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negotiated settlement on the nuclear weapons issue. that isn t going to happen. but a serious national policy of changing the mullahs in tehran, putting in a different government there and of overthrowing assad requires looking at this whole problem of syria in a much larger framework which we are not doing now. gregg: could syria s conflict unless it is sunshine stopped migrate someplace like turkey and lebanon and iraq which would arguably allow al-qaeda to profit from the opportunity? i think you have to see this conflict in syria as part of larger ongoing struggle in the middle east between iran on the one hand and sunni arabs loosely led by saudi arabia on the other. that is why the stakes are so high here for the arab states. they want assad to fall because they want to reduce iran s influence in the region and iran
he says anyone convicted of leaking should face jail time. gregg? gregg: some people seem to doubt the president s insistence that the leaks are not coming from the white house, right? some republicans are skeptical, especially since this investigation is just beginning. but the president maintained that the information leaked to journalists must have come from somewhere else. here is more. as i think has been indicated from these articles, whether or not the information they ve received is true, the writers of these articles have allstateed unequivocally that they didn t come from which white house and that s not how we operate. but one top senate republican john mccain points out the articles identify some of the sources as administration officials and aides to the president. senator mccain said, quote, i continue to call on the president to immediately appoint a special counsel to fully investigate. mccain called the leaks gravely serious breaches of our
of these investigations? all that is exactly right. that is why we have a right to be suspicious. that is why congress has to be involved with oversight hearings and judiciary committee need to conduct those. some of it is a matter of trust. these u.s. teoshsz have good backgrounds. we ve got to hope they will do the right thing and hope that the ag and president don t try to put political pressure on them. there is no way to find that out, but you have to have a lot of tris in these individuals to do the right thing. gregg: there is one way to find it out. that is to get it from the authors and journalists. they know who the leakers are. they can name them. if the reporters promised confidentiality should the reporters be forced to divulge their sources even if it means threat of prosecution and/or jail? where do you stand on that? exactly. that is why i mentioned ago we
button is going to get reset again unless they change their behavior. as far as iran goes, any notion there is an acceptable diplomatic way for them to keep their nuclear weapons program has to be toss in the garbage can. unless we change the fundamental dynamics that russia and iran think going to aid assad and he will remain in power. gregg: let s say for example we use some of the harsh language with russia. do we have any leverage that would motivate them? i would certainly go beyond language. i would tell them that we have absolutely no intention in any way changing our plans for national missile defense. i think given that the obama administration has reduced our missile defense program almost to nothing, dramatically scaling that back up is in order. i think we ought to withdraw from the new started arms agreement. i think you ve got to have a