Were able to find shelter. Thats a good thing because the missile said heres some billy buildings on the airbase the michelle attack was on retaliation for a drone strike on irans top general, but he has since fallen apart. Today President Trump said Qassem Soleimani had it coming. Soleimanis hands was drenched in both american and a rain and blood. He should have been terminated long ago, by removing soleimani we have set up 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 immediately impose additional punishing on sanctions in the iranian regime. These powerful sanctions will remain until iran changes its behavior. Speedy five the president also says he hopes this is the end of hostilities. To the people and leaders of iran, we want you to have a future and a great future, one that you deserve. One of prosperity at home and harmony with the nations of the world. The United States is ready to embrace peace with all who seek it. I want to thank you and god bless america. Thank you very much. Kennedy oh yes, god bless america. Thats not enough for some democratic lawmakers and candidates. Its a reminder when donald trump is taking us and that is right to the edge of war. Ill make the iraq war look like a picnic. It is. It is imperative that the commanderinchief think theyre all the applications of his actions. But unfortunately that is just not his nature. We should not be responding disproportionately that elevates the conflicts, and tension in the region. Its created more problems than it solved. Cowboy diplomacy did not work and in iraq it will not work. And iran. Kennedy so what is the strategy here i will at work . Joining me ten nights and u. S. Army resume of Lieutenant Colonel who was once deployed to iraq in 2006 and knows a bit about that place. Lee zeldin is back in welcome back congressman. There has been some mixed reviews and those briefings the congress where you stand . The house briefing went fantastic. I was out in the center briefing but on the house side of thought is a great briefing theres a lot of Great Questions asked and answers were given. It is important to point out that even if there was no briefing, i will have to tell you as far as what i know of Qassem Soleimani killing over 600 troops and wounding thousands more in the embassy attack, and that list goes on, i already knew enough with opensource information to justify in my opinion taking him out. But it was still good to have that topsecret setting to get additional info. Kennedy so what did they tell you the house was a tell us . [laughter] you would ask, the best part about you kennedys youd probably followup i did tell you. As far as what has been told inside that briefing is topsecret. I can share, but of what i would encourage the administration to do, not just today but in the days that follow, whatever information that can be shared, if there is any that could get declassified, that they do that. Kennedy the president can declassify that information. Sure and there are some sources and methods regarding evidence collection especially in this case that you dont want to give up because Going Forward you would not want to lose that access to that intelligence. You would not want to put certain assets in harms way. And you would want to be able to get Additional Information as time goes forward. But where you can protect those sources and methods, it is important to tell the United States citizens as much as possible as is much as they can. Kennedy i think we can afford to be transparent we are mature country. We can handle some facts without hiding behind the cloak of sources and methods, because often times that is so opaque and is used as more of a clutch than in actual necessary justification. But lets talk about where we go from here. We know that this news cycle and this attention span, it is faster and shorter than ever. And it is conceivable that we could move past this conflict with iran by next week. So then what . Why think it would be fantastic if we were able to move past hostilities instantly while you and i are talking. Tomorrow there is going to be this debate on the floor of the house of representatives for House Democrats want to pass this war powers resolution, essentially to punch the president in the face. The worstcase scenario that they were saying they were fearing didnt play out by a longshot. And as you just pointed out in your opening bit, there is no u. S. Casualties or Coalition Casualties whatsoever as to what the eye Iranian Foreign minister says is a conclusion. So hopefully that is all done Going Forward. I wrought has a decision to make, its people for the most part, would prefers stability, peace prosperity and security. Kennedy i think that universal lawyer for persian as well and the americans, they want peace, they want prosperity they do not want war. It is costly, deadly, and horrific. So should we have zarif come to the un . Ironically february 2016, where it might be low personal for me as i remember filing a visa application to go to i iran within congressman pompeo and then share the cia subcommittee, he attacked the three of us back then. Theres a little bit of irony with him whining about his visa application to come to the United States. As well as being dialogue between our two countries, i think that is important. I think were we had Early Warning in regard to the attack, that saved lives. Kennedy do you think theyll attack again or do you think this was that . I hope not but i dont know the answer to that. The point you just made about persians generally and how they view their country, their future, their people, they were gmail thats in charge they will oppress those people who want freedom, security, and stability. They even talk about democracy. Those millions of other eye iranians who will take to the streets. So ultimately it comes down to decisions that may not have been made by this i iranian regime. Kennedy why help us if one good thing comes from soleimanis death, that is the oppressive regime falls apart and i iranians get the leader they want and deserve of their own choosing. And not someone we put in place over there, because that is not our job. I appreciate you doing your job and asking questions and paying attention to the whole thing. So for some of it as it is still confusing and nerveracking. Thank you congressman. The president only blame iran for the showdown. I rancid hostilities substantially increased after the deal was signed into thousand and 13. The missiles fired last knighted us, and our allies were paid for with the funds made available by the last administration. Kennedy , but president obamas former secretary of state jon kerry, why the long face. He was the architect of that nuclear deal. And he said quotes i think its a tragedy for the world that instead of diplomacy this administration has rushed a confrontation. If this develops into eight hits for tats increased efforts will become a war that is meaningless and did not have to happen and would be a war reckless war of choice. That would be by the president of the night states. That is not you jon kerry. That on capitol hill members of Congress Attend classified briefings today hungry for background info on the president s plan. Democrats left the briefing quite angry. My reaction to this briefing is it was sophomoric and utterly unconvincing. I calmly from this briefing really angry, deeply dissatisfied. It raised more questions than it answered. President trump assassinated soleimani he had no evidence of an eminent attack. Kennedy is the left wise to pounce on the president s iran dealings are they just blowing partisan smoke . Lets meet tonights party panel and talk about it. With gods townhall editor and Fox News ContributorKatie Pavlovich along with attorney danielle mclaughlin, and townhall. Com Political Editor and hosted a guy benson show it is guy benson. Welcome everyone. So jon kerry says this is tragedy. I think you could argue jon kerry has done more harm in the iranian realm then his boss or the current president. Yes jon kerry in the Obama Administration didnt normas damage not just to the eye iranian situation but to the region. Jon kerry has been running diplomacy by meeting with iranian officials behind President Trumps back. When he is questioned about he justifies it said the iranians should just wait out the american president ms anti american to do that. The truth is the Obama Administration in the iran deal took sanctions off just like soleimani. He had u. S. Sanctions off him and they took it off due to the iran deal. The Obama Administration never asked for his travel ban to be enforced, so he was traveling all over the middle east. And the un stood by his solemn mommy backed by the Obama Administration has been engaging and genocides of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people all over the middle east. Separate him to criticize now and say that america under the president now, is the aggressor the situation just is not true. Kennedy and obviously its a very complex situation that goes back several administrations and you could argue that not one of them has gotten it right because it is so difficult and there is no one clear answer. But it is rich that democrats have now had turned into an Antiwar Party when they had no party with what happened in libya and with a number of civilian killing drone strikes under president obama. There is a very clear difference we noted jerome strike in an isis fighter or low level terrorist. Kennedy oil Wedding Party of innocent civilians. Speedy. Who was a secondincommand of a nation state. This is not Osama Bin Laden is different onto the international rules, it is under different under International Law on its musk bigger ricin take out obama. Speedy five you think of president obama had called for the assassination of soleimani do you think democrats would be outraged and want to curtail his war powers in the same way . This is always such a political hot spot. I think back to syria when obama went to congress and said look i want to bomb this facilities after he killed a thousand syrians with the help of soleimani. That is a war crime. And republicans refuse to give it to him told him it was beyond his. [inaudible] congress has the power to declare war and after words when he didnt do it because he thought he might be impeach and they threaten it, they told him. He also into the uk and lost his leadership because of that. Neither mom is very popular. There are many things to say about this whole issue. One thing that is sticky and mycroft. Kennedy what is a crock . Without a will and grace. [inaudible] speedy. I actually didnt watch will and i like that you assume i did this. Kennedy youre too young. Senator blumenthal is outraged by this briefing today, he seems like he is concerned about a rush to war and i feel like this is another lie he could lie about. [laughter] if you spend much of your life lying about having served in a war, you should just sit out war debates for the rest of your life. Kennedy i agree with you. This think about lying to not get into a war. Multiple president s have done that. Speedy. This is not President Trump region warned ironic was a very specific target word troops have the authority to be there. So first thing the second thing is soleimani and all the iranian proxies that we are serving under him and carrying out his terrorist attacks all over the middle east, and elsewhere, he was hiding by the iranian flag and using that as a State Government official so that people like president obama would not go after him. He used it as a shield. [inaudible] kennedy what about when they are funneling millions and millions of dollars to terrorist organizations and helping other leaders in states gas their own people . Can you have it both ways . I dont know maybe you can. This is what President Trump said when he was talking about bombing historic sites. He says that they will do all of this why cant we . Theres a reason the American People are part of the country that is the force in the system of nationstates. And its of course because we abide by the laws and International Law, we dont scale. Kennedy that is most clumsy moral equivalents. By the way i completely disagree with what the president tweeted in words on digital platform. I disagree with that notion. I dont know how much it betrayed his actual intent, but its not the same thing as a person who is responsible for the death of thousands and thousands of civilians. But please know that there is a difference between damn thing the president says and soleimani actually helping to kill. Im not disagreeing with you kennedy but we have a system of rules. And we abide by them. Why is the iranian terror list leader soleimani operating in iraq . And the guy who is behind this guys also operating iraq is in a terrorist. Kennedy we have to wrap this up as we have so much more with the panel because they are bright. Coming up libertarian leaning senator rand paul and mike lees say they are furious over the rush to war. 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Take your business beyond. Kennedy welcome back House Speaker nancy plus he told the American People bold that impeaching President Trump was an urgent matter. In fact so urgent that she is already waited three weeks to submit those impeachment articles to the senate. She still hasnt handed them over because of their urgency. But that was not lost on fellow democrats and suiting Dianne Feinstein he reportedly said its time for nervous nance to hurry up and offense purchase the longer it goes on, the less urgent and becomes. So if it is serious and urgent, send them over. If it is not, dont send it over. I will send my chinese chauffeur to pick it up. Because he was a spy, thats fine. Policy told Congressional Democrats she plans to hold the articles of impeachment until Senate Majority leader Mitch Connell outlines the term for trial. But cocaine mitch was not high on the idea and just said the House Speakers just looking for leverage in all the wrong places. But like en vogue, she is never going to get it. Those were mitchs words, it exact words a big en vogue fans. Settlements policy give Mitch Mcconnell something he can steal or is she going to hold on the panel has returned katie daniel guy, they are as attractive as they are brilliant and they are very attractive. So danielle i will start with you because there democrats who said come on lady, their democrat senators saying okay i get it, you are the queen bee in your house hi, this is the upper chamber. Thats right nancy plus he has no jurisdiction over the senate she cannot force them to do things she wants him to do. If i was her i would reopen the impeachment proceedings and call boltons bluff. Lets see if hes going to do in front of the house instead of trying to. Kennedy can they do that can they go back on. Lee is clinton in 1999 in a lot of ways to set a precedent. But theres very little in the constitution about how this thing actually plays out. So i think if she really wanted to do it. Kennedy she could get freestyle. Maybe not a total freestyle but maybe party like its 1999. But maybe she should go back to the house. Kennedy tells the real story guy. I think she maybe had this cockamamie idea in the back of her mind that if she me impatient was withheld there would magically be some leverage in the press would go after this. But clearly she does not know much about Mitch Mcconnell, he does not give a crab about any of that. He has his whole team behind him in the senate. Look up the democrats in the house i would love to hear from john bolton, if they couldve at least tried to subpoena him which they did not. In if they are saying this was our entire democracy depends on the racing through of this process, it is so, so urgent that we have to do it by christmas because of whatever. Kennedy because its an emergency. So nancy policies im sitting on this for no apparent reason. Is a calculated investigation because they already said youre not getting a documents