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the senate foreign relations committee is dealing with the congressional perspective on both the senate. foreign policy. and at the end of the day, we cannot get information about this administration. we have one classified briefing by ambassador khalilzad. we have heard nothing in between. so you need congressional support and buy-in if we agree with the ultimate result. when the result we want is, yes, to bring our people home but we don't want another re-do of iraq. we left out the right conditions and had to go back. this is about securing the united states and never having a situation where you can have a haven for another attack. >> whatever your political beliefs, i don't think it would startle a lot of people. they would want the committee to be briefed on the content of these negotiations. what can you do now that we know the subject was according to the president to get more information. are you calling for a briefing from the administration? what are we going to see? . >> we have been habitually calling on it. it has not been forth coming. so sometimes what i do as a ranking

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senator lindsey graham says he does not expect president trump plus foreign policy to change with the departure of john bolton. the south carolina republican is a member of the senate foreign relations committee. he says the president has a good foreign team around him. afghanistan, the taliban. honored guest inside of afghanistan. ignored whatistory was going on in afghanistan. we had no troops, not an embassy. we might do a peace deal with the tele-man, but they are not there yet. says a democratic senator bolton's firing was part of a familiar pattern with the trump white house. exampleis just another of the president getting rid of anybody who does not agree with him. i clearly did not agree with bolton's hawkish positions, but -- mark: president trump told reporters today that bolton was not getting along with other members of his administration. somber ceremonies are being held to remark the -- to mark the 18th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. a moment of silence was held at ground zero in new york city at 8:46 a.m. local time to mark the moment the first plane struck the north tower of the world trade center. global news 24 hours a day, on air and at tictoc on twitter, powered by more

joining us now, senator bob menendez, the ranking democrat on the senate foreign relations committee. senator, thanks so much for joining us. >> good to be with you, wolf. >> as you know, president trump says he's weighing various options in response to the attack on the saudi oil facilities. do you believe he has all of the information he needs right now to move forward with a specific response? >> well, first of all, the answer to that is, i'm not sure. because we have asked for briefings and all members briefing or senate foreign relations committee staff meeting, and we have not received it. and it doesn't seem like we're going to receive it this week, number one. number two is i think the president has to avail himself of all of the information and ascertain with specificity exactly how the attack took place, writ took place from, who generated it. and number three, if the president is now deciding to act on behalf of saudi arabia, an act of war may have taken place against the sovereign state of saudi arabia, but it didn't take place against the united states. if we are now goin

believe that congress under its article one role is more important than ever before, the senate foreign relations committee and house foreign relations committee and the intelligence committee and the armed services committee need to have a robust dig lent role to try to pursue a foreign policy that the administration ultimately will limit the risk that they pose in terms of u.s. foreign policy and national security >> oil prices fell almost immediately after trump tweeted about bolton. why do you think that is? what is the ramifications of this? >> i think those who believe that ambassador bolton was an advocate of, for example, the potential of an attack on iran because of the nuclear program, and the instability that would create in the region, maybe there are views that now there is less of a bellicose view as it relates to iran and the region. i would assume that is speculation on their part and that is why some of the prices fell. >> democratic senator bob menendez of the garden state new jersey. thank you. >>> should republican lawmakers be concerned about bolton's departure? the former chair of the

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how hearings recently the congressional executive commission on china as well as the senate foreign relations committee they chose to hear only form rhetoric coves rather than hear form a wider range of opinions from hong kong so they have formed very negative bias picture of the states of freedoms and human rights in hong kong. i would do the your colleagues in beijing say about how the hong kong authorities have have handled these protests because usually move the long history of u.k. u.s. destabilization of jonah whether it be the drugging of its population and all sorts of attempts to destroy it want to be in china it's not be the well has it or the common accusation of the west is china would intervene in hong kong would intervene in the heavy metal heavy handed way they would be a repeat of the solid can run events you know. they take has actually been exceedingly restrained in in their approach to walk the events in hong kong they are leaving it to us to resolve our own problems and i think we are we solve to use our own legislative and law enforcement resources to bring the current quizes to a

the senior democratic senator on the senate foreign relations committee said that the abrupt cancellation of these talks showed the weakness of president trump's negotiating style insofar as he does not prepare intensively for negotiations of this sort so are the talks really did well maybe maybe not this worth recalling the president trump both as a businessman and as president has used this tactic many times in the past that of walking away from negotiations in hopes of getting a better or stronger they go shading position he's hoping that the taliban will say they will decide that it needs the agreement more than the united states does and his use of the word leverage in his tweets sort of shows that he's looking at this in terms of a kind of business transaction but there are risks for president trump as well he has made a campaign promise to withdraw all of the remaining 14000 u.s. uniformed troops out of afghanistan failure to do so would be a political bull blow to the president and as we all know the u.s. presidential election is less than 14 months away office wasn't it also the

. >> brennan: we turn now to democrat chris coons, who is on the senate foreign relations committee. so we're glad to have you here face the face. good morning. >> great to be with you. >> brennan: the obama administration tried to negotiate with the taliban. they never got this far. >> yes. >> why do you have a problem with the trump administration doing it? >> i don't have a problem with the trump administration trying to resolve our very long conflict in afghanistan.the tal. and i agree that we should not fully withdraw from afghanistan until we've got conditions on the ground that will prevent it from becoming once again a haven for terrorists who might attack us as happened on 9/11. but i disagree with how our president goes about his negotiations around the world. he seems to think that he and he alone individually can negotiate with kim jong-un in north carolina, with xi jinping in china, or in this case with the taliban. we don't even have an ambassador in pakistan or in jordan. i am concerned that our president isn't listening to his general, to his diplomats, to the intelli

criticism in april 17 senators including james risch the republican chairman of the senate foreign relations committee drew attention to what they called serious concern about the erosion of political and human rights in egypt but you think they're doing great your boss. just campaign thinks they're doing great. how do you think he compares to president morsi when he was in as you gyptian the leader of egypt how do you think sisi compares. he has tried to achieve more people than we'll see do. you think see firearms were actually tried on c.s.e. is worse than morsi do you not think torture is worse no no i'm asking when you really see them go around cairo murdering babies do you know he's the head of the muslim brotherhood. a he's the muslim brotherhood. is not. that strongly reputable of a group but you would rather have them in and so you see. is that he truly eyeball the people not being praised who subject their citizens. to industrial degrees of torture yeah and to some more sound the man who was responsible well it was mr sisi was responsible as human rights watch said in 2013 for one of the lar

produces in april 17 senators including james risch the republican chairman of the senate foreign relations committee drew attention to what they called serious concern about the erosion of political and human rights in egypt but you think they're doing a great go bust. just campaign thinks they're doing great. on. how do you think he compares to president morsi when he was in as you gyptian the leader of egypt how do you think sisi compares. he has tried to achieve more people than the sea do. you think syrians were really trying to answer yes he is worse than morsi do you not think torture is worse no no i'm asking when you see they don't go around cairo murdering babies do you know he's the head of the muslim brotherhood. he's the muslim brotherhood. it's not. that strongly reputable the group but you would rather have been. man and c.c. . bill how. is that he through i'd rather people not being praised to subject their citizens to industrial degrees of torture yeah and use them or send a man who was responsible oh it was mr al sisi was responsible as human rights watch said and 2013 for one of th

joining here in washington, senator ben cardin, the top democrat on the foreign relations committee, to "fox news sunday." >> senator cardin: were to be with you, thank you. >> john: the u.s. is sending more troops and defensive weapons to saudi arabia and united arab emirates to counter the threat coming from iran. your thoughts about sending more men and material there? >> senator cardin: this is a very dangerous situation, there could easily be a miscalculation. the temperature couldn't be harder between united states and iran. our job is to isolate iran. iran is the bad actor and with the president needs to do is get an international coalition to continue to work against iran's support of terrorism. the challenge of course as the united states has been isolated when the president withdrew from the iran nuclear agreement, so we are having difficulty with our european allies to get the type of support we need, but we have to isolate iran. >> john: there are reports apparently to saudi arabia and the united states, i don't know if you saw my question to the secretary of state, that

using the leverage we have, and just a few weeks ago the senate foreign relations committee, we took up legislation that i introduced to stop the construction of the nordstrom to pipeline. a pipeline being built right now to flow to take natural gas from russia to germany. which, if it is built, will enrich pollutant, will harm europe and harm america. will make europe even more dependent on russia and one thing to understand about russia, john mccain used to describe russia as a gas station with a country attached. vladimir putin is a petro tyrant, if you are concerned about russian aggression and military adventurism by vladimir putin, the very best thing we can do is deprive him of the resources to fuel that military aggression. so how does my legislation stop nor did stream at two? it turns out there were only five companies on the face of the earth with the technology capable of laying the deep-sea pipeline. which is needed for nordstrom too. my legislation imposes sanctions on any company building that pipeline. the russians have hired a french company at a swiss company and an

we know the senate foreign relations committee, the house foreign relations committee, rather, has him scheduled to come in and provide him. they are in the middle of all of this saying that he was one of the people that he was communicating with before he went to the ukraine. and the members of the ukrainian government. so the big question will be what did you tell giuliani? what was it about? was he acting as an emissary for the state department. as you played in the last hour, he is a private citizen, he is acting as a lawyer, and he does not speak for the president of the united states. i think that is clouded by the whistle-blower complaint, by some of the conversations that the president giuliani has made it so clear that he is sort of the fall guy essentially. >> by tweeting out are texts coming from vulker. >> and i think the white house is trying to say that volker cannot share privileged conversations. executive privilege will certain i will be an issue. >> and now some of those directives or comments or words allegedly from him, wouldn't that dismiss any kind of privilege? >

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republican senator is the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, senator, good evening tok you for being here tonight. you heard my conversation with general jack keane. he says that a strike is necessary, that a strong response is the only thing that will change the dynamic care. what do you say? >> first ball he made a lot of very legitimate points, but we have a commander in chief and he has said he does not want war with iran and the saudi arabians said the same thing. the unfortunate part of all of this is iran continues to push the envelope. i don't think we're there yet, but it's very, very close and the difficulty is the iranians are just notorious for making bad judgments, bad calculations, miscalculating, and they are doing that now. they need to listen carefully to what the president said. he doesn't want war with iran. having said that, sometimes you get pulled into something and have to do something that you don't necessarily want to do. the iranians are very, very close to that. this was such a deliberate and overwhelming use of military force that is very ha

. >> i'm joined by senator chris murphy of connecticut, a member of the senate foreign relations committee, senator, once again you see trump in action making these benghazi comments, this e-mail stuff with no claim of actual information, no claim of guilt on the other side, just throwing crap out there, but let's talk about the president, and what he did admit, he admitted talking to a leader of a foreign country, trying to get dirt from him on a political opponent using his goodwill, generally speaking, it doesn't have to apply, it seems to me, to whether it's the foreign aid he's holding up, freezing at that time, $250 million in foreign aid or a visit to the white house. it's the goodwill of an american president for sale, your thoughts, to get dirt, senator murphy. >> think of it this way, if the mueller report had included evidence of a phone call between donald trump and vladimir putin in which donald trump asked vladimir putin eight different times for his help in the 2016 election, that would have been the smoking gun. i don't think donald trump would be in office today. and i don

exclusively on that and other big stories today, senator marco rubio, a member of the senate foreign relations committeeht. thank you for being here. obviously a few things to talk about but i want to get your reaction first to this decision by nancy pelosi today. >> first of all, the term impeachment has lost all meaning. it's thrown around cavalierly. impeachment is an extraordinary measure. it's an extraordinary remedy. it basically means we are going to throw out the results of the last election and i would think that at a minimum, it divides the country deeply and it takes a tremendous amount of energy. while you're working on something like that you're not getting anything else done like funding the government as an example, which is something we should be doing around here and so the question becomes if you're going to do something that extraordinary and that divisive, shouldn't, before you go out running her mouth about it, you have some facts before you, shouldn't you wait, for example before the transcript of the call comes out gimmick at the intelligence, talk to the inspector general, to pot

i won't cross bridges on hypotheticals, but i've asked the senate foreign relations committee to conduct an investigation. i frankly asked them to do that in may, and i reiterated that request today. the law clearly states this whistleblower complaint has to be disclosed to congress. they can only stonewall so long and i hope that the house goes to court over this if they indeed don't produce something in the next several days. but let's be honest. if it does turn out -- and i haven't seen the whistleblower complaint, but if it does turn out that we have told the ukranians that they will only get their aid from the united states unless they do the political bidding of the president of the united states, it frankly doesn't get more serious than that. so let's find out what the facts are. >> do you think that the whistleblower should come directly to congress? >> well, i don't know the circumstances of this complaint. obviously there is lots of sensitivities when you are disclosing wrongdoing that you see inside your company or the administration. there are reasons why he may want to keep

. >> bret: if you are on the senate foreign relations committee and senate armed services and intelligence. you caucus with two different parties. why do this trip? >> i can give you a short answer. a very wise man once told me that a day of seeing is better than 30 days of reading. >> we need to get to know the leaders personally and develop a mutual understanding so we can be supportive. >> bret: centers, thanks very much for the time. >> bret: as i told you at the top of the program this is the 18th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. tonight we hear from the author of a book featuring eyewitness accounts of those attacks from survivors and government officials. correspondent mark meredith has our report. >> i'm looking right now the world trade center and there is a massive gaping hole in the second tower. >> it was just before 9:00 a.m. on the first hijacked plane american airlines flight 11 crashed into the north tower of the world trade center. a second airline, united flight 175 hits of south twin tower and forever change the course of history. >> they compiled thousands of ca was und

the top democrat in the senate foreign relations committee has written in "the washington post" todaythe saudi should have known that murdering a u.s. resident and journalist would try to trigger a fundamental re-examination of the way americans think about the house of saud. regrettably, we should have known president trump would find a way to use this tragedy to further forfeit our nation's status as a champion of value such as human rights in press freedom. congress has pushed efforts to block arms sails to saudi arab saudi arabia. speak with but the turkish president says the investigation should continue? >> he does. he wrote "no other event since 9/11 has posed such a serious threat to the international order or challenge the conventions of the world has come to take for granted. "that one year on, the international committee knows very little of what happened babe remains a serious concern. he also writes the assassination was a blatant abuse of diplomatic community. he also said they have more journalists in jail than any other country. >> shepard: hong kong police say the cit

the secretary of state, mike pompeo, calling it an act of war to the chairman of the senate foreign relations committeehow we act in response. the senator, james rich with us. senator, thanks for taking the time. >> thanks for having me. >> neil: so an act of war. do you agree with that? >> there's no question about it. when you use the vehicles that they do what they did, by any definition, that's an act of war. >> neil: so do you think we should do? >> that's a work in progress right now. secretary of state is over there right now meeting and talking with our allies. obviously we've been talking back and forth with the administration, with the state department. there are options on the table. i think the president himself has said there's a suite of options in front of us. look, this is not a president that wants to pull the trigger. i think anybody that has been around him for any length of time knows that this is -- that is not something that he wants to do. having said that, the iranians should listen. when he says sometimes you have to do things that you don't want to do. but look, this is not go

i would hope he does so voluntarily, i hope he would do so before the senate foreign relations committee. i hope chairman risch will take participation in doing the oversight, reviews, request for documents, and engagement with the secretary of state because this goes to the very essence of how we're conducting foreign policy and national interest and security of the united states. >> as you know, president trump has attacked you personally this week, implying that you and your colleagues, democratic colleagues, inappropriately pressured a ukrainian prosecutor. the fact is, you were concerned the prosecutor was blocking robert mueller's efforts to investigate ukraine, but how do you respond to the president's accusations, attacks against you? >> well, this is the president and his version of alternative facts. like when you're a five-year-old caught doing something bad, wants to change the topic. the reality is this letter sent by myself and two colleagues was a result of a "new york times" investigative piece that suggested the ukrainian prosecutor wasn't willing to provide information

. >> reporter: democrat new jersey senator bob menendez is the top democrat on the senate foreign relations committeesten. >> the fact is that, yes, the taliban harbored bin laden, the perpetrator of september 11th as we approach this 18th anniversary. we don't forget that. but we need to find a pathway forward that includes the taliban. but it has to be the taliban and the afghan government. we're not just talking to the taliban, that's only half of the equation. >> reporter: now these talks hang in the balance. back in the united states, a white house aide tells me president trump closely watching capitol hill as members of the house and senate will return tomorrow for the first time since the august recess. also president trump's schedule just published, on thursday night he'll be in baltimore, maryland. you may remember last month he garnered a lot of criticism for his criticism of baltimore. that will be happening on thursday. busy week for the president both here and what's happening abroad. gillian: david summit, thanks for that report. leland: with congress returning for summer recess as it h

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eastern company senate foreign relations committee looks at u.s. policy towards syria. u.k. supreme the court, closing statements and a case challenging prime minister borussia else in suspension of parliament and whether his advice to the queen to do so was justifiable. critics claim the prime minister did this to avoid opposition to his brexit plan. the british parliament is scheduled to return on october 14, roughly two weeks before the deadline for the u.k. to leave the european union. >> milady, milord. issue was non-justifiable because of what was political. it was political for two reasons . one was that it trespassed on the proper province of the executive and the other was the lack of judicial or manageable standard. be charm.t could i paraphrase, of course, from case.inion in another much reference has been made to constitutional principle. constitutional principle may embrace legal rules, but it may also embrace convention. convention that is not amenable to enforcement in a court of law , and an example of that was reference tor 1 in the convention which was expr

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. >> pelley: the china patients have the attention of at least one member of the senate foreign relations committeeeanne shaheen wrote secretary pompeo, "the group from china is increasingly feeling isolated and left behind by the state department." the state department declined an interview, but in a statement to "60 minutes," it said, "we will continue to provide our colleagues the care they need, regardless of their diagnosis or the location of their medical evacuation." a state department official told us that the cuba patients are victims of an attack, but state hasn't made the same determination for the china patients. the department has asked the national academies of science to assist in the medical investigation. the f.b.i. is also investigating. intelligence sources told us that in addition to cuba and china, russia is a suspect. but if microwaves were used, the technology is not rare. it could be, more than one country is using it. u.s. intelligence is still debating what caused the injuries. you were in harm's way and you didn't know it. >> werner: exactly. i didn't know it. and i'm afr

he serves on the senate foreign relations committee.ordinated response with saudi arabia, what do you take away from that? >> well, when i hear coordinated response or the president and vice president saying we're locked and loaded, i worry that they're going to take military action. and there is absolutely no reason for the u.s. to go to war or engage in military action to protect saudi oil. zero. let the saudis defend themselves. we sell them weapons. we give them advice. that's one thing. but to be engaged in military action, another war in the middle east, a war to protect saudi oil, and a war based on what i believe is some fundamental mistruths that the administration is promoting is a disaster. >> what mistruths? >> they're saying the attack was unprovoked. the u.s. is provoking iran. we were in a diplomatic deal with them that allowed them to sell their oil. we pulled out of the deal, the u.s. pulled out. and we've punished their oil economy. and so iran -- and again, iran is not a good actor. you don't have to like this, but we

now senator murphy sits on the senate foreign relations committee, and more than that, he has been one of the most active members in the entire u.s. senate on u.s./ukrainian relations. he's travelled there multiple times and in fact was just there a few weeks ago where he met with the new incoming ukrainian president, volodymyr zelenskiy. what did you hear, what was your takeaway? >> well, i started to get visits to my office and calls in the spring right after president zelenskiy had been sworn in after a resounding election victory with concerns that rudy giuliani had begun to pressure zelenskiy and his team to launch these investigations into vice president biden. and zelenskiy, who has never held elective office before, is a political novice, didn't really understand whether these were official requests from the u.s. government or whether they were requests he should ignore. and so part of the reason why i eventually made the reason to go and see for myself was because i thought it was important for somebody from the united states congress to raise with him the concern about the da

joining us tonight to tell us what he knows, senate foreign relations committee member and chair of thediciary committee, lindsey graham of south carolina, thanks for being here. >> thank you for having me. >> bret: see this coming? >> a bit. a personality policy difference that led to a change. from my point of view john bolton serve the country well, he gave the president good advice, but the one thing you've got to learn but president trump as i've come to learn is he's unconventional. it's okay i think or talk with the taliban even at camp david if there's a reason to believe they're going to accept and change their behavior, and i thought we just got ahead of the cart there, but john is gone and there are a lot of the choices and appreciate what john did for the country. >> bret: even a couple days ahead of 9/11 to do that at camp david? >> yeah. i can understand the timing, but the main thing is -- i told the president your right to want to reduce our commitment. your right to want to lower our costs. 18 years later, what have we found? al qaeda is still there, isis is there. but

. >>> joining me now is chris murphy from the senate foreigns relations committee. they tell cnn they have imagery showing weapons used in the attack staged in iran. have you seen this intelligence and are you convinced iran is possible? >> i have read some limited intelligence that was provided to the united states congress. upon reading it, it seems to me there was likely iranian involvement in this attack. but i think the details are still to be decided. and i would like the chance to be able to talk to those who have interpreted the intelligence we have. that is an important question. but this idea that the administration has that we have some secret defense treaty with saudi arabia, i think is dangerous. ultimately this was not an attack on the us. this is an attack on saudi oil assets and this administration is acting as if we are the security guarantor for all of our friends and allies in the middle east. that is never how we have conducted our business. in part because we know that when the united states gets military involved in the middle east, more things

members of the senate foreign relations committee had the opportunity to sit down with the secretary of state mike pompeo to talk about a number of concerns around the globe, including our concerns about huawei and z.t.e. and the fact that huawei and d.t.e. pose serious threats to the national security of the united states and its allies. the time there had been a lot of discussion about what was happening in europe and other places around the globe about whether or not huawei would be allowed to participate in networks of our allies and what that could mean for u.s. national security and our ability to continue to engage in national security conversations, intelligence operations, sharing of information, and the like. and so in that conversation, secretary pompeo had said -- and this is the entire group of the senate foreign relations committee, both republican and didn't members -- in that conversation secretary pompeo said what would help is to let congress' voice be heard when it comes to huawei and z.t.e. and we should send a strong message to our allies that our concern with

foreign relations committee to do a full investigation. today i am resending that request to the chairman of the foreign relations committee, senator risch, with additional questions that have been raised in the last few days. i think the foreign relations committee in the senate has to assure that our diplomatic aims and objectives overseas are being communicate only by the state department and that they are not confused with political outreach from the president's team. i hope the foreign relations committee takes this up. >> i wanted to play for you, rudy giuliani last night with chris cuomo on cnn, rudy giuliani, a controversial role, you're raising questions why he would have been involved at all in communicating with a foreign leader and representing u.s. interests or political interests for the president. and he certainly did not clarify it last night. let's play this. >> did you ask the ukraine to investigate joe biden? >> no. actually i didn't. i asked the ukraine to investigate the allegations that there was interference in the election of 2016 by the ukrainians for the benefit of hillary clinton for which there -- >> you never a

>> the senate foreign relations committee and the house have advanced this legislation would would --re regular assessments of whether hong kong is sufficiently autonomous under the current law from beijing to justify that unique status, the unique trade status. there has been bipartisan support for moving us forward, although things do not always move forward as fast as people would like and congress is on recess this week. the other thing that would allow, the president report to congress on any human rights violations occurring in hong kong. this has been pushed by protesters. joshua wong went to washington to support this. beijing opposes this and says it will oppose any efforts of the u.s. to get involved in the affairs that belong to china. we will see what happens. there is bipartisan support. islinda: the other issue president trump's impeachment inquiry. what do you expect in the coming weeks? the phone call between president trump and the ukrainian leader. what is the latest? staget is taking center in washington in the house. adam schiff, the chairman of the house intellige

this hearing on the senate foreign relations committee on the near east, south asia and central asia will come to order. today we're holding hearings on the bipartisan syria study group. it was established by congress for the purpose of examining and making recommendations with respect to the conflict in syria. i want to recognize my colleagues particularly senator shaheen and my friend, the late senator john mccain for their efforts to establish this working group. we also wish to honor the american men and women who have died as part of operation inherent resolve, the campaign against isis in syria and iraq. finally, i want to thank our witnesses here today for their willingness to take on the task for examining an accomplished problem with no easy solutions. optimal outcomes were left behind long ago, end of quote. it's never easy to devote time and resources to a task whose main goal is often to prevent worse things from happening. i happen to believe that this report comes at a very timely point in our nation's history. according to press reports, isis is regrouping and that the

host: for much more on syria and 2:30 ina study group, the senate foreign relations committee.hael singh, talking iran with you this morning. marsha in ohio, republican -- democrat. trump helpsink that all of his donors like he does with private prisons and oil companies and everything, and stayed his hotels, they are great friends with the rest of the family. they donated to ivanka's foundation. don't you think trump is doing all of this just to help saudi arabia? guest: so far the united states has not done much to respond to these attacks. that president trump is eager to get us into military conflict. he has said pretty clearly that he does not want a war. all we have seen in the way of reaction would be some new sanctions and this diplomatic effort we will see in new york. if anything, the saudi's have been more reticent in terms of pinning the blame on iran. the united states and saudi arabia treading carefully. i would say too carefully because the risk is iran has mounted this very serious attack without any kind of cost as a result. host: what about the tone that secre