not look to curb their activities with its tents kals into iraq and syria. now when you add to this all these different layers. hezbollah which is a direct tentacle of the iranian regime, you see this is yet another national security issue or you can look at it more as a domestic issue with our drug problem in this country. and it was completely overlooked in the light of pushing forward this deal. katie: hezbollah is not a rag tag team of terrorists hiding in case. they are a sophisticated terror organization that was responsible for more american murders before 9/11 than any other terror organization. a lot of this money they were funneling through drug cartels and working with the venezuelans on was used for weapons to kill american troops. what's your reaction to that? >> it's absolutely correct. i have been on the grounds in lebanon and beruit and i have seen firsthand what hezbollah can do and their capabilities. their threats to us and our israeli allies. they are a global threat. they are sophisticated. their counter in tell jones capabilities are high. we need to be worried

becomes bolder, what can we get to really rein him in? rick join us, the former us ambassador to iraq and turkey, james jeffrey. welcome ambassador. i -- it seems that kim jong-un is trying to take us down. it is extortion. get out of south korea or will continue. >> what mcmaster said today is without doubt, the most important thing any viewers will hear or see today. or on most days. the reason is, most analysts in washington believe that the north koreans were developing this nuclear weapons, supposedly for defensive reasons. to keep us from attacking them as we attacked iraq, brought down qaddafi in 2011. i never bought the theory. try to unify korea in 1950 by trying to going to the north. the chinese intervened. will not do anything like that again. what mcmaster is saying is, this is an offensive capability. he has a huge army. he has many ways to undercut south korea and even in japan. what keeps him at bay, the american deterrence military structure. if he can strike the nicest with nuclear weapons, even if we would destroy him in return, he feels we will not risk seattle for the

and refusing to concede. what do you make of it? >> iraq of the president's congratulations for doug jones, my district in florida, the board with alabama, it wasn't the policies of the republican party or donald trump that were rejected but roy moore was rejected. the long-term lesson is democrats are going to start rolling up victories in the deep south, the lesson is we should nominate people who admit to dating high school girls. rob: hillary clinton did concede that she refused to give a concession speech at the javits center, wondering what happened. it was very tight, 49.9% for jones, 48.4% for roy moore and 22,000 right ins of people that wanted to vote republican and said i can't vote for roy moore, this cloud of suspicion as you stated and the right in mid made the difference. >> absolutely. there is not some great attraction in the deep south to the policies democrats are fighting for. on the issues republicans continue to enjoy broad and deep level of support in this region of the country. just that roy moore was a uniquely flawed candidate, we are going to move on and fi

. as we defeated isis in iraq and afghanistan, it makes us realize that they have lived elsewhere. they are ever present on the internet and in africa and the philippines. this is not going anywhere. >> bret: this was not sophisticated. this guy feel that what he was doing, but it just brings up the threat and of the drive that some of these guys have. >> they have become a little bit more desperate, and i think what concerns me going into the holiday season is that they have advertised hitting christmas markets in berlin -- we saw this picture. and that was put on their web site it two weeks ago. sort of prophesies in which they are going to do. so as we go into the christmas holiday, we will see ramped up security in places like new york. so while it has been scaled it down to one and a two man operations and that sort of thing, i tell you, what concerns me the most is still at the threat, which is their crowning jewel, and this laptop explosive device, their ability to get it on an airplane. and go to an airport like jfk. >> bret: and we are lacking when it comes to tsa's abili

online despite defeats on the ground in iraq and syria. >> it is good that we have by and large taken away the caliphate, we in no way shape or form denied them the cybercaliphate. that may be a more persistent long-term threat. >> the us-led coalition says there are currently less than 3000 fighters left in iraq and syria but the question is where do those fight is going to they resume influence on the saudi space. >> thank you, kitty. a warning from gop chairman ron johnson coming days after a terrifying isis plot to assassinate british prime minister theresa may was afforded. how is the trump administration addressing the evolving terror threat at home. it away and is special forces operator and president of security studies group jim hansen. great to have you here. the foiled plot to assassinate theresa may, what does that point out to you in terms of terrorist groups and what they are planning? >> they are not aiming low. if they are trying to take out the british prime minister that is an amazingly powerful message. we need to be very vigilant. what is scary is there are tens of

caliphate in syria and iraq, iran now has a direct arc straight through iraq, syria, hezbollah, lebanon to the mediterranean. there is no wonder the saudis and others are very worried about iran being in their rear and yemen as well. the middle east and north africa has been descending into chaos from us of the last eight years under obama. this is another piece of evidence and i think it's why the president's national security strategy which he brought out yesterday shows it's a very different view of how american interests in this region play out. i think that's what nikki haley's speech reflects. >> shannon: against the backdrop of another deadline for the president to decide about certification of the iran nuclear deal. >> he should take the deal entirely. create a new reality and move on. >> shannon: always great to see you. medical students and doctors firing slingshots of police in bolivia. officers responded with tear gates. students and doctors protesting a new law stiffening malpractic malpractice. activists protesting near damascus. the campaign is ended bringing attention to

, iraq, syria. iran denies it's done anything wrong and today claimed the u.s. fabricated this new evidence. the country's foreign minister even took to twitter to compare haley's presentation to colin powell at the u.n. about weapons of mass destruction in iraq which were never found. ambassador haley said the u.s. hopes to bring more of its european allies on board by focusing less on the nuclear deal and more on iran's destabilizing behavior throughout the region. >> bret: garrett tenney at the state department. thanks. president trump spoke with russian leader vladimir putin on the phone today. the kremlin says they talked about a bilateral relations and north korea. no word from the white house on that conversation yet. meanwhile, earlier today, putin had some advice for americans. back off your president. putin spent some of his annual news conference defending his american counterpart. at the same time here, u.s. intelligence officials and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle say no matter what the russian leader says he and his country are dangerous to the u.s. senior forei

iraq and a lot of syria. this has happened. donald trump bombed the hell out of isis. they are running scared and scattered, and it's not being reported. imagine if obama and his military with his allies destroyed isis, they would have been having parades and specials all over television. >> go back two years. we have been told by obama that this is a generational conflict. our children, our grandchildren will be fighting those jihadis. al qaeda established afill yats and a caliphate. it was making $2 million a day from kidnapping, oil sales, you name it. i guess the trump administration managed to crush a generation into a month. jesse: the war on terror is not over, but the entire battlefield has been eliminated in terms of the caliphate in iraq and syria. and i don't think donald trump has gotten any credit because he is the one-loosened the rules of engagement and put the heavy pressure on the enemy. exactly what he said was going to happen happened. the stock market is through the roof. the isis caliphate is destroyed. that's not a bad first year if you don't count anything else.

border of syria and iraq. the white house crediting 30,000 us-led airstrikes and beefed-up presence on the ground killing 70,000 jihadists. military analysts say donald trump's hands off approach is what is winning here. >> the obama administration micromanaged the war and the trump administration did was allow execution decisions to be made in accordance with the guidance he provided. we could have accomplished our objectives the use of overwhelming power in three months, not three years. >> us backed forces have been credited with freeing 5.3 million people in that region. rob: fascinating numbers. illegal immigrant arrested again by border patrol agent for trying to illegally reenter the country. agent say franco or nellis previously served 15 years in jail for assaulting a peace officer, an officer who can write citations but may not carry a weapon. he was detained in the same area border patrol agent martinez was killed after suffering traumatic head injuries. jillian: a packed plane goes to turn around four hours into a strip to tokyo because a passenger got on the wrong plane

as news of the defeat of isis and iraq comes to light, twoed this picture comparing the day he was inaugurated on january 20th soup with ice fighters controlling iraq and syria to new estimates last week down to 1000 fighters left. the former president remained silent. and interview with prince here he took aim at donald trump without mentioning him by name. >> one of the dangers of the internet is people can have entirely different realities. they can be cocooned in information that reinforces their current biases. >> public events in florida, the president will stay there through the new year. we are learning the president when he returns from camp david with paul ryan and mitch mcconnell to map of the legislative agenda, infrastructure, healthcare, we will have to find out. >> no matter what it is it will be a busy 2018. thank you. heather: a study compared how donald trump and past presidents have been treated by the media and as you progress from clinton to bush to obama to trump, donald trump wins for the worst most negative coverage. rob: this is exactly why the president tw

iraq, got 4.3 billion from the u.s. afghanistan 4.2 billion. egypt 1.3 billion. jordan, 1.2 billion. pakistan, 988 million. so they are taking billions of your tax dollars but they are not standing with our country. brian: you know what? a lot of it has unbelievable pressure from the muslim population to do it. might be a wink and nod behind the scenes. one thing is clear if you abstained or stayed home, stayed in your hotel room and went to see a movie. you were invited to a reception after. hosted a good cocktail party. they don't make the choice for you beer or wine. they let you go to the open bar. steve: i think you give you a ticket one ticket one drink. brian: 65 plus were invited there and they appreciate it. steve: including australia. our greatest allies like france and germany and england they all voted against us. ainsley: the president said. steve: if you vote against us, we will save a lot of money. we don't care. brian: i don't know if the president can do this shay off 2 billion and just say i'm going to start the border wall. i'm going to punish the world. steve: i'

fbi. >> look, i don't want to view -- the average fbi agent works hard. when i served in iraq in the navy, you had fbi agents thought fallujah ramadi. these guys are patriotic, they do a great job. i think there has been problems with the leadership. obviously comey, i think the president was right to fire comey. then you look at a guy like peter strzok. if he is going to say it's his job as an fbi agent to prevent a certain candidate from getting elected and creating an insurance policy, that is somebody that you do not want to have power and so anybody who turns up in that situation, you know, i think they should get another line of work. leland: you make a great point. peter strzok was not just an fbi agent. he was very senior in the bureau. part of the counter intelligence operation there that runs a lot of the big-time investigations in washington. if there is bias there, what are you going to do about it? are you going to demand a special counsel? are you going to demand some type of cleanout of the fbi? what's the options? >> i think potentially all of the above. if there was

a major victory in the war against isis. iraq declaring itself "totally liberated." but is it really? lieutenant colonel oliver north. >> eboni: plus bonanza is joining the markets and what you should already buy and risk your cash we'll find out more just stay tuned. but on the inside, i feel like chronic, widespread pain. fibromyalgia may be invisible to others, but my pain is real. fibromyalgia is thought to be caused by overactive nerves. lyrica is believed to calm these nerves. i'm glad my doctor prescribed lyrica. for some, lyrica delivers effective relief for moderate to even severe fibromyalgia pain. and improves function. lyrica may cause serious allergic reactions, suicidal thoughts or actions. tell your doctor right away if you have these, new or worse depression, unusual changes in mood or behavior, swelling, trouble breathing, rash, hives, blisters, muscle pain with fever, tired feeling, or blurry vision. common side effects: dizziness, sleepiness, weight gain, swelling of hands, legs and feet. don't drink alcohol while taking lyrica. don't drive or use machinery until y

deaths, but there were also several fatalities and conflicts in afghanistan, iraq, and syria. and more than 250 journalists -- journalists were in prison in 2017. two thirds of them are in turkey. >>> unfortunately, 2017 was a year here in our country of deadly violence in the form of mass shootings. one illinois man has made it his mission to make sure that each of the victims is remembered and each family left behind has a reminder that someone cares. we introduce you to the man behind crosses for losses. >> the gut wrenching scene of a mass shooting or terror attack unfortunately all too familiar these days. what's also become familiar to many are these symbols of light and empathy that seem to appear at the dark crime scenes, no matter where nationwide. crosses with a red heart, a picture, and the name of each innocent person murdered. the crosses aren't mass produced. each one is made by hand here in this unassuming garage in suburban chicago. >> for the victims so they get to know that somebody loves them and somebody cares. >> greg says he's hand crafted nearly 21,000 crosses, w

iraq are turning their attention to the u.s. by threatening the more than 5,000 u.s. troops in iraq and 2,000 in neighboring syria. the cia director put i ran's commander on notice, reaching out to him personally. >> what we communicated to him in the letter, we will hold he and iran accountable for any attacks on american interests in iraq by forces under their control. >> the consequences of a diminished isis and iran could pose a key threat to a key ally in the region. >> 80% of assads fighters are iranian proxies in syria to establish this land bridge over into the mediterranean. we face the prospect of iran having a proxy army on the borders. >> the u.n. estimates 40,000 homes need to be rebuilt, keeping millions languishing in refugee camps. >> even if we defeated isis, we have to remember that we are fighting and ideology, not just an organization. >> the iraqi government estimates it will take $100 billion to rebuild. it's not clear who will foot the bill. tonight more than 3 million iraqis are listing in refugee camps. >> thanks, lucas. up next, a bitter and deadly cold gri

what is happening in iraq. and what is happening across north africa, the fight against isis. the intensity of the response to the u.s. decision to move the embassy is not as it was before. that i think is the most important fact. >> bill: why is that, though? there were so many projections and predictions it would be the opposite. explain that? >> because of the nature of the conflicts in the region. four ongoing wars. if you ask the syrians today what is your first priority? it's to stop the war in syria, have the refugees go back home and something else. leadership of arab countries in the gulf, egypt and jordan are interested in a peace process because of the concern about iran. things have changed. >> bill: thank you so much for your reaction there in washington thank you, sir, for being here today. 19 past. >> sandra: more on this later in the hour as palestinians call for a new day of rage. we're live from the west bank. >> bill: also marking 15 years since the murder of lacy peterson and her unborn son. a look back at the explosive case and what is next for scott peterson

the cross hairs, sanctions on north korea. isis destroyed in iraq, u.s. is now selling lethal weapons, and a tomahawk to the face, and cracking down on china. it seems like america first to me, and when she is talking about we are not pushing american values, we have relinquished our moral authority, susan rice and friends sat back while student democrats tried to overthrow the iranian regime. they also sat back and watched a solid gas on people and awarded cuba, a horrible human rights abuser with a new deal. and they treated our best and closest ally in the middle east, israel like a piece of garbage garbage. i'm not going to listen to lectures on susan rice. she has no credibility, she ruined it on the sunday shows. she ruined it when she said that bergdahl was a great hero who escaped on the battlefield. >> brian: honor and distinction. >> jesse: honor and distinction, think you prayed enough from susan rice. >> kimberly: you have had it. today now, what you make of the statement? >> dana: she is responding to the president's nationally released security advisory. i would say, one

controlled in iraq and syria. for all the controversies, for all the questions about this administration, when you look back onç all of that, hasn't president trump had a pretty good year? >> i think it reflects the fact that america is the strongest nation in the world, that what we can do, this country really is indispensable to the global community. and that there were seeds planted by both democratic and republican administrations that have caused us to continue to grow. but as we do that, there's a lot of americans who have been left behind. and i think that's the key challenge. we have a shrinking middle class. we've got to focus on a growing middle class, and i think there was a missed opportunity on this taxç bill where it helped, basically, large corporations and high income people. the if we could have focused on middle income, we could have, i think, grown -- helped grow the middle class which would have been good for our future. things are good, they could be better, and let's concentrate on middle income families. chris: okay, i've got less than a minute l

in iraq and syria. many crediting his shift in approach with isis's near destruction. others argue the obama administration laid the ground work. we're live at the pentagon with us this morning. how close is isis to being completely destroyed in iraq and syria, lucas? >> a top u.s. dip mat has isis has lost 98% of the territory it held. half coming since president trump took office. critics of the rules of engagement during the obama administration say they were ownerous with the white house picking some targets. >> obama administration micromanaged the war. what the trump administration did was allow execution decisions to be made in accordance with the guidance he provided. we could have accomplished our objectives through the use of overwhelming power in three months, not three years. >> today the u.s. military says less than 3,000 isis fighters remain. most concentrated in a small area along the syria and iraq border seen on the map in red. isis controlled an area the size of ohio. a former senior director for counter terrorism in the obama white house pushed back on any critic

assessment states that fewer than 1,000 isis fighters remain in iraq and syria. that's down from a peak of nearly 45,000 two years ago. president trump praising military campaign against isis just a few days ago. let's take a look at. this our military has been doing a fantastic job in so many ways with isis. we have made tremendous strides. obviously in syria, with isis. we have taken back virtually all of the caliphate. all of the land. same thing in iraq and we are making tremendous strides. sort of the unwritten story right now. >> david: here with reaction senior intelligence officer tony shaffer and american first action and spokesman and advisor former milwaukee sheriff david clarke. greagreat to see you tonight. let's dive right. in tony,i will go to you first on this. where we are with isis, they have evolved, as is expected. if you take away land, they expand into those ungoverned spaces. what are they and what do we expect next they are giving out threats about new year's eve. >> that's the thing. we defeated them where they lived. that doesn't mean it's over. we have made gr

the iraq war? and his response to hurricane katrina? it was brutal. back then w dismissed the reports of his low standing with the public. he didn't fret much or do much about it. then you remember the democrats went on to win the house, the senate, and 36 governorships across america. then what happened two years later with the he con -- economy in tatters, barack obama was elected. now back to trump. he is a strong populous core. of course he wants to be popular. and he understandably gets frustrated when his message doesn't seem to be breaking through. truth be told the president has made some missteps. he is not perfect. the media pounced on them. the bungled travel ban, firing of jim comey and the decision to get involved in the alabama senate race at all. that, of course, democrats have harpd on the phony russian collusion story for a year and this all had a cumulative effect on the public psyche. now with the economy poised to roar in 2018. the liberals need a freshen up. citing the roy moore loss and gillespie in virginia "the new york times" is saying suburban women are turni

for a long time. jones to serve as a bomb disposal expert in the marine corps in both iraq and afghanistan. they both join us tonight. first to you, the question we always ask, how do we prevent attacks like this in the future? >> i am not concerned about the investigation. they will get a lot of information about him. i am concerned about the fact that we were not able to detect him and therefore vetting him before. it's going to be the vetting system. >> tucker: but with the scale of our immigration in this country, how could you possibly that all of those people? >> you have a problem of immigration that we need to respond to, regardless of terrorism. then you have a problem of terrorism connecting to these loopholes inside that immigration system. we need to be smart, making sure that we have a government ability to detect on the one hand, and disconnects that threat from the windows they are using to get into the space. >> tucker: for his attack seems like it could have been far worse. why wasn't it? >> yes, it absolutely could have been far worse because he made it to tha

out of iraq. we're now learning about just how big a human price was paid for that victory. plus there's this. >> it shows how far obama was willing to go to get this terrible deal that was so one-sided. >> bill: this news report rocking washington claiming the obama administration gave hezbollah a pass in order to secure the iran nuclear deal. former obama aide said it's not true. should congress investigate? we'll look into that next. >> the allegation that any administration would ignore one terrorist group because you were trying to curry favor with another terrorist group. it is incendiary and worthy of investigation across several different committees of congress. people would stare. psoriasis does that. it was tough getting out there on stage. i wanted to be clear. i wanted it to last. so i kept on fighting. i found something that worked. and keeps on working. now? they see me. see me. see if cosentyx could make a difference for you- cosentyx is proven to help people with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis... ...find clear skin that can last. don't use if you're allergic

progress in the fight against isis is that terror group is routed from iraq, but who gets the credit? president trump or the obama administration? >> we are ordering $4 billion of missile defense, and that will be done by signing right here, our military has been doing a fantastic job in so many ways with isis and everything they are touching lately has been working on. i love kiwis. i've always had that issue with the seeds getting under my denture. super poligrip free. it creates a seal of the dentures in my mouth. just a few dabs is clinically proven to seal out more food particles. try super poligrip free. ♪ ice is taking responsibility for a suicide bombing in afghanistan. it happened yesterday in the capital of kabul, the interior ministry saint, the bomber blew himself up outside an office of the intelligent service as people arrived for work. at least ten people were killed and several others injured. president trump was briefed on the attack. >> jon: how the wife maintains a presence in the middle east, there is been a good fight against that terror group major strongholds

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. the war in iraq was a mistake. >> laura: no kidding. you were for it. >> i was not for the war in iraq. >> laura: you said you probably would have voted for it. do i have to pull up my research? >> i ran for president because the war was not going well. >> laura: at the time i probably would have voted for it but i think that's too simple a question. did you say that or not, general? >> i would have voted for it -- >> laura: point made. you would have voted for it. >> no. bush -- that's not the point. >> laura: we're not relitigating your presidential campaign. it's boring. >> you have to give me a chance to answer, laura. so you can vote for the president to have authority to give him greater negotiating leverage. >> laura: i got it. >> that's what it was about. it was about diplomacy. not going to war. -- >> laura: you and i agree on the war. i was for it in the beginning. ambassador to israel, obama's ambassador to israel mocked the heavy breathing coming from the critics of the move. whose side are you on this. a good idea for trump or -- >> it deflects domestic policy for tru

the opportunity for fighters to want to go to places like iraq and syria to join isis. i work with a group. iraqi national project. a sheikh who leads it continually talks about not allowing an isis 2.0 to form. they are already forming in syria. we have to be very careful of how to prevent that magnet from actually expanding. pete: jim, if you talk about draining that isis swamp. does it not include a killing them on the battlefield and b we revoke your citizenship and never come back because you clearly don't stand for our values. >> remember, these guys aren't coming home because they saw the error of their ways. they are coming home because they lost. there is a concept that we used to have for pirates on the high seas enemies of all mankind. if anyone should qualify as that it's isis. so, trudeau's job is to keep canadians safe, not to conduct some sort of sociological experiment to see if he can make these guys into productive citizens. they are not, they can't be, and he shouldn't do it. pete: such a great point, joel. do you think justin's focus is on keeping canada safe or o

. isis has been driven from the battlefield in iraq. even the new york sometimes piece said a war trump won. if you told me in late 2016 almost a year into the trump era isis would have been all but beaten, i would have been surprised. credit is due to rain shower president and soldiers and diplomats as well. why should we believe anything the haters and the press say about trump when they have been proven wrong two years in a row? the answer is, you shouldn't. your local weatherman keeps telling you it's going to be sunny, but it rains. that's fake weather. so find a different weatherman on a different channel. find people with trusted track records like me. here to respond, former communications director anthony scaramucci. >> how do you respond to that? you left out one thing. merry christmas. christmas is back. jesse: you were involved in some of these fake news items. what do you think of these people. why do they keep being put on air when they keep blowing it. >> i think it's something about the president's style. he's a larger than life figure. he believes in the impossible. mos

headlines. >> isis retreats from towns and cities in iraq and syria, there is a new warning, deadly ability, driven out of places in the middle east, no longer capable and reports from a us military official, staging major combat operation, something like 3000 fighters still holding out ready to stage spectacular insurgent like strikes. and we know about their ability to inspire terror attacks, in barcelona, spain, and visiting the regime of kim jung un this week, in north korea, in the un official, and us ambassador, a wide-ranging discussion officials over points of mutual interest, the powerball icbm lunch by the regime will somehow to work it into the agenda, all this against the backdrop with us and south korean military drills. donald trump is considering announcing us, the capital of his real, very controversial for the arab world, thinking about moving the us embassy itself, even more controversial. heather: great to have you with us, thank you. back at home the fbi, $50,000 in hopes of solving the mysterious death of a border patrol agent but julio martinez died last month

ohio. today it only controls a very small region primarily along the border of syria and iraq. 30,000 us-led airstrikes and the beefed-up presence on the ground. killing 70,000 jihadists, many in the military say donald trump's hands off approach is what is winning. instead of being politically correct, they say, the commander-in-chief has allowed top commanders to do what they do best which is kill the bad guys. >> the obama administration micromanaged the war and what the trump administration did was allow execution decisions to be made in accordance with the guidance he provided. we could have accomplished our objectives through the use of overwhelming power in three months, not three years. us backed forces have also been credited with freeing 5.3 million people in that region. >> those are good numbers but we are not done yet. a little more work to go on the isis front. donald trump's victory obliterating isis isn't the only thing the mainstream media has been ignoring, the booming economy has gotten little positive coverage. republican strategist says the media refuses t

, kuwait and jordan. isis is getting wiped off the map all across iraq and syria. our military is feeling good by the it's clear for isis any type of caliphate they want to establish understood the trump presidency will be a caliphate in hell. they are seeing extraordinary gains in syria. on the veteran fronts we passed an expansion of the g.i. bill. the whistleblower protection act. so i'm just giving a few examples of what i think the president has had a great 2017. i stand with him and support him. but that's what this is about working together and hopefully more wins in 2018. lisa: i know you were tweeting throughout the day about the protests we have seen in iran. so you said the big difference between that and now is because president trump, we are seeing leadership. can you tell us what's going on and what you expect to see from the trump administration. >> president obama missed an opportunity. millions of iranians protesting an undemocratic election took to the streets. they wanted to overthrow the iranian regime. president obama said it wasn't our business and we weren't involve

accountable for any attack against american interest in iraq. pompeo says it was the general it was addressed to refuse to read it. they're trying to boost their influence across the middle east. i'm mariannee rafferty, now back to "watters' world". fox -- we o do a new stegment, fox news fun and games. former national securit securitr michael flynn pled guilty to lying to the fbi. why is this a big deal? reporter: because he was inside the white house as national security advisor. it was easy to dismiss what paul manafort did. and he lied to the fbi. that is a problem. it's against the law and that suggests you are hiding something. but everybody should calm down. people basically screaming on tv, this is a big deal, they are coming for the president. lock him up. the manafort thing turned out to be a whole lot of nothing. jesse: he said i was told by the upper echelon of the trump transition team to reach out to the russians. reporter: to talk about sanctions at u.n. i think there are people around the president saying that's what the incoming national security advisor is supposed

detonated by cell phone in 2014. the 25 iraq was granted legal permanent residents back in 2011 and is accused of coordinating weapons training with another iraqi refugee planning to fight for isis in syria. the us confirming north korea was the mastermind behind the largest cybertech in history. the wall street journal reports the communist country pulled off the worldwide hack earlier this year, that is kidnapped 230,000 computers including those at hospitals and 150 countries and cost $4 billion worth of damages. delays stretching into another day, not entirely unexpected after that crippling workout at the world's busiest airport them in the video shows the extent of the electrical damage that left hartsfield jackson international airport in the dark, nearly 11 hours. still working to make those repairs, 1400 flights were canceled leaving thousands of passengers stranded, the biggest travel weekend of the year. we will get that back on track, john mccain appears to be in good spirits saying he will be back on capitol hill very soon. the 6 term arizona senator saying thanks to every

, we have had so many bullies, nazi germany, the soviet union, north korea, iran, iraq, what have we learned time and time again? you can't reason with bullies. we keep trying to and it doesn't work out. the only thing you can do is punch them in the nose and move on. that's what we should do with iran. dagen: john? >> look, i agree. gary b. and i have said this since the very beginning and since john kerry first started, this is a terrible deal. we had four aces, and we gave them everything they wanted. the toothpaste is out of the tube right now. we have a signed deal that's almost impossible to put sanctions back on. dagen: peace for our time. jess not so much. >> i'll be interested to hear what other people in favor of the deal have to say. we know rex tillerson is sad iran is cooperating, people like former secretaries of state so wait and see but i'm a fan of nikki haley. dagen: emily? >> well i think nikki haley made a very good case she put the evidence out in front of everybody and as time goes on we're speaking that the deal has not proven to be as wise as some people were

pompeo sent a letter recently to iran's head of -- who is in iraq at the time. he was concerned that the iranians might try to attack u.s. forces on the ground. he said they did not open the letter. all i said north korea is still a possibility for regional flareup. >> another big thing at the conference, readiness problem. planes that can't fly, budget shortfalls. what did you here today? >> we've reported a lot about how have for the navy's fire planes cannot fly. half of the b-1 bombers can't five. i asked the secretary of the air force hell would impact the fight with north korea. she said in no uncertain terms, if we had to fight right now under these current conditions, fewer women would come home. norman would die. when i asked robert nelly about it this is what he said. >> do you agree with general mcclement masters that north korea is the greatest threat now, national security threat? >> i think because of their provocations and things are doing, the potential for war is as high as it has ever been. if someone made a miss calculation,. >> a lot of talk today about readiness.

pushing us into the iraq war and w made a comment in a book that was published this month. he said the fact that there was any doubt in anyone's mind about who the president was blows my mind. cheney and rumsfeld didn't make one blanking decision. >> he's right. i think that his father, who is getting up in years made some comments about cheney and rumsfeld, fair enough. he's always felt competitive i think to both of us. it doesn't surprise me. george w. bush, was the decider. he was the president of the united states, cheney wasn't, i wasn't. and he's exactly correct in his statement and it was kind of i think a stitching of his father by saying that. i think it would be wrong to have said anything else. obviously he's talking about big decisions and he was the president and he made those big decisions. cheney didn't and rumsfeld didn't and obviously cheney gave advice to the president as vice president and i made an awful lot of decisions relating to the defense department, but not presidential level decisions. >> laura: if you keep in touch with george w. bush? >> not a lot. i've s

isis in syria, in iraq, operations have been effective, putting us on the defense means our defensive measures need to be bolstered, we have new year's coming up, soft targets as soft as ever, wide open in this country so that is the next shift, focusing our security. >> what do americans need to do to stay safe, not just 100 feet away from us or 200 feet away in times square but throughout the country? >> americans need to be false multipliers, every pair of eyes is two more eyes looking, we need to be looking in times square, at the mall, the concert venue, the stadium, the club, wherever it is a soft target with crowds of people looking for males between 20 to 40, not muslims, i don't mean middle eastern but looking for behavior. we are profiling behavior. white knuckling of the bag, tunnel vision, moving towards a direction fixated, another thing is somebody trying to avoid the check point, stay away from security, whose back doesn't match clothing, extremely doesn't match the clothing, wires protruding, wires that may be protruding from the bag, the smell of gasoline. these are t

isis fighters with swath of territory in iraq and the area, since last week, 1000 firefighters, isis fighters left but the former president obama hasn't remained silent. in an interview he took aim at donald trump without mentioning him by name and making it clear he was referring to donald trump. >> one of the dangers of the internet is people can have entirely different realities, they can be cocooned in information that reinforces their current biases. >> reporter: there are no public events scheduled today, the president remains in florida but we do know already the president scheduled a meeting with paul ryan and mitch mcconnell at camp david to talk about the new legislative agenda. stay tuned, we may hear more about what he hopes to accomplish. heather: you, have a great day. taking a jab at president obama, taking a jab at donald trump without saying his name. opinion editor for the washington times calling out the former president saying twitter is way for donald trump to get around the vicious media that despises him and communicate directly with the american people. >> thi

decimated in iraq and syria. they lost 98% of their territory. they have less than a thousand fighters now. if there was ever a story in cnn's wheelhouse, this is it. i don't see coverage on that, and i see crap, and it is crap, focus from a once proud network that shouldn't be covering this sort of stuff. it's ridiculous. >> they have an agenda. they are obsessed with destroying them. they have gotten stories wrong because of that. scarscaramooci for one. >> one earned a pulitzer and the wikileaks story, donald trump had information ten days before everyone else, already in the public domain, relying on unnamed sources. they should reveal who the source was. the source was purposely putting out false information, however that is for the political lawmaker. the washington post asked for document evidence to see if donald trump jr. got that or not. cnn went to air with it. i don't want to stomp on cnn. i think jake does good stuff. >> we saw dave briggs on there as well. they have good people there. when they keep doing stories like this, it destroys the once proud network, foc

nearly two years since we saw the first commercial use of a drone in iraq where isis fighters took explosives, strapped them to a drone and dropped them over coalition forces. and terrorist groups are looking for tools like this to conduct attacks domestically. and so with the availability of cheap consumer drones. it's not a matter of if this will happen but with when. >> that is so scary. government to stop a drone? the fact is the u.s. government has yet to embrace this technology, there are a number of different devices that are being built that can actually counters this drone threat, even the manufacturers themselves know that this is something that they need to fix. there are systems out there that groups like the port authority, nypd should be using and putting these devices in their commands center that have the ability to detect drones within a 5 to 10-mile radius, have the ability to determine the trajectory of them. where the pilot is that's actually operating them. then there is also a number of systems, some that we have shown on your program before that have the abil

fact is the iraq war was not going well. so, therefore, that became the number one story. so, speaking of iraq. their liberation from isis, syria's liberation from isis for the most part in raqqa. not many people saw that coming so quickly. nor do they report it. that was brought up by the "new york times" editorial page the other day. >> you are absolutely right. look, these people can't stomach that trump took a different position than former president obama on this. he looked at the military and he said they know how to defeat terrorists so i'm not going to micromanage them. i'm going to take my hands off and let defense secretary mattis do his job and look what has happened in the last year. they have been pushed out of iraq. isis is out of iraq. they are being pushed out of syria. how many lives have been saved? how many people have been liberated because donald trump took the actions that obama wouldn't? brian: right, kind of interesting too because the iraqi prime minister is coming here saying hey, guys, come back. we trust you. we don't want to be under the influence of iran.

, which has been in power due to the nuclear deal. they're racing through the whole region. iraq and syria and lebanon and yemen which confronts the saudis. they're trying to establish in yemen what they established against israel in lebanon. trying to create a lebanon they can use to attack the saudis. so governments in the region are concerned about iran. they're also concerned about fanatic groups like al qaeda, isis and others. there is a potential for a new alliance. i think president trump and jared kushner and others see this potential. i hope that they will be able to launch a peace initiative that will take advantage of these changes that are happening in the region. >> dana: all right, ambassador, thank you very much for making it work for us. that's a perspective i think is important for people to see the bigger picture. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> dana: the fbi director on the hot seat, answering questions about whether or not the fbi is in, quote, tatters and whether they make mistake. what he told lawmakers coming up next. for years i've trained dogs for the m

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