prime minister tatis is here. i will have a meeting today alongside president trump. politicalecretary for affairs, david hale, will be thisling to brussels later week. we will have conversations with 28 european counterparts. this is a meeting happens about every six months. this gathering is important because it precedes a foreign ministerial on iran. that's just been scheduled. it shows once again our close cooperation with our european partners on issues of mutual concern. while david's there, the issue of iran and iraq will be featured prominently in their conversations and they will have an opportunity to discuss syria, north korea and china as well. one more personnel matter -- i want to thank ambassador john bass who i have come to know in my time of service, both as the director of the cia and secretary of state. of service in ur kabul was one of our most important commissions. he is a man of incredible integrity and has helped that country to a brighter, more peaceful, and more secure future for the people. i would like to welcome the two new ambassadors. in

sanction a ground war inside iran, but it could be that we get into some kind of at this tim tit-for-taty back and forth, particularly if they kill more american soldiers. >> that's one of the reasons we hit soleimani because the pent pentagon believed he was planning to kill more americans. >> i doubt we want to get into a tit-for-tat for him. i'm not sure the iranians do either. i think the moment has aa lived for donald trump to -- arrived for donald trump to suggest that this is the moment for serious negotiations over iran's future. that point had to come eventually, just as reagan talked. i think donald trump should not sit down but propose to them, we've got to talk about denuclearization. you can walk away from it if they aren't serious. this is the moment i think to ask the iranians whether they want to seriously try to negotiate an end game to what's going on here. paul: interesting. i'm not so sure they won't try to wait him out until after the elections, to see if he's still in office. when we come back, with just a month to go until the first votes are cast in the democratic