migrants from the middle east to europe. and then they threatened us with kinetic action in the middle east, and they ve done this before. remember, they try to assassinate the saudi ambassador here in the united states. they have proxy militias all over the middle east will have targeted our people. so it s iran who threatened us, and our measure of deterrence, which was to send the uss abraham lincoln and b-52 bombers and make it very clear statement that if we are attacked weather by iranian proxies or iran itself, we will respond. that s deterrence, and that s how we prevent an iranian miscalculation. shannon: i want to read a cnn opinion piece, david miller and richard sapolsky. and aaron david miller has been on our air many times. he writes this and says when it comes to iran, jerusalem and riyadh are hardly objective observers. while both will be at risk in a war, u.s. war with iran, if consistently hard-line u.s. policies. that s precisely why the u.s. should reject their ad