and here with me, karim sadjapour, an iran expert at the caegie endowment for international peace, aba bipartisan think tank. welcome back to you both to the "newshour". thank you very much. karisadjapour, let me star with you. how irrlaceable is qasem soleimani? >> well, iran subpoena the only country in the world simultaneously fighting three proxy wars with the united states, israel and saudi arabia, and soleani has been managing these proxy wars for the last two decades. he has been ls ving iran'ght in places like syria, iraq, afghanistan a yemen, and he had very effectively built up a shiite foreign legion to project anian power throughout the middle east. he was a figure who was widely respected within the iranian regime and withran's regional allies. if you talk to u.s. military commanders, they would say he's enemy number one for the united stes, far greater than al quaida, osama bin laden, baghdadi and others. so i would say he's as close to being irplacable to iran as any other individual in that regime. >> reporter: add miller mullen, do you believe he's irreplaceable ais

right, yamie alcindor at the white house, nick schifrin here in the studio with me aong with karim sadjapour. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> woodruff: let'stourn now to cahill for reaction from lawmakers. first up, republican congressman heke gallagher of wisconsin. he's a member ofrmed services committee. ig deployed to iraq twice a commander for intece teams. congressman gallagher, thank you very much for joining us. we did hear the president say, in so many words, that the united states, iran appears to have stepped back from th brink, but we're also hearing, and we just heard it from our analyst, karim sadjapour, that it very well may be that iran has other -- other things in mind. how do we know that ho are at an end? >> well,eth too early to tell. the dust is indeed still settling, and x wouldpect iran to revert to its modusan op for at least the last two years, but really the last three decades, wheret traditionally uses proxies, cutouts, terrorists groups to do s dirty work for it. i do, however, think initial indicaomons are pring that we've managed to reestablish some sembla