Both sides will exchange reversible concessions for reversible concessions and you reversible concessions for you irreversible concessions for irreversible concessions. Thank you. That is a great place to stop. Underlying all of this is the bitter history of the u. S. And iran. No one better to talk about that then john, who has experienced it in many different ways. Is this really going to make a difference between the u. S. And iran . As our iranian friends like to say, there are only two possibilities. It either will or it wont. So there we are. It is quite simple. They have been speaking and writing very sensibly about iran for many years. This is a very passionate subject in this town. I tell my students at the Naval Academy one could spend his life going to iran in events in washington, whether it is the wilson center, the foundation for the defense of democracy. View. Ideological point of you would never run out of subjects to talk about. It is an issue that a small number of pe
Rest of the world to agree to sanctions that they never had agreed to before. The Bush Administration never even dare to dream about. Now they could agree to it he cuts there was the sense that the United States actually tried. Rouhani is playing the same trick on the United States. He is tweeting Rosh Hashanah greetings to the jewish people. His foreign minister is extremely charming. They are serious about diplomacy. In the last rounds of negotiation, a day was spent on just to decide when and where the next meeting will be. The iranians made suggestions like kabul. Everything was a negotiation. Now it takes about five minutes to decide. The venue is now set, it will always be geneva. There is no excuse. The iranians that has translated into a lot of countries who have agreed to the sanctions and have agreed to them very grudgingly, they do not like to impose sanctions. Several of those countries are in europe. They are now putting pressure on the United States. Because of your congr
Significant divisions within the saudi elite right now, within the government. Contradictoryhe messages may continue and may not signal much more than that they are not sure what to do. The gentleman back there. Larry feinberg. How does this agreement differ from the agreement they negoti from the agreements negotiated the last 20 years or so . Im going to take that because ive actually covered north korea. You know, there are two and allergies that come up all the time. One is 1938 unique but not seize, which is ridiculous on so many levels. Iran is not not see germany. The other is north korea. [inaudible] yeah. The nature of the regimes are different but also, the agreements are different. Look, in some sense of the argument that one hears is the North Koreans cheated and therefore the iranians will cheat. Lets look with the agreed framework was about. This was the 1994 agreement clinton reached with kim jong ill. They agreed to mothball the plutonium are wracked need coke reactor p
The white house from the outside is that its actually a very normal life upstairs on those two floors in the white house residence. First ladies probably and i know i did lie on the couch and read a book and in my case my cat would always curl up next to me. Up next ahead of the Congressional Budget Office on the deficit. The Economic Outlook and how the labor market is being affected by the Health Care Law. Douglas elmendorf was before that House Budget Committee for two and a half hours. [inaudible conversations] see the hearing come to order. I love everybody and welcome. I first want to thank director on the door for joining us again. We appreciate your taking time to meet with us today and we know this baseline was a little late because congress was a little late so im glad we got time to get to this. You have put together a very informative report. It does a great job of laying out the challenges we face. Mine main takeaways this. We still have a lot of work to do. This year we a
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