president reagan said when you negotiate or if you negotiate you need to do so. that s what we re seeing. under scoring nations inhaeurpb right of self-defense, making certain military decisions to communicate a position of strength to the iranian. from the democrats perspective, it is interesting they had a separate briefing, like a point counter point. they were less hearing from the policy makers who have been on the front lines as opposed to john brennan and other folks from the obama administration. let s hear from secretary mike pompeo. my expectation is that every member of congress will join in our effort not only to deter iran from taking action against american interests in iraq and elsewhere in the middle east, but be very supportive of this administration when we take action that are consistent when protecting americans wherever they are serving. leslie, how is it in the
interest of the american people combatting this threat from iran, which we have lots of intelligence on. missiles on ships, aiming toward american assets in the middle east. john brennan who was discredited in terms of making false claims about what the president has done. how is it helpful to americans for democrats to have him come to capitol hill as someone who they should trust? i don t know that necessarily having him there. i trust him 100%. he was one of the players. he was one of the figures. he was in the room when the deal was put there. look, it is commonsense in my opinion when the united states pulled out of this deal, that iran was going to react this way. it was going to increase its enrichment of uranium. if you read the wall street journal article last week, it really depends on who saw what first. iran said, look, you re beefing up your military, we need to defend ourselves. we are saying the same thing. pompeo and bolton, even the president eluded to, are iran ta
no show. will that committee hold him in contempt for defying a subpoena and whether all this is just political theater. we ve been talking about it. whether speaker nancy pelosi can keep holding off democratic leadership on impeaching the president after a gop congressman doubled down on his call to start proceedings. all of that and much more atop of the hour. melissa? thank you. white house set to brief congress today on the tense state of affairs with iran. secretary of state mike pompeo, patrick shanahan and join chief chairman joseph dunford will speak to house and senate members in a closed door meeting. some house democrats have set up their own iran briefing today inviting the former cia director john brennan and wendy sherman. all this after president trump told reporters yesterday that he would not hesitate to respond should iran attack americans. we have no indication that
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from alabama hoda muthana, and the other woman from the u.k., and the u.k. is saying you can t come back either. both of them tied to isis, leaving their homeland to go to isis, to be with isis fighters coming into post online urging isis to attack americans and europeans. the president tweeting big in the united states has asked other european allies to take back over 800 isis fighters and put them on trial, the caliphate is ready to fall, the alternative is not a good one. and we will be forced to release them. yesterday tweeting i have instructed secretary of state mike pompeo and he agrees not to allow hoda muthana back into the country on this case. i think it speaks volumes that she would rather rot in an american jail then each grass in the isis camps, that is a masterful defeat of the caliphate from a p.r. perspective. a couple of issues.