very own eyes and my ears and my senses. the hardest thing that we have to do in the u.s. foreign policy, broadly, not about golf, is balance u.s. interests and our concern with human rights with the fact that we need sometimes pro american dictatorships around the world, pro american regimes that don t have human rights records, that we like or condone. this is saudi arabia, the only country in the middle east that is a vital bulwark against iran, which is a real threat. we can t break our relationship with saudi arabia. we need a strong relationship with them despite we have major disagreements on human rights. when president trump was in office, he tried to forge better relations with our golf allies. the results of that was four abraham accords. not one, but four. the first ones since in 25
iran securing a agreement, the revolutionary guard corps a military group is on the list u.s. foreign terrorist organizations. the biden administration would consider removing it if it stopped targeting americans. the former state department officials and the previous administration would push the designate ir gcs foreign terrorist organization and says removing it from that list would make it more difficult to counter the irg c. we should not be turning up lies on reality and saying they are not a terrorist organization. the fdo terrorist sanctions are the gold of the gold sanctions. over the past few days the israeli government publicly made the same argument a series of challenges for the administration. golf allies are concerned about the u.s. potentially moving irg c from foreign terrorist organizations. just as it did for the iran backed who keys in yemen as they attacked saudi arabia and united
summer games in 2032, mika. tom barrack who chaired donald trump s inaugural xi was arrested yesterday for acting as an agent of the united arab emirates without registering as a foreign agent. he s accused of influencing the foreign policy positions of the campaign and administration between april of 2016 and april of 2018. this is according to the justice department. the 7-count grand jury indictment says barrack used his friendship with donald trump to get language inserted into the then candidate s energy speech in 2016 about the importance of working with quote our golf allies on behalf of the emirates. it also says barrack provided uae government officials with sensitive, nonpublic information about the positions of multiple senior united states government officials with respect to the
but a major u.s. navy surveillance asset, unprovoked attack, in international airspace. it is a gray area but in my opinion a strike is justified. if it is a measured response particularly on surface-to-air missile battery that took out that drone. there are a number of strike options, it will be up to trump to decide what is right to do. jillian: we have seen the president not hesitate to strike before when warranted, we saw that with syria on a number of occasions. everyone is trying to figure out why he pulled back. a big topic of conversation. aside from what happened yesterday what would you see as the next step from the president? he has launched strikes before but donald trump has proven to be very methodical and cautious with strikes. what is next? look at the intel. look at the situation with the allies and there is still a possibility of a retaliatory measured strike.
measured air and naval response. we are going to continue heavy surveillance of that region, talk to and work with our allies. in this case the congresswoman is way off base. this is iran, not iraq. jillian: you talked about working with our allies, who specifically do we need to hear from on this? a lot to be made of what china will think about this, north korea, russia etc.. exactly. for the allies, we have a lot of naval forces working there with our fifth fleet. we will be talking with other parties in the iran deal the trump pulled out of and that would be great. the other security council members, very important to talk with our golf state allies. the others will be in constant communication as to the state of the situation in the gulf. golf allies and nato allies. rob: charlie hurt made a good point. how bad must the situation be in iran that they are trying to