is telling my colleague that the u.s. has made the determination that the attack was originated in iran, so now we are waiting to see when and if they are going to share that intelligence with allies in the region and with the public as they determine how to move forward here. john? important information, and that if is a big if. we ll continue to stay on top of it, callie. i appreciate the important update there. somber news in afghanistan. a u.s. service member was killed in action today. that serviceman, the 17th american killed in combat in afghanistan this year. we ll be right back.
germany. how much he appreciates this country. he was charged with aiding terrorism after the failed coup of erdogan. ed: ridiculous charges. pete: attest to the fact that this president has been willing to time and time again to throw down for americans held abroad. trish: this is a big win for this administration and for president trump. it s also a win for sanctions. a lot of times people say sanctions don t really work. i would argue they do. this is proof of how we can use economic sanctions. ed: only a few months ago josh holt another american held in venezuela this president got i m hut without paying any ransom. marc thiessen was on fox saying this president has been all over this issue trying to get americans freed. watch. this is the 17th american, by my count, that president trump has freed from foreign captivity. there was the four americans in north korea. american aid worker in egypt. three ucla basketball
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painful from an economic perspective. that s why these sanctions, a lot of people the economic sanctions if do you them right and this president i credit him for doing them right. look at north korea another example. it brings the other side to the table. this is what we saw. they had no choice. they to release him because the pressure was that extraordinary. ed: bags of cash that went to iran in the last administration. pete: no doubt. we had marc thiessen on the program earlier. by his accounting the 17th american released. forget about ucla basketball players. folks from north korea. ed: vedges. pete: forgotten men and women under other administrations parity of the diplomatic miss mash. you can t take your christian missionaries and lock them in prison because of a fake charge on a coup and saying they are part of terrorism. it s so absurd we won t stand for it. ed: this president saying enough is enough.
the 17th american by my count that president trump has freed from foreign captivity. four americans in north korea, american aid work they re jipt, through ucla basketball players, and a texas businesswoman in china, a cia, former cia official in pr to you gal, american citizen held in venezuela. he s doing interest fairly consistently. he s done interest not by giving bribes, not by sending plane loads of cash to foreign regimes that, creates an incentive to take americans hostage. he exercises the coercive economic and diplomatic power of the united states of america. he put crushing sanctions on turkey, sent the lira tumbling. turkey found a way to get out of it. and they had also made it, the administration made it pretty clear that, this was necessary for improving relations. the timing is interesting. given that turkey has also been turning over a lot of