RICK LEVENTHAL, THANK YOU VERY

MUCH.

ERIC: WHAT COMES NEXT?

INTERNATIONAL SECURITY EXPERT

FOR THE MIT SECURITY STUDIES

PROGRAMS IS WITH US.

HE MET WITH OFFICIALS ABOUT THE

IRAN NUCLEAR PROGRAM AND

TESTIFIED ABOUT IRAN BEFORE THE

U.S. SENATE.

EXPELLING FOREIGN FORCES MEANING

US, OUR TROOPS, IS THIS

UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCE FOR THE

STRIKE AND DO YOU THINK THEY

WILL GO THROUGH WITH THIS.

>> DEFINITELY, ERIC, THIS IS

UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCE OF THE

STRIKE.

IRAQ REACTING TO THE FACT THAT

WE CARRIED OUT AN ASSASSINATION

ON THEIR OWN TERRITORY AND

KILLED SOME OF THEIR PEOPLE.

THAT WAS POLITICALLY

UNACCEPTABLE.

THERE ALREADY CAUGHT BETWEEN THE

U.S. AND IRAN AS IT WAS.

AND THIS JUST PUSHED IT OVER THE

EDGE.

WILL THEY ACTUALLY DO IT, ERIC?

I DON'T KNOW.

THIS IS MORE OF A SALVO.

IRAQ HAS A LOT OF PROBLEMS RIGHT

NOW.

MOST OF IT HAVING TO DO WITH

REFORM AND PROTEST MOVEMENT AND

THEIR OWN INTERNAL PROBLEMS.

THEY MAY BE JUST SOUNDING OFF

NOW.

I SORT OF DOUBT WHETHER THEY

FULLY PULL THE TRIGGER ON THAT.

BECAUSE THAT IS MORE

COMPLICATIONS IN A LOT FOR THEM

WHICH IS ALREADY DEEPLY

COMPLICATED.

ERIC: THEY HAVE A LOT OF

PROBLEMS WITH IRAN.

HOW DO YOU PREVENT FROM BECOMING

A SATELLITE OF TEHRAN?

WE SAW PROTESTS ON THE STREETS

IN BAGHDAD AGAINST THE

THEOCRATIC REGIME OF TEHRAN.

HOW DO OFFICIALS PUSH BACK

AGAINST THAT.

>> IRAN WAS THE COUNTRY THAT

KILL AD LOT OF ISIS WHEN ISIS

INVADED IRAQ.

THEY HAVE A POSITIVE BILATERAL

RELATIONSHIP.

THERE WILL BE TENSIONS.

IRAN WILL TRY TO ININFLUENCE

IRAQ AND SOMETIMES IT WILL

OVERPLAY ITS HAND.

WE SAW THE RESULT OF IRAN DOING

THAT EARLIER IN THE MONTH WHEN

YOU HAD PROTESTERS IN IRAQ

PROTESTING IRANIAN INFLUENCE.

RIGHT NOW WE YANKED THE RUG ON

THAT, RIGHT?

THEY WERE MAD AT US.

THEY WERE MAD AT IRANIANS.

THEY WERE PROTESTING THEM.

THAT WAS ALL BEFORE, THE FOCUS

IS ON US BECAUSE WE WENT TO

CARRY OUT THIS ASSASSINATION.

YOU'RE RIGHT, UNINTENDED

CONSEQUENCE.

I EXPECT THERE WILL BE MORE TO

FOLLOW.

ERIC: HERE IS SECRETARY OF STATE

MIKE POMPEO THIS MORNING ON

FOX NEWS SUNDAY TALKING ABOUT

THE IRAQI DECISION.

>> WE'VE BEEN IN THE COUNTRY.

WE'VE BEEN SUPPORTING IRAQI

SOVEREIGNTY.

WE'RE TALKING DOWN THE TERRORIST

THREAT AGAINST THE IRAQI PEOPLE.

THE PRIME MINISTER IS THE

RESIGNED PRIME MINISTER.

HE IS ACTING PRIME MINISTER.

HE IS UNDER ENORMOUS THREATS

FROM VERY IRANIAN LEADERSHIP IT

IS WE'RE PUSHING BACK AGAINST.

WE'RE CONFIDENT THAT THE IRAQI

PEOPLE WANT THE UNITED STATES TO

BE THERE TO FIGHT THE

COUNTERTERROR CAMPAIGN.

WE'LL DO ALL THE THINGS WE NEED

TO DO TO KEEP AMERICA SAFE.

ERIC: DO YOU THINK THAT WILL

HAPPEN?

>> I THINK THAT IS REALLY A

BIZARRE THING TO SAY.

WE'RE SAYING WE DON'T CARE WHAT

IRAQ THINKS.

WE'LL STAY IN IRAQ WHETHER THEY

WANT US OR NOT.

I DOUBT THAT IS TRUE.

I DON'T THINK IRAQ WILL GO ALL

THE WAY THROUGH.

THEY PASSED THE RESOLUTION

THROUGH THE PARLIAMENT BUT DON'T

COME TO THE ULTIMATE CONCLUSION.

MORE OPEN FIGHT WITH IRAN, THE

WORSE IT PUTS IRAQ IN THEIR

POSITION.

THEY ARE LITERALLY PHYSICALLY

CAUGHT BETWEEN US.

SO THIS SORT OF CONTINUING TO

MAKE THREATS, WE'RE GOING TO HIT

52 IRANIAN TARGETS.

WE'RE GOING TO ATTACK THEIR

CULTURAL CENTERS, THAT IS NOT

HELPING IRAQ.

THEY WANT TO PUSH US AWAY.

THEY DON'T WANT ANY PART OF

THAT.

ERIC: THE SECRETARY OF STATE

MADE IT VERY CLEAR WE'LL GO

AFTER THE DECISIONMAKERS.

JEH JOHNSON, OBAMA OFFICIAL SAID

SOLEIMANI WAS A LAWFUL MILITARY

OBJECTIVE.

HERE IS WHAT THE SECRETARY OF

STATE SAID THIS MORNING ON

"FOX NEWS SUNDAY."

>> IN 2015 THE OBAMA-BIDEN

ADMINISTRATION ESSENTIALLY

HANDED POWER TO THE IRANIAN

LEADERSHIP.

ACTED AS A QUASI-ALLY OF THEIRS,

UNDERWRITING THEM, UNDERWRITING

VERY MILITIAS KILL AMERICANS,

RESOURCES MONEY THEY HAD TO

BUILDOUT THE FORCES THROUGHOUT

THE SHIA CRESCENT WAS PROVIDED

BY THE NUCLEAR DEAL.

WE ALLOWED EUROPEANS TO GO DO

BUSINESS THERE.

PILED UP THE CASH.

ALL THESE THINGS ARE THE VERY

CHALLENGE THAT THE TRUMP

ADMINISTRATION HAD TO CORRECT.

ERIC: FINALLY, HOW DO YOU THINK

THIS WILL PLAY OUT, JIM.

>> WOW.

THAT TOOK A LOT OF CHUTZPAH.

THEY BROKE THE AGREEMENT.

THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION WENT IN

AND TRASHED THE AGREEMENT.

EVERYTHING WE SINCED

EXPERIENCED, DOWNING OF DRONES,

ATTACK ON AIR RAMCO IN

SAUDI ARABIA, ATTACK ON BASES,

NOW THIS BACK AND FORTH.

NONE OF THAT HAPPENED WHEN WE

HAD THE NUCLEAR AGREEMENT.

NONE OF THAT HAPPENED.

WHEN PRESIDENT TRUMP GOT OUT OF

THE NUCLEAR AGREEMENT HE

PROMISED THAT IRAN WOULD BEHAVE

PEACEFULLY.

THEY COULD --

ERIC: JIM.

ERIC: IRAN HAS BEEN ATTACKING

DID.

>> THAT IS OPPOSITE.

ERIC: IRAN HAS BEEN ATTACKING

THE WEST.

ISRAEL, THE BOMBING OF THE --

ARGENTINA.

ON AND ON.

>> NONE THAT HAPPENED DURING THE

IRAN DEAL.

TALK ABOUT WHAT IRAN DEAL

BETWEEN 2015 AND TIME THAT

MR. TRUMP BROKE THE IRAN DEAL.

THEY DID NONE OF THIS.

NONE OF IT.

THEY BROKE IT AND SAID, WE'LL

FORCE THEM TO DO OUR WILL.

WE'LL MAKE THEM SUBMIT AND ALL

WILL BE PEACEFUL AND EXACT

OPPOSITE HAS HAPPENED.

NOW THE U.S. IS IN THE BUSINESS

AND TO PICK UP ON YOUR POINT,

ERIC, WE'RE SAYING WE WILL

ASSASSINATE GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS

OF OTHER COUNTRIES, NOT SINCE

WORLD WAR II HAS THE U.S. EVER

DONE THAT.

WELCOME TO A NEW WORLD WHICH

OTHER COUNTRIES THEY MAY DECIDE

WANT TO ASSASSINATE US FOR

WHATEVER REASON.

THAT IS NOT A WORLD WE WANT TO

GET INTO.

WE'VE CROSSED A LINE HERE.

WE'RE CREATING A MORE DANGEROUS