assad yesterday. and she kept saying we re fighting the terrorists. we re fighting al qaeda. why aren t you supporting us? right. her capacity for self-delusion is limitless. you ve known her for a long time. i have. she s really smart, but that was really a stretch. iran, you ve seen the interviews now the foreign minister telling jim the president rouhani telling fareed zakaria, they haven t agreed to dismantle anything. that s only going to play into the hands of those united states senators including a bunch of democrats who want to tighten sanctions. the administration has to be careful not to oversell. this agreement may have been necessary, but this is about hitting the pause button. it s not about the delete button. the iranians have not agreed to dismantle anything. there s nothing in any agreement that suggests they do. this is a freeze. it s frankly a freeze for an unfreeze in some respects although the iranians are not going to enrich above 5%. you could argue six
ambitions without fear of harm. that veteran joins us now. chuck wooten is a retired chief master sergeant of the united states air force. thanks for joining us. thank you for your service system you re welcome. thank you for having me. i appreciate it. i understand in part your letter was motivated t not only by the fact thes of what happened but by the fact that you got an e-mail asking you for a cash donation from the very people that i know in part you feel have betrayed you. that s exactly right. still singing from the budget announcement when i learned that the military retirement was actually on the chopping block for reductions. a day or two later i received an e-mail. it was addressed from congressman paul ryan. it was a fund-raiser. normally i would hit the delete button on those things. for whatever reason, i just
define whether this was a good idea, or a bad idea. right now, the iranians are far too close to a nuclear weapon. we have hit the pause button. now we have got to negotiate hitting the delete button with them. what is your view, big picture, and i m sure you studied this as cia director what is your view of hassan rouhani, the new president of iran, and of his new government? you see them as relative moderates who are maybe because of the sanctions working hard to end iran s isolation, or do you see them more as just playing us and still determined to have a nuclear weapon at the end of the day? yeah, it is probably a mix of all that. and i, you know, it is a bad bet to bet on moderates and not moderates in another country. rouhani is a pragmatist, though. perhaps, not a moderate, but a pragmatist. and at the end of the day, chris, we are going to have to negotiate this. and so, it might be a good judgment that rouhani, and particularly his foreign minister zarif, is just about th
define whether this was a good idea, or a bad idea. right now, the iranians are far too close to a nuclear weapon. we have hit the pause button. now we have got to negotiate hitting the delete button with them. what is your view, big picture, and i m sure you studied this as cia director what is your view of hassan rouhani, the new president of iran, and of his new government? you see them as relative moderates who are maybe because of the sanctions working hard to end iran s isolation, or do you see them more as just playing us and still determined to have a nuclear weapon at the end of the day? yeah, it is probably a mix of all that. and i, you know, it is a bad bet to bet on moderates and not moderates in another country. rouhani is a pragmatist, though. perhaps, not a moderate, but a pragmatist. and at the end of the day, chris, we are going to have to negotiate this. and so, it might be a good judgment that rouhani, and particularly his foreign minister zarif, is just about th
identify that would define whether this was a good idea, or a bad idea. right now, the iranians are far too close to a nuclear weapon. we have hit the pause button. now we have got to negotiate hitting the delete button with them. what is your view, big picture, and i m sure you studied this as cia director what is your view of hassan rouhani, the new president of iran, and of his new government? you see them as relative moderates who are maybe because of the sanctions working hard to end iran s isolation, or do you see them more as just playing us and still determined to have a nuclear weapon at the end of the day? yeah, it is probably a mix of all that. and i, you know, it is a bad bet to bet on moderates and not moderates in another country. rouhani is a pragmatist, though. perhaps, not a moderate, but a pragmatist. and at the end of the day, chris, we are going to have to negotiate this. and so, it might be a good judgment that rouhani, and particularly his foreign minister z