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Secretary mattis talked about the inspectors. does iran kick those inspectors out so we lose what visibility we have there. the europeans wont reimpose sanctions so where does that leave us and if ron? im not necessarily opposed to sticking with this deal forever. what you need to have a clear idea about next steps. if we are going to pull out. and especially given the larger context of irans aggressive activity in the middle east. >>chris: lets pick up on that because the french and the germans...

Secretary mattis talked about the inspectors. does iran kick those inspectors out so we lose what visibility we have there. the europeans wont reimpose sanctions so where does that leave us and if ron? im not necessarily opposed to sticking with this deal forever. what you need to have a clear idea about next steps. if we are going to pull out. and especially given the larger context of irans aggressive activity in the middle east. >>chris: lets pick up on that because the french and the germans...

Secretary mattis talked about the inspectors. does iran kick those inspectors out so we lose what visibility we have there. the europeans wont reimpose sanctions so where does that leave us and if ron? im not necessarily opposed to sticking with this deal forever. what you need to have a clear idea about next steps. if we are going to pull out. and especially given the larger context of irans aggressive activity in the middle east. >>chris: lets pick up on that because the french and the germans...

Its hard to get all the daily thats why i love fiber choice. it has the fiber found in many fruits and vegetables, all in a tasty, chewable tablet. fiber choice... the smart choice. were moments, if not seconds, away from the president of the united states and the french president speaking at a white house press conference. one of the big questions is theyve had several public statements today. the iran nuclear deal is issue number one for the visiting president from france. the question is wi...

Eu and the united states that are working on what we call side agreements. there are three problems that trump has with the iran deal and theyre trying to solve these with these side agreements. one is the fact that iran deal did not deal with the ballistic missile program that iran has. number two, that mr. trump feels the inspection regime snolt strong enough and number three, that sunset clauses. certain part of the iran deal that expire after ten or 15 years. it gets to irans ability to enri...

Issues with the iran deal. the fact it didnt deal with ballistic missiles, he didnt think the regime was serious enough, and of course he rails against these so-called sunset clauses where certain enrichment activities can restart after 10 or 15 years. so weve got european and american negotiators trying to work out side agreements to deal with those issues. i suspect thats what he is referring to, that he and macron have a meeting of the minds as to what these side agreements might say. youre r...

The real outlier here is iran and whether iran comply with these side agreements that are being negotiated between europe and the united states. irans the key player here and they are likely not going to want to be -- to strengthen the deal any more than it already is. we could not -- and john kerry said this many times at the state department, there is no way if we had included missiles, ballistic missiles in the iran deal, that iran would have accepted it. theres just no way they would have do...

And worked with european allies to say we have a structure which gives us some controls. lets build on that. and what the president is trying to do is build really kind of side agreements around the iran deal, first of all extending past the sunset clause, right, so to continue the constraints on the nuclear program but also to deal with the blissic missile programs and other things. so if we can get these side agreements, then -- kelly: i dont want to interrupt you but were losing time here. th...

Spending. it was a gesture. the germans made a gesture, increasing the size of the army by 20,000. it is not going to make a difference in the conflict, the gesture is great. but the idea there has been a radical change in policy is simply not true. i dont care. for whatever reason trump changed his view or at least changed his policy on nato, and what that encourages me together with the fact that i too was encouraged by the meeting between lavrov and our secretary of state, tillerson. but not ...

Spending. it was a gesture. the germans made a gesture, increasing the size of the army by 20,000. it is not going to make a difference in the conflict, the gesture is great. but the idea there has been a radical change in policy is simply not true. i dont care. for whatever reason trump changed his view or at least changed his policy on nato, and what that encourages me together with the fact that i too was encouraged by the meeting between lavrov and our secretary of state, tillerson. but not ...