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And we will be in a much better position if they violate the agreement now to assemble an international coalition against them, including the use of force if necessary than if we had walked away from the agreement. because let me make one final point. this is not just the united states and iran in this agreement. this was the united states, china, russia, britain, france, and germany. >> maybe, but the u.s. led it, come on, senator. the u.s. led it and the u.s. -- everybody else was looking to t...

Welcome back. world powers wrapping up meetings in vienna to discuss the crisis in syria for first time irans foreign minister took part in the talks along with secretary of state john kerry and russias foreign minister as well. this as russia ramps up its military involvement in syria, delivering weapons for the regime and flying warplanes near u.s. ships. my next guest is the author of winter is coming, why vladimir putin and the enemies of the free world must be stopped. hes garry kasparov, t...

Describe any circumstance except the one coming up now in which it should not be available. this has gone on both parties, both sides for a long time. i dont think anyone takes it very seriously. >> former senate majority leader george mitchell. thank you for joining us. >> thank you, lawrence. breaking news from las vegas tonight. a british airways plane bursts in to flames on the runway. we will talk to one with of the passengers on that plane. ♪ ♪ mother nature can turn in an instant; d...

Iran will have to comply and build confidence in the international community that it is a peaceful program. but we will have a strong verification regime essentially forever. >> secretary ernest moniz, thank you for joining us tonight. >> thank you, lawrence. >> joining us now former senate majority leader george mitchell, special envoy for middle east peace. senator mitchell, i want to get your reaction to the chairman of the foreign relations committee said today on the senate floor. he said o...

Develop a suspicion, theres a process instituted that will require a prompt response and as a secretary, renounced nuclear scientist said, they can check on what happened and third, the so-called iranians doing their own inspections comes from a provision in the agreement which requires the international atom ic energy agency to make a report on irans past military activities. the first step in that process is for the iranians to submit information to the international inspectors. thats the circ...

The breakout time from two to three months to at least a year and put in place extraordinary verification measures. so this is a deal built for the long term. iran will have to comply and build confidence in the international community that it is a peaceful program. but we will have a strong verification regime essentially forever. >> secretary ernest moniz, thank you for joining us tonight. >> thank you, lawrence. >> joining us now form er senate majority leader -- mitchell, special envoy for m...

The filibuster far more often than the democrats and the republican leader is on record on many occasions in the past saying the filibuster should be available for matters of the upmost important. and theres -- he doesnt describe any circumstance except the one coming up now in which it should not be available. this has gone on both parties, both sides for a long time. i dont think anyone takes it very seriously. >> former senate majority leader george mitchell. thank you for joining us. >> than...

The white house released this update along with a photo. tonight, the president convened a secure video teleconference with members of his national security team to discuss the p-5 plus one negotiations with iran. the president received an update on the current status on the negotiations from secretary of state john kerry and other members of the negotiating team. and thanked the team for their continuing efforts. white house press secretary josh earnest explained why the official updates are li...

Candidate better than the actual person. people like the idea of mitt romney, you know, a businessman, maybe a bit moderate, governor experience, more than they like mitt romney. and so our campaigns are longer and longer each cycle it seems. about the same with this cycle than last cycle, and candidates are overexposed and theres just a lot more emphasis on the negative and its hard for any of us to sustain that attention and scrutiny. >> now we know why david corn is not running for president....

Worse. >> two term governors in both cases is pretty significant. lets talk about iran and the dealings that we are seeing here. the point of the negotiations is to lower irans enrichment capacity. is it going to work? >> i dont think so. at the end of the day john kerry and this president so desperately want a deal that they will take anything. i think it is critical that the congress have some oversight view of this. for the long term security. >> george mitchell made an important point i th...