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First given to nbc news, joe biden says of trumps iran policy, quote, even as trump has rushed to criticize, he trashed the nuclear deal. iran needs to get back into compliance but trump appears to have no plan foreign suring the result either. his policy of maximum pressure has produced worse results and has become more rather than less aggressive. the policy has alienated us from our allies and taken us to the brink of another war in the middle east. the first u.s. sitting president to enter...

Breach will only magnetically pull them towards the u.s. position. in some ways this is kind of a gift to president trump because -- and his policy of maximum pressure because they can now start building a coalition against iran amongst those countries that were reluctant to sign on to president trumps ripping up to have the nuclear deal. he can now turn round to the europeans and say, look, iran has violated the deal. you need to snap back sanctions on iran. now, the big question is, whats iran...

Administrations hands of maximum pressure. they can now turn around to the europeans and say, look, the iranians have breached the deal. this is a significant breach of the deal if they suddenly next week decide to enrich uranium at much higher levels. then they have a 30-day window to snap back u.n. sanctions on iran. and that would be a big dealbreaker. and were already having some quite worrying words coming out from the united kingdom, from germany, from the united nations. they are all sayi...

Are not going to achieve the goal of maximum pressure. we are going to make those chinese banks decide, do you want to have access to the u.s. dollar banking system globally, or do you want to keep doing business with north korea? i want them to have to choose. im sure i know what joys they will make. that is designed to increase the economic pressure on kim. so, the goal for these financial institutions to do business with kim or the united states, not both. >> thats right. should the sanctions...

Here, the first u.s. president to step into north korea, but yes, this moment has a lot of significance, but dont just look at this moment. and thats something i missed the first time. he is also pointing out, i assume, if the translation was correct, that yes, this is a significant moment, kim jong un called it a historic moment, but of course it is what comes next. >> right, yeah. >> and it is what is being talked about at the moment between these two leaders that really matters. >> and each h...

But abandon nuclear ambitions, the brink act represents flog this effort here is senator chris saying we have to get tougher, not nicer with north korea. >> senator toomey and i and colleagues on bipartisan basis believe we need to keep on maxing economic pressure if we want to keep kim jong uns attention and achieve our goal and right now the sanction regime is like a sip, has lots of holes in it and until we plug holes we will not achieve goal of maximum pressure. >> is this like good cop, bad...

Franklin roosevelt, this guy, harry hopkins. henry kissinger was natural. he would do things without telling the state department, without telling the secretary of state. it makes policy making much messier, much more complicated. if you can pull it off, and if you can get success, sometimes that helps. so far, they havent been many successes. the mexicans are such an imbalance of power. if you look at the trump -- sort of the unorthodoxed efforts the trump administration has had, whether direct...

Policy of maximum pressure against iran as you look at the west wing of the white house despite fierce resistance from the islamic republic. today, irans president said the white house is afflicted by mental and call the new sanctions against its supreme leader outrageous and idiotic. iran also says those penalties have closed the door to any negotiations. kristin fisher is here tonight with the latest on how the u.s. is trying to keep this war of words from turning into an actual war. >> presid...

Campaign further. it will be, i think, the combination of sanctions and other pressure that does bring iran to the table. >> so the big question now is how will these two countries move forward? president trump says that these new sanctions and his campaign of maximum pressure are not going anywhere. but on the flip side, iran says, and they see this as an act of war, which closes the door for diplomacy, sandra. >> sandra: kristin fisher, thank you. >> trace: national political reporter. nice to...

The people of the country, no doubt, we left our foot off of the gas come off of the accelerator, and we give these countries different ways out. this idea of maximum pressure, it is rattling iran quite a bit. >> trace: how damaging are these sanctions and previous sanctions to the iranian economy? >> they are damaging. you have the iranian foreign minister of oil talking about how this has impacted them more than saddam husseins attacks during the war from the 80s. so it is really damaging. we ...