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US-Iran tensions: "Trump wants to talk, but he wants to come from a position of strength"

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Dr Walid Phares, Donald Trump's foreign policy adviser during the 2016 campaign, advisor to the US Congress on Terrorism and author of "The Lost Spring", speaks to François Picard about the rising US-Iran tensions that have most recently almost seen a retaliatory strike on Iran after a US drone was taken down.

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