john hezbollah was doing media tours saying they're the acceptable terrorist group as opposed to isis. and candidly, we have no mention of israel and their role in the process. they are unrelenting, as they should be, in their opposition to iran becoming a nuclear state. and president obama's only role was to dra goon the reluctant partners in the arabic kouns sill to reluctantly accept the iranian program should a deal get done. but this is getting worse before it gets better, notwithstanding we had the great success of killing an isis commander this week. that's good news. everything else bad. >> so doug mentioned this summit camp david. president obama was intending to reassure the six nations in the gulf cooperation council the u.s. considers iran a terror sponsor and the u.s. will use military force if necessary. did he convince them? >> no. and four of the six didn't even send a their leader. that's a snub to the allies the president of the united states. the mainstream media sort of down played that. but in our lifetime can you remember when a loyal ally of the united states wh

now, syrian rebels when they are fighting assad hezbollah financed by iran. and obviously what we are seeing right now yemen with the houthis and the syrians and the iranians, targeting the united states and what was a democratically backed government, as you go from one country to the next, iran is not our friend. it is one of the world's largest state sponsors of terrorism, successfully working to overthrow foreign governments, unjustly imprisoning united states citizens. developing icbms chanting death to america. the iranians are not our friends. >> indeed they are not. congressman, thank you sir: and reports that our pilots in iraq are fighting isis, claiming their hands are tied behind the pentagon's micromanaging. former army helicopter pilot and combat veteran from the wars in iraq and afghanistan amber smith joins us. good evening. >> hi, greta. >> so, tell me. what is this complaint that these pilots have about the micromanaging by the pentagon? >> well it's the result of an extremely restrictive rules of engagement. so basically when these pilots f

i believe they want it for more terror because that's what we know they support with hamas, with hezbollah, with the hutis. no sanctions relief from congress is going to occur unless this is a deal that meets the requirements that prevents iran from getting a nuclear weapon in the first place. that's where president obama started this. he said we have to stop iraq from developing a nuclear weapon. >> if we know that iran is the destruck tore in the neighborhood and we know that iran is the destructor helping other terrorist groups like hezbollah and hamas, why are we having this conversation? so much energy and time generated on this deal. why are we continuing this when we know what was just said? >> you are absolutely right. this is one of the most consequential parts of a president's foreign policy. we know the president has failed with foreign policy with russia with the red line in syria, with the pivot to china. all of those things are areas of president obama's failures in foreign policy. i think he is so desperate for any deal with iran that my concern is that he is going to go for

we did nothing and in the vacuum entered iran, entered russia and entered hezbollah. and they controlled syria today. that was not inevitable. that was a failure of policy. it was not lack of prediction it was a lack of action when the truth and the history of the events became obvious and we did nothing. >> one thing. catherine touched on and the book touches on. i don't know -- we don't want to go into how much, but the talking points and you covered this a lot steve. >> it would be very interesting to see what morell says in the broad are book about his role in the talking points. >> this is the benghazi. >> the benghazi talking points because it was fairly clear at the time that he was not honest that he mislead members of congress and he did so repeatedly. this is not me saying this. this is not idol speculation it sounds like from the "new york times" review that morell tries to spin this as grand conspiracy theory there are five u.s. senators that said on the record that mike morell mislead them about benghazi. that is not a small thing to have to answer for. >

advances the rival jihadist groups and continued iranian support for assad's regime in the form of hezbollah fighters and cuds force units have left syria in a dark and chaotic state. and all kinds of regional players rushing to fill the vacuum. >> there's no doubt that the current trajectories against assad, the saudis together with the turks and the qataris seem to have dramatically escalated their assistance to a new islamist coalition inside syria fighting the outside regime which happens to include the al qaeda affiliate, the nusra front. >> some military analysts have urged president obama to shift gears. >> there have been some very dramatic developments in both positive and negative directions in the last few days. probably more negative than positive. but the point is momentum is not trending in our favor. >> but the white house sees no need for a new strategy. >> the president and his national security team are always looking for ways to refine the strategy in ways where we can learn lessons from those tactics that worked and apply them in the areas where we're not enjoying the kin

supporting the rebels in yemen or the way they're supporting suicide missions globally or supporting hezbollah or hanging their own innocent iranians back at home or holding three americans? there is a lot of facts not to mention the fact that they haven't been cooperative with the inspections and they have gone forward with the nuclear program. there are a lot of facts to lock at and none look hysterical to me. right now i think president obama and secretary kerry have to allow the critics whether it's coming from congress or netanyahu or others, to have their say because for now iran should be guilty until proven innocent rather than the other way around because that's how the record has shown us. >> let's get back to yemen and the americans who are trapped there. the state department being quoted by some sources now as saying that it would be too risky to trio rescue them because of al-qaeda elements, et cetera. what do you think? >> this is a sensitive balance to strike. on one hand, the state department has the responsibility of going after american citizens wherever they may be and bring

we did nothing and in the vacuum entered iran, entered russia and entered hezbollah. and they controlled syria today. that was not inevitable. that was a failure of policy. it was not lack of prediction it was a lack of action when the truth and the history of the events became obvious and we did nothing. >> one thing. catherine touched on and the book touches on. i don't know -- we don't want to go into how much, but the talking points and you covered this a lot steve. >> it would be very interesting to see what morell says in the broad are book about his role in the talking points. >> this is the benghazi. >> the benghazi talking points because it was fairly clear at the time that he was not honest that he mislead members of congress and he did so repeatedly. this is not me saying this. this is not idol speculation it sounds like from the "new york times" review that morell tries to spin this as grand conspiracy theory there are five u.s. senators that said on the record that mike morell mislead them about benghazi. that is not a small thing to have to answer for. >

sunni zealots like isis and al qaeda on the arabian peninsula and shia zealots like hezbollah. that's who's doing the fighting. ordinary people are trying to get out of the way. that's one of the problems the iraqi government has in trying to motivate its armed forces. >> general dempsey made some news this week with remarks that the administration was surprised by just how focused isis was in its bid to seize control of key areas like mosul and here's what he had to say. i would like for the audience to take a listen. >> because of course look there are several things that surprised us about isil. the degree to which they were able to form their own coalition both inside of syria and inside of northwestern iraq. the military capability they exhibited. the collapse of the iraqi security forces. yeah in those initial days there were a few surprises. >> what's your reaction to those remarks, the fact that the administration was actually surprised by the strength of isis? >> i think general dempsey is calling it like it is. what you're looking for in a senior military leader like

looking at hezbollah in lebanon and hamas and gaza. looking at what's happening in syria now which is becoming more and more dangerous. finally the existential threat which is iran. he also, you know, made the point publicly when i was there as well as to me this is also about funding. it's about relieving the sanctions at a time when iran is is involved as a state department tells us, as the number state sponsor of terrorism in the world. >> does he see though the agreement? it seems inevitable. he hayes has been quite outspoken about the agreement with iran and not wanting iran to have any ability to enrich. and it looks like if there is a deal there will be some enrichment capability which means if you listen to before that he is going to go alone and make sure that doesn't happen. has he made any sort of statement about the inevitability of this agreement and what -- what he is going to do? >> what he has said publicly, which is what he he said to me is he doesn't want iran to be become a flesh hold nuclear power. it's not just him

meantime iran is gaining power throughout the middle east by supporting terror groups like hezbollah and hamas. iran the only power inside iraq that is actually putting up fight against isis. in the meantime president obama's acolytes continue to insist they have a handle on the terror problem and isis in particular. >> it's an enormous challenge and we have to fight it on every front including the front of social media. that is a place where they have really made more advances than you would have suspected and that is where we have to fight them as well. >> so while isis is burning human beings alive congresswoman pelosi is concerned about the social media aspect of the struggle. also, we are not fighting ice sis on every front. we are not confronting them on thee n ground with very few exceptions. as usual congresswoman pelosi living in the land ofin oz, she has no blanking clue whatat's happening. same thing with senate minority leader harry reid.ea >> the situation in the middle east is disruptive as we speak. it's a toughak. situation. the. president has done the best he can wit

support and funding of hezbollah and hamas and the northern koreans? opposition group, national council of resistance of iran this week look what they revealed. that the north korean and irans have been working together or nuclear material. they put it out. last nuclear delegation from north korea to iran was composed of seven experts and spent the last week of april in the country. this was the third such nuclear and missile delegation to visit north korea's in 2015 including nuclear experts, nuclear warhead experts and experts in various areas of ballistic missiles including guidance systems. and our state department lisa says, that's not even on the table? >> no, none is on the table. their behavior in yemen or in syria, and the fact they're going by the north korean playbook is no surprise to anyone here. i mean the human rights violations back at home the behavior again in the region. that's why so many not just the, you know the two sides here when you have lawmakers within congress of democrats, republicans, you have the soud are y saudis gulf s

whether it's al qaeda in iraq whether it's hamas, hezbollah, they're all radical islamists or even the iranian state. they're all radical islamists. until the administration and the western world identifies the threat as radical islam, then we're going -- and they persist in calling it violent extremism. i don't know the idealogy of violent extremism. but i know theideradical islam. >> when the administration does not call radical islam what it is. >> the people don't know what the threat is. they really do they just can't see it. they're still calling major nudoll hassan workplace violence. that sends the wrong signals. if you identify the threat then you hold islam responsible. where does this ideology come from? from mecca and medina. if they put a fox wuout monthly that says anyone who attacks the west will live in damnation and hell and you don't get 72 virgeens. they will change. islam itself as general al sisi criticized in early january of this year the clerics for not attacking the ideology and addressing it. it is still taught in the mosques in the united states and throughou

whether it's hamas, hezbollah, isis, they're all leaves from the same tree. and what we're seeing now on u.s. soil, what happened in garland, texas, thank god for an off duty cop took down two people. unbelievable. i think it's a reminder we're not safe anymore in our country because we haven't had control of our security situation. >> it's hard not to agree with the governor. i personally agree with the governor. i guess the president's approach is i don't want to cause panic by saying isis is here run for your lives. >> isis is here. they were here on sunday. they have fighters all over the united states ready to go at a moment's notice. >> 71 in 15 states. >> here's the thing, and casey kind of touched on it a little bit. this fellow who was one of the shooters in garland, texas, elton simpson, he had apparently been on our -- we've been watching him for the last couple of years because he was convicted of lying to the fbi about whether or not he wanted to join al shabaab over in somalia. >> he was still tweeting, though. >> here's the thing, brian, he was