INTERVIEW — PETER BROOKES — Senior Fellow for National Security Affairs at The Heritage Foundation

• BIO: Brookes has served with the CIA and the State Department at the United Nations. In the private sector, he worked in the defense and intelligence industries. A decorated Navy veteran, Dr. Brookes served on active duty in Latin America, Asia and the Middle East in aviation and intelligence billets. He has more than 1,300 flight hours aboard the Navy’s EP-3 reconnaissance aircraft. Now a retired Navy commander, Dr. Brookes also served as a reservist with the National Security Agency, Defense Intelligence Agency, Naval Intelligence, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Office of the Vice President, working as an intelligence analyst, strategic debriefer, Russian language interpreter, defense attaché, policy adviser and associate professor at the Joint Military Intelligence College.
• TOPIC:  Tillerson headed to Russia:
• Putin snubs Tillerson over Syria strikes as he denies Trump’s Secretary of State a meeting – but White House says it won’t be deterred from MORE action if Assad uses gas again
• Secy of State Tillerson looking to get Russia to commit to action against ISIS, says White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer, of Tillerson’s talks in Moscow.
• AP: Russia Knew In Advance About Syria Chemical Attack