowledge and acknowledged publicly. and there was a lot of criticism because it did, according to u.s. officials at the time, set back a very close negotiation that was leading to a possible deal. they were dealing with haniyeh, and then after that, they had to start dealing with sinwar in gaza until he was taken out, something that the israelis did almost by accident. and then now they've had to deal with his surviving brother, mohammed sinwar, who has been a very tough negotiator also. but the also the other piece of it that i think you could speak to is the lebanon ceasefire and the fact that they they took out the leader of hezbollah and also took so many of those missiles out of lebanon and missiles that

, ., iran. to change things _ iran. what can people do to change things in _ iran. what can people do to change things in your - iran. what can people do to i change things in your country and what will happen with the opposition leader, will he return to the country? irate opposition leader, will he return to the country? we have followed different _ return to the country? we have followed different roads - return to the country? we have followed different roads and i followed different roads and different steps, and the most important thing of these different roads is winning the election this year, and this is something that changed the whole situation in venezuela, so right now what we have to do is to increase the pressure. we are convinced the maduro regime has many different factors within the system, within the army force, within the political coalition, so we believe that maduro right now is in a very weak position because not even the army is with him in venezuela, and he lost the elec

the deputy foreign ministers of iran funds, germany on the u. k. r in geneva in switzerland to discuss and runs disputed nuclear program. is the 2nd meeting between iran and european officials since november and it's being held in private. and that's me think comes just a week before us president elect donald trump takes office 2015. iran reached a deal with western powers to limit its nuclear programs, concerns a much bit. iran could soon have the capacity to produce a nuclear weapon claims. that's a fine has always denied in 2018. donald trump's administration exiting the 2015 nuclear part and re imposed cautious sanctions on a run. as prompted to run to rebuild the stop piles of enriched uranium. and last month in december, the chief of united nations new to watch dogs expressed concern that iran is dramatically accelerating its enrichment of uranium that we're covering various angles of the story. ok, that saudi is standing by and to find for us we're going to 1st had to geneva with stephanie deca. stephanie. so the nuclear program is on the ag

and iran has been a good ally. in 1973 when there was an oil embargo, iran did not participate. iran continued to sell oil to the united states. i believe that it's in our interest and in the interest of israel and iran and saudi arabia for the united states to sell arms to those countries. it's for their security as well as ours. >> mr. valeriani, a question for president ford. >> mr. president, the policy of your administration is to normalize relations with mainland china. now, that means establishing at some point, full diplomatic relations and obviously doing something about the mutual defense treaty with taiwan. if you are elected, will you move to establish full diplomatic relations with peking, and would you provide mainland china with military equipment if the chinese were to ask for it. >> our relationship with the people's republic of china is based upon the shanghai communique of 1972 and that communique calls for the normalization of relations between the united states and the people's republic. it doe

iran refused to rejoin. president trump's enjoy says the current administration will not attack iran. >> these are just words. nothing will happen with iran. they aren't going to do anything. this administration won't do anything in the near term. >> another source told axios there are no active discussions inside the white house about a possible military action against iran's nuclear facilities. bill. >> bill: hitting iran with a couple weeks to go would be quite a thing if that were to ever play out. rich, thank you. >> our political leadership has to play close intelligence to the intelligence picture and don't take our eye off the ball. >> sandra: new orleans terror attack putting the spotlight on threats to our national security. has the biden-harris administration dropped the ball on this? incoming border czar tom homan will be here next. >> the airplane departed about 2:00 p.m. this afternoon. climbed straight ahead to 900 feet and a short time later the pilot called for an immediate return to the air