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It, the second question is, and whats plan b, now that the americans have destroyed plan a? and frankly, we havent been shown good evidence of any plan b, and what jim suggests is we broke the international unity of plan a, which was what gave it its strength. and so i think a lot of foreign countries now were -- know weve gotten into a deep issue here. but dont really know where the americans are going with it. >> jim clapper, when you look at this, i have to ask you this as an intelligence per...

And its fair to say this was quite a week in foreign policy for the president. he did fulfill some key promises he made, and he played to his base. but was this good foreign policy? especially pulling out of the iran deal? joining me now, michael haden and james clapper. general haden has been the director of both the cia and nsa, retired four-star general, author of an important new book that we will discuss, "the assault on intelligence american national security in an age of lies." james clap...

Asking me to take on the role of the foreign intel guy, and im looking through all of my data, and im seeing the strongest possible correlation between those two data sets. thats what i would suggest to the prime minister. >> jim clapper, what do you think the most important consequence here of withdrawing from the iran deal is, because it seems to have left our european allies in a quandary. >> well, it -- i fail to see how it enhances stability in the mid east. i dont understand really how not...

Would tick up, would see these guys at my sons soccer game, would see them tailing me. and the worst was when they started following my children to school. and nothing ever happened. it was all just to put a little pressure on us. >> and the point you make about putins nervousness and concern about the u.s. in some way affecting his re-election ended up getting directed very specifically at hillary clinton, because she made some statements supporting the protests. and many people believe that is...

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Nuclear deal would be a path to integration and normalization with the world. but iran has always had a strong, hard line element that has believed that america could never be trusted, that the saudis were mortal foes and that self reliance, auto arcy, and ideology was the only strategy for self preservation. and donald trump has just proved them right. for more, go to cnn.com/fareed, and read my "washington post" column this week. and lets get started. ♪ three american hostages were returne...

For president macron, who came here with the hope that he was going to persuade donald trump to stick with the deal. he had this artful compromise of building on the deal, just as jim clapper was suggesting, and instead it seems like european companies are going to get sanctioned by the united states, as a result of all of this. >> no, thats right, fareed. and it wasnt just president macron. you had chancellor merkel come here, the british foreign minister come here. our three most powerful frie...

It, the second question is, and whats plan b, now that the americans have destroyed plan a? and frankly, we havent been shown good evidence of any plan b, and what jim suggests is we broke the international unity of plan a, which was what gave it its strength. and so i think a lot of foreign countries now were -- know weve gotten into a deep issue here. but dont really know where the americans are going with it. >> jim clapper, when you look at this, i have to ask you this as an intelligence per...

But the circumstances had changed, right? so to make that system in 2009, no big deal. to make it when tens and thousands were mobilizing against him, he was very upset. publicly he said she sent a signal to the demonstrators. and privately he told president medvedev to call. it was a very tense moment. >> what do you think putins fourth term will look like? >> there is a word in russia that means stagnation. i think tragically thats what youre going to see internally. he didnt shake up the gove...

To see -- that using the nuclear agreement as a building block. so now what is it that the administration wants? well, they want a better deal. presumably, that means impelling or compelling iran to change all of its nefarious behavior across a whole range of endeavors, including the nuclear one. but that will have less leverage, since i dont believe well ever put humpty dumpty back together again, that is the global coalition that pressured iran with sanctions and brought them to the table. and...