da dangerous for us than iraq because because you have major world powers impended in eye rand and russia and we have told the ayatollah and putin and assad that we may strike, meaning they are marshaling all of their defenses. well, my concern right now is the longer this process goes on, the riskier it gets. you know, we indicated we were going to strike. it has now taken a number of days to try to move towards some kind of potential strike. in the meantime i m sure the russian goe russians, the iranians and the syrians have taken steps to protect their targets and developed ways the respond to a u.s. attack. it has made it riskier right now. so what has to be done right now is not to back away, i mean to continue our military planning, to continue to look at what targets we might be able to hit, but to use it as leverage to try to force these countries to put pressure on assad to step away
but the reporting is there are forces within the white house and within congress pushing for something more than a pinprick strike, pushing for massive follow-up, maybe even manned aircraft. this is the time to drill down on this. can you speak about the specific consequences of that being potentially even more dangerous for us a than iraq was because you have major world powers embedded in there in iran and in russia and we ve just told the ayatollah and putin and assad that we may strike meaning that they re martialing all of their defenses. my concern is that the long they are goes on the riskier it gets. we indicated we were going to strike. it s taken a number of days to move toward song kind of potential strike. in the meantime, i m sure the russians, iranians and syrians have taken steps to protect their targets and have developed ways to respond to a u.s.
jimmy kimmel putting aside comedy and opening up about his newborn son s open heart surgery. i m standing in the middle of a lot of worried-looking people, kind of like right now. who are trying to figure out what the problem is. this is what he looked like on monday. this is what he looked like yesterday. [applause] poor kid not only did he get a bad heart, he got my face. shannon: kimmel s son, billy was born april 21 but had to undergo a procedure at three days old. thankfully all is well and billy is home with his parents and older sister. it s easy to forget that these guys have a real life. bill: stay healthy, billy. shannon: he got his dad s face, cutey. bill: news out of hollywood. a potential strike will not
potential strike. north korea. what may be more disturbing is the reaction to north cranes wildly cheering as they watched a video released. i wants to begin with michelle kuczynski at the state department tonight. this is another layer in a terrifying map. the trump administration taking iran on directly. right. this was the fourth full statement by the secretary of state, lifting a long string of all the ways iran is a bad actor in the world. which no one would dispute. but he s relating them to the iran nuclear deal. even though those kind of activities were treated separately so that iran would join the nuclear deal in the first place. but for those reasons, those kinds of activities he s calling the deal a failure.
overseas, used for trade and will have to use it in order to relieve some of the tremendous economic problems they ve had because of these sanctions. president obama has made the argument that sort of this deal, what we are left with, either a, going to war, b, failure of diplomacy to work and c no mechanism in place to hold them to accountability and to forestall a potential strike of iran against its neighbor in israel and other areas of the region. does that make sense to you? michael, it s a key point. it s not just we ll get a better deal if we hold out longer. letting this deal lapse means sanctions start to erode immediately, they ll get a nuclear weapon within months or a year and all the things that held them in check will start going away and i think there would be much worse problems for our all is in the region if we don t have this deal in place.