at joined by nicholas burns the hoover institution at stanford university, a former u.s.cretary of state. ambassador, thank you for your time. i understand i am putting you on the spot because these events are fluid. i would like to get your thought on the events in turkey. >> we know very little about what is happening in turkey. saysurkish prime minister the government is in control, but an e-mail from the turkish military says it is in control. it is not entirely surprising, the relationship between the turkish military and the government has been tense and distrustful for many years. thee are elements in turkish military that see themselves in essence as the islamans of a secular developed in the 1920's and 1930's. that could be a possible exploitation -- expo, but there are many others. president has relaxed turkey's relationship with russia and israel, and it may be some unhappiness about that. this is speculation until we know more about the situation on the ground. mark: we have an air base in turkey. >> we have a very important airbase in turkey for operations ag

for more on this, we're joined by nicholas burns. appreciate you join us.ng you can provide some thoughts on this scale and the approach we witnessed last night. >> right. this is the third major terrorist attack in france in a year and a half. and obviously, what a tragedy this was. obviously it means all of us in western countries have to ban together and through intelligence cooperation, through judicial cooperation and military action to defeat the islamic state and to defeat people who act in the name of the islamic state. the french not as your correspondent said determined what motivated this man to commit this horrific act of terror. but it's clear that the islamic state itself is encouraging lone wolves, encouraging people, perhaps even people without prior records of terrorist activity to take matters into their own hands. and the defeat of the islamic state ultimately is defeat and may take many years and goes a long way to disabusing the young people that this is the course of action to take with their lives. but it's extremely difficult to defe

joining us now is nicholas burns. he's the former u.s. ambassador to nato.sador burns thank you for taking the time to speak with us tonight. i appreciate the time, sir. >> thank you. >> in terms of what we've been describing or reporting based on your understanding of the situation in your contacts, is anything that i've said seem wrong to you or seem like it's been over taken by events, can you add anything to our understanding, here. >> i think you've adequately described the complexity that's been going on. this may be that the government is regaining in control in parts. but as you've been reporting in your correspondence. it's a different story, there's at stake for the united states. i think most people would agree, turkey is two of three most important allies in europe along with germany and the u.k. geo politically is so important. the only member state in nato. of course, just south of the russian federation is got a very strong mull tear. i thought it was important, rachel, that president obama put out a statement saying that they supported the el

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and during an armed services committee last week, former nato ambassador nicholas burns, former supreme allied commander marine general james cones discussed a report -- jones discuss add report coauthored by the atlanta council, talking about the importance of nato building up our military forces, not only the eastern flank you about in the arctic, and area, as an alaska senator, i am very interested in, where the russians have dramatically, dramatically expanded their military footprint and exercises. over the weekend in "the wall street journal" it was reported that even after reaching the iran nuclear deal, iran continued trying to illegally procure nuclear equipment from germany. so we have the iranian threat, which definitely is not going away after the ill-gotten and misguided nuclear deal by the president. and tomorrow -- tomorrow morning there's going to be big news. there's expected to be a tribunal ruling on what's going on in the south china sea. again, madam president, you and i were there recently in that region of the world, in singapore, for the slang gri la dialogue, to