walid phares. walid, great to see you. >> thank you. lou: i mean, can you believe that you have got a group of people in this country so concerned about the president's language that they can't see the geopolitical substance and the threat posed by iran? >> absolutely. that's the real question to be asked. the genesis of it, is that the iranian regime from the beginning for many years has been expanding in the region, penetrating countries, backing terrorism, trying to build a nuclear arsenal, developing missiles. president obama and his administration basically what they have done, they tried to cut a deal with them but that deal gave $150 billion to iran. what did they do with it? bought more weapons and missiles. lou: $150 billion, walid, that would fund in perpetuity, terrorism against against princely western civilization, will it not? >> absolutely. number of terrorist organizations iran is funding not just in the middle east. it is in the western hemisphere in africa. what president trump has done put a stop to it, change the dir

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walid phares is with us, former trump policy adviser.is saying the russians can do this and will do, what should the president do now in. >> well, first and foremost let's make the largest distinction between two things, one, russian attempts to use cyber-attacks against our infrastructure, that's acts of war, that's the fact, we need to investigate, know who is doing it, government, private sector or third party and then respond, that we know how to do. if it's operation of influence in the united states, then basically we need to ask the question will cyber-attacks really shift one party to another and what is the actual russian goal? why would they do those attacks if it's not to place people in front of legislative body who would be more sympathetic to them? so the big -- question is, is really this is the most influential act that the russians can do or do they have other ways to influence our politics? stuart: you mentioned this but the russians are accused of hacking into our utility power plants. do you think -- we had the story

your response, walid?d two components and we need to start looking at those two components in a separate way. the actual meeting, subject discussessed what was said about first part of the press conference, at least six points, not just syria, ukraine, nuclear terrorism, all that which was a normal summit with some new elements to it, which is, which the president is talking about, and second part, which was exchange between the american press basically and the president. it was basically washington debates going to helsinki. what the president is trying to say is, despite that debate that we're having here, will continue, we have achieved few things in helsinki. i would like to see the public understanding these things are positive. that is what he is trying to say. stuart: i think the public may be looking beyond the media's hostility because the president's approval rating has gone up in latest poll. the poll was taken during and just after the summit with putin. his approval rating has gone up. >> look

walid, there's a lot to unpack here. the criticism of trump today was so overwrought, so over-the-top, so unhinged, it's like it is seamlessly dovetailing from the unhinged criticism of brett kavanaugh two days ago. we have moved from topic to topic with more overheated rhetoric. how is donald trump cozying up to russia by saying let's strengthen the military alliance of nato? >> absolutely. by also ordering a deployment in the baltic states, increasing sanctions on russia, making sure iran is not going to get our dollars to buy weapons from russia. is that cozying up? i don't think so. >> laura: this is what president obama and president bush both said about the need for each member nation to pay his fair share. let's listen. >> the majority of allies are still not hitting that 2% mark. everybody has got to step up and everybody's got to do better. >> building a strong nato alliance requires strong european defense capability. so at the summit, i will encourage our european partners to increase their defense investments

walid phares.ake the point he goes into the summit with strong hand, strong economy back home. strength within nato. strong hand to play, what say you? >> i think very much so. >> we drawn from the iran deal. he modified the situation in syria. most important he made ha decision to solve issues and confront, if the word is correct, the russian president on the issues are of great interest to our national security? stuart: just lost contact there with the issue is. will the president -- because he did tweet out many years of foolishness and stupidity blaming america with problems with russia. it's really russia's annexation of crimea, support of assad regime not cited in that tweet and the nerve agent poisonings in england that the british government says the kremlin was behind. those are the issues that the president will have to fill at press conference coming pup. stuart: that seems to be the issue which is setting press conference on fire or it will when it begins, do you expect the president wi

walid phares will join us.ent trump on foreign policy. >>> president trump going after montana senator jon tester in his campaign rally. tester always has such nice things to say about the president but never votes in line with the white house. we're on top of that. >>> how about this? the country's biggest nail manufacturer, laying off workers because of higher tariff costs, that the tariffs could force the company into extinction. the business owner next on "varney." ♪ charles: you're looking at the big board. that is the dow. that is the index most connected to this so-called trade war. it has been dipping in and out of plus or minus territory all session long. other indices are higher this morning. want to check on gold. we haven't looked at this. you talk about being range-bound between 12 and 1300. >> tight. charles: very tight. not going anywhere. meanwhile there is this. president trump on north korea. >> i got along very well with chairman kim. i got along very well. that's a good thing i got along wel

and they don't know where it's going to land but this area's under control of a group called been walid brigade it is affiliated with eisel so at the moment there is no sort of deal reconciliation deal in the offering here which is what the government has been doing across other sections of this area canapes are the latest army that's just north of here so pretty much this entire southwestern area is under government control now. just to clarify when an airstrike in here we can have a sound of across when you're saying people are coming up against the fence towards the left we're talking about civilians who are still trapped in that area and often the forgotten people in a conflict we may have seen some of the opposition fighters but clearly there's a lot of civilians to have any idea how many civilians are stuck there and what their condition is of trying to dodge the sort of sounds we're hearing. well from what we understood people managed to get out of this area about a week ago about four days ago we've just heard from a source that about three days ago the group that is in control

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thank you for being here today walid. >> happy fourth. >> molly: to kick things off, of course, withdrawingthe sanctions are expected. that's what the u.s. is hoping to see happen. there is some pushback as the president heads to europe next week. do you think there will be some success as far as the sanctions are concerned? >> i just came back from paris and met with french officials, european officials and lawmakers. the general attitude is that the europeans want to stay with the deal. that is if the deal stays as it is. if iran doesn't make any other mistake. and iran is making mistakes, number one as far as we understand two days ago iranian regime tried to organize a terror attack against iranian opposition. if it's confirmed that's a mistake. the head of a force said that iran will block the other countries in the gulf from exporting their energy if their energy is halted. so you have all that situation but in general i think the trump administration trying to convince the europeans to join the american sanctions not just because of the sanctions but there needs to be a different pol