navy and iran in the persian gulf.is afternoon, congress is voting on new sanctions against iran. >> jon: stay on it for us. thank you very much, lucas tomlinson. >> melissa: the transit authority in the bay area withholding video of crimes committed by black teenagers. the bay area rapid transit system otherwise known as bart says it will have racist bias. this is a dicey one. >> melissa, they captured all these mob attacks of young men stealing purses, wallets, and phones. as between one says leasing the video will have racial stereotyping. they're putting this over public safety. >> i 911 call in oakland. >> robbed them, and ran off the train. >> bet someone. beat and robbed a number of an individual's. >> camera caught the action. >> we now have video of you. >> based on video, they were repeat offenders. they knew who these people were. >> but bart refuses to release the video. >> when it involves juveniles, as they have come at the police department makes a determination if there is a public interest in sending a

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new this morning an american navy boats in the north of the persian gulf fired at an iranian vessel this was unprofessional and productive behavior the us however says the iranian vessel was acting dangerously and carrying out an unsafe maneuver elect years yes he's got more. the story that the pentagon has told regarding the incident is exactly the opposite of what the iranian officials have been saying they believe that the u.s. navy ships war harassed by the iranian military and that is something according to the statement coming from the u.s. navy after warning shots were fired the iranian vessel halted is unsafe approach to had been a risk of collision but you can almost see a certain pattern here and you know it seems that the u.s. navy ships are being harassed all the times by foreign militaries and navies and air forces just this weekend several chinese fighter jets buzzed a u.s. navy ship in the east chinese sea which caused a lot of unhappy comments from the pentagon and the navy just earlier last month at the end of june very similar incident happened in the baltic sea with on

navy boat has had a run in with a radiant vessel in the persian gulf one of the stories i heard. you. think you're new to the game this is how it works and the economy is built around quite a corporation from washington to washington the media the media. voters elected to run this country business because. it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done. again so that iran's accuse the u.s. navy of provocative behavior it's off to the american patrol boat fired warning shots in the direction of an iranian vessel during an encounter in the persian gulf . this morning an american navy boat in the north of the persian gulf fired near a universal this was unprofessional and provokers of behavior the u.s. though says that the iranian vessel was acting dangerously at the time and carrying out an unsafe maneuver as it was described as yes he's got more details this story that the pentagon has told regarding the incident is exactly the opposite of what the iranian officials have been saying they believe that the u.s. navy ships were harassed by the iranian military and

increase of natural gas will comeme from the country's massie underwater field in the persian gulf, a field shared with iran. the foreign minister said today that his country has shown goodwill an end good initiative for a constructive solution. though, he didn't elaborate on thatre. the foreign ministers of bahrain, egypt, saudi arabia and the uae will meet in cairo wednesday to discuss the next step in the ongoing disputes. >> bret: john huddy in the middle eastern newsroom. in other foreign headlines, u.s. backed forces in syria have breached the wall around raqqa's old city.ia senior pentagon officialsnd tell us that r the major advance in the weeks old battle to drive isis militants from their i self-declared capital. in iraq, that countries forces with u.s. backing are continuing their steady advance against the last isis stronghold in mosul. the prime minister says the civilians have rejected terrorists. the remaining militants trapped in the old city are now in a fight to the death. in caracas, venezuela, the supreme court has taken another step in undermining the country's ch

. >> neighboring arab countries have imposed an economic and diplomatic blockade on the persian golf state of qatar accusing it of supporting terrorism. the state department has defended qatar which hosted the regional military command. they posted a discussion about the blockade and begins with remarks from the ambassador to the u.s. [inaudible] [inaudible] [speaking in native language] >> good evening ladies and gentlemen. that deserves a round of applause. [applause] i am tony, president and ceo of the council. on behalf of the council i welcome you to tonight's investor series. were delighted that we have eight of our board members here tonight. we thank them for their service. without you, these programs would not be taking place. thank all of you very much. many thanks for strategic partners at the ronald reagan building and international trade center for their wonderful hospitality and providing us this beautiful venue to hold their public programs. if the early bird gets the first one, then those that got here early tonight got the first 120 seats. there's another 80 or a hun

they will seek to recreate the persian empire. these are the battle flags of cyrus the magnificent, 25h years ago, darius the great and the flag of iran today. look at the water space around that persian empire. in all of this, brings confrontation between up upper right, iran, shia nation, bottom left sunni world led by saudi arabia our closest ally and friend, israel in the middle of this mix. the united states very much involved so maritime activity not only to south china sea. not only the atlantic, but also this persian arabian gulf and water withs of the indian ocean. what elsesome the mediterranean how many people have gone on a cruise to the meds mediterranean a wonderful place to get in a big cruiseliner really to enjoy yourself. the mediterranean sea of all of the world's oceans has seen the most combat, the most war if i could -- snap my fingers and bring back to life all of the dead mariners dropped at sea all of the smoking holes that went to the bottom and somehow miraculously bring them back we would completely cove

thatve a saying in persian if you pretend to be asleep, no one will wake you up.elieve that people are pretending. if your national intelligence estimate, and not iran, but the u.s. intelligence community, if your own national intelligence estimates in 2007, and establishes that iran is no longer pursuing nuclear weapons, why is it so difficult for american officials to recognize that? we believe that nuclear weapons norot augment our security, to be honest do they augment anyone else's security. that is a division of principle. we remain very compliant with that principle throughout our history. there are cases to prove it, including the use of chemical weapons against iran by iraq. with the support of everybody in the international community. reportas a report, after at the united nations that established that iraq had used those weapons against us, and more reports saying that we had not. so, this is the record on which we stand. you made a point that was valid. on that is, that i tweeted the day of the signing of the agreement, on the day that we reached the d

the latest encounter happened friday in the persian gulf, this according to iran's revolutionary guard the revolutionary guard said the uss nimitz aircraft carrier and another us naval vessel fired warning flares any rainy and ships close to an oil and gas platform in the gulf while a us helicopter according to the revolutionary guard hovered overhead. iran calls it a provocative and unprofessional move. on tuesday i mentioned the second such incident, the uss thunderbolt, navy patrol vessel fired warning shots off of any rainy patrol book of the navy official said came between 150 yards of the thunderbolt in the northern part of the persian gulf and navy official said shots were fired to avoid potential collision. he rainy and naval vessels coming at high speed towards the thunderbolt but both incidents come as the us hit iran with new sanctions following the successful launch of its most advanced satellite carrying rocket into space on thursday and sanctions applied to anyone or any company involved in iran's ballistic missile program or programs that today iran's deputy foreign mini

watch for one in yemen, so they can control the approaches to the persian gulf. they're playing a maritime game, and that's what we talk about in "sea power." >> a minute to our break, admiral. we don't have enough assets in the fleet. when they do the nda this week, what's the ship mix look like and how fast does it have to get there. >> we've got to go from 275 ships current to 350 ships. every responsible analyst agrees with that. that means 12 carriers, 12 ballistic submarines, 12 big deck ships. we can't face these multi crises that we've been discussing without a fleet of about 355 ships. >> how quickly do we have to get there? >> we need to get there as quickly as we can. i would say that's going to take us eight to ten years. we need to build more, we need to extend the life of some of those ships and we may have to pull a few out of moth balls. >> what about buying foreign ships, admiral? >> we should look at a few different models out there, the australians make a pretty productive catamaran-like ship that we have actually bought. we can look at some of

. >> there has been a dangerous late breaking development in the persian gulf. u.s.urces c confirm that it within the past few hours, more than 100,000 iraqi troops have masked along the border with kuwait. >> saddam hussein sends a fleet of tanks and other mechanized forces to the kuwaity border. it's shocking in washington and other than western capitals. saddam hussein had a million-man army and if he invades kuwait, he could lurch into saudi arabia and the saudis would not have been able to e resist. all the oil is on the eastern side of the country on the border with iraq. >> iraq invaded and took over cokuwait today. the government of dictator saddam hussein claimed it went in at the invitation of those who had overthrown the government. no western authority accepted that story. >> many americans are concerned that there may be a war. >> what is required of mr. bush that he doesn't want war. >> if you had been in the room with saddam hussein and interviewed him for an hour and 15 minutes and spent another hour and a half with him after the interview, you would

they signify qatar's inclusion as the ninth member of the reconciled emirates of the persian gulf at the conclusion of the qatari-british treaty in 1916. the colored portion of the flag known as the color maroon alsoaalso acknowledges the purple dye. the white, of course, symbolizes peace. originally known for being a back order british protectorate whose economy was based mainly on diving, qatar quickly made itself known to the world when it declared independence in 1971. in 1995, qatar announced a series of sweeping economic and political reforms. this included the founding and the funding of the pan-arab satellite news network al jazeera in 1996 that broadcast worldwide. an economic surplus enabled qatar to rebrand and launch qatar airways and support the founding of education city. a globally recognized state of the art, academic oasis on the capital doha. it holds schools from the united states, britain, france and qatar. these include our 14s at georgetown university, carnegie melon, cornell, virginia commonwealth, northwestern university, hcc paris, and ucl london. in terms of

together athens and sparta then defeated the persians. whereupon there was something that has happened a few other times, but there was this explosion of creative energy, just unbelievable so one of the opinions in this, i was just in silicone valley with people in the tech world. what do these guys invent. they invented drama. history. philosophy, socrates, aristotle, democracy, architecture look at the parthenon. can you find a better building in california? excuse me. from sparta, people looking up thing these people are totally out of control. every day they get up and they invent crazy new things. sparta was marshall society. it was essentially a seal team six. when kids are four years old check out the prospect and the other ones you kill him and then you brought him up and the males have to live in barracks until her 25 years old and they can't get married until the 30, they were all the time marching around getting ready to fight people and lo and behold they were very good at it. that's what they do. but the idea of drama and his

he wrote poetry, spoke arabic and persian and english and did yoga. there was a religious humanism that was common before. what was interesting was he had seven daughters, no sons, and raised them all to be educated women. i was raised in a interesting environment where i was spared this unfortunate association of religion and patriarchy. the woman on my moms' side have strong personalities. my mom was one of 16 women in pakistan back in the day who went to medical school. i was in seattle two years ago and at a shabat dinner with people who had worth that was tens of million and one of them was amazed my mom was educated. which is amazing and makes you think about what people think of you. my mom was a radiation oncologist and died of cancer. so the irony there but i am very much my mom's child. she loved music, poetry, was a star trek fan and loved eddy veder and thought pearl jam was mr. hans. she was a very creative person and a teacher in addition to being a doctor but religiously conservative. it was an interesting childhood to have as someone r

whether it's imposing new sanctions, opening fire on iranian ships in the persian gulf. lot of ways that we are moving toward, i think, a position that the united states looks like it is supporting regime change. and i saw as you did too, the iranian foreign minister and i think the idea that iranians are going to walk away from this is unlikely, and that puts us in the position of what is our policy? we are now split with the europeans, 40 years we have been together to pressure iran on nuclear and other issues, and now north korea is doing business with them, putting their ambassadors back in tehran. this is where the president lacks the kind of sophisticated knowledge of the world, it was reflected this week when he stood next to the lebanese prime minister when he said that -- hezbollah is a major part of the lebanese government. and they're fighting against isis and al qaeda in lebanon. it is troubling that president trump knows so little about the world. >> julian, do you think these crises are an opportunity or a challenge? >> i think they're a challenge, i think

i'm an american i don't particularly like you they're pushing the russians and the chinese and the persians together that's not going to help us that's going to hurt us and recently mr trump threw missiles at syria people went said why do you do that the reason he gave turned out not to be illegitimate he dropped a huge bomb in afghanistan the b.b.c. went over there afterwards and said what he said didn't happen you know they they sent their own reporters to check recently who went to so. and he said you can pull cats if you want to he did know that america's largest base in the middle east is in tatters so we're going to have americans fighting americans over things that are happening i mean this is all happening in no particular like saying as an investor you look at the risk reward profile you would say the risks of something going wrong are pretty high. i told that we're going to have very very serious problems in the world in the next couple of years you should be worried you should watch t.v. all right jim rogers i got to watch more of myself actually being on the kaiser report thank

jared kushner is interfering in all of this persian gulf policy.e do? >> well, i think the first problem is, you have a lot of these policy disputes, which are -- some of them serious. serious questions like the recertification of iran and what the u.s.-iran relationship should look like, playing out in the twitter-sphere instead of in the sit room. and i think that's a part of the challenge we're seeing, obviously with the attorney general, as well. you also have the fact that you have so many near-term crises bubbling up at once. you have the crisis in the persian gulf between qatar and our allies, saudi arabia and the uae. greater confrontation with iran, north korea inching closer and closer to the ability to hit the united states with a nuclear weapon. all of these things are urgent, and i think the administration six months in is still trying to find their feet as to how they manage all of these policy challenges at once. especially as they try to pivot from the obama era and some of the policies that they have been handed. >> let me just dri

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are blame over a naval incident in the persian gulf. said said a u.s. -- tehran a u.s.carrier fired a warning shot in what kuwait is calling on professional confrontation with iranian vessels. the u.s. navy said they were forced to fire when ships were unresponsive to attempt to communicate. the brother of a former pakistani leader is being lined up to be the country's next prime minister. he will contest the national assembly. he stepped down friday after being ousted after corruption allegations. on fridayther stepped after being ousted after corruption allegations. it should take 45 days. until then, the former petroleum minister will be interim premier. unemployment rate rose to 12.7% in the first quarter. it is a rise of 4/10 of a percent from the previous quarter. -- rate for saudi really saudi women sell. -- fell. fromplan to ban non-saudis working in grocery stores. model threeed its final form. electric car comes with two battery types with the long-range able to drive 310 miles on a single charge. taken in more than 500,000 deposits for the model three. it is

the policy of arms for hostages sent a clear message to the states of the persian gulf and the message was the united states is helping iran and its war effort and making an accommodation with the iranian revolution and iran's neighbors should do the same. the policy provided the soviets an opportunity they have now grasped with which we are struggling to deal. the policy achieved none of the goals. the ayatollah got his arms. more americans are held hostage today than when this policy began. subversion of u.s. interest by iran continues. moderates in iran, if any there were, did not come forward. those moderates today are showing fidelity to the iran revolution by leading a charge against the united states and the persian gulf. in brief, the policy of selling arms to iran in my view at least simply cannot be defended as in the interest of the united states. there were and there are other means to achieve that opening that should have been used. now let me comment on process. first with regard to covert actions. you and i agree that covert actions pose very special problems for a democ

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train to a tense encounter in the persian gulf.red warning shots near an iranian vessel. an american sailor seem very dangerously close to them. the standoff involves the uss thunderbolt based in bahrain as part of the u.s. navy employees. the revolutionary guards later blamed the american ship for provoking the entire situation. shares of facebook with another all-time high. the stock could go higher as investors like what they hear it in their report today. keeping a very keen a very canine facebook's advertising revenue, particularly on instagram said the stock is up 40% this year. that is what is happening now and instagram seems to be the story. take a look at that. lauren: 165 bucks a thank you, sheryl. to repeal and replace obama cared, but republican leaders said any delay on health care will not jeopardize their plan for tax reforms. the big question is can they get it done and win? kristen tate, contributor to the hill. good to see you. >> good morning. transfer repeal and replace failing to get enough votes but they were

. >>> president trump working the phones, speaking to three persian gulf leaders about the arab world's widening rift with qatar. the president speaking separately over the weekend with the saudi king, the crown prince of abu dhabi, and the emir of qatar on sunday. the white house says the president expressed his concerns about the dispute and the urgent need to stop the financing of terrorism. arab countries involved in the boycott agreeing to extend the deadline for qatar to meet a long list of demands by 48 hours. we have more live from doha. good morning, what's the latest? >> reporter: good morning, dave. as you mentioned, those phones calls that president trump made, it's important to note that some people in this region felt that the president's involvement in this crisis may have made it worse. you had secretary tillerson trying to call for dialogue and mediation to resolve this crisis amongst the u.s. allies, president trump was seen to be taking sides in the conflict, taking the side of the saudi-led alliance, and singling out qatar, the key u.s. military ally in the region. t

. >>> warning shots fired in the persian gulf. who do you was at the opened fire on as a boat race towards them. >>> one of the largest studies ever connected on the length between -- link between football and brain injury. 111 brains were examined donated by families of former nfl players. 99% of those pro football players, all but one had a brain disease commonly called cte. in the last hour we spoke with the codirector of the concussion program. he said he is not surprised by the results of the study. >> we have known about the risk and relationship of cte in football. what it has helped us understand is the prevalence of this. >> the same research found nearly 1/4 of the 14 high school players examined also had cte. if you want to read the entire report, head over to ktvu.com . >>> a u.s. navy patrol boat fired warning shots at an iranian ship in the persian gulf today. officials say the ship was meant by the iranian revolutionary guard. it came with a and 150 yards of the uss thunderbolt and was making a fast approach. the th

navy in the persian gulf this week as a u.s.craft is forced to fire warning shots at iranian vessel coming why iran is to blame for the incident. plus now halt for actions after several terror attacks in israel. why families of those attackers to be held accountable. former israeli embassador is here to weigh in on that. your brain changes as you get older. but prevagen helps your brain with an ingredient originally discovered... in jellyfish. in clinical trials, prevagen has been shown to improve short-term memory. prevagen. the name to remember. only new tena intimates has ♪ it'pro-skin technologyiend designed to quickly wick away moisture to help maintain your skin's natural balance. for a free sample, call 1-877-get-tena. i'm ryan and i quit smoking with chantix. i tried to quit cold turkey. i tried to quit with the patch; that didn't work. along with support, chantix (varenicline) is proven to help people quit smoking. for me, chantix worked. it reduced my urge to smoke. compared to the nicotine patch, chantix helped signif

navy responded to reports of an unprofessional encounter with iranian forces in the persian gulf.vents of the uss - in several of the warships came close to his vessel in the gulf yesterday before shooting players. but the navy is denying some of the claims presented iran's armed boats were present us ships at a high rate of speed. john huddy has more from jerusalem. >> julie, the u.s. navy says that one of the helicopters fired warning flares at a group of iranian vessels that were approaching american ships at a high rate of speed after the chopper could not establish communications with the iranians. the navy says that it was done safely and professionally. while iran's revolutionary guard calls a provocative and unprofessional move. this of the us ships were close to an iranian platform in the middle of the gulf. they said that they were conducting an exercise away from american ships. both ships went their separate ways after establishing communication. this is the second such incident in a week. on tuesday the uss thunderbolt, a navy patrol vessel, fired warning shots off th

>> apparently pays tribute to 13th century persian poet, i love reading persian poetry, which we nownd sir is the reference in one of his most famous poems, the twins, women, as you know, all right. >> when you any it, it is like celebrities now have accentric names. just can't name them gretchen or sarah. >> give exam job. >> this think about kim and kanye, north and saint, then joel mad he will, nicole richie, their name is sparrow james midnight. >> they named it after a bird, sparrow? >> yes. and then, you have mariah carey, more okay and and monroe. >> and then, like karen mentioned, gwyneth paltrow, a.m. >> i probably the most famous celebrity's kid's name. >> apple something. looks just like her. >> total mini me. >> totally. >> how old is apples? >> megan? >> she 13 already? oh, my god. okay, so the pops, then tomorrow night is mary jay blige, but this afternoon the block party that's going to be happening. >> okay. >> so it is right at independence mall, also free museum day, so the national liberty museum, then the charles collection at temple university. having free admiss

iranian authorities say he is fluent in persian and that he has digitally archived 4500 ages of iranian documents. he was arrested last summer and the university says they have been working quietly to get him freed. the u.s. state department has fabricating of charges to detain americans and other foreigners. iran's state department says the decision can be appealed. annette: they have launched a major operation against the islamic state. >> the army has begun an operation in tribal areas to try to stop the islamic state from advancing from afghanistan into pakistan. feared that the jihadi have hideouts across that whole area. pakistan is awash with weapons and the area is still volatile despite successes striving out the taliban and operatives. a number of local terrorist groups have pledged allegiance to the i.s. group and young people from pakistani cities are being recruited to fight alongside them in syria. the military's action against militants will not gain complete success as long as the mindset that supports them continues to thrive in the country. annette: time for the entert

the situation in the persian gulf with qatar and a possibility of an extension of the proxy war, and the blockade with qatar is something hardly anyone predicted. you don't have a good model of the situation and the risk is probably quite high. then the interaction between north korea and president trump. the north korean situation isn't new, but to have trump as president, which i think on the domestic front will be ok, even though he is erratic, in terms of foreign policy there are checks and balances. we still don't know how to model his temperament. people who know him don't know how to model his temperament when he is unconstrained. and how that interacts with the situation with south korea, china, japan, other parties doing their bit to shove him in different directions, those are the risks. stephen: let's pick up on cybersecurity and cyber threats. china just launched its new cybersecurity law. you're taking steps as well. how much of a threat to the markets in the economy is cyber? >> it could be incredibly disruptive, particularly depending on which area the cyber attack tar

confidential research for the department of state, harvard kennedy school, and british institute of persian studies. ,t also goes on to say iranous new pressure on the president, coincided with the second anniversary of him signing a signature of agreement, an agreement with the u.s. and other world powers to curb nuclear activities in the return of easing sanctions that have isolated iran. the agreement has not produced the desired economic boom in iran, giving ammunition to conservatives. the agreement in the u.s. have also complained saying it is too weak. kansas city, kansas. phyllis, good morning. caller: hi, pedro. what i am calling about is the illegal immigration. a lot of it is our federal government's problem. , a lot of people that they put into our government, our military should not be letting illegals into our military, but they do. they should not let illegals into the border patrol to help the cartels, but sometimes that because they have not checked out the illegals' pap erwork. all i am saying is we have illegals in all sector of our government. that is the reason -- like,

there is a lot of consummate persian gulf oil continue flowing out of the persian gulf for the united states and in europe and other parts of the world. , weighty oil, saudi oil were from other countries in the persian gulf. not irani and oil. but the united states and other countries said those are naval ships in the persian gulf area, and it becomes a very dangerous place. in 1988, the united states, the an iraniants down jet. all passengers are killed. a low-flying, civilian five between iran and i believe -- the light it is a mistake. but there has been an atmosphere in intensifying danger and hair trigger, some people said trigger-happy actions on the part of commanders of u.s. ships. it is approximately the same number of people that were killed when the south korean airliner was shot down by the soviets in 1983, which reagan and american leaders, in general, per trade as a horrible in a much trustee of the soviet system, but there was not even an apology from reagan when the jet was shot down in 1988. and 1992, george h.w. bush served one term as president and loses his reelect

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we have friends and earners in the persian gulf. -- partners in the persian gulf. with those groups. we have a lot of money there. so get to see. thank you so much. much more ahead on "daybreak: asia." this is bloomberg. ♪ betty: this is "daybreak: asia." yvonne: the european central bank has reiterated its bid for a euro clearing role in a post-brexit world. oversight is crucial to maintain the stability of the common currency. we spoke with chairman john mcfarlane, chairman of the -- group. >> i think the issue is a conflict between politics and the economics here. to my knowledge, nobody has asked for clearing to move from a business standpoint. it is faring -- working very efficiently. the transaction cost is across a business point something because the scale is so enormous. true, the aspect of that has to move into the eu. you lose the benefit. efficient. less up au then say, let's open multicurrency and the eu, but you keep the currency system in the u.k., which is much bigger, that would be more efficient but less efficient than it is today. you would be mo

we had a saying in persian that if you're asleep somebody can wake you up. if you pretend to be asleep, nobody can wake you up. i believe people are pretending. if your national intelligence estimate and this is not iran, it's u.s. intelligence community. if your own national intelligence estimate in 2007 and again in another year that i can't recall, established that iran is no longer pursuing nuclear weapons, why is it so difficult for american officials to recognize that. now we believe that nuclear weapons do not augment our security, nor to be honest, do they augment anybody else's security. so that's our position of principle. we remain very compliant with that principle throughout our history, and there are cases to prove it. including the use of chemical weapons against iran by iraq with the support of everybody international community, report after the report of the un and established that iraq used chemical weapons against us and the report at the un established that they did not. >> rose: you were a victim of -- >> of chemical weapons and we never

. >>> persian gulf speaking to three persian gulf leaders about the widening rift with qatar.audi king, the crown prince of abu dhabi, and the emir of qatar on sunday. the white house says the president expressed his concerns about the dispute and the urgent need to stop the financing of terrorism. arab countries involved in the boycott agreeing to extend the deadline for qatar to meet a long list of demands by 48 hours. we have more from doha. from your read of the situation, the president inserting himself in the situation helping or hurting? >> reporter: you know, we've discussed this before during this crisis where people here tell us they feel they don't understand what the u.s.' position is. they feel that they've been getting mixed signals from the president on the one hand who seemed to be siding with saudi arabia. and really complicating this crisis. and on the other hand, his secretary of state, rex tillerson, who is really trying to push toward mediation and dialogue. this has been the feeling here that they really don't understand the u.s.' position. now where this