KICKING OFF FOUR DAYS OF JOINT

WAR GAMES IN THE INDIAN OCEAN.

AS IRAN LOOKS TO IMPROVE

MILITARY TIES WITH BEIJING AND

MOSCOW.

THANK YOU FOR JOINING US ON THIS

TOPIC.

HOW CONCERNED SHOULD THE

UNITED STATES BE ABOUT THIS

EFFORT MADE BETWEEN THESE THREE

COUNTRIES?

CERTAINLY NOT OUR ALLIES.

>> THESE DEVELOPMENTS ARE

IMPORTANT BECAUSE THEY ALLOW US

IN THE PUBLIC TO UNDERSTAND WHAT

THE SITUATION IS.

OFTEN WE HAVE FRIENDS AND ALLIES

IN THE REGION AND BEYOND WHO ARE

PUTTING PRESSURE ON US TO DO

MORE ON IRAN, MORE IN IRAQ.

THE REALITY IS THAT THIS JOINT

EXERCISE BETWEEN RUSSIA, CHINA,

AND AROUND, IT IS A MESSAGE THAT

THESE TWO POWERS ARE TELLING THE

UNITED STATES AND OUR ALLIES

THAT WERE NOT GOING TO LET HER

RUN DOWN IF YOU DO ANYTHING

AGAINST IT.

THE CALCULATION IT'S NOW FOR THE

UNITED STATES TO TAKE INTO

CONSIDERATION THERE WERE NOT

JUST DEALING WITH IRAN, BUT ALSO

WITH A LARGER ALLIANCE.

>> IN OUR CURRENT NEWS CYCLES WE

HEAR A LOT ABOUT IRAN AND RUSSIA

WORKING TOGETHER WHEN IT COMES

TO SYRIA AND I WANT TO TOUCH ON

THE POINT IN THE MOMENT BUT

FIRST JUST WEAVING CHINA BACK

INTO THIS WHOLE DISCUSSION.

REGARDING THIS, THE CHINESE

DEFENSE MINISTRY SAID THIS ABOUT

THESE NAVAL DRILLS, THAT IT

WOULD DEEPEN EXCHANGE AND

COOPERATION BETWEEN THE NAVIES

OF THE THREE COUNTRIES.

OF COURSE THIS IS A VERY

IMPORTANT AREA FOR GETTING OIL

TANKERS FROM PLACE TO PLACE FROM

IRAN.

WHAT DOES CHINA'S INVOLVEMENT

MEAN FOR ALL OF THIS?

>> CHINA AND RUSSIA MADE THIS

STATEMENT AND IS TELLING US THAT

WERE NOT GOING TO ALLOW YOU TO

DISEASE AND CONTROL THIS AREA

AND ISOLATE IRAN.

THIS IS VERY SERIOUS.

THAT STATEMENT IS VERY SERIOUS.

IT COULD BE THAT THEY ARE

WILLING, CHINA AND RUSSIA, TO

SEND SOME OF THEIR FLEETS OR

SHIPS INTO THAT AREA WHICH WOULD

COMPLICATE THINGS.

THIS REMINDS ME OF SOMETHING

ELSE.

OUR PROBLEM WITH KOREA IS VERY

PERIL.

WE THINK WE ARE ONLY DEALING

WITH KOREA.

IT'S MUCH MORE OF AN

INTERNATIONAL COALITION BUSINESS

THAT WERE DEALING WITH.

>> SHIFTING TO SYRIA WE KNOW

THAT RUSSIA AND THE ASSAD REGIME

ARE WORKING TOGETHER AT THIS

POINT IN TIME IT'S CREATED A

HUMANITARIAN CRISIS.

THERE BEEN RENEWED AIR STRIKES

IN THE AIM IS TO GET THIS

NORTHERN PART OF SYRIA THAT IS

STILL CONSIDERED A REBEL

STRONGHOLD FOR THE ASSAD REGIME

TO REGAIN THIS GROUND.

THE PRESIDENT HAS ISSUED A

WARNING IT.

PRESIDENT TRUMP TO EATING LESS.

RUSSIA, SYRIA, IRAN ARE ON THEIR

WAY TO KILLING THOUSANDS OF

INNOCENT CIVILIANS IN THE

PROVINCE.

TURKEY IS WORKING HARD TO STOP

THE CARNAGE.

SO HOW HARD IT IS TURKEY WORKING

AND DOES THIS WARNING FROM THE

PRESIDENT HAVE PEACE RIGHT NOW?

>> THAT'S THE WHOLE QUESTION.

THE PRESIDENT IS REALLY

MESSAGING PRESIDENT DERRIDA ONE

TAKE BACK THAT AREA AND PUT IT

BACK UNDER THE ASSAD REGIME.

IT WILL BE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS

IF NOT MILLIONS OF CIVILIANS WHO

WILLFULLY.

THOUGH FLEENOR TOWARDS TORQUAY.

THEY COULD GO TO EUROPE.

IT'S A VERY SERIOUS MATTER.

UNFORTUNATELY THE PRESIDENT IS

NOW VERY INTERESTED IN

INTERVENING IN LIBYA.

THAT'S WHY THIS IS A REMINDER BY

PRESIDENT TRUMP TO TAKE CARE OF

THAT NEIGHBORHOOD.

>> YOU BROUGHT UP LIBYA AND THAT

IS A LOT OF CHALLENGES THERE AS

WELL.

WHERE DOES THAT STAND RIGHT NOW.

>> IN LIBYA YOU HAVE A SYRIAN

WAR.

ON ONE ANY OF THE LIBYA NATIONAL

ARMY BUT IT'S NOT RECOGNIZED BY

THE GOVERNMENT IN TRIPOLI WHICH

IS BACKED BY TURKEY.

AS LONG AS THE FACTIONS WERE

INTERNAL WE COULD HAVE SOLVED

POLITICALLY BUT NOW WITH THIS

WARNING FROM PRESIDENT ERDOGAN

THAT HE MAY SEND HIS AIR FORCE

TO LIBYA, THAT COMPLICATES

THINGS BECAUSE YOU'VE CREASED IT

WOULD OPPOSE THIS, ITALY AND

FRANCE.

THE ADMIT MONITORING IS

DESTABILIZED AND WE NEED THE

U.S. TO BE VERY STRONG AND

TRYING TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM.

>> IN THIS LATEST WITH THE

PRESIDENT SEEMS TO BE SAYING

TURKEY IS WORKING HARD TO STOP

THE CARNAGE AND SEEMS TO BE

LEAVING A LOT ON TURKEY IN THAT

RESPECT.

AND WHAT CAN WE DEPEND ON

TURKEY?

THERE'S BEEN A BACK AND WITH IT.

AS TO EXPECTATIONS AND IF

THEY'RE GOING TO MEET ANY OF THE

U.S. EXPECTATIONS ON THE GROUND.

>> WE HAD THE TEST AND NORTHEAST

AREA AND WE SAW THE

PRESIDENT ERDOGAN GOVERNMENT DID

NOT LISTEN TO THE CALLS FOR

CEASE-FIRE BY THE UNITED STATES

AND THEN KIND OF IMPOSE THEIR

CONDITIONS ON THE CEASE-FIRE.

NOW REALLY I THINK

PRESIDENT TRUMP'S RIGHT TO ISSUE

THAT WARNING BECAUSE AFTER THAT

WE HAVE NOT IT GAUGED IN

NORTHWESTERN SYRIA EXCEPT HAVING

RUSSIA, IRAN.

>> THINK YOU FOR YOUR INSIGHT.