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Pretend we stopped. >> he got surprising air cover from sen. ben sass who said donald trump is not ripping the treaty but walking away from barack obamas personal pledge. he made a bad deal with iran without support from congress, today donald trump is pulling out of obamas personal commitment. american foreign-policy, approved by congress and presented honestly to the american people. on elastic about the obama deal the beginning support congress there was resolution of disapproval after the ag...

Clearly hinting at the potential for u.s. military action on top of the tough u.s. sanctions that will start back up in the next 90 days now that we are out of the deal. and truck schumer was among the democrats who blasted the move, but the whole reason that they can terminate this is that the obama administration acted unilaterally, failed to get a vote in the senate on this, and in fact, many senior democrats actually use spoke out the iran deal in 2015. watch. >> the deal doesnt end irans nu...

Now. you saw the european leaders, president macron of france, getting the red carpet treatment at the white house, chancellor merkel of germany meeting with president trump, trying to change his mind, because they and every other country that signed this deal think this deal is working. they say its put irans nuclear program in handcuffs and its been inspected and it should continue. theres also a sense of loss, almost, that as they go forward, trying to forge their own deal, america under pres...

Of military force against irans nuclear program would be, its eve more unattractive to consider an iran with nuclear weapons. i have been very clear on my view of the regime in tehran for quite some time. i believe it should be the declared policy of the united states to overthrow the regime. >> its an eye catcher. to stop irans bomb, bomb iran. what do you mean? >> just as israel twice before has struck nuclear weapons programs in the hands of hostile states, im afraid, given the circumstances,...

Imperfect science, and i said to general mccaffrey last night, is it possible that a flawed deal kept the world safer? you write in your book that its very clear this is the best we were all going to get. >> yes. its like any deal. a deal is an offer, and you got to decide are we better off taking the deal? whether youre buying a house, any deal, you think of it as a transaction. you get to the end of the negotiation, and you say, are we better off with the deal or not? this one got rid of irans...

As unattractive as the use of military force against irans nuclear program would be, its more unattractive to consider an iran with nuclear weapons. i have been very clear on my view of the regime and tehran for some time. i believe it should be the declared policy of the united states to overthrow the regime. >> its an eye catcher. to stop irans bomb, bomb iran. what do you mean? >> as israel has struck nuclear weapons programs in the hands of hostile states, im afraid given the circumstances t...

It possible that a flawed deal kept the world safer? you write in your book that its very clear this is the best we were all going to get. >> yes. its like any deal. a deal is an offer, and you got to decide are we better off taking the deal? whether youre buying a house, any deal, you think of it as a transaction. you get to the end of the negotiation, and you say, are we better off with the deal or not? this one got rid of irans nuclear program. and people keep saying temporarily. 10 to 15 yea...

We dont have a plan to put iran back in a straitjacket. the president has torn down the deal, but hes not told us how hes going to constrain irans nuclear program. so he didnt make a convincing case yesterday. were certainly worse off outside the deal than inside the deal. and the iranians will have to decide what theyre going to do. you saw this announcement by rouhani, the president this morning that theyre going to stay in for now. but the hardliners in iran, the revolutionary guard will make...

So short-term, were not looking at the end of the world. i mean, youre seeing -- obviously part of the trump doctrine is if obama did it, i hate it. right? thats one obvious aspect of the trump doctrine here. trump is aligned in a way with people obama could not abide. netanyahu in israel, the saudi royal family most notably. hes adopted their world view. he has moved away from a conversation about containment, which is obamas discourse. were going to contain iran and its nuclear ambitions. hes ...

A deal is an offer, and you got to decide are we better off taking the deal? whether youre buying a house, any deal, you think of it as a transaction. you get to the end of the negotiation, and you say, are we better off with the deal or not? this one got rid of irans nuclear program. and people keep saying temporarily. 10 to 15 years, brian. thats temporarily? a lot can happen in 10 to 15 years whereas today we dont know what iran will do next. and as you alluded to in your remarks, weve aliena...