into line and they do what he wants them to do with north korea is an illusion. let s talk about what we heard from the president today at cpac. he talked about isis. i want to play a bit of that and get your reaction on the other side. take a look at this, steve. i have also directed the defense community to develop a plan to totally obliterate isis. working with our allies, we will eradicate this evil from the face of the earth. so, during the presidential debate, steve, then-candidate trump said he would give the pentagon 30 days to develop a plan to defeat isis, but obviously that deadline has now passed. why is there no plan? well, i mean, i hate to be trite about it, but it reminds me a lot about the obamacare challenge republicans have. barack obama had really made quite a bit of inroads in shutting down the money flow, the oil flow, the traicking of
the united states and iran. last week american warships trailed an iranian convoy to stop it from delivering weapons to rebels in yemen. negotiators from the united states and several other countries are facing a june 30th deadline to finalize a nuclear deal with iran. the rest of this from leah gabriel now. iran is explaining why it did this? that s right. iran s foreign minister says this is not about freedom of navigation to the strait his country respects that and kmipted to that, he says this is about the ship in particular. and that according to lawyers, it either didn t pay for or didn t deliver cargo. about 15 years ago. simply our naval forces implemented the decision of the court, that s a legal case and it s being followed as a legal case. it s not a security issue or a portfolio issue. now, it s worth mentioning that according to the department of energy this is the most important choke point in the world in terms of oil flow.
going into recession. because russia s economy for all the diversity is more or less dependent on the oil price which has plunged more than 40%. the rubble plunged in parallel to that, because it is linked to the oil price. there is nothing much that they can do to raise the oil price up. they can t even really cut production in russia because they need that money so much and they don t really have the ability in the deep wells in western siberia to cut off the oil flow. there is not much they can do but to ride out the oil crisis and hope the price goes up again. that is their best hope. i mean, there are other factors as well that affect the sanctions. vladimir putin could have done more to meet the terms of the cease-fire agreements in eastern ukraine. and that would have gone some distance towards alleviating the
weapons in syria and secured them, maybe then it would be different, but that is not going to happen. you can t say stuff like that if you are secretary of state. you have to play the chess board two and three moves ahead. you have to know that putin is listening and they want to get one over on you. it is all about putin and his doctrine of a rising russia. a lot of people understand this. putin s main goal is to raise russia back up to be a super power. the mother land. and he feels he can do that by a domination of the middle east. if he dominates iran, syria and other countries, russia s power increases. it increases the oil flow and it increases over a lot of things. and this is important. the president hasn t confronted putin. maybe if i get elected i will have a little more room.
weapons in syria and secured them, maybe then it would be different, but that is not going to happen. you can t say stuff like that if you are secretary of state. you have to play the chess board two and three moves ahead. you have to know that putin is listening and they want to get one over on you. it is all about putin and his doctrine of a rising russia. a lot of people understand this. putin s main goal is to raise russia back up to be a super power. the mother land. and he feels he can do that by a domination of the middle east. if he dominates iran, syria and other countries, russia s power increases. it increases the oil flow and it increases over a lot of things. and this is important. the president hasn t confronted putin. maybe if i get elected i will