that the general, the heads of the force, which is a parallel to today s president, a nazi ss type of group, they re going to get billions of dollars to go into the coughers. this is an organization that s been supplying weapons that have been killing and maiming american troops in iraq and afghanistan. and they continue to do so in occupying iraq and also supporting bashar al assad in syr syria. i don t know how the president can believe he can convince anyone that this is a good deal. he s making them a nuclear power and economic power. good seeing you, thank you very much. that is the latest on the deal. the back and forth over what s included, it s happening right now, jewish leaders meeting with the president at the white house. they ve been tepid about this, not really strongly vocal against it, certainly tabulates their reservations. all the president wants to do is make sure they can keep it down, keep the rhetoric down so this can sneak in there and avoid
interesting, they also say they want negotiations especially if you talk to members of the rowhani government. i spoke to the vice president just yesterday and she told me of course they want to me of course they want to deal of course they want to make a deal happ but acknowledged that there were forces here who were more conservative who, of course are more difficult to persuade in such a thing, wolf. fred plight ken reporting from tehran with us we ll stay in close touch with you over the next several days thank you. up next more on the rising tensions between the united states and iran as american warships stand guard over yemen s coast. plus at 93 he s one of the few former nazi ss guards still alive. the accountant who kept the books at auschwitz stands trial. horrifying allegations against him, his defense, all that and as lot more coming up. big day? ah, the usual. moved some new cars. hauled a bunch of steel.
states, be charged in federal court in the district of columbia. as i understand it, he s going to take a very lengthy trip back to the united states. that s going to give them sufficient time, twoebl between seven and ten days of interrogations, that will be combined interrogations michael, sorry, i didn t mean to cut you off. the first guest in the history of morning joe that i ever cut off. did eric holder not try this before with khalid sheikh mohammed? trying him in an american court and that didn t work. we re getting guys who are terrorists, enemy combatants, this would be like dragging a nazi ss soldier off the battlefield and trying him in a courtroom in kansas. what concerns do you have? what concerns do other people in
he served in afghanistan as adviser to general david petraeus. mark, i ll begin with you. you worked on some of these issues with petraeus in the bush administration. in iraq, let s just take the example of iraq, not even talking about taliban. in iraq, all of that was conducted under the normal laws of war. there were insurgents who tried to kill american troops, who blue up marines with ieds who were released back, am i correct? if you take a look back at the arguments during the early phase of the iraq war, there are going to be people in conflict who do bad things. look even further back, this is when larry was at the state department, take a look at the arguments over the taliban and al qaeda. there were nazi ss officers during the second world war who were treated as prisoners of war. if they were war criminals, tried and in many cases executed.
there were nazi ss officers during the second world war who were treated as prisoners of war. if they were war criminals, tried and in many cases executed. a lot of the problems we see with detainees today is a result of the failure to abide by international rules. colonel wilkerson, this is a situation which there is a category of men being held in guantanamo being prosecuted by the american government for acts of for plots or committing acts of terrorism. these men are not in that category. that can t be stressed enough. actually, dealing with these people in a very formal, diplomatic maneuver aimed at getting them to release, to give up the al qaeda in their midst prior to our invasion of afghanistan. we recognized their government, however heinous we might have judged them to be. and i think it s very astute