Gen Jack Keane: We're coming to a crossroads

. SENATOR CRUZ, THANK YOU. WE APPRECIATE IT. AHEAD OF THE U.N. GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT TRUMP. IS NOW DECIDING WHETHER OR NOT. HE WILL "BLOW UP IRAN.". THE PRESIDENT TELLING OUR VERY. OWN TREY YINGST THAT HE IS. WEIGHING THREE SPECIFIC OPTIONS, ONE, OBLITERATING IRAN, NUMBER 2, LETTING IT ROT UNDER. ECONOMIC SANCTIONS AND THE U.S. NAVAL BLOCKADE OR THREE, THEY. DECIDE TO MAKE A DEAL. THIS COMES AMID A HUGE AMOUNT OF.

REPORTED U.S. MILITARY ACTIVITY. IN THE SKY, IN EUROPE AND THE. MIDDLE EAST, AND NEW WARNING. FROM U.S. EMBASSIES IN THE. MIDDLE EAST FOR AMERICANS WHO. ARE TRAVELING ABROAD. OUR NEXT GUEST WAS JUST IN. ISRAEL, JUST RETURNED TO THE. U.S. LAST NIGHT, HE MET WITH TOP. CIVILIAN MILITARY LEADERS, INCLUDING VISITS INTO GAZA AND. LEBANON WITH THE IDF. JOINING US NOW, FOX NEWS. STRATEGIC ANALYST, GENERAL JACK. KEANE IS WITH US. TELL US ABOUT YOUR TRIP -- BY.

THE WAY I WILL TELL THE PEPEOPLE. OF ISRAEL THEY HAVE AN IMPORTANT. ELECTION ON OCTOBER, FOR. PRIME MINISTER. THERE HAS BEEN NO BETTER. PRIME MINISTER THAN. PRIME MINISTER. BENJAMIN NETANYAHU WHO DESERVES. REELECTION, JUST MY TWO CENTS. WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE REGION? >> I TOTALLY AGREE WITH WHAT YOU. SAID. I THOUGHT PRIME MINISTER. NETANYAHU, SINCE THIS WAR BEGAN, REFLECTED THE CHARACTERISTICS. AND DETERMINATION THAT. WINSTON CHURCHILL DISPLAYED. DURING WORLD WAR II.

JUST STEADFAST AND IGNORING ALL. THE OBSTACLES TO PURSUE ONE. OBJECTIVE, AND THAT'S TO PROTECT. HIS PEOPLE AND DESTROY IRAN AND. ITS PROXIES. THAT IS A PATH I CERTAINLY STILL. BELIEVE IS ACHIEVABLE AND WE ARE. LIKELY ON. WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT THE. PRESIDENT TRULY Y REFLECTS THE. FRUSTRATIONS THAT HE HAS. WE STOPPED THE WAR ON. APRIL SEVENTH BECAUSE THE. IRANIANS OFFERED TO MAKE A DEAL. OVER THE STRAITS OF HORMUZ, AND.

WE OBVIOUSLY STILL DON'T HAVE. THAT, WE HAD TO FORCIBLY OPEN IT. OURSELVES. NO COOPERATION WHATSOEVER. WE GOT A VERY EFFECTIVE NAVAL. BLOCKADE IN PLACE, SECRETARY. BESS AND, COMPREHENSIVE. SANCTIONS TRYING TO CREATE AS. MUCH ECONOMIC PERIL AS POSSIBLE. WITH THE IRANIANS. WHERE ARE THE IRANIANS? IN MY MIND THEY STILL BEBELIEVE. THEY CAN OUTLAST US. THEY WILL BE DISMISSIVE OF THE.

SERIOUSNESS IN WHAT IS HAPPENING. TO THESE PEOPLE BECAUSE THEY. DON'T CARE THAT MUCH ABOUT WHAT. IS HAPPENING. I BELIEVE LIKELY WE WILL SEE. SOME KIND OF ESCALATION BY THE. IRANIANS PRIOR TO THE MIDTERM. ELECTIONS. I THINK THEY WANT TO DEMONSTRATE. ACTUALLY TO THE ISRAELIS BUT. SIGNIFICANTLY MORE TO THE. AMERICAN PEOPLE THAT. PRESIDENT TRUMP IS NOT MANAGING. THE WAR PROPERLY GIVEN THE FACT. WE ARE STILL ABLE TO ATTACK AND. INFLICT CASUALTIES.

THAT IS THE MIND-SET THAT WE ARE. DEALING WITH IRAN, PRETTY FAR. AWAY FROM ANY THOUGHT OF. SETTLING THIS THROUGH. NEGOTIATIONS. I DON'T THINK FOR A MINUTE IRAN. WOULD EVER MEET ALL OF THE. PRESIDENT'S NEGOTIATION. OBJECTIVES. AS WE FOUND OUT BACK IN JUNE, THEY VIOLATED THOSE NEGOTIATED. SETTLEMENTS THAT THE PRESIDENT. OF IRAN AND OUR PRESIDENT BOTH. SIGNED. SO HERE WE ARE GETTING CLOSER TO.

THE MIDTERMS, LIKELY SOME KIND. OF ESCALATION. I BELIEVE AT THE END OF THE DAY, IT'S INADVISABLE TO ASSIGN ANY. AGREEMENT WITH IRAN BECAUSE WE. KNOW TWO THINGS ARE GOING TO. HAPPEN, NUMBER 1 THEY WILL NOT. COMPLY WITH IT. MAYBE FOR SURE IN SOME OTHER. ADMINISTRATION THEY WILL CHEAT. AND GO BACK TO RECOVERING. NUCLEAR WEAPONS, BALLISTIC. MISSILES, SUPPORT FOR PROXIES. THE SECOND THING, THIS HAS TO BE.

GIVEN SERIOUS THOUGHT, THE. PRESIDENT CERTAINLY HAS THIS ON. HIS MIND, AND THAT IS EVEN IF. THEY GAVE US THE PERFECT DEAL, WE HAVE TO FINANCE THEIR. RECOVERY. REMOVE SANCTIONS, UNFREEZE THE. ASSETS, BILLIONS OF DOLLARS. POURED INTO IRAN, GIVE THEM A. LIFELINE FOR YEARS TO COME. THAT PASSES THE PROBLEM ON TO. THE NEXT ADMINISTRATION. THIS PRESIDENT AFTER SEVEN. PRESIDENTS HAS BEEN SEQUENTIALLY. PASSING ON TO THEM, SAID WHY. HASN'T SOMEBODY DONE SOMETHING.

ABOUT THIS BEFORE NOW? AND HE TOOK THE ACTION TO STOP. THIS PREDATOR BEHAVIOR AND. REMOVING THE NUCLEAR WEAPONS. ONCE AND FOR ALL. I DON'T BELIEVE FOR A MINUTE HE. WILL PASS THAT PROBLEM ON TO THE. NEXT ADMINISTRATION WHETHER. REPUBLICAN OR DEMOCRAT. WE ARE COMING TO A CROSSROAD, GOOD MOVE ECONOMICALLY, POLITICAL MIDTERM IS COMING, LIKELY ACTION BY IRAN AND. MASSIVE ACTION BY THE.

UNITED STATES AND ISRAEL. >> Sean: GENERAL KEANE I COULD. NOT AGREE WITH YOU MORE. AND THEY ARE KEENLY AWARE OF VC. OF OUR MIDTERM ELECTIONS AND. AWARE OF ELECTIONS IN ISRAEL, INTERESTINGLY THEY HAVE NOT BEEN. WILLING.