the white house is preparing to send hundreds of additional troops to saudi arabia in response to rising tensions with iran. the move also reinforces the trump administration s controversial military relationship with the saudis. they ve been involved with preparations along with runway air and inster makes it the primary target. do you as a result think there could be a war between the united states and iran? well, i can tell you that we will never start a war. we ve never started a war. we will never start a war, but we will defend ourselves and anybody who starts a war with iran will not be the one who ends it. politico reports senator rand paul asked president trump over the weekend to open talks with
we have breaking news out of japan this morning. at least 23 people are feared dead in a suspected case of arson at a japanese animation studio. fire officials have confirmed 13 deaths already. dozens more have been injured. police do have a suspect in custody. he poured what appeared to be gasoline around the kyoto animation studio and set it on fire. we re learning more this morning about the white house and how they re preparing to send hundreds of additional troops to saudi arabia in response to rising tensions with iran. so what does this mean for the trump administration s controversial military relationship with the saudi kingdom? barbara starr broke this story and joins us live with more. what did you learn, barbara? reporter: good morning, alisyn. 500 u.s. troops headed to a location called the prince saltan air base east of the capital of riyadh. this is part of the military
russian president or chinese president where president trump goes out of his way to make things as nice personally as possible. so he s made that decision for good or ill. and i think we shouldn t imagine that this is going to cause a collapse in u.s. british diplomacy. one, because the president hasn t focused on it and, two, because britain isn t the same ally we used to think of four years ago, eight years ago when we would be in a difficult spot and the british were next to us working with us hand in glove on diplomatic challenges around the world. they haven t been able to focus because they re busy trying to figure out if they can no long term effect? leave the eu. i don t think so. the real relationship, let s face it, is an intelligence community relationship, a military to military relationship, the fact we speak the same language, the business community, the western values
firestorm. he said based on the good evidence, good for you, geoffrey berman, and the southern district of new york. if you were the u.s. attorney in florida at the time, why didn t he pursue that evidence? these are the same victims. right. i don t think that tweet goes nearly far enough in trying to answer that question and the others that surround him. i think abby is right, you know, trump will be the one who ultimately decides whether acosta can weather this. trump tends to have this impulse when somebody around him is under is facing criticism to try to surround them except when it reaches the point that he thinks it reflects badly on him. i just want as we continue the conversation, here s the president greeting the emir of qatar who s coming into the white house for a meeting. that is an important meeting, amid tensions with iran, amid questions about why to give another leader whose human rights record is quite deplorable an oval office visit. but it s an important mil
prime minister. as compared to the russian president or chinese president. where the president trump goes out of his way to make things as nice personally as possible. so he s made that decision for good or ill. and i think we shouldn t imagine that this is going to cause a collapse in u.s. british flo diplomacy. britain isn t the same ally we used to think of four years ago. when we would be in a difficult spot and the british were next to us working with us hand in glove. on challenges around the world. they haven t been able to focus because they re briz busy trying to figure out if they can no long term effect? i don t think so. the real relationship let s face it is intelligence community relationship. a military to military relationship. the fact we speak the same language.