2027488002. You can send an email at cspan. Org. Front page of the wall street times and New York Times obama begins a 60 day campaign to win over skeptics at home and abroad. And Washington Post, obama says nuclear deal scathes off war. President there are two alternatives. Either the issue of Nuclear Weapons are resolved diplomatically through negotiations or its resolved through force through war. Those are the options. Now, youll hear some critics say, we could have negotiated a better deal. What does that mean . I think the suggestion among a lot of the critics that a better deal and acceptable deal would be one in which iran has no Nuclear Capacity peaceful or otherwise. The problem with that position is that there is nobody who thinks that iran would or could ever accept that and the International Community does not take the view that iran cant have a Peaceful Nuclear program. They agree with us that iran cannot have a Nuclear Weapon. Host the New York Times says the president used an eastern formal east room conference to begin an aggressive effort and top advisors of the next 60 days to combat critics in both parties and sell the iran deal to members of congress, public and allies. He sent joe biden to capitol hill. And the newspaper reporting the Vice President will be back up on capitol hill today talking to Senate Democrats. John in jacksonville, florida. What do you make of the president defending this deal . Caller i actually agree with the president making this deal a couple of years ago or id say ten years ago it may have been a bad deal. After these two wars in afghanistan and iraq, the United States position has become weakened. When we took Sadaam Hussein out, they took their own proxy to give america some type of influence through that region. So now iran is the strongest and we have to make a deal and thats exactly what the president has done, hes making a deal. His hand was forced and this was nothing he can do about it because iran has run the region. Host what are you looking for in the future . What are your concerns if any . Caller i dont have any concerns. I really believe that the iranians can be trusted. After all they havent invaded anybodys country and done the same thing the United States has done for years fighting in proxy wars. I think we have no other choice but to trust them i hope that everything will be fine. But its the middle east of the you never know. Host robert, an independent, what are your thoughts . Caller yes. First of all i believe that it is all of this involvement and everybody in the world and around the world about this deal. First of all nobody has more strength than the iranians have and theyre so concerned and theyre so scared that theyre going to going and you know what . They have the bomb. Israel has the bomb. What is done about it . Nothing. Everybody else talking about this. Whats really going to explode about the deal. The republicans will not stop until we go and bomb iran back to ashes back to ancient times. Another civilization like lebanon and syria. That is my comment. All of this should stop and the people of the United States wake up. Host all right, robert. Bob, good morning. Caller good morning, greta. Im calling because i grew up in the fifties and the sixties and i recall the air raid sirens going off and i remember the tensions of the cuban crisis, and this is certainly not a time for political insertions here you know. I am a republican. I do not agree with the president very often, and i dont particularly agree with him right now, however, i do pray that what we are doing is the right thing. However it turns out we have to be america. This is an political thing. And im really kind of sorry that we started off having democrats and republicans on this. This is american. We really have to get this one right. I never want to go through what i went through and the fear of when i grew up. Host bob, are you hopeful . Caller of course im hopeful. Im scared too. I remember how terrifying it was to hear those air raid sirens going off and i remember being in grade school and remembering when the ships were approaching each other and it was a very, very scary thing to think that missiles were aimed at us. When i walked home i was wondering where the fallout shelters were at. And so many people have come to our country since then weve doubled or more in our population and they dont realize what kind of terror it is when youre facing nuclear destruction. Host speaking of history, let me ask you this, the column in the Washington Post, in rig begans footsteps is what he said. Obamas iran strategy parallels the gippers bat on gorbachev. He says when president Ronald Reagan met gorbachev he whispered, i bet the hard lineers in both our countries are bleeding when we shake hands. Regular reagan had a point. It left many of his conservative friends aghast. Reagan had accelerated the moral disarmament of the west by elevating Wishful Thinking to the political philosophy. There is no way of knowing if this will deal to a dramatic transformation in iran. Reagans bet paid off. Obama is making a comparable wager. Bob, would you agree . Caller i would agree. I was just thinking people dont realize how grateful i am of all of these years that we have had of the peace and the lack of this anxiety that occurs during the period, and if we put together something now that can tone down the energy that is starting to build it and i can start to build inside of me. Yes, i do agree. I do hope that we can come to some kind of agreement that will dissipate and have another 40 years of lessening of the anxiety, but i do fear of what was instilled of me when i was young. Thats where im at. Thank you. Host the wall street turnl they disagree. They write. Obamas false iran choice, there was a better alternative to his deal. He never pursued it. Mr. Obama knows theres always been an alternative of concessions because many have suggested it. Its called coercive diplomacy if he had tried it. Take the sanctions regime which finally started to get tough. By 2013 iran had an official inflation rate of some 35 and currency was falling and dollars reserves were estimated to be down to 20 million. He resist those and only took credit for them. Mr. Obama still resist calls to put maximum pressure on iran. As for his full choice of war and diplomacy the truth is war becomes less likely when diplomacy is accompanied by the credible threat of war. He insisted that war was the only bad alternative to his diplomacy. He erased his only red line. Zack, your thoughts. Caller good morning. Ive only heard a little bit about the deal. I havent read the whole document. I dont know if its really available for me. Im kind of concerned about it, i dont know if there is an alternative to, after the five year and eight year part of the deal where they can start to take up arms and they can start to beef up their Missile Defense and missile capabilities without necessarily pursuing Nuclear Weapons, they can beef up their defenses to prepare when the deal is over and start to develop the Nuclear Weapon and be more capable of defending themselves and bring up the amount of money they do have to sponsor terrorism and net netanyahu has a contrast to obama. They should start to beef up their defenses. Host let me share with you because he took on almost all the arguments in his one hour News Conference with reporters. When the reporters then asked about a certain argument he brought it up himself. Heres what he had to say about what happens after the ten years. President lets assume that the deal holds for ten years iran doesnt cheat. Now at the end of ten years, some of the restrictions have been lifted, although remember, others have stayed in place for 15 years. For example they still have to keep their stockpiles at a minimal level for 15 years. The inspections dont go away. Those are still in place. 15, 20 years from now. Their commitment under the nonproliferation treaty does not go away. Thats still in place. The Additional Protocol that they have to sign up for under this deal which requires a more extensive inspection and verification mechanism, that stays in place. So theres no scenario in which a u. S. President is not in a stronger position 12, 13, 15 years from now if fact iran decided they wanted to get a Nuclear Weapon. Host defending this iran deal. Were getting your thoughts on this this morning. Frank, an independent, good morning. Caller thank you for cspan. Yeah, i support the agreement. I have a lot of concerns and theyve all been voiced, the 24 day notification, the not anywhere any time but whenever, but on balance i agree with fundally what the president just said. Were in a stronger position. If you take today or take six months ago, for example, if you remember the discussions that revolved around iran and estimates were three months six months, one year from achieving a Nuclear Weapon. Today theyre now 15 years or more. If iran complies at the end of the period. This agreement is not just a oneoff deal that says once its over everyone keeps their finger crossed. The United States still has a position that iran is not going to achieve a Nuclear Weapon. If they seem to be bent in ten years or 15 years or 20 years on achieving that and the rest of the world still wants them not to, we will be taking other measures. So i think on balance several of these concerns on balance we are better off today. If iran cheats iran is pushing today for Nuclear Weapon well have more insight. This deal makes us stronger in that respect. It doesnt take away any capabilities that we have today. It just adds to them. So i think buying the 10 or 15 years or more makes all the sense in the world. It has to be remembered that this is really more like an arms control or arms limitation agreement and not a general peace treaty so well still be opposing them on other front. In fact well still have sanctions on them for other reasons. So there is still a lot of work to do and we still have to be weary and they are not our friends. But it does make sense to chip away at their capabilities and trying to bring them into this family of nations, et cetera et cetera. Host frank is an independent in alabama. Want to hear from republicans as well. This is what republican Lawmakers Said during and after the News Conference. Representative bradley burn who sits on Armed Services committee. One of my top concernses it ends the u. N. Arms embargo. And Mitch Mcconnell remember, it was supposed to be the point of the talks in the first place. This iran deal will not come close, he says. And then sara marco rubio, republican of florida, he says critics have no plan how to handle the platt differently plan differently. Thank i will give them a choice. Change your behavior, or face the economy. They defended this nuclear deal. Were getting your thoughts on it. Jesse in sacramento, california, a democrat. Hi, jesse. Caller how you doing . Hakem host good morning. Caller all i have to say, when do we become so scared and so paranoid about what other people did. Its easy for people to stand up and say, i listen to whats his name golden boy talk about rubio and they talk about what they would do, well do this. They have never been to war. Ive been to vietnam. You dont know what war is like. I ran with one of the largest standing armies in the world. What are we going to do . Turn it into a parking lot. Iran has more young people, people who want to be free. They want to be able to use their computer without being scared and they want the same things they want. You have these idiots and religious who are suppressing the country. What are we going to do . Walk in there and kill everybody . These golden boys coming up theyre not going to do jack. One of the worst things we did that made us a weaker country was president bush and all his goofs, cheney, all of them lying to the American Public about Sadaam Hussein. That was a fabrication. Host you said you served in vietnam. As you know, secretary of state john kerry did as well. He brought this up during the close of the negotiations. The Washington Post writes about it about how they came to this deal. For 17 days diplomats tried to make a deal. At the end of the piece this morning, by Karen Deyoung wrote this, at 10 30 john kerry was meeting in a suite with the Russian Foreign minister and Foreign Policy chief when they were joined by the iran foreign minister. Staff members were asked to leave the room. A half hour later the diplomats said they resolved all issues. A ban on Missile Technology would last for eight years and u. N. Resolution would continue for at least a decade. By 11 15 he spoke to obama. When all the ministers gathered at the end secretary of state spoke about going to vietnam at the age of 22 and coming home that no young person should ever have to go through that experience unless nations exhausted all possibilities. The diplomats began to applaud. Jesse . Caller maam. Well, maam, all i know is this, we when did we become so afraid . Whatever you do, ive been to desert storm, desert shield, i was working for the army in a civilian capacity. Those people have a different idea. They dont think like we think but theyre people. And a lot of times they have younger people that want freedom. Theyre just along for the ride. They cant do anything about it. We just cant go storming in there, you know. If you look at the graves in arlington you and see all those people that die for what they did because they destabilized the area talk about Saddam Hussein, a lot of things have a domino effect. At least he kept things under control. Host ill leave it there. Jim, youre on the air. Caller this is just more delusional behavior by the Obama Administration. The whole middle east thing, the problem is we have to get rid of the bathists who are the people who are hooked up in syria with Saddam Hussein and withe have the fundamentalists in iran. Theyre not going to be deal honestily honestily honestily. These guys are still going to build a bomb and theyre going to lie. Theyre islamic fundamentalists. This is a house of cards and the emperor has no clothes and were going to have a war because of this. Host your sentiments was echoed by the speaker of the house. The spoke phapbz for the speaker said in defending the deal showed himself to be hopelessly disconnected from reality. Addressing his countrys parliament a few hours before the president spoke left open the possibility of military action against iran. Little more background for you about these negotiations from the Washington Post. They write this, during yesterdays News Conference obama seemed to relish the idea of taking on the critics. Obama was briefed on the progress of the negotiations with iran as often as twice a day and amassed a detailed knowledge of the 109 page agreement and additional 47 page of annexes. He drew on that knowledge to answer criticisms that the deal didnt last long enough and wouldnt prevent the iranians to covertly produce a Nuclear Weapons and didnt go far enough. He seemed eager to address every question saying have we exhausted all the iran questions here . Im enjoying this iran debate. Go ahead. Go ahead. Danielle, an independent, hi, daniel. Caller im calling to support the president and the other power nations that drafted this deal. I think my concern is as an american citizen that the g. O. P. , the Republican Party supported netanyahu. I dont think it would matter what the deal was. And i think what they also dont understand is that this was not only americans this was also crafted by other nations. So it doesnt matter what theyre going to do, the republicans talk about war. President bush was the republican for eight years. Did he go to war . He did not go to war. And iran had the same problem since that time when he was the president. Why didnt they go to war . It doesnt matter what theyre going to do, it doesnt matter they would not have supported the president. They rather support netanyahu than support the president. Host heres the New York Times this morning. U. S. Offers to help israel to bolster defenses yet iran deal leaves ally uneasy. New york times reporting that the United States has promised israel that it would bolster its defense. Some suggested one way to placate israel is how much security assist tense will offer them in coming years. Being negotiated before it expires in 2018. The current agreement which went into effect in 2009 provides for 3 billion a year most of which is used by israel used for hardware. In talks that started long before the Iran Nuclear Deal began to take shape israel requested between 2. 4 billion and 2. 5 billion in ten years. Thats in the New York Times. Some other quick headlines as we continue to get your thoughts on president obama defending the Iran Nuclear Deal. Front page of the journal. Police misconduct is soaring. The price has surged even before the current waves of scrutiny faced over at a time ticks. The ten cities paid out 247 million in