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Nuclear deal with iran. lawmakers are working to keep the pressure on tehran. lets bring in our chief security correspondent jim sciutto. a little complex but critically important. >> no question. you can argue the administration had two very difficult negotiations under way. one with iran over its nuclear program. another with congress to hold off new sanctions on iran while this diplomatic path is open. now, at least those first negotiations are moving forward. the landmark nuclear deal with i...

Uranium enrichment. the best the state department can say is, oh, but they will foreswear enriching to weapons grade or continuing a nuclear weapons program. its a reason why this is a wretched deal. the iranians are continuing their nuclear program, weaponization, the ballistic missile program. the concessions were superficial and easily reversible. they achieved one of the critical objectives which is getting a weakening of the international sanctions. >> i wonder if you think this will play o...

>> reverse psychy. might work. >> nuclear scientist seems to me its at least worth three draft choices. >> you may hate me for this. im a practice catholic christian who would love to see the release of this pass to. however, i think if youre going to negotiate with terrorists like iran, you keep it on the issues. you keep the financial pressure on them. let them come to the bargaining table with concrete options to reduce their nuclear weapons or weapons grade material and stop playing aaround ...

Experiment. >> reverse psychy. might work. >> nuclear scientist seems to me its at least worth three draft choices. >> you may hate me for this. im a practice catholic christian who would love to see the release of this pass to. however, i think if youre going to negotiate with terrorists like iran, you keep it on the issues. you keep the financial pressure on them. let them come to the bargaining table with concrete options to reduce their nuclear weapons or weapons grade material and stop play...

Talking about. >> i will agree with you, michelle. i think you know what you are talking about. bob is offbase on the 20% enrich uranium, which is weapons grade and they still have and not going get rid of that. john, your call. >> six months, and the iranians are proclaiming how the deal still allows them to enrich uranium to michelles point. this emboldens them and legitimizes them. president is quick to use force. sanks, if you will against americans. for not signing up for obamacare but so h...

Site at any time inspectors want. >> reporter: perhaps the major reason for a nuclear agreement with iran, the latest u.s. intelligence assessment. within nine months, iran could have enough weapons grade fuel to make a bomb. >> we used to have a timeline of about a year, year and a half to actual development and deployment. i think thats probably been tightened up as a result of the amount of enriched fuel that they have now. >> reporter: enrichment facilities and other site also now be inspect...

Enrich uranium, period. fair? >> having an alternate route, that has to be shut down. on the second, it may well be if there is an agreement, the iranians will have a right to low level enrichment and not anything that is approaching weapons grade. the agreement is going to be sometime in that and somewhere in that area. the united states is going to have to have daily inspections that is given to them by the interim deal and iron clad assurances that were well short of a nuclear weapon. there i...

Theyll be able oo continue to do so, which is not what the u.n. called for. >> it begs a question. i want to make sure i get it in before you have to leave. is it an admission by iran, then, about its program. it seems vague. >> say it one last time. >> is it an admission by iran about its intentions? it seems vague. >> they certainly have always had, you know, the centrifuges spinning. and they have been enriching up to 20%. the one thing they have agreed as part of the deal is 20% of the urani...

Sealed this deal. senior obama administration official says that u.s. has been meeting privately with iranian officials since president eye san ranee has been president. >> reporter: in geneva, a historic deal is struck. >> for the first time in nearly a decade, we have halted the progress of the iranian nuclear program. and keep parts of the program will be rolled back. >> reporter: designed to block iran from ever building a nuclear weapon. >> these are substantial resolutions that will keep i...

Centrifuges without more to take 3.5% uranium to 90% in a matter of months. if all we have done is left in place what theyve got and it has not been rolled back you have the capability to enrich to weapons grade. and the question is should they be allowed to enrich given their behavior at all. >> very quickly, the president made an appeal to congress, dont imnews additional sanctions during this interim agreement. that will undermine the whole thing. are you ready to heed his advice? >> i think ...