preview that may or may not be coming out of the white house or pentagon today? reporter: i would like to go back to your question, brian, about air strikes in syria, and i can tell you that on any given day, there would be as many as a couple of dozen air strikes against isis targets at various places, primarily in the north, and the eastern edges of syria. but ever since the russians started flying war planes in iraq, the number of u.s. air strikes in syria has dropped off precipitously. one, maybe two specific targets a day. they did reach this memo of understanding, memorandum of understanding with the russians to deconflict the air space so that russian and american or other coalition aircraft wouldn t be flying in the same air space at any given time. but it appears, anyway, i know u.s. military officials will contest this, but it appears that the u.s. and the coalition have pretty much forfeited large spaces of air space there in syria, at least for the time being. a
he sent it by over phone to someone. joining us now, president the council on foreign relations richard hass aennd a men mole dean. this is something of a state, something of an organization and something of a movement. and it can do things that also can inspire things. that to me is the most worrysome. homeland security can deal with that. but what we can t deal with is hundreds of what you call retail terrorists in this country and around the world. they re going to succeed. there is no way any society can defend every movie theater, every grocery store, every beach. and that s what is so worrysome. and if some guy is inspired by the hate he sees on the internet and takes a gown a beach resort in tunisia, you know, there is not much a
blind ied by hatred the killer couldn t see the grace sounting reverend pinkie the line of love as they opened the church doors and invited a stranger to join in the prayer service. the alleged killer never could have anticipated the way the families of the fallen would respond when they saw him in court in the midst of unspeakable grief with words of forgiveness. he couldn t imagine that. good morning. it s monday june 29th. welcome to morning joe. what a moment that was. it was incredible. it went on. we re about to show you. so many since then. this is the most incredible news cycle the past five days. we have so much to talk about this morning. it has moved so quickly. i bet i can tell through are so many people who i talk to this weekend who said you know what? i tuned president obama out. i mean this happens to most presidents after six or seven years. happened to reagan, the great communicator. people just start tuning presidents out. but to a person everybod
breaking now, the deadly and deteriorating crisis in yemen where an american citizen has been killed in the escalating fighting. it s getting worse right now. we are back with the saudi ambassador to the united states. we talked about yemen. let s talk about the iran nuclear deal right now. if you read the wall street journal today which i assume you did, you saw richard hass current president of the council on foreign relations, a man you know saying the great fear that many u.s. officials have is that iran that israel might use its own military power to try to destroy iran s nuclear capability and that saudi arabia your country, will start buying bombs, nuclear bombs, from pakistan. is that realistic? i don t know that i would want to comment on something like this. what we understand is that the deal that is being worked on there is no deal as we speak and the president has said this very
enough material for a bomb. if you stretch that out to a year and remember, that s just making the stuff for the bomb, takes another six months to a year to actually make the bomb. but you have then a year of warning time. that is more than enough time for the u.s. to act. what i was actually looking for was something like six months. that would give the u.s. time. but now we have doubled that. so this deal has exceeded expectations. it s no wonder that many people who were skeptical or critical of the negotiations have now come out in support, such as richard hass jeffrey goldberg and bill o reilly most surprisingly. one of the biggest issues still up in the air is sanctions. secretary kerry said they ll be phased out over months. but as someone who s visited tehran four times, can you put in perspective the sanction impact on that country, on iran and what role they played in getting to the table? there s no question that