thanks for being here. the question i have is if donald trump keeps hammering hillary clinton does she or her supporters at some point have to address it? even if they don t want to when over and over he is going to talk about paula jones and monica lewinsky? i don t speak for hillary clinton or her campaign, but i would be thrilled if i were them right now donald trump is solidifying with this line of attack, he s solidifying supporters in the republican primary that he may have been losing to ted cruz, solidifying his position as the republican nominee, and only emboldening hillary clinton supporters to fight back against him even harder in a general election. this is a win/win for her. this line of attack didn t hurt politically in 1998. didn t hurt the democratic party in the midst of the impeachment hearing. the american people pushed back on this line of attack
declassifying the mission and is conducting a review to determine why the intelligence was apparently flawed. the white house also announcing a separate strike killed this american, adam gadahn, who became a prominent al-qaeda media adviser as well. jonathan chancellor is vice president at the foundation for defense of democracies, talking a little bit about this news today. this is rare that we get this sort of statement from the president on, quote-unquote, drone strikes. not using that exact term. what do you make of the statement the timing of it? well, it is very rare. obviously the president didn t mention drone strikes per se. this is part of the parlance coming out of the white house. nevertheless, we were aware of the fact that ahmed farouq, this high value target, had been struck back in january. it s interesting that it took this many months to get to the point where they were able to come out and perhaps confirm the fact that these hostages had been killed. i think there
biggest issue for america is not how the world sees us but how we perceive ourselves. let s start with the news of the day. we send the warships the iranians turn around. you say it may not be quite that simple. why? we were sending mixed messages to the iranians. on the one happened, we brought the uss theodore roosevelt, say 100,000 tons of diplomacy along with her cruiser escort, but we had been very unclear about whether we had any plans whatsoever to interdict the ships, much less board them if they made for the yemeni coast. i think a more decisive aspect was that the saudis who had been can conducting a bombing campaign in yemen against these iranian-backed houthi rebels, they declared a ceasefire, and then they started bombing again. my fess is this is a guess iranians didn t so much fear the americans, they feared the saudis would simply bomb their ships when they reached port.
has been waiting with baited breath for the chance to open up to the world. sell cars open businesses its. this has enormous economic rewards for iran and quickly. a couple other details. more details here than expected particularly with hiccups in recent days. you re looking at sensitive issues in iran s nuclear program. this is where it s believed iran had been experimenting with possible weaponization. access there is major. keeping the facility this is a once secret underground facileity discovered by the u.s. the iranians didn t announce it. that s going to stay open. it s not going to be building sentra fuses, but it s going to stay open. the key here going forward the
rather offensive, beyond offensive, isn t it? it is beyond offensive. it gets back to the whole, you must have been lying. this didn t happen. this whole sort of just disbelieving the person who is reporting that they add crime committed against them. and that s what prompted me to speak out. because i thought, you know, gosh, if he is going to write that, what that going to make a person going through that feel. i just felt i needed to speak out and say, this happens. and it s just stacked against women in ways that are so unbelievable. and obviously, they soar unbelievable that mr. will chose not to quickly, doctor, what changes this culture? what has to be done? actually, i m really glad that column appeared. we wouldn t be having this discussion if it hadn t. this is how we start the discussions. look, that was wrong, so now we have to actually talk about it and keep the conversation going. i think the fact that we re