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Beaten. i think the russians are on their heels. they have lost the war. lets not let them win the peace through some type of interlocutor. steve: lets take a step back and take a look at the broader picture with my remarks on the bidens defense policy, the budget we saw this week. what are your thoughts? was i too harsh in my criticism? >> no, steve, you nailed it. i mean, it was absolutely perfect what you said. look, lets just use one. the navy is a great example. they want 350 ships. there a...

Were willing to give some things up, like perhaps moth balling again. they did it once before in 2007 or 2008. the nyongbyon nuclear plant, but they werent able to give the other things that the u.s. was demanding, according to the president, and moreover, for that give that they were willing, they wanted the entirety, again in the presidents language, the entirety of the sanctions lifted. and that was something the u.s. was unwilling to do. so its probably a good thing that the president hasnt ...

Clearly shifted at the beginning of these negotiations. number one, were not going to look for iran dismantling its nuclear program but rather moth balling it. and secondly were not going to be looking for a permanent deal but rather for a deal that has a term to it which now we know is about 10 to 15 years. >> kareem i want to ask you as well. when you look at how this deal is being interpreted at this point, you really have two different versions of reality. you hear what the iranian officials...

The american people sort it out. you know, chairman colin powell used to tell us, make military arguments on their merit and let the politicians sort out how it eventually comes out. >> general, then on the substance, then, your views of this kind of reform? >> well, look, the biggest reduction in the armed forces in three-quarters of a century, putting the army back where it was in 1939 when my dad was sworn in prior to world war ii, you cant create a fire department after the fire starts. were...

Fo now a professor at george washington university. and here in new york, jonathan alter for "the bloomberg news." the nuclear plant that today announced its ground re-opening. what possible purpose would there be for reactivating that plant aside from developing a nuclear weapon? >> well, the other factor would be its putting back on the table an operation for which it had been rewarded in the past. the moth balling, as you say, of yeongbeyong came as the united states under the bush administra...