Sary and constructive thing. Chris we will ask democratic senator chris coons about that effort in congress to limit military actions against iran. Plus, how Speaker Pelosi announces she will send the articles of impeachment to the senate this week. Will ask our sunday panel what the impeachment trial will look like. All right now on fox news sund sunday. And hello look at it from fox news in washington. The fallout from President Trumps showdown with iran continues to be felt the middle east. Thousands of iranians protest as tehran now admits shooting down. The president tells fox news the top iranian general he killed was planning attacks against four u. S. Embassies. And Senate Democrats pushed for a vote to limit the president s military powers while also preparing to deal with the articles of impeachment. The house will send over this week. In a moment, we will discuss the u. S. Faceoff with National Security advisor Robert Obrien but first, lets bring in kevin corke with the latest from the white house. Calls for change echoing across tehran this weekend, those demands however garnered the attention of a rather prominent observer half a world protests swept over the iranian capital over the weekend in response to the downing of the ukrainian airliner that killed everyone on board including many Iranian University students who had been studying abroad. Some even calling for the Supreme Leader to resign. After days of denial, tehran acknowledged it launch the missile strike calling it a mistake but later claims without evidence that the aircraft turned towards a sensitive military site. The angry demonstrations were in sharp contrast to the days of morning following the death of Qassem Soleimani who the president accused of attacking u. S. Embassies. The president took his concerns directly to the iranian people into eating into farsi and english that the government of iran must allow human Rights Groups to monitor and report facts from the ground adding that there cannot be another massacre of Peaceful Protesters norton internet shut down. The world is watching. Meanwhile, the senate is watching and waiting for Speaker Pelosi to transmit articles of impeachment. She does so on tuesday and wednesday as many expect, a senate trial could begin soon. But first, the california democrat is expected to select four to ten members of the house to manage the trial period ends sources tell fox news, she will make her selection from a Diverse Group of members, among them adam schiff from california and he of course ran the trump ukraine investigation. Chris kevin corke reporting from the white house, thinking made and joining us now, white house National Security advisor Robert Obrien. Welcome to Fox News Sunday. After first denying it, iran now admits that it accidentally shot down that ukraine airliner with 176 people on board, but irans foreign minister says human error, a time of crisis caused by u. S. Adventurism led to disaster. A couple of questions, what does President Trump think of irans effort to shift the blame for the shootdown of the civilian airliner and is there anything the president can do beyond tweet to support the thousands of protesters in the streets . Thats a great question, first of all our condolences go out to the families and friends of the folks who are on ukraine flight 752. A tragedy. But the iranian response is typical. First, they covered it up and went social media came out with photos of missiles, they couldnt cover it up. Then they said the plane veered towards sensitive Military Area and that turned out not to be true and now one of the great assemblers of International Diplomacy is attempting to shift the blame to the United States. So i will reject that. The ukrainians have to have an International Investigation and it has to be transparent. They have to apologize and pay compensation and need to make sure this never happens again. Chris what can we do to help the protesters, some of whom are calling for the Supreme Leader to step down. Whats interesting is they are chanting death to the dictator and when President Trump tweeted yesterday and farsi, it had 200,000 likes. I am told thats the world record for number of likes on for a farsi language tweet. Unlike past administrations where there hasnt been support demonstrated the iranian people, he has made it clear that he stands for the people of iran and not with the regime and we are going to continue to do so. Chris that has been quite a debate this week about the president justifications for taking out iranian general Qassem Soleimani, he has said that there was an imminent threat. The president was a little bit more specific about that threat when he sat down with Laura Ingraham on friday, take a look. I can reveal it would have been for embassies and i think that probably baghdad already started. Chris members of congress who attended a 75 minute briefing with the secretaries of state, defense, cia directors say there was not a single mention during those 75 minutes, members of congress about imminent threats to u. S. Embassies. So why is he saying it on but ts didnt tell members of congress . Something weve been clear iran and ive seen the intelligence on this and it was very strong and in some ways, i would love to release the intelligence and show the American People that they can trust the administration on this. Unfortunately, we dont want to lose that valuable stream of intelligence that will allow us to protect americans going forward. What weve always said and what i said from day one is that there are severe threats to american diplomats, two american soldiers and two american facilities in the region, likely syria and potentially other countries that i wont name now. So i think with the president said is consistent with what weve been saying since day one. Chris it does seem to be a contradiction. He is telling Laura Ingraham, our esteemed colleague but in a 75 minute classified briefing, your top National Security people never mention this to members of congress, why not . I wasnt at the briefing and i dont know how it w and forth, depends on the questions, i dont know, i wasnt there. All i can tell you was weve been clear from the start to American Military us officials officers and men and women and also to u. S. Diplomats and i think that is consistent with what the president is saying. Chris would you agree with what the president said that there were specific imminent threats to for u. S. Embassies . It is always difficult to know exactly what the targets are but it certainly is consistent with the intelligence to assume they would have hit embassies and least four countries. But we know there were threats to american facilities, weather bases, embassies, it is always hard until the attack happens but we had very strong intelligence, they were looking to kill and maim americans that u. S. Facilities in the region. So i think the president is absolutely right wh about the threats to america that came from soleimani and came from their proxies. Chris i want to step back a little bit and talk about the whole question of the dealing with iran. The u. S. Imposed still more sanctions on iran on friday and a secretary of state, secretary of treasury said you have two goals, you want iran to behave like other nations in the world and you want them to stop their nuclear program, but lets look at the record so far, the administration has now imposed sanctions on more than 1,000 iranian companies, organizations, and individuals. Back in september, the treasury secretary said we have cut off all funding to iran but instead of caving in, iran is moving stepbystep o o attacked saudil facilities and set fire to the u. S. Embassy in baghdad. You said this week and in an interview with axios that you think iran is now more likely to negotiate but the maximum Pressure Campaign if you look at the last six months designated them more aggressive, not less aggressive. I think its working, the iranian economy is contracted by at least 10 , we havent seen that in many, many years. Iran went from producing three to 4 Million Barrels of oil a day down to 150 to 400,000 barrels depending on the day. Iran is being choked off and is going but to come to the table. It was a terrible deal. And the sunset clause and i dont think a lot of people realize that on this this year in 2,020, iran would have been permitted to buy advanced Ballistic Missiles, a whole range of weapons that wouldve been on the shelf. Chris i agree with all of that but they havent been less aggressive, they havent indicated theyre going to come to the table, and fact they have been more aggressive and they are pulling out of the nuclear deal so why do you say as you have said this weekend you think that they are now more likely to negotiate . Iran is being choked off and there is no other way for them to get the money they need to fund the guard, to fund the regime and their maligned activities and you are seeing protest breaking out across iran and we have seen it for several months, people are fed up with this regime. They want to maintain a modern country the mother going to have to come to the table and negotiate, thats highly likely. Chris i remember in september, President Trump was at the u. N. , i interviewed the iranian president , the president and the french president were trying to get on the phone and talk and he refused to do so, i will tell you he said at that time to me there was no chance we are going to negotiate unless sanctions. Its the pressure on their economy and when you have students out chanting death to the dictator and we have thousa going to bring them to the table and the president has made it very clear. To see it stops taking americans hostage, stop supporting proxies and terrorism and stops filling these Ballistic Missiles which we saw them launch last week. We couldnt get there and youre going to see more support from our allies in the coming days as they realize how dangerous this situation is. Chris lets change a little bit, iraqs Prime Minister has sent a message to the United States. I want to put it up on the screen, he has asked the u. S. To send representatives to iraq to put in place a mechanism for implementing the parliaments decision for the safe withdrawal of forces from iraq but secretary of state pompeo says that we will continue our mission there. On what grounds as they say ignoring the sovereign nation . That was a nonbinding resolution so it seems like they want something from our democracy. Chris that was a specific statement by the Prime Minister. They boycotted it. Chris but the representative majority. We will see what happens when they have a full vote but in any event, the president said we want to be out of the middle east but what we need to do is leave on our terms i need to leave in a fashion in which eyes as has been fully eliminated, took care of the physical caliphate and working very hard now to mop up the rest, we saw that with the raid that took out albaghdadi. We will certainly work with the iraq he is and we look forward to doing so, we talk with them every day and i think we are going we will come up with a resolution, we have a team from nato here this week, you will see far more nato involvement in iraq. Chris but they are a sovereign country. They tell us to leave, youre saying we are still going to leave on our terms . We look forward to leaving an iraq that is safe and secure and is independent and thats what the iraq use one as well we are going to continue to work with all of our partners. Chris got a couple of theres a report today that the u. S. Is expelling a dozen saudi servicemen who have been training at u. S. Military bases after that terrible shooting at pensacola. Do we have indications that more of these saudi servicemen have ties to extremism . I think secretary esper has done a terrific job of reviewing the way that we vet foreign troops to come over and train with americans, we have a longstanding relationship to train the pilots, we work with them both in saudi arabia. I think we are being very careful. Obviously pensacola showed there have been errors in the way that we have vetted and i think out of abundance of caution, he is taking these actions to protect our servicemen and women. Chris finally, lets talk about congress. President trump says he didnt notify the congressional leader, the gang of eight, the majority and minority leaders, the heads of the intelligence committees beforehand about the attack on soleimani basically because he didnt trust them. Here he is this week. They want us to call them, now adam schiff is a big leaker. He leaks to crazy cnn. Off the record, theyve got the number one terrorist in the world, soleimani and theyre going to take him out in the next 10 minutes. Chris ambassador obrien, can you point to a single instance when President Trump, your administration has given sensitive National Security information to top congressional leaders about an ongoing military operation and they have leaked that the media . What President Trump is doing is very consistent with other leaders did, did not breathe the congressional leaders before a sensitive raid on usama bin laden, he did not brief the congressional leaders prior to taking out in yemen. Chris but not just because they dont trust them to lead. Just as he was taken off the battlefield, the intelligence committees and key leaders in congress were notified. I participated in a number of those calls we had a very long briefing you mentioned at the top of your show, 75 minutes with all the members of congress both house and senate so we have met our obligations and we are also very consistent with what the Obama Administration and Bush Administration and clinton administration. Chris is there reason to avleakedthat that information i think there is always a concern when you have an operation that is the sensitive as we go after leading terrorist coming of to be extreme a careful no matter who it is. Chris finally, the house has voted to limit the president s war powers. The senate is working on that. Under what circumstances with the administration feel it had to go to congress to get approval for action against ir iran . I think that is set out in a number under article two of the constitution, the president is allowed to exercise military power to defend the American People and if it is in the National Interest and the action doesnt rise to the level of war, so a long and substantive involvement, the president has that article to power to take action to protect america and thats what we did here and thats what we will continue to do in the future. That changes and there was a situation where we expect a conflict that will have a scope and duration similar to war, certainly we are on a Firm Legal Footing here very similar to president obama and president bush and president clinton. Chris a bassett or obrien, thank you. Hope we didnt scare you off and that you will come back. Thank you, sir. Up next, democrats move to reign in President Trumps ability to use military force against iran unless he gets approval from congress. Well discuss that, plus what to expect from the impeachment trial in the senate with democrat Chri Chris Coons next. Where others see chaos, we see patterns. Connections. Relationships. When you use location technology, you can see where things happen, before they happen. With esri location technology, you can see what others cant. Chris democrats in the senate are looking to drum up bipartisan support to limit the president s ability to use military force against iran without congressional approval. Joining is now here in washington, delaware senator chris coons, a top democrat on the Foreign Relations committee, welcome back to Fox News Sunday. Ever since President Trump took out in general soleimani a week ago, they have been calling it a major irans foreign minister said this, i ran took and concluded proportionate measures in selfdefense and heres what President Trump said. Iran appears to be standing down which is a good thing for all parties concerned in a very good thing for the world. Chris is in it possible that President Trumps action, out one of our worst enemies in the middle east and reestablished american deterrence . It certainly took out one of our worst enemies in the middle east, none of us are going to mourn the passing of general Qassem Soleimani, the force which he commanded was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of americans in iraq and throughout the region, so nobody should be mourning his passing. But the larger question is, does it make us safer . The did make our position more stable and is there a Clear Strategy for moving forward . President