Jack Keane: This is VERY revealing

THE NEGOTIATING TABLE. BILL. >> Dana: LET'S BRING IN RETIRED. GENERAL JACK KEANE STRATEGIC. ANALYST. WE KNOW THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT IRAN. DOES OVER AND OVER AGAIN. ONE MORE THING FROM PRESIDENT. TRUMP FOR YOU AND THEN GET YOUR. TAKE ON HOW THIS IS GOING. WATCH. >> SO THEY ASKED US, IRAN. SPECIFICALLY, BUT THE OTHER. THREE SAID -- I ASKED SAUDI. ARABIA, THE KING, I SAID THE.

CROWN PRINCE, I SAID WHAT WOULD. YOU RATHER DO. RATHER HAVE US DO THIS OR NOT? THEY SAID WE WOULD MUCH PREFER A. DEAL AS OPPOSED TO AN ATTACK. YOU DON'T KNOW WHERE THE ATTACKS. LEAD. WILL THEY BE FLOODED WITH PEOPLE. POURING INTO THEIR COUNTRY AND. DISASTER? A LOT OF BAD THINGS CAN HAPPEN. >> Dana: ALL OF THAT TAKEN INTO. ACCOUNT. WHERE DO WE END UP A FEW DAYS. FROM NOW? >> CERTAINLY CHALLENGING TO. UNPACK SOME OF THIS GIVEN THE.

PLAYERS INVOLVED. OBVIOUSLY THE PRESIDENT WAS ON. THE CUSP OF GOING BACK INTO. MAJOR COMBAT OPERATIONS. IRANIAN UNDERSTANDS ISRAEL WOULD. PARTICIPATE. TARGETS HAD EXPANDED QUITE A BIT. BEYOND EPIC FURY FOR A COUPLE OF. REASONS. ONE, WE HAD CONSIDERABLY MORE. INTELLIGENCE OVER THE LAST FOUR. MONTHS SINCE THE CEASE-FIRE ON. APRIL 7TH AND TWO, IT WAS A. RECOGNITION WE HAD TO TAKE DOWN. THEIR ENERGY AND ECONOMIC.

TARGETS, WHICH BROUGHT INTO A. DIFFERENT ARRAY OF TARGETS TO. CRUSH THIS REGIME ONCE AND FOR. ALL. SO WHERE ARE WE NOW? LET'S START WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP. HIMSELF. I MEAN, AS NOTED HERE, THE. IRANIANS HAVE TOLD HIM SOMETHING. PRIVATELY THAT OBVIOUSLY HASN'T. BEEN DISCLOSED PUBLICLY IN TERMS. OF MAKING A DEAL. PUBLICLY THEY ARE SAYING QUITE. SOMETHING ELSE. THEY ARE ACTUALLY SAYING THERE. ARE NO NEGOTIATIONS PLANNED FOR. TODAY, WHICH WAS WHEN THE.

PRESIDENT SAID THEY WOULD START. THE PRESIDENT HAS HEARD. SOMETHING THAT'S DIFFERENT THAT. MOTIVATED HIM TO STAND DOWN THE. MILITARY ATTACK. THE TWO ISSUES CLEARLY ON TABLE. ARE THE STRAITS OF HORMUZ AND. ALSO NUCLEAR ENTERPRISE. THE STRAITS OF HORMUZ WHAT WE'RE. TALKING ABOUT IS GOING BACK TO. INTERNATIONAL NAVIGATION. WATERWAYS PRIOR TO THE WAR. BEGINNING ON FEBRUARY 28TH. WE AREN'T TALKING ABOUT OMAN. MAINTAIN SOME LEVEL OF CONTROL. AND IRAN MAINTAIN SOME LEVEL OF.

CONTROL. THAT IS NOT WHAT THE DEAL WILL. CONSIST OF. THE ADMINISTRATION'S POSITION IS. GO BACK TO WHERE IT WAS PRIOR TO. FEBRUARY 28TH. RECOGNITION OF IT BEING. INTERNATIONAL WAYWAYS, NOBODY. HAS CONTROL OF IT AND NOBODY HAS. THE RIGHT TO INTERFERE WITH IT. AND I THINK IF YOU TAKE A LOOK. AT THE PRESIDENT IN TERMS OF. WHAT IS ON HIS MIND, YOU HAVE TO. RECOGNIZE ON APRIL 7TH HE WENT. TO A CEASE-FIRE. AFTER 38 DAYS OF WAR, THE PLAN.

WAS TO FINISH ON THE 52ND DAY. MAY HAVE GONE A LITTLE LONGER OR. SHORTER. 14 DAYS LATER END OF MILITARY. OPERATIONS. WENT TO A CEASE-FIRE. REASON WAS THE STRAITS OF. HORMUZ. WHY? THE IRANIANS HAD TAKEN CONTROL. OF IT ON MARCH 2ND. AND THE PRESIDENT'S PRIORITIES. SHIFTED AND HE TALKED ABOUT IT. PUBLICLY FROM THE MILITARY. OBJECTIVES TO ECONOMIC. OBJECTIVES. WHAT ARE WE TALKING ABOUT HERE?

OIL AND GAS PRICES. ALSO STATED CLEARLY POLITICAL. OBJECTIVES IMPACT OF THE. MID-TERMS ELECTIONS. TWO MONTHS LATER, A DEAL WAS. STRUCK BETWEEN THE TWO. PRESIDENTS OVER THE SEMINOLE. POINT, THE STRAITS OF HORMUZ. WE FIND OUT DAYS LATER IRAN WAS. NOT GOING TO COMPLY WITH THAT. AND THEY VIOLATED IT. SIGNIFICANTLY. AS I RESULT WE'VE HAD ATTACKS. BACK AND FORTH FOR A NUMBER OF.

WEEKS WITH THE DECISION TO GO TO. MAJOR COMBAT OPERATIONS. VERY REVEALING THE FACT THAT. IRAN HAD NO INTENTION TO COMPLY. WITH THE DEAL THEY HAD SIGNED. WE ALWAYS SAID IRAN WILL LIE AND. CHEAT TO GET A DEAL AND NOW THEY. ACTUALLY DID NOT COMPLY WITH THE. DEAL THAT THEY SIGNED. I THINK THAT HAS GOT TO BE IN. THE BACKGROUND HERE AND THE. TRUMP ADMINISTRATION IS VERY. MUCH AWARE OF IT. A COUPLE OF OTHER THINGS TO. UNPACK HERE. NUMBER ONE IS THE MEDIATEORS.

IT IS WELL-KNOWN IN THE MIDDLE. EAST REGION BY OUR INTELLIGENCE. SERVICES, BY ALL THE PLAYERS, THAT THE PAKISTANIS AND QATARIS. ARE COMPROMISED BECAUSE THEY. FAVOR IRAN AT THE EXPENSE OF THE. UNITED STATES. HISTORICAL, NOT NEW. YET THEY ARE THE MEDIATEORS. THEIR INFLUENCE HERE, I THINK, HAS PLAYED A PART IN MISLEADING. THE UNITED STATES IN TERMS OF. IRAN'S REAL INTENTIONS.

THE SECOND THING OUR ALLIES AND. PARTNERS LED BY SAUDI ARABIA. LET US POINT OUT AND REMIND THE. AUDIENCE HERE THAT WHEN WE WERE. GOING TO OPEN THE STRAITS OF. HORMUZ FORCIBLY SAUDI DENIED US. THE USE OF OUR AIR BASE AND. DENIED US THE USE OF THEIR. AIRSPACE AND ALSO TOLD THE. PRESIDENT AND DISCOURAGED HIM. FROM DOING IT BECAUSE THEY. THOUGHT THE OPERATION WOULD. FAIL. THEY KNEW NOTHING OF THE DETAILS. OF THAT OPERATION NOR QUALIFIED. TO MAKE THAT KIND OF ASSUMPTION. WHAT THE SAUDIS ARE DOING HERE.

IS FOR THE FOURTH TIME, THEY. HAVE INFLUENCED THE PRESIDENT. ONE IS ON THE STRAITS OF HORMUZ, TWO OTHER TIMES IT'S WELL-KNOWN. THAT HE WAS CLOSE TO GOING BACK. TO MAJOR COMBAT OPERATIONS AND. THEY TALKED HIM AS WELL AS OTHER. ALLIES IN THE REGION, DOWN FROM. THE DOING THAT AND LET'S TRY TO. MAKE A DEAL. THAT'S WHAT IS GOING ON HERE. SO WHAT IS GOING ON WITH THE. SAUDIS? THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS THE. SAUDIS ARE NOT WILLING TO. SACRIFICE TO RID THE MIDDLE EAST.

REGION OF IRAN'S AGGRESSION. THAT IS THE ABSOLUTE FACT THAT. WE ARE SEEING PLAYING OUT HERE. WHAT DO I MEAN BY SACRIFICE? CASUALTIES AND DAMAGE TO SOME OF. THEIR OIL RESERVES. THAT'S THE REALITY. THEY ARE WILLING FOR US TO MAKE. THAT SACRIFICE FOR SURE AND. WILLING FOR ISRAEL TO MAKE THAT. SACRIFICE FOR SURE. DESPITE THE FACT THEY'VE BEEN. UNDER A NUCLEAR AND SECURITY. UMBRELLA SINCE WORLD WAR II AND. THE UNITED STATES LED A. COALITION TO STOP SADDAM HUSSEIN.

FROM TAKING SAUDI OIL FIELDS. AFTER THEY TOOK THE KUWAITI OIL. FIELDS AND RELIBERATED THEM. DESPITE THE FACT AFTER THE SAUDI. GOVERNMENT KILLED THE JOURNALIST. THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION STILL. MAINTAIN A RELATIONSHIP WITH. THIS KINGDOM AND I THINK THIS IS. SHAMEFUL THAT THEY LACK THE. SPINE TO STAND UP FOR THEIR. PEOPLE AND FOR THE REGION HERE. AND SUPPORT THE PRESIDENT ON. WHAT IS TAKING PLACE.

AND THE REALITY IS GOING FORWARD. HERE IS GOING TO COME DOWN TO. IRAN AND THE UNITED STATES. IS IRAN REALLY READY TO MAKE A. DEAL OF SUBSTANCE HERE AND CARRY. IT THROUGH? MY GUT FEEL HERE IS NO. THEY ARE NOT GOING TO GIVE UP. THE STRAITS OF HORMUZ. THEY THINK IT IS A STRATEGIC. ASSET AND TRY TO WAFFLE IT ANY. WAY THEY CAN TO MAINTAIN SOME. LEVEL OF CONTROL OVER IT AND IT. WILL NOT BE SATISFACTORY TO THE.

TRUMP ADMINISTRATION. MUCH LESS THE NUCLEAR ENTERPRISE. AS WELL WHICH I THINK IS DOWN. THE ROAD AND AS DIFFICULT AS THE. STRAITS OF HORMUZ HAPPENING, THE. PRESIDENT IS NOT GOING TO MAKE A. BAD DEAL HERE. ALSO I THINK HE LEARNED A FEW. THINGS AS A RESULT OF THAT. MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING THAT. WAS POORLY CRAFTED AND LED TO. CERTAINLY A LOT OF. MISUNDERSTANDINGS. >> Dana: GENERAL JACK KEANE, THAN.