emily: craig, you ran the public affairs campaign supporting president bush in operation dessert storm. tell us about the restraint he exercised after securing kuwait. though were those that called for him to move on to baghdad. but at that time there was no authority for that from nato. that s right. he honored that share with the viewers your experience there. well, you bring back a lot of memories here. he believed in consensus. he wanted to get the world s consensus. he wasn t going to act unilaterally to oust kuwait even though by all rights he could have. he got the u.n. charter. he got many of these nations in the world as possible to support it mandate to get saddam out of kuwait but don t go beyond that border. he was perfectly happy not happy but he was satisfied to do that and not go beyond because he wasn t going to violate his agreement with the other nations of the world.
people s areas, brian. jack, it was really striking to hear the president call them provocative. that s what the north calls them. these are joint preparedness exercises for elements of the home team as the president, we would think, would see it. his other complaint was someone told him that pilots make a 6 1/2-hour flight from guam, and i heard someone today say, wait till they tell the president that during the iraq war and then again kosovo and afghanistan, our b-2 pilots flew from missouri to baghdad, unloaded the bombs, and came back. 37-hour round trip, upwards of five, six, midair refueling. 37 hours without touching the ground. they were back home in missouri at the end of the mission. so no one s worried about the stamina of our bomber pilots. well, i mean, mr. brennan was
12-hour drive from tehran to baghdad. they have centuries of relations and, of course, there are personal ties, many of the heads of the main pro-iranian militias, they grew up in iran, they speak the language, have intimate relations with the iranians. for secretary of state tillerson to say that it s time for the iranians to leave is a bit like calling on somebody to close the barn door long, long, long after the horse has escaped. fredricka? all right. ben wedeman, thanks. three weeks after the deadly las vegas massacre, we are hearing from the hotel security guard who first encountered the shooter. how the hallway saved his life and several others. , i m the in you know what s difficult?
influence here in iraq that at this point is unprecedented. they, along with the americans did provide support for some of the forces that were fighting isis, and it s important to keep in mind that iran has a long-standing interest and influence in iraq or mesopotamia before that, going back to the early days of the roman empire. keep in mind that for instance, it s only about 500 miles from ter ran to bag bad but well over 6,000 miles from washington to baghdad and iraq, for the iranians is their very front yard, and they have a deep interest in the course of events here. know this country more than anyone else, and they are gradually benefitting more and more from what appears to be a rather confusing or rather d
weekend at mar-a-lago, replacing leading candidates, john bolten and h.r. mcmaster. this is his vice president defense secretary trying to explain the president s comments and tweets in multiple appearances from brussels to baghdad. join me is be inning s kristen welker at the white house and kelly o donnell in florida. kristen, first to you. there is still no national security adviser. what do we expect today, possibly other interviews down there? that s what we expect, andrea, and one top official characterized these meetings as follow- on meetings to the one the president had over the weekend. i pressed this source on whether there is currently a front-runner in terms of the president choosing a new mash security adviser. it doesn t seem there is a clear front-runner although we do know that he has had glowing things to say about john bolton and