right from the united states perspective people look at this as a very simple legal matter. how zarrab violated u.s. law and now they are being tried for in u.s. court. to make it against the law for us business wthis was a bilaterl trade. up to a point i think it's worth acknowledging where this is coming from. it's a vast sweep of the financial sector does have a unique ability to make our national interest into a matter of universally enforcement law. that only goes so far. the point is worth mentioning and this is where the problem really goes back to how the akp approached this issue this 2012. they may not have agreed with the united states laws. they may not have agreed with the united states sanctions against iran. they made it clear they did have concerns about u.s. sanctions against iran. however at the point when these sanctions were put in place at the point where people in the tu turkish banking sector knew these laws were in place, they were aware of the consequences of breaking them. at that point the decision to go ahead with this scheme, the decision amongst

in that respect from the united states' perspective people look at this as a very simple legal matter. zarrab and his turkish accomplices violated u.s. law, now they're being tried for it in u.s. court. the turkish response to this very clearly has been, you know, what right does america have to make it against the law for us turkey to do business with iran? these weren't united nations sanctions, turkey claims, this was a bilateral trade between two sovereign countries, why is this in violation of u.s. law? and up to a point i think it's worth acknowledging where this argument is coming from. certainly the united states by virtue yew of the vast sweep of its financial sector does have a unique ability to make our national interest into a matter of universally enforceable law. if these were i'd say paraguay's sanctions against iran and turkey had done what it did, zarrab would not be facing trial right now. but that only goes so far. the point is also worth mentioning, and i think this is where the problem really goes back to how the akp approached this issue in 2012. they may not hav

military and economic perspective and the last thing they want is united states interference or any additional interference in the region. look at duterte he killed 13,000 people since july and pats donald trump on the head and gives him a red carpet blow out when he arrives in manila and what he is doing to his own people. >> steve, going back to director of cia and the president made that hedge where he believes u.s. intelligence currently constituted hinting that he didn't believe it before. people on the inside, though, how do they see partisanship and the management of the intelligence agencies. do they see the intelligence agencies swinging like a pendulum to a republican administration and then back, again? >> you know, for the most part, no. i mean, during my career, i served under democratic presidents and republican presidents. and, you know, the intelligence community is used to the way the political system works. that said, you know, the current situation with president trump is abnormal in a lot of different ways. one of those ways is the partisanship and the specific frictions, if you will, or tensions with the intelligence community. remember it