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First policy failure as secretary of state. that is not what we got today. >> thats right. it indicates the limits of his influence. its interesting too because pompeo is considered to be a hawk. hes not thought of as the moderate that rex tillerson was seen as. yet in his role as secretary of state, hes obviously taken upon the traditional position of the state department, of the chief diplomat to seek more diplomatic solutions to things rather than potentially blow up alliances. his role now a...

Deal, it is not just saying that, but it averted a war. talk to me. >> lisa: based on recent intelligent from israel that came to light, the intelligence community has known about for a while that the entire deal was basically predicated on a bunch of lies, right? built on a bunch of lies from iran itself. to charlies point real quick regarding john kerry. it is a little hypocritical going back and looking at some accusations on michael flynn when he was part of an income administration talking ...

The atomic clock is ticking, if an atomic clock does tick. president trump has just a handful of days left to decide whether hes going to unilaterally pull out of the nuclear deal with iran. what would it mean if he did? ernest moniz was energy secretary under president obama and then secretary of state john kerry were the top u.s. officials in the talks between iran and the world powers. welcome, mr. secretary. >> thank you, fareed. >> the first argument and probably the central argument presid...

Presentation showing iranian efforts to increase its nuclear program before the 2015 deal was ever agreed on. heres what he said this week on our air in a message to mr. trump. lets listen. >> its either fully fixed or fully nixed. you need a major overhaul or a new deal in the fully fixed. the person that will make that decision for the united states is one person. thats president trump. and i trust his judgment. i know that he will do the right thing. and i said yesterday he will do the right ...

Blow up the deal and youre back there tomorrow. what do you think about that, nile? >> well, i think this is the expected response from john kerry who played a key role, of course, in putting this weak-need agreement together. the reality is if this deal remains in place, iran will become a nuclear weapons power once the sunset clauses have come into place. so the reality is the deal negotiated by john kerry, the obama administration, is a deal that in the long run will allow iran to become a nu...

Israel. the suggestion that the u.s. may back out could be years news. nett in the vent it wont be fixed in a couple of weeks which seems unlikely he will be lobbying for trump to pull out of the iran deal. thats what he wanted to hear. he has the same concern as the saudis in this case. then what has been called here the sunset clauses.

Work on the nuclear program but iran is a no go. is that a bit odd to you? >> with north korea, north korea has nuclear weapons. there is nothing that you can do about it now. they tried everything. they tried sanctions and so on. and they are looking for all sorts of little bits of hope in that. but kim has completed a small but nuclear weapons program. a nuclear state. iran isnt. and its argument is weve signed all these agreements, were not enriching uranium at the level that it can be weapon...

There are sunset clauses, to maybe go back and enrich uranium but they they committed to never pursue a nuclear deal. and the third thing they complain about is the inspection regime. its the strongest arms control inspection regime ever imposed by a foreign country on a national body in history. >> and we heard james mattis reiterate that iran is complying with that and that u.s. intelligence has con servfirmed. it seemed like macron might have been able to bring trump back from the edge, but n...

They want a really weak deal with weak inspections, sunset clauses and all sorts of loopholes in it. trump wont give them that. is his hand strengthened going into these negotiations by staying in the iran deal or can he come out of this with europe united with him in closing up the loopholes and pushing iran towards that, then he gets strengthened going into the negotiations with north korea. >> bill: the thing i think, tom, for those who voted for the president a year and a half ago when they ...

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...