with this agreement. soleimani s visit to russia, the russians cooperation with them from president putin right on down to on the defense minister and lower people it is a very bad signal. bad signal indeed and one with incredible consequences. general, always great to see you. thank you so much for joining us today. thanks for having me uma. a deathly attack on a u.s. special operations base in afghanistan making news. insurgents storm in and now americans are once again in the crosshairs. the details still ahead. plus, a top senator in president obama s own party announcing his opposition to the nuclear deal with iran. will other democrats follow senator chuck schumer in saying no? we ll take a look at the potential impact of his decision. chuck schumer s a friend. we served in the senate together. and senators will make up their own minds and members of congress. i obviously i profoundly
anymore, prompted their mom to write a book to offer support to other moms and dads who must worry from afar called be safe love mom. elaine joins us live. welcome to our program. great to have you here today. thank you so much for having me uma. you know i read your book. it s very special. and i learned a great deal from your reflections and the particular sacrifice and burdens shared by military families. as i mentioned you have four children a husband who s an air force pilot. and you yourself taught school in kabul, afghanistan, after 9/11. it s as though the military is part of your dna. you were raised also as an army brat moving 17 times in 18 years. unbelievable. why did you feel compelled to write this book? well you know i did grow up in the military. i married the military. but it wasn t until my son joined the military that i realized that this was something
got. we were so close. she was just a young woman. starting to be in her prime. her parents obviously emotional there. they say they were lying on their strong faith to get through this tragic situation. at the same time there s a lot of finger pointing going on about who should be accountable for all of this. donald trump has gotten into the mix after he had some recent controversial statements about immigrants. he released a statement in part reads this senseless and totally preventable act of violence committed by an illegal immigrant is another example of why we should secure our border immediately. yesterday an official telling me uma, there s no way sanchez should have been out on the streets. he should have been behind bars instead of at pier 14 in san francisco on wednesday. such an awful story. and such a sad one for that family on this holiday weekend. will thank you very much for that update. our country has faced various threats throughout it s 239 year
iranians and especially the iranian negotiator, zarif who i know well because he served with me as iran s ambassador to the u.n. for four years and is a very shrewd person and charming person and is that rude negotiator, he sees in front of him an america that is eager for a deal, any deal as quickly as possible. he sees what he perceives to be a weak american president and weak america. he sees a europe which is eager to do business with iran and he is just fooling them. iran is a master at dulg and tooling the world. and my biggest fear is that what we ll witness is very similar to what we witnessed with north korea when everybody was assuring us that north korea would never become a nuclear power and we woke up to a nuclear north korea and believe me uma, iran is far more dangerous than north korea because north korea acquired nuclear weapons out of desperation, iran is seeking