what would you expect to be at the top of president trump s agenda? i think of the five calls, there will be different issues of consequence. for example, with angela merkel and president hollande, they know putin well. they can give president trump perspective, what to expect prior to that call. in the case of the asian leaders this week, president trump drove a stake in the heart of the trans-pacific partnership agreement and they ll want to hear what priority asia is going to play in a trump foreign policy. pj, if you could tap into the nonputin calls, that s the one chief among our focus, which of the calls would you want to be listening to and why? i think the angela merkel call i think stands out primarily because number one,
weapon iran pointed out 20,000 centrifuges. thank you very much. let s bring in pj crowley and live with us from the d.c. bureau. gate to see you again. hello. feels like all the talking heads or talking about something we don t know anything about again and all of this has come down on partisan lines and both sides in the negotiation are speaking for the home crowd. is there more to it than that? i think there are considerable politics on both sides of this. you re talking about 35 years of distrust. and that has a political constituency in the united states and in tehran. so at this stage it could go either way. you could see an agreement in the next 24 hours. i don t know that you ll see a collapse of the process since so much has happened, so much work has been done, but you could
aircraft. yeah. they were sold by the united states to the shah s air force, no knot to the ayatollah s air force. our weapons are fighting all the wars, it s fun. but in iran, in iraq, there is a common interest. in iran in this case appears to believe that islamic state was getting too close to its border, and iran believes that there are holy sites within iraq that are very important to iran and they would attack the islamic state as a result. but we re on a different side with iran when it comes to syria. obviously iran is doing everything it can to protect the assad government. the united states wants to see, you know, the assad government go away. you know, so there are shared there are overlapping interests, but as you saw in this meeting in brussels today, the one foreign minister that wasn t there was the iranian foreign minister not part of this coalition. pj crowley, good to see you again, thank you. any time, shep. we went quickly because a lot going on. pre
professor of practice at george washington university, good of you to stay. hello. we re fighting with the iranians and assad, this is fun. we re not fighting with the iranians and not fighting with ass assad. the united states has narrowed shared interests but we re not allies of either iran or an assad-led syrian government. let me use an analogy. russia and the united states have a common interest in seeing that iran does not become a nuclear power. no one would call russia and the united states allies today. all right. that s fair. if what do we do going forward if there are problems? whose side do we take if this conflict what i m saying, if conflicts broaden. it s a complicated mix whether we re allies or working directly with them or not. it s still a little messed up. let me say one more thing, the f-4s you allude to were american made. they re vietnam vintage
speak about this issue. the state department and pentagon have had a hard time explaining this development but we it it ter rated the u.s. air force does not coordinate with iran. secretary kerry also met with the iraqi prime minister in this case. how did that go? well, this is the first meeting at nato headquarters to discuss isis, almost one year after the islamic state militants crossed into iraq. 60 countries were present and while they admitted a slow start in organizing a response to isis, today iraq s new prime minister asked for nato s help, a formal request to improve iraq s military, secretary of state john kerry met with the new prime minister, ironically where he was asked about iran carrying out the air strikes in iraq. kerry said the coalition s 1,000 plus air strikes have left the isis fighters, quote, exposed. jennifer griffin at the pentagon, thanks very much. joining us is a man who s been there and done that in the fight against terrorism, p.j. crowley,