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Developing a nuclear weapon, has it increased or diminished. >> i think its increased fairly dramatically. one of the things we forget how bright and capable the iranians are and that they can rebound from setbacks pretty quickly, technically and i think their capability could be developed very rapidly. chris: but you have criticized iran for continuing its nuclear -- its missile program, ballistic missile program and the jcpoa, iran nuclear deal, did not stop that, it clearly did not curtail ir...

Across the syrian border this week after president trump pulled out of nuclear deal with tehran, do you think that theres any connection that iran feels less constrained now that the u.s. no longer is part of this -- this deal about iran nukes? >> thats ludicrous. thats ludicrous. to suggest that iran feels less constrain, they have now fired missiles into an airport where americans travel each day in riyadh. they have fired missiles into israel. to suggest that somehow the withdrawal from the j...

Florida senator marco rubio arguing that iran has used sanctions relief from the deal to build up its missile program and boost its support for hezbollah and syrias assad regime. former president obama weighed in with a pointed statement -- you dont hear from him very often. >> not much. >> calling the move misguided. >> "in a democrat agrees, there will -- democracy, there will always be changes in priorities from one administration to the next. but the consistent flouting of agreements that ou...

Office, you realize, hey, that may have worked in the campaign or those were -- that was a good line or whatnot, but you realize its not good for the country at this point. given where we are with negotiations now, especially with north korea, our allies and our adversaries need to know that we are reliable. >> there was also support for the presidents decision. florida senator marco rubio arguing that iran has used sanctions relief from the deal to build its missile program and boost its suppor...

Worked in a campaign or that was a good line or whatnot, but you realize its not good for the country at this point given where we are with negotiations now especially with north korea. our allies and adversaries need to know that we are reliable. >> there was support for the presidents decision. florida senator marco rubio arguing that iran has used sanctions relief from the deal to build up its missile program and boost its support for hezbollah and syrias assad regime. former president obama ...

This is a very good example of the u.s. making sure they stick to their word and follow through with action. if that pattern continues we can have success here. if it doesnt its an open question. last answer on that. >> you look at this president if youre kim jong-un. you have to look at this president. he makes promises and he keeps them. so whatever he decides to do during this summit, he is going to live up to his end. the united states will live up to our end. but he is going to make the dem...

>> the fact is, this was a horrible, one-sided deal that should have never, ever been made. it didnt bring calm. it didnt bring peace. and it never will. >> reporter: this is no half measure. the president declared he is reimposing sanctions waived as part of the deal, all of them. >> america will not be held hostage to nuclear blackmail. >> reporter: under the iran nuclear deal, iran agreed shut down its production of weapons-grade uranium and allowed regular inspections by the international at...

>> again, this is -- i dont think ripping this up had anything to do with the technical terms this deal. i think it had everything to do with big omissions, things left out, irgc, dealing with the missile program. i think those were left out. it was a bad deal. the original sin point that david makes, that was at work here. >> how much this ripping up this deal was the president made that commitment during the campaign, it was strong campaign commitment -- he made other campaign commitments, mov...

Why he is doing that makes no sense. look lets be clear about what is about to happen. the president is about to put us on a collision course with iran and our allies. he is going to give the hardliners in iran an excuse to speed towards a nuclear weapon and without inspectors to expose them. or he is going to force us to sanction our own allies to stop them from doing business with iran. either way, we lose. >> i agree with dans earlier point. this isnt about the technical terms of the agreemen...

Against those nations as well. jim sciutto, christian amanpour, all of our team is here right now. lets go to christiane first. your thoughts? >> i was struck by john bolton standing at the door as you saw president trump exit. look, this is the regime change crew. they are back in town. they are ascended. it sounds very much like that is what president trump is hoping for, they can squeeze and squeeze and squeeze until the regime he described collapsed. they trade it many decades and it hasnt a...