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our breaking news, president obama gives the go ahead for a u.s. destroyer to approach china s manmade islands in the south china sea. that s a potential direct challenge to beijing s efforts to control the area. we re back with retired general wesley clark, former nato supreme allied commander. is that a real threat to china right now? what will this mean? well, it s not a real threat, but it is symbolic. and china has to decide how to respond. do they respect freedom of the seas and navigation? do they continue to issue warnings? will they do something like fire a shot across the bow of the destroyer or send out other ships to meet it? this is going to be a very interesting experience and probably we ll see more of this in the future. they re going to send that destroyer within 12 miles of those manmade islands. outside the so-called international chain, if you will, how do you think the chinese will respond?
trying to make russia look like the aggressor. all those reports she says are not based on facts but based on assumptions. they give impressions or concerns but no facts. the russians pushing back hard on this tonight, wolf. brian todd, thanks very much. joining us now is the former nato supreme ally commander retired general wesley clark. general clark, thanks very much for joining us. how likely is it in your estimation that the russians potentially could tamper with these cables? well, i think in the event of a significant conflict there might be tampering with it. but there would also be interference with satellite communications and interference with land based communications in europe or middle east. it s part of the doctrine of warfa warfare. and what you ve seen on the part of russia under vladimir putin is they ve been increasingly assertive trying to restore their capabilities and show people their influence. so if they re going out and mapping cables undersea in case of
we re following the breaking news president obama and the russian president vladimir putin they re officially meeting at the united nations now. this was the scene earlier today when the two leaders toasted at a u.n. luncheon. we re back with the former nato supreme ally commander retired general wesley clark. general clark, it s now been reported and confirmed that there s a new intelligence sharing cooperation deal involving iraq, involving russia, iran and syria for that matter. is that good for the u.s. that these countries iraq for example a country the u.s. liberated from saddam hussein now working with bashar al assad, with iran and russia? the u.s. is not involved in this. well, we are actually involved in this through iraq. and we ll probably get some information coming out of this. so the idea for the united states would be take as much as we can, lose as little as possible out of this. it s not good geostrategically. it might help us in targeting.