russian arms out to defeat isis there. it will continue to back assad while he tries to take back the remaining 20%, 25% of the country that he has no control over. it will be very bloody but the russians will be enthusiastic participants there. beyond that, russia has anxieties all around it. it has north korea at one end. unfinished business in ukraine at the other. it has an alliance with iran, but they are not traditional allies. and they have interests that are counter to each other. the one thing russia is banking on is for the united states not to interfere in what it considers its sphere of influence. and it seems that s perfectly okay with donald trump. he s happy to let vladimir putin do his own thing. bobby ghosh. thank you for all of these ominous and worrisome predictions. it s good to have your expertise. happy new year. great to have you for 2018.
the worst has already happened. the street protests we re now seeing, i think that in time they will die down. the arab states will make their peace with this because they ve got other bigger problems, notably iran. so they will make an accommodation with this. this will become part of reality. but the two-state solution now being finished, that s not good for anybody. bobby makes the point about the other arab nations around that have not seemed to always be too helpful to the palestinian people. is there a chance here that you re going to see more concern? or are they just focused on iran so that once again the palestinians will be left to just deal with this on their own? the arabs were busy fighting each other in yemen and syria and libya and elsewhere. however, donald trump s move united them. for the first time, 57 arab countries not because they love the palestinians, not because they really care about
empowered the most radical factions in the region. basically you have hezbollah, al qaeda. basically this is a declaration of war on 1.5 million muslims. that s why it s scary. bobby is right. they did not think of this move in terms of geopolitics. probably they wanted to help roy moore win the election. in addition to that, there were already some questions of jared kushner being the lead negotiator given just recently he did not disclose his family had funded settlement construction. did the u.s. have credibility even before this happened? was there a lot of confidence in the u.s. being an honest broker anyway before this announcement was made? well, i think it hasn t been clear what the administration
nikki haley defended donald trump s decision to recognize jerusalem as israel s capital. haley s statement came on the same day palestinians and israeli troops engaged in dozens of clashes on the west bank and the gaza border. dozens of other people were injured in the clashes, including a 6 month old child in gaza who s now in critical condition. trump announced wednesday his controversial plan to relocate the embassy to jerusalem, up ending decades of u.s. foreign policy. the vatican, the kremlin, turkey, jordan and more believe the move will lead to massive unrest in the region. the status of jerusalem is perhaps the most sensitive issue in the israel/palestinian conflict. joining me now is journalist and commentator bobby gosh and james
health, to make sure that people who don t have proper mental health can t go out there and buy a gun? well, i am supportive of the concept of people having access to mental health. you don t know this and there s no reason for you to know this, i had a gun pulled on me outside of church a couple years ago by a woman who was adjudicated unfit to stand trial. she was criminally irresponsible. so i have lived coming face-to-face with somebody who does not know the difference between right and wrong. so i support the notion of getting people access to mental health. but it s already against the law for anyone who s been adjudicated mentally ill or mentally deficient to access a firearm. so it would be fair i think for anderson tonight to say, mr. president, out of those people who currently are violating the law by accessing guns, what are your prosecution levels? i can tell you, wolf, they are anemic for people who currently have been adjudicated mentally