exactly deny it. are you now or have you ever worked for russia, mr. president? i think it is the most insulting thing i ve ever been asked. i think it is the most insulting article i ve ever had written. and if you read the article, you d see that they found absolutely nothing. also this weekend, the wall street journal reporting that president trump s national al security council asked the pentagon for military options to strike iran. the request came last year after militants fired three more are tars into baghdad s diplomatic quarter, home to the u.s. embassy. and the president threatened to defense investigation staves t devastate turkey s economy in it does attack syria. a lot to talk about here. let s bring in fred plooeitgen
the u.s., but rivals of each other. what prompted this? it is a very difficult one. this is really one of the tweets or plots, if you will, that is most interesting to me having watched this. i ve been in syria about 25 times now and the plight of the kurds has been central to the u.s. there. obviously the kurds have been the most important fighters the u.s. has had against isis and it seems that the president may be trying to have it both ways, trying to get out of syria but also protecting the kurds from turkey as well. so interesting to hear him say on the one hand that turkey would be devastated economically. on the other hand that the kurds also can t provoke the turks either. that could be the back door for the turks to take some sort of action. but if and when the pullout, it has begun, when it ends, the big power set to become more important than anyone else is probably the russians.
things that have happened in the relations between the u.s. and iran. you mentioned those more are tars being fired in the vicinity of the u.s. embassy in baghdad, and also there was the konsz coe that was closed in basra. the u.s. believe there were pro iranian iraqi militias who may have been behind that. but it seem this is due to the hard line of the u.s. president and john bolton. national security council of course is tasked with providing options. they do this on a range of topics, not just on iran, but in this case it seems to be if these reports are true, something where they have been extremely hard lined on this topic and that is certainly something that meshes with president trump s policy and certainly with john bolton s views and policy as well. and finally, fred, on turkey, on the turkey developments, the president warning turkey not to go after the kurds and allies as it leaves syria, but then he says that the kurds can t provoke turkey. these sides are both allies of
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do so with turkey israel and other regional powers also involved the u.n. has warned this conflict could spiral out of control. as u.s. warships make their way to the region there are mounting questions about where this crisis will lead. now regardless of u.s. french and british decisions or germany s chancellor angela merkel has ruled out german participation in any missile strike on syria. would germany were not is obsessive hate and item our civil military action but i want to stress again that no decision has been made on this but we acknowledge and support that everything has to be done to signal that this use of chemical weapons is unacceptable mr. president about your mccraw of france says he has proof that the syrian government carried out last weekend s chlorine gas attack wisdom across