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That the american administration refuses to ratify the new position that iran occupiers on the regional chance bought but the iranian leaders also know that their countrys new role in the middle east is a very delicate one between the joint handling with russia of the syrian issue riyadhs obsessive hostility the changing political map in iraq and their security fears over israel they need to be able to arbitrate between the opposing interests of their enemies and their partners. iran as a gun co...

That when we reach an agreement we can monitor this agreement and that they will live up to i it. >> melissa: so, brian, if you listen to the financial folks were close to the negotiations, it sounds like part of this is going better than the other. that there is movement on getting the u.s. truly into the market, where they can own the majority of a company if not the whole thing. whether its financial services, that basically its opening up. the sticking point is that forced transfer of techno...

"its milken." >> it was milkens genius that created an entire market and fueled this takeover phenomena. >> we romanticize these characters. the fact of the matter, these are fat cats, first cousins to the financial manipulators, the robber barons of the late 19th century. >> theyre trying to make a buck by doing nothing and putting people out of work. >> economists agree that some unemployment, some hardship is unavoidable in making the united states lean and mean again. but the takeover specia...

The board. as you mentioned, firstly, verizon media group announcing they will cut 7% of the workforce, which is about 800 employees. and this is part of their plan to save $10 billion by 2021. so under a huge amount of pressure there to cut costs. meanwhile buzzfeed is reporting to layoff 15% of its workforce as they remain under pressure as well to be profitable and improve their prospects of potentially merging with another digital player. so just more evidence that the pressure facing the me...

Fake -- it was a fake restructuring. it wasnt meaningful in terms of isolating deripaska. so once again, im looking for an innocent explanation for this, and im not seeing it. >> now it looks like he stands to gain from the deal that he made with the u.s. to lift sanctions on his companies to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars. what happened to trump being tougher on russia than any other president? >> yeah. i think whats going on here is theres sort of a combination thing. the russians...

Document that you were able to view? it has not been made public. >> so we were able to determine that in exchange for giving shares, the goal here for treasury was to get him at less than 50% ownership of this holding company that owns this big aluminum company that is important to the world economy. treasury said the sanctions on the companies were hurting the world economy by disrupting the global aluminum markets. they said they would be willing to lift the sanctions on the company providing...

Bad for me if i get cut out. i could see why he would make those arguments. what i dont understand is why our own secretary of treasury, mnuchin, would agree to that understanding what he must about how the company was sort of fake -- it was a fake restructuring. it wasnt meaningful in terms of isolating deripaska. so once again, im looking for an innocent explanation for this, and im not seeing it. >> now it looks like he stands to gain from the deal that he made with the u.s. to lift sanctions...

Sanctions list in the obama era, by the way. it came up time and time again in meetings i was in. what hes done is just restru restructuring of the company slightly below. he still controls all of his companies. he got $200 million in debt relieved. that is a win forroli ole g deripaska. in return, i want to emphasize, putin didnt leave crimea. he didnt promise to not intervene in our elections in the future. he didnt do any of the things that the trump administration told us they were sanctioni...

By sanctions the companies without doing due diligence but all three of those possibilities, the treasury caved and painted itself into a corner or that it was out maneuvered by deripaska look real bad for the trump administration. >> of course, there is a darker prospect the trump administration was trying to do a favor for deripaska here. its weird because these sanctions only came into existence quite vent recently. how long did the sanctions go into effect against deripaskas companies? >> th...

All three of those possibilities, the treasury caved and painted itself into a corner or that it was out maneuvered by deripaska look real bad for the trump administration. >> of course, there is a darker prospect the trump administration was trying to do a favor for deripaska here. its weird because these sanctions only came into existence quite recently. how long did the sanctions go into effect against deripaskas companies? >> they were announced in april of last year and during the trump adm...