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Hearing, will senator cotton and the other senators be appraised of what is in this deal the iaea has separately? >> absolutely. in fact were trying to organize that briefing for the senate which is staying a few days later than the house. i briefed the house yesterday. i saw the pieces of paper but was not allowed to keep them. all the member of the p5 plus 1 did in vienna. so did some of my experts who understand this better than i do. >> another topic, similar topic, different category. with ...

>> basically, its not a perfect deal. there is not a perfect deal t. bottom line is do we go it alone or with other allies? right now we have a p 5 plus 1, plus the opinion of the people in the region that believe this is the right direction to go. i made my own phone calls. i spoke to four of the five ambassadors to the p5. they all said this if you pull away now, you go on your own. blue we know the sanctions were effective because we were all moving directly. directly against them and put som...

With every country it has these kinds of agreements, including us, including the u.s. they keep some information out of the public domain for very good reasons in terms of how you protect nuclear technology secrets, in order to not let this information get out. >> is the iaea keeping secret some of these details, even to secretary of state john kerry? >> no, so what was very important, this is an important point. it was very important for us in our p 5 plus 1 counterparts to be briefed on all th...

Trust. nothing. >> reporter: a new controversy erupted today that could further jeopardize congressional approval of the iran nuclear deal. it involves two side letters between iran and the international atomic energy agency that escapes the scrutiny of the p 5 plus 1 negotiators. the side letters according to the a.p. might allow iran and not iaea inspectors to collect soil samples in irans parchin military facility. the secretary of state john kerry today was asked to confirm the a.p. story. h...

P5 plus 1 if they come out with something new and say heres where they are in the bomb making decisions. this is what their intent is. we need to do something, ive always said we can do that and take cave of that thats what the facts show us. right now, weve slowed them down. we have been told they have enough material to make ten or 12 bombs. >> that has come kind of to a halt if will you the last year-and-a-half as talks have gone on. you know when you look back in history what they had in 200...

Centrifuges, in terms of the ability to inspect. we got some cooperation from partners in terms of keeping the sanctions on of the weve taken it to the u.n. weve got a gradual release of sanctions that will take place over many years. its true, the iranians got some things they want of the but on balance, were better off going through with this, in my view, than rejecting it. and its not just that theres no alternative thats proposed. thats also a consideration. but more importantly its the stru...

Long-term for the united states, geostrategically, weve got more problems coming from russia and china than we do from iran. iran is a regional power. chinas a regional power, an economic global power, and its reaching out to be a super power in its own right. russias a spoiler. its the only country that really has the nuclear capacity to destroy the united states, in some kind of a thermonuclear exchange. we thought we had a way after the end of the cold war to move forward with russia. it was ...

Here. to be very clear there are no secret deals that the members of the p 5 plus 1 including the u.s. dont have the details of. the ieae in the course of normal business, technical agreements are not made public for good reason. since the issues are so important. the p-5 plus 1 has been briefed on details of the agreements and can brief them to congress in classified settings which its what secretary kerry did today. so there is no secret deal. nothing we are not aware of. everything we have co...

He placed a lot of his chips in this corner. he said when he was running in 2008 alan, i want to start with you on this. if he were president of the united states he would try to lead tough and principled diplomacy with the iranian leader if he thought it would advance the interests of the united states. that was met with scepticism at the time. how has this advanced the causes of the united states. >> dick cheney is the last person to go to to try to find out how to avoid a war with an enemy. t...

What dick cheney said. iran had a nuclear capability when i was serving george w. bush in 2001, 2 3 4 and 5. they had a course of centrifuges at that time. and over the course of the presidency they gained some 19,000 centrifuges. this puts an arrest to that if you will along with other key factors of their program. they have always had the nuclear capability. they have a nuclear capability now. it is nuclear weapons that we dont want them to get and that is what this agreement is focused on. >>...