garrigan with chief white house correspondent jim acosta. let me start with the president's explanation about the reversal here. what did he have to say? >> the president almost did something remarkable today. he admitted he was wrong. the president said as you said a few minutes ago that they are postponing these tariffs because he doesn't want to have an adverse effect on the shopping season saying he doesn't want consumers to be impacted. that runs contrary to everything he said up until this point. he said u.s. consumers are not affected by these tariffs when we know they have been and i talked to a source close to the white thousand this evening and the trumped a machine station and policy without admitting he made a policy mistake here. >> so that's as close as he came, he didn't actually acknowledge it, he just stated it. >> that's right. >> okay. >> he once again said well, they are not feeling the pain from these tariffs which of course is not the case but this was as close as he's come to
in the next few days, officials tell me is when they expect the iran nuclear deal to be implemented and that's when those sanctions, billions of dollars in sanctions on iran are going to be lifted so it seems that that could have been a big influence. the hard liners in iran did not want to lose that. >> jim sciutto, jim, thanks. a lot to discuss joining me is former commander of the uss cole who served on the joint chief of staff and bushed a machine station and fareed sa cz -- zakaria. they see this as a sign of progress and cooperation by the u.s. and iran. do you buy that? >> may be progress with respect to cooperation. the biggest concern is how iranians are treating it when you look at how they treated the sailors captured and i use that word specifically on their knees, hands behind the head, guns pointed at them, that's really not a sign of two nations