another wind down targeting iran s energy and banking sectors will end in november. with that, spring retired u.s. navy captain, chuck nash. captain nash, good to see you. outside pressure, at the time there many people are very unhappy with their government. i think it will because anything we can do to destabilize the iranian regime works in u.s. national interest. it is everything from president trump setting up a nato equivalent in the gulf, he has been talking to sunni arabs about that. the people as you point out, this is the fourth consecutive day of street demonstrations and in all of the major cities it is uniting the lower class in the middle class which constitutes over 70 percent of the total population there. this is a big deal, for their mercantile class, they are involved as well and they were the ones with the principal backers in society of the revolution back in the late
arthel: captain chuck nash, always a pleasure to talk to you. thank you. my pleasure. eric: those alleged chemical weapons sites in syria that were destroyed, that after the airstrikes were launched on the order of the commander-in-chief. president trump is causing some controversy today with that decision, by making it without congressional approval. so how will that impact his presidency in we will take a look at that coming up. plus what would be next for syria and our country and the allies, if they decide to take military action another step forward? clearly the assad regime did not get the message last year. this time our allies and we have struck harder. (vo) at pro plan,
russia to the aid because they don t really want to be involved in this. the only reason they re involved is to preserve their position in the eastern mediterranean. they are not really that fond of assad. if we could negotiate some kind of political settlement, they would be absolutely delighted. the fact of the matter is the only reason we are in syria is because of isis. we do not want to choose sides in the syrian civil war. that s not what this strike was about. this strike was clearly narrowly defined to interrupt and as much as possible shut down his capability to use these weapons in the future. we re not picking sides. we re not trying to embarrass the russians. we are in there to get rid of isis. and we re in there in this strike to stop his use of chemical weapons. arthel: to your point, captain nash, in the midst of all of this, the u.s. continues to emphasize we re not calling for regime change. so i ask you, will this open the door for diplomacy? it could, but i think t
harry s. truman and five other warships are steaming toward that theater. now, that was a regularly scheduled deployment the navy rotates forces in and out just as does the air force. we are rotating new forces in there. they are fresh. they are coming. they are fully trained up. and they re coming for the next six months. we will have them in theater. so we will always be ready to do it, and like ambassador haley said today, when our president draws a red line, he enforces a red line. arthel: i need one word answer, captain nash. okay. arthel: if it is that president putin responds to power has president trump displayed enough at this point? yes. i think right at this point yes he has done what he needed to do. and that is look, i told you once and you paid a price. i told you again, you paid a price. you do it again, man, are you going to pay a price.
military. could not have had a better result. mission accomplished. vice president mike pence expressing the same sentiment earlier today. let s bring in captain chuck nash a u.s. navy veteran and a formal naval aviator. i want to start out and ask you how big of a role did the navy play in these attacks? well, it looks like the navy brought the preponderance of force to tell to tell equation, the tomahawk cruise missiles appear to be the preponderance of the ordinance. there were missiles fired from air force aircraft and the french and the brits have their own versions of air-launched cruise missiles. all in all, it was a combined team effort. i think everybody did a great job. arthel: you know, vice president pence said the attacks degraded and crippled syria s ability to conduct chemical attacks based on what we know so far, though,