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New this morning, world leaders reacting to president trumps refusal to recertify the nuclear deal with iran. the president is stopping short of withdrawing from the deal for now. nbcs chief foreign affairs correspondent "andrea mitchell reports" hes putting its future in the hands of congress. >> reporter: in a blistering indictment of irans terrorism, starting with the hostage taking at the u.s. them bembassy in ir 1979, the president threatening to quit the iran nuclear deal unless the allies...

Missile program, terrorists, et cetera, which were not part of this deal, yes, you could rightly criticize iran, but to be clear, those were not part of this negotiation. >> right and getting out doesnt necessarily give you leverage on those issues. thanks very much. and now, dave gergen -- and was a part with john kerry of this deal itself. and mark dubowitz. the two of you know more than pretty much anybody except for more zariff and kerry themselves. was this the right move? what the presiden...

Anderand renegotiate. >> thats the crucial question, right? we need to be clear. this is not a deal between the united states and iran. there are other countries involved. it goes, the deal goes on without the united states. if the u.s. gets out, it loses any ability to see inside irans nuclear program. you lose leverage. forget whether you like the deal, it is the deal. so what is the point? >> erin, i think the point is to make it very clear to the europeans that the united states is not going...

It is china, rushsia, and it isa u.n. security council resolution. whats the objective? whats the end goal? is the end goal to continue having irans nuclear program severely hampered, bracketed with no path to nuclear military or what? if the goal is to address all of the outstanding issues that the world has with iran, which is its activities in syria, its support of hezbollah, its support of regional militants in terrorism, its influence in the region, its missile program and this and that, if...

And what the president is supposed to do, we expect on friday, will not end the deal. >> colonel francona, you think some of the rhetoric might change things. you think iran might be feeling some of the pressure. please explain. >> if you read the comments coming out of tehran they were hard over on not willing to discuss the missile program at all, and they said it was already settled and there was a change to the u.s. resolution that called on the iranians not to develop missiles rather than t...

United states fault. he considers the sanctions an act of aggression and made clear the point that the regime as they have so often said would not be willing to negotiate on the point of the missile program. so long as the united states maintains a policy thats crushing north korea. those are the latest round of words from the foreign minister. they come after weeks of comments from the u.s. president himself during which he said frankly cryptic messages to north korea talking about how only one...

Business when it risks their relationship with america. they will not risk falling foul of u.s. sanctions. i can tell you that any effort by europe to get iran to renegotiate parts of the deal will be a fawn starter. for moderates, the hard-liners here, theyve all made it very clear none of the deal is renegotiable nor is irans missile program. >> lots to watch out there this weekend. thank you well, coming up next on "morning joe," from the foreign relations committee, senators chris coons and ...

In the water it has to go over to congress. they have 60 days to decide if they can do the sanctions. dessertfying sit closer to killing it. people are preparing itself for. that iran says it has options if the u.s. pulls out of the deal t. powerful revolutionary regard. theyve issued strong threats towards america in recent days and u.s. allies, in particular, europe, who support the deals are preparing measures they hope will keep the deal alive. like congress not imposeing sanctions, showing ...

I mean we all have to care about you know. lets be practical north korea has nuclear weapons is the night the nuclear weapon state. the assessment is from six to twelve maybe even more nuclear weapons right and theyre developing their programs they have a uranium enrichment program to build nuclear weapons they have missile systems they have the scud they have the know done they have the type of down they building the cane away which is into content and to continental ballistic missile which is ...

The opposition in the house to this agreement. but this is where we are right now with respect to iran running full throttle th. is why i think we need substitute sanctions that we now put on their missile program and their terrorist activity. thats not part of this agreement. lets add to the agreement the provisions such as getting onto the military bases but lets go right straight to this issue of their ballistic missiles and terror and work with the europeans on that issue. lets put those san...