Reasons. I am looking forward to putting the recommendations on the floor. On the next washington journal, fawn johnson looks at the Highway Trust Fund, set to expire at the end of the month. Paul butler discusses his book, lets get free, which focuses on reforming the criminal justice system. After that, David Osullivan talks about the greek economic crisis and white greek lawmakers approved austerity measures overwhelmingly rejected by the citizens. Plus your phone calls and comments. Washington journal at 7 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan. Coming up, the Arms Control Association hosting a discussion on the iran nuclear agreement. Remarks by Vice President biden on youth activism. After that, the Senate Finance committee holding a hearing on fraud at the healthcare. Gov website. On friday, democrats on the house, energy and Commerce Committee hosted a forum on Climate Change in annapolis. We will have that at 11 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan. This weekend on the cspan networks, politics, books, and american history. Road to the white house coverage features nearly all the president ial candidates and begins in iowa. At 8 00 eastern, we are live from cedar rapids for the hall of fame dinner. Saturday, we are in eames iowa. Sunday, interviews with Lindsey Graham and john kasich. On cspan2s book tv on saturday, we are live from the harlem book fair with talks and panels on economics and race and politics with journalist Pamela Newkirk and more. Then and coulter says the greatest issue facing the u. S. Is immigration. On cspan3, saturday on 1 00 eastern, we have a symposium on modern first ladies. Speakers include cynthia bid dinger and patricia cryder. After 9 00, jay gurslin of the National Archives shows how the army used propaganda in world war ii. Get our complete schedule at cspan. Org. Coming up the Arms Control Association discussion on the iran nuclear agreement. On thursday, john boehner and nancy pelosi talked about the agreement in their weekly briefings. Here is a look. Iran, given everything ive seen so far, this is a bad deal. It paves the way for a nuclear iran. Yesterday, the president admitted it would likely further their support of terror activities throughout the region. It blows my mind the administration would agree to lift the arms and missile lands bans. And sanctions on a territory that supplied weapons to kill americans. President obama says it is this or war. That is a false choice. Sanctions were working. We will continue to review this. We will fight a bad deal that is wrong for National Security and our country. Two days ago, a historic agreement was announced by the p5 1 that is the product of years of negotiation. I have closely examined the document. It will have my strong support. Members are reading the document now. This is the document, plus the annexes. I am proud of the careful attention our members are giving to the document, to the joint comprehensive plan of action. Congratulations to president obama, the leaders of the p5 1 and i want to commend secretary kerry for Exceptional Leadership through to the negotiations. We had very experienced leaders. Senator kerry, a longterm senator with experience on the Foreign Affairs committee, and secretary moneys monice. Everyone knew they were dealing with people of knowledge. The president has been very clear. A nuclear iran is unacceptable to the United States, the world and in particular to israel. This deal in tents of five our vigilance over the nuclear ross s process. President reagan said trust and verify. I would say distrust and verify. Next, the Arms Control Association hosting a panel of government and Security Officials to discuss the challenges of the Iranian Nuclear agreement, including its impact on u. S. Relations with israel and saudi arabia. Good morning everyone. Welcome to the briefing on the nuclear agreement. I am darrell kimmel, director of the Arms Control Association, a Nonpartisan Organization established in 1971 to provide information and solutions to address the threat posed by the worlds most dangerous weapons. We organized todays event to discuss the recently concluded iran nuclear deal, which is among the most complex and consequential of the nuclear age, which began at 70 years ago today with the first atomic bomb detonated in new mexico. This agreement follows over two years of diplomatic machinations , intense negotiations involving seven nations and longtime adversaries. The Arms Control Association has intensely followed irans program and diplomatic efforts to rein it in. We have socked to identify Practical Solutions to address the many different challenges on the issue so that negotiators can arrive at an agreement that prevents a nuclear iran. Our analysis, after looking at the documents, which is over 100 pages, quite substantial, is that it can effectively block irans potential uranium and plutonium pathways and guard against clandestine weapons programs for more than a generation. That is a view shared by a wide variety of security experts. And we believe it will be an effort to stop the spread of Nuclear Weapons for u. S. And regional security. Congress has 60 days to review this complex agreement. We believe every member needs to take a look at the agreement get the answers to their questions, and consider the benefits and alternative. To help contribute to the debate, we have gathered three experts to discuss the agreement and what its impact will be. Will start with the director for nonproliferation policy, kelsey davenport. She has been the author of policy briefs on this issue and has been closely monitoring the talks for more than four years or so. She is still recovering from her latest tour of duty in the anna vienna. Next, we hear from richard matthew, Principal Deputy coordinator at the u. S. Department of state and director for iran on the National Security council staff. He was one of the negotiators until the beginning of this year. He is the Program Director for energy sanctions at the center on Global Energy policy at columbia university. He is a nonresident senior fellow at brookings. And we will hear from elan goldberg Foreign Policy defense expert with extensive experience covering iran. After opening remarks about agreement, we will take your questions. I want to make a final observation before i ask kelsey to talk about Nuclear Elements of the agreement. Like any agreement, this is a product of give and take. It is not perfect. But as a whole, we think it is very strong. It is in many ways stronger than the framework reached in april. It is clear already just a couple days after this was concluded, that many critics believe by rejecting the agreement and increasing sanctions pressure on iran, the u. S. Can somehow convinced the leaders of iran to dismantle its Nuclear Program or agree to better terms. I think the president thinks because we heard him say this, this is a dangerous illusion. There is not a better deal on the horizon. If congress blocks the agreement, there are going to be very tough, negative consequences. We have spoken with european allies. The International Support for sanctions will dissipate. Iran would not be subject to limits on its Nuclear Program. We would lose out on enhanced inspections. The risk of a armed iran would grow. Not inevitable, but it would grow. A lot is at stake. In the coming weeks, we Hope Congress will take a hard look at the agreement and the alternatives. Let me turn it over to kelsey davenport. Then we will move on to our other speakers. Kelsey thank you for being here this morning. I think it is morning. I am not sure what time zone i am in. I will talk about the Nuclear Elements of the deal. While i cannot touch on all 158 pages, during the question and answer, we can certainly explore the areas i did not touch on. From the perspective of the Arms Control Association, this is a strong agreement from a nonproliferation next perspective. It exceeds the expectations of what we thought an agreement would need to achieve to block the pathway to Nuclear Weapons and put in place and intrusive monitoring regime that would ensure quick detection of code are covert activity. It is not perfect, but it needs meets nonproliferation goals and is good for regional security. To get into some of the details, the parameters agreed to in april on uranium, they were strong. From our assessment, with the parameters, it would take iran more than 12 months to produce enough material for a Nuclear Weapon. About 25 kilograms of uranium enriched above 90 . That would be achieved by reducing centrifuges from 19,000 to 6000, of which 5000 will be operating. Their stockpile will be capped at 300 kilograms. What we get from the final deal are a number of details that strengthen the assessment that iran cannot quickly move towards Nuclear Weapons. One of the things that becomes clear in the deal is that all the excess centrifuge machines will be removed. All the infrastructure, the piping and vacuums, will be taken out and stored under seals that feed directly to the agency so we have greater assurance that if iran tried to access the machines, the iaea would immediately know. Iran will be using these machines to replace and repair any broken machines. Iran will not be producing any additional centrifuges unless the stockpile of machines reduces to under 500. The idea that iran will use time to build centrifuges and quickly deploy them later is false. These machines will be counted and inventoried under the deal. Again, these are provisions that add a greater level of confidence. Also, we have more information about the stockpile. Iran agreed to reduce the stockpile of low enriched uranium, to about 3. 67 or reactorgrade from the 10,000 kilograms it has to 300 kilograms. That includes uranium in all forms. Iran will not be able to convert gas into oxide. This is the entire stockpile capped at 300 kilograms. Any scrap material that has been processed enriched to 3. 67 or up to 20 will be turned into fuel plates for the research reactor. Material that cannot be turned into place will be shipped out of the country diluted, or mixed in a form that cannot be enriched further. Additional steps iran will take to ensure that there is not additional material that can be enriched. Their has also been concern about the fact the agreement will leave 1000 centrifuges at a facility that iran will in secret built in secret deep in the mountains. About 350 of the centrifuges will be used for stable isotope production. These machines cannot be transitioned back to uranium enrichment, which leads 600 machines idle. The rest of the centrifuges and infrastructure will be removed. It will be placed under seal at a facility where the 5000 operating centrifuges will continue to produce uranium. They cannot take the machines back, Begin Operating them quickly, and use the facility to produce enriched uranium. Iaea would be able to predict those moves because they will have access on a daily basis to the facility. The facility does not pose a threat for the duration of limitations, 15 years. Very strong on the facility. One of the criticisms that frequently has been leveraged against the deal is what will happen after 10 years. In 10 years iran committed to operate 10,000 of its ir1 centrifuges. It will not go over a cliff in 10 years. The agreement makes clear that the work on advanced centrifuge machine will be limited and phased in in such a way that one day after 10 years, iran cannot deploy hundreds of centrifuges and be weeks away from obtaining the material for a Nuclear Weapon. To look more closely at the r d iran has 1000 advanced centrifuges machines in various states at its production facility. They will have a few months to finish up testing with some of the cascades. Then it will remove nearly all the advanced machines and store them under seal. During the 10 year duration iran will be allowed to operate one ir4 one ir5 and one ir8 machine. They can test uranium that cannot accumulate enriched uranium. We are not going to see a proliferation of advanced centrifuge machine that iran can use. After 8. 5 years, iran will be able to test 30 ir6 and ir8 machines and can produce 200 of each model per year. They will not be producing rotors for these machines. Iran, year 10, when they transition the machines, its capacity will remain relatively stable for the next three years. I am getting to the capacity. That is the measure of efficiency of a centrifuge machine. The capacity of irans 5060 ir1 centrifuges will remain constant as new machines are introduced. If an ir6 has 10 times the capacity of an irs1, if they introduce an ir6, they have to remove 10 ir1s. This ensures we will not see a ramp up in activity. It is important to note we should not view any of the elements in isolation. In addition to the restrictions on the number of machines being produced, irans procurement of materials that can be used for Centrifuge Development will be monitored by the joint Commission Set up through the deal. Any changes iran wants to make to r d will have to be approved by the joint commission. If iran starts to move or move away from the r d plan it will submit to the iaea as part of Additional Protocol, it will become quickly to the joint apparent quickly to the joint commission. One of the questions relates to transparency and verification elements of the deal. This is something the Arms Control Association was very concerned about because of irans Illicit Nuclear activities in the past. We feel be intrusive monitoring regime produced under the agreement will provide the highest degree of confidence iran cannot pursue Nuclear Weapons at its declared facilities or covertly. The first of the declared facilities iran will have to expand its Nuclear Declaration under Additional Protocol which they have agreed to implement and ratify within eight years of the agreement. The Additional Protocol is an agreement between iran and the iaea that expands upon irans comprehensive safeguard agreements, the dumper of declared sites giving inspectors greatest access on short notice. It lays down a number of provisions that allow for Continuous Monitoring across irans fuel supply chain. That is 25 years at the Uranium Mines and mills and 25 years at center fuse production shops and Continuous Monitoring at facilities as well. This means if, iran wanted to pursue Nuclear Weapons, they would need to replicate the entire fuel supply. They would need to find a new source of uranium ore converted to gas and in rich it. These are largescale programs you cannot hide in a basement or warehouse at a military facility. Now, another check against covert Nuclear Weapons programs comes with the increased access granted to inspectors under Additional Protocol. It is clear in the deal that, if concerns arrive about Illicit Nuclear activities, iaea will be permitted managed access to military sites. Managed access means iran can state conditions to protect Sensitive Information but it will ultimately be the iaeas decision on whether conditions are adequate. If they feel they are not adequate, there is an adjudication mechanism in place that will decide if the iaea should be given expanded access. If they cannot come to a decision within 14 days about access, the joint commission, including members of the p5 1 countries and iran, will have seven days to decide on access by a consensus vote. Five of eight members. That means iran, china, and russia together cannot block access. Iran will have an additional three days to comply with recommendations. In total, if iaea wants to access a site, they can only be blocked for 24 days. That may be time for iran to remove equipment but not enough time for iran to eradicate any indication that Illicit Nuclear activity had taken place. That is in part due to the sophisticated environmental sampling the iaea can conduct. These layers demonstrate the strength of the monitoring and verification. It is worth noting that we consider monitoring and verification in this deal by looking at the iaea. But it is not just iaea that will have its eyes on the Nuclear Program. National intelligence of the united days, european countries, and israel will watch iran closely. In short, i think James Clapper said this is as solid a regime you can get. No elements will provide you a 100 guarantee, but together, it provide