Foreign affairs committee, ted yoho and Gregory Meeks. Later we will hear from the director of iranian studies at Stanford University. At Stanford University. [video clip] our Great American forces are prepared for anything. Appears to be standing down, which is a good thing for all parties concerned and a very good thing for the world. Host from yesterday on u. S. Action toward iran. He discussed the killing of the iranian general and announced sanctions and vowed iran would never possess a nuclear weapon. This is the washington journal for january 9. Our first hour dedicated to your trumpts about president the administrations actions. If you support it, 2027488000 is the number to call and tell us why. If you oppose, you can do so at 2027488001. Perhaps you are not sure at this point, 2027488002 is the number to call. You can text us your thoughts at 2027488003. And you can cspanwj post on our Facebook Page at facebook. Com cspan. A 10 minute speech about yesterday from the white house laying out over the last couple days the administrations actions. Part of that speech not only dealt with the assassination, but also the topic of sanctions. [video clip] in recent days, he was planning new attacks on american targets, but we stopped him. Soleimani hands were drenched in both american and iranian blood. He should have been terminated long ago. By removing soleimani, we have sent a powerful message to terrorists. If you value your own life, you will not threaten the lives of our people. As we continue to evaluate options in response to iranian aggression, the United States will impose additional punishing economic sanctions on the Iranian Regime. These sanctions will remain until iran changes its behavior. In recent months, iran has seized ships in international waters, fired and unprovoked strike on saudi arabia, and shot down two u. S. Drones. Host david lynch takes a look at the topic of sanctions writing with the economy convulsed, any new financial pun amid punishments are likely to be symbolic. Coveredals are already by a variety of u. S. Five u. S. Al penalties that financial penalties that bar americans from dealing with them. Irans biggest Financial Institutions are covered by those measures, but other banks that concentrate on domestic, agricultural, and mortgage lending are not. Sanctions as the speech overall took place and after that, it was on the senate floor Chuck Schumer made comments about the president s statement. [video clip] the president promised to get the United States out of these forever wars, but the arrow is headed in the wrong direction. How many more is it going to be . How long will they remain abroad . What is their objective . How will we assure their safety . Will more be deployed in the weeks and months ahead . These are urgent questions. The Administration Must answer them. So far, there has been a profound lack of information provided to congress concerning what the department is doing in response to iran. I joined senator reid and senator your been in requesting regular documents detailing the number of troops the president has deployed and plans to deploy in support of contingency plans with respect to iran. We need to know if the administration is committing additional troops to the region and for how long. Our letter urges the administration to clarify to the American People and our let and our military that International Law prohibits the deliberate targeting of cultural sites and that such an order would be unlawful and should not be followed. The American People, rightfully, have serious concerns about war with iran and whether we are safer today because of this president s Foreign Policy, which is so often impulsive and erratic. I am afraid these impulsive and erratic actions throughout the world are making us less safe. Host members of the house and senate received briefings yesterday on the actions. Two of those members will join us in the 8 00 hour, one at 8 00 and one at 8 30. To the topic of overall strategy and what you heard from the administration yesterday, we are asking your thoughts. If you support it, 2027488000. If you oppose it, 2027488001. Perhaps you are not sure, call 2027488002. On our not sure line, robert starts is often massachusetts. Go ahead. Caller good morning, pedro. Can you hear me . Host i can. Thank you. Go ahead. Caller personally. I am democrat and strongly opposed to mr. Trump, sir. That being said, when it comes to Foreign Policy, in my own opinion, when obama was president and secretary john kerry at the state department, that. Poa, i was against my views on Foreign Policy, with respect to iran in my opinion, iran is the worst, the largest, etc. , sponsor and the proxies of terrorism whether it be threats to the middle east, u. S. , our allies in that region. Nd abroad taking outountry did the two generals, the iranians, i dont believe, i dont have the briefing information, but this is my bottom line point. Is president ve he i am going to proceed, sorry. Host you are not sure because of why . Caller because of this. Nom not sure because he has Foreign Policy. He is so erratic when it came to i willn and so support a hawkish view of iran. Pennsylvania, supporter. Good morning. In pennsylvania, supporter. Good morning. Caller i called on the support line. I support the country. We did have a deal and now that. He deal has been broken now that we have assassinated one of the leaders of iran, we are going to be backtracking now may not trust us deal. E we broke may not trust us. I support the country, but i dont understand why we our commit are allowing our commanderinchief to rip up deals our allies signed off on he expects nato to get involved. They signed off on the deal you ripped up. I dont understand. Host if you support what the administration is doing, call on that line. If you oppose, there is a line for you and if you are not sure, there is a line for you. Brian is next in kentucky on our support line. You are on. Caller from one president to another doing killing off our terrorist people. I am not understanding our whole society anymore. They have gone well beyond me. Host what do you mean by that . Offer did not obama kill terrorists . Did not bush kill off terrorists . Host so you are a supporter of the current strategy, then . Caller yes. Host why is that . Caller it has to be done. Our American People will still be getting killed over people. Host either way, if you are waiting to be online, if you would, turn down your Television Set and then you can focus on the conversation rather than focus on the television. In illinois on our oppose line, good morning. Caller good morning. I dont believe your question was is this a strategy. It is not a strategy. Appears to be like a loose cannon on a ship. He wakes up in the morning, he is very impulsive and he does what he thinks should be done. Generals. Consult our he should have taken time to develop a strategy. It is scary to think he could do Something Like this and not think of the consequences or even make a plan for the consequences. He doesnt even know what the consequences could be. Host what convinces you of that . Caller he hasnt mentioned any plan in his speech. All he talks about is killing one person. Killing one person is not a plan. Yesterday he spoke about sanctions and the desire for iran not to have a nuclear bomb. That doesnt constitute a strategy in your mind . Caller no. Host why not . Caller a strategy should be enumerated with conditions in each one and that is how you win a war. You dont win a war by killing one person. Host tom in california. Eric on our oppose line, good morning. Caller good morning, america. Action theis president acted. Legal toit ever been kill a diplomat . President trump killing this diplomat, he was under diplomatic passport. By doing this, he has now put the lives of all of our diplomats online. Then the real question becomes this policy. Iran sits behind the 33rd parallel line. Host he was not just a diplomat. He was tied to a force that sponsors a lot of terrorism. Caller if he was in another country looking at what the United States was doing, you can classify some of the stuff the United States does as terrorist on the opposite side. This man was part of their government. He was not like bin laden. A terrorist not part of the government that gave obama the Legal Authority to assassinate that individual. Host the Previous Administration used drone strikes on many occasions and the Bush Administration before that. Are you saying those are not classified the same . Caller those individuals never had a diplomatic passport. They wasnt. That is what makes it so different and so important about this individual. Lawton bin laden that gave the government the ability to assassinate him. Host in ohio on the line for yourrt i hope you said name right. Caller my name is karen. Host i apologize if i got it wrong. Caller i support President Trump. He is our president. I am going to stress that. I support him. We do not have to know as a citizen of this country what the president does for war. Some of the stuff should be kept secret so we can go in and do the strategies we need to. It doesnt need to be news media every day. Host do you see what is happening from the administrations action as a Clear Strategy . Caller yes. Host what makes you say that . Caller i trust of the president and i know about things going on over there and i have a family. Ember there let the president do what he needs to do. Everybody get out of his way and let him do what he needs to do. He went into do the things he needs to do. Host one of the things discussed yesterday by the president is the desire for other countries involved in the Iran Nuclear Deal to pull out of that deal in an attempt to create a new nuclear deal. Here are some of the comments for yesterday from yesterday. [video clip] thehe time has come for united kingdom, germany, france, russia, china to recognize this reality. They must break away from the remnants of the iran deal and we must Work Together toward making a deal with iran that makes the deal a safer and more peaceful place. We must also make a deal that allows iran to thrive and prosper and take advantage of its enormous, untapped potential. Iran can be a great country. Peace and stability cannot prevail in the middle east as foment iran continues to violence, unrest, hatred, and war. Send a clear must and unified message to the Iranian Regime. Your campaign of terror, murder, will not be allowed to go forward. Host this is bobby in virginia on the line for support of the president and the action strategy. Knowr i wanted to let you before the iran situation came up, i was against trump. Now that this situation has happened and all the stuff that has been going down, i am for i dont know what people are complaining about. He is the president , like that lady said and we have a responsibility to make sure iran does not move forward with any more terrorism. It has got to stop. If they get a nuclear warhead, it is too late. Now is the time to get them and hit them hard or go to the negotiated table and knock the stuff up because it is not good for the world, not good for the United States and not good for our military. Instance did this change your mind versus how we dealt with iran previously . Caller because President Trump is a loose cannon. He would go one way and the next way. They dont know what to think. Right now, they are thinking and nobodytrategy knows his strategy. Host because he described him as a loose cannon, you are saying that is a good approach . Caller yes, exactly. Before it was like they know what we are doing. They watch our politics, our news, they have their own cia and they think they are our equal, but they are not. You need to put them in their place. It is bad news for the world. Host on our oppose line, we will hear from larry in cleveland, ohio. You are on. Caller have you ever read the whereseven days in may we had a loose cannon president and the generals tried to take over the country and everything . We are perfectly set up for that. President trump is a perfect put in of a President Office and he is trying to be tough like i know more than the generals and everything. Wrong with the actions of recent days specifically in your mind . What was wrong with the actions toward iran in recent days . You do not take out a foreign minister, general of another country. Suppose they decide to take out general mattis . People. Killing host why do you equate general soleimani to general mattis . Aside from the title . Caller to the persian people, killing is killing. He is just like their general. His job is to destroy as many people as he can and that is what generals do. Host tony is next in massachusetts on our oppose line. Good morning. Caller how are you doing . Host fine, thanks. Caller someone needs to tell trump he is not the king of america. For some reason, he thinks he is the king and he can do what he wants to do and he is putting here. Us at risk dictators. He loves host how do you apply that to the iran situation . Caller if he is this going to take out someone without consulting when he has no military experience, first of all. President didious not have military experience either. Did you have those concerns . Caller no, because he would negotiate and talk to people when he made these decisions. This this person had been from norway or switzerland where people might be white skinned, would he have a problem taking him out . Anyone with brown or black skin, trump has no problem doing what he did. Host even though the assassination of general soleimani was accused of terrorist activity, you equate this to skin color . Ofler i have seen a lot documentaries and read a lot and i know we only hear what they want to see. Host i got you, but why do you associate this to skin color . He callsently everybody brown or black, he has a problem with that with people of color. If they were from a white country, would it be the same . I dont think so. Host we set aside a line for those who are not sure. Alabama. Rancis in caller let me tell you. I dont know, we spent so many years talking about the conscience of ones character host you are on. Caller i thought you turned me off. We seem to have susan the choice of the lowest common denominator of characteristics. When i got here 30 years ago, we had the same mayor. I have seen so many manipulators and politics. I am one of the children with the march. Didnt seem to understand. He never went through reasons. Everything before he it shows ignorance throughout the nation and i am so disappointed in all the efforts we made to get the right to vote because the people are too aigner and to appreciate it. Ignorant to appreciate it. Host a listing of the hardware available to iran. Graphics of some of the missiles available. This story also highlights the since the 1980s has developed one of the regions largest and most versatile missile programs. They have hundreds of short and mediumrange ballistic missiles. They see their force as an indispensable part of their. Ational Defense Strategy that is according to a report by the Brookings Institution last year. You can read more of that in the wall street journal this morning. Joe is next in tennessee, a supporter of the president s strategy. Good morning, joe. Caller good morning. Host you are on, go ahead. Caller hello . Host you are on, go ahead. Caller can you hear me . Host yep. Caller i am all for it. We have been fighting a ran and iraq iran and iraq for decades. I support him 100 . If they start telling everybody what they are fixing to do before they do it, how do we not know we have a democratic or republican, neither one. I am independent. Do we not know someone just like president clinton had that private server in her basement. More and more every day, i am turning into republican because i see trump doing something that no president has ever done. People jobs, taking. Are of sick people host in the case of iran, do you think further military action might be necessary in the future especially if more missiles are fired . To tell themneed you are not going to come over. Ere and terrorist us i believe what he had done and took out that leader, that is showing power. It is not showing you are the king of the world, but you are a president and you are not going to threaten the United States and other people need to start backing up this president. Something that no other president has ever done in history. Host joe in tennessee, a supporter of the president and the strategy and actions from the president on iran. Isd from wisconsin saying it freshening to see republican senators, around and see how this administration works and not being upfront with this issue. The Public People it was members of the house and senate receiving those briefings yesterday. Several of those members took ore the microphones republican senator mike lee from utah. [video clip] looked and expected to receive more information outlining the legal and moral justification for the attack, which was left somewhat unsatisfied on that front. The briefing lasted 75 minutes. This is not the biggest problem i have with the briefing, which i would add was probably the worst briefing i have seen at thet on a military issue in 9 years i have served in the United States senate. What i found so distressing about the briefing was one of the messages we received from was do not debate, do not discuss the appropriateness of further military intervention against iran and if you do, you will be embol