this fight. so this is the question nayyera. because i don t know if you heard the congressman from michigan. levin. when you asked him you said you wouldn t trust the pentagon coordinates. he said there is political leadership from the administration that he would question. yeah, we are in the status when both sides question the other in terms of transparency. and it s based on what has happened in the past. when dishonesty, a lack of integrity, a lack of candor and transparency has been the norm of the day. so now you see even democratic congressman question the pentagon in terms of what they re delivering. so i think we have to be a little bit more open with press briefings, with questions and answers across the board in the administration. in is this you are reaping what we see right now on the international community where if a exact being congressman doesn t trust us imagine what the allies and partners think
about this. nayyera, what do you make of that that there is questioning of the coordinates given that, you know it could have come from the politically appointed leadership as opposed to the intelligence? yeah, this is a direct result of the incoherent foreign policy that the trump administration put forward. they ve not been transparent. we haven t had a pentagon briefing in camera in almost a year. the you had the state department podium had the spokesperson will there talking about how iran needs to abide by the nuclear deal. this is the same deal the united states pulled out of. and then you have the national security adviser talking about regime change along with the secretary of state and we are unaware of what trump considers himself at this point he is framed himself as a president who shoots from the hip, who goes with list gut, does not read briefings, doesn t have a secretary of defense really any close circle of advisers that he relies on for foreign policy information.
they have modern equipment. they have they have been choked by some of the sanctions that occurred. but they are willing the iranian people and especially the iranian republican guard are willing to fight to the death. this will be iraq and afghanistan on a much larger scale. it will be complex, challenging from both an air and naval force standpoint, from a cyberstandpoint. they are able to counter some of the things we do. i don t even want to think about the potential for a ground invasion. because that would be straesk on both sides. this is the country that fought iraq for ten years and lost over 1 million people in that iran/iraq war. final wad word for nayyera. we are still in afghanistan for fighting afghanistan 18 years we are stretched thin enough right now that s not to say the united states doesn t certainliry have strong capabilities and military. we can do whaef what we have to do but there is no goal in mind
do you have any knowledge of this? it s unequivocally false. you had rudy giuliani almost as a surrogate and not an official of the administration advocating for regime change and hard liners in iran advocating to overthrow the government and potentially make it more extreme. and so that seems to be who donald trump allies himself with in countries around the world. right? lepen types in france. putin in russia and north korea. he likes allying himself with people who are not really pro democracy and iran is just a latest example of that. not necessarily allying himself with the facts on this particular claim here. phil, nayyera, thank you. they survived ten days and might be months before a boy s soccer team trapped in an underground cave could be rescued. imagine that, more than a month.
thickened with an intercept story about a previously unreported meeting last april just weeks before the blockade in which kushner s father unsuccessfully tried to make a deal with qatar s finance minister to invest in the kushner s debt-ladened property at 666 fifth avenue. joining me timothy o brien, rula jabrill and nayyera hock. rula, you were on the show with us when we last november readdressed thissish yoo u, attempting to get answers on it. i want to play a little bit of a clip from the show you were on in november 2017 regarding our attempts to get answers on jared. we did attempt to get answers from the white house about the kushner vase it. we asked what was jared kushner doing in saudi arabia approximately ten days before several saudi princes were arrested. we asked was 666 fifth avenue discussed with any saudi