and melania was received with a hands shake it s sad in 2017 that it s a big deal. the arab community, i m son of syrian refugees. and i understand the culture. they respect strength and respect those who speak truth to power. the trump family established they will fight the establishment and the arab world and the house of saud respect that. and i think the trumps have an opportunity, including melania, ivanka and others to reset these things. we need to reestablish our northerly and it in leadership. in the short term as we shore up the strength of the saudis against the shiia, we have a long-term plan to talk about universal human rights and the anti-accept ism. and talk to the muslims beyond the establishment tyranny. to those who want to be free
different faiths. different sects or different civilizations. this is a battle between barbaric criminals who seek to obliterate human life and decent people all in the name of religion. people that want to protect life and want to protect their religion. this is a battle between good and evil. when we see the scenes of destruction in the wake of terror, we see no signs that those murdered were jewish or christian, shiia or sunni. when we look upon the strains of innocent blood soaked into the ancient ground, we cannot see the faith or sect or tribe of the victims. we see only that they were
now it s complicated. you have iran and the shiia. big nations like saudi arabia that are sunni. russia, i don t think they want to see what they have. even though it s not what we want. putin longs for the days of ussr and mother russia and a time when they were a huge global power and his annexing of crimea and his capacity to take over has to do with money and with the economic capacity that those countries have in the baltic states. there s many people there s armies in astonia preparing for a possibility that putin could expand into them. he longs for the days of the ussr. if he succeeds what happens with rex tillerson and going forward with the relationship with russia. no doubt this man wants to be a super power and he wants to go back to the golden days of mother russia. whether or not it happens, stay tuned. and turning now to a deadly shooting in chicago.
where it really is close to exceeding the influence they had during the 1970s. i think iran continues to go from strength to strength here. this is a very, very dangerous moment in the region. i think it requires very close u.s. attention. do we need more troops on the ground? do we need less? and will these objectives be achieved? or will we gift over and remain with assad and more russian power. after we defeat isis, what comes next. it would and mistake to think the sunnis of walk will quietly go back under the domination of the baghdad government which is controlled by shiia politicians and figures who are in turn under the domination of the ayatollahs in tehran. you may resolve the isis threat but the ground work for the next conflict is right there.
the u.s. military on this. the general on the ground has asked him to consider delaying the withdrawal. i think this also highlights for the american people while our collective attention the last year with the focus on isis. other terrorist organizations are alive and well and flourishing in the middle east. the taliban has had a major resurgence and that s an area we ll have to start look at very closely. jenna: we have been focusing on syria and iran and saudi arabia. we are seeing the sunni monarchy of saudi arabia and the shiia in iran. just for our viewers, saudi arabia executed that shiia cleric who was executed on