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Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense KT McFarland breaks down Hezbollah's ties to New York City.
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The new York city police department sending a clear message to Capitol Hill about Iran they say -- ratings with potential ties to the militant group has walked.
Had been scouting New York City landmarks for possible attack so how much of a real threat is all of this for inside KT McFarland former deputy assistant secretary defense Fox News national security analyst is here.
In studio -- which we make us.
That's a real threat.
Now why is -- a real threat.
Has a -- as a terrorist group that are run uses as its special ops force so.
What they're doing the Hezbollah's look at all around the world and we've seen in the last several months it has a lot -- -- has had.
Oil but for the most part attempt to its attacks in Azerbaijan.
They've got sleeper cells in.
Throughout the world and we seemingly uncovered some of the Missouri sleeper -- in New York probably a lot of sleeper cells we also have secondly.
That has the line addition -- -- surveillance especially in New York landmarks.
Has a connection to Venezuela.
So that Hezbollah agents coming ahead -- Latin America training their training camps in -- well and then they can make their way out.
Through the southern border of the United States which if you can get.
You know urging that illegal immigrants and drugs across that -- you could potentially get terrorists carrying weapons.
But this is this kind of lays out what could potentially happen -- the United States if military conflict and -- in Italy and this new with this a lot of the -- -- things at the -- they were talking at a congressional hearing this week for things surveillance going back to 2005 why we're talking about it now.
Well because we're talking about Iran's nuclear weapons program.
Would Israel feel compelled to have a preemptive attack on Iran's nuclear weapons program.
What -- were Iran's response be one of the things Iran is likely to do is to awaken those sleeper cells around the world particularly -- And the reason that we continually ask you to come on this show the Fox Business that we're to talk about it is because it's really been around the driving factor.
In the price of oil for the last however many weeks or months.
So somebody of that industry came -- -- when oil traders somebody instead what are the odds KT given your experience that there's going to be something serious and military action in Iran.
It might happen -- before the US presidential election what odds would you give them right now knowing what you know.
I don't think there's any one scenario that's going to be a sure thing but I think it's very likely that some scenario will happen.
Whether there's an accident in the Persian gulf at the Strait of Hormuz where we start shooting that Iran.
Where these potentially be Israeli strike -- Ron.
Where Iran unleashes Hezbollah sleeper cells.
If they feel particularly strangled about the with their oil revenues so I don't know that there's any high likelihood of one scenario that I think there's something you know I've got a lot a -- something's going to happen in 2000 in the.
For you go I want to point out it's not just about oil prices that -- Bob all -- is coming up he runs all fixed income and vanguard.
And he said in the past two years.
We had an appetite for risk.
For things outside of treasuries that developed in the Begin the year -- some events.
Maybe it will be geopolitical issues this year about mid year has reversed that trades we've seen the last two years -- -- -- -- gold and commodities because the Iranians have their kicked out of the world banking system out of swift they're gonna start bartering and they're gonna trade commodities oil for gold.
Oil for food so watch status well.
Thanks KT KT thank you --
