Matters. We send out to obtain those records. There was a lot of stonewalling. We obtained many records, but it was incomplete. We went on to the supreme court. We continued to look for those records on the Cheney Energy task force. It is a great example of how we fight for records, and we try to do our part to make them public. Host we welcome our listeners, listening coast to coast. We are also caps on xm every morning. We have chris fail for judicial pharrell fors judicial watch. This thing with hillary is a made up thing. Was goingknew hillary to run and be the front for the democrats. When she was going to that thing, in congress, they posted a video of her saying, what does it matter. It was a video from a fox news station. I knew then and unfair they were going to hang hillary, no matter what. They were going to take into her past. They were going to dig, dig, dig and make her talk, talk, talk and make her sound 30. Sound dirty. The outsidetries on are looking at this country and saying how stupid our congress is. Thank you, i am sorry. Host thank you, grace. Her she is valid for she is allowed to have her opinion. Tom is up next. They were charged with destroying evidence and it was a big thing. Hillary clinton was asked to turn over her server. Over, butally turned it was wiped clean. She destroyed evidence. I think that is what the fbi is investigating, the status of that server. They are forensically looking at it. These are all open questions. Two orhat are your top three questions personally . Many requestsd concerning everything relating to any number of topics during the term she was the secretary of state. The subject matter of our four year requests, regard for what went on with the server. Host typically, how long does it take to receive the information . Isst the government supposed to answer within 20 days. There is an appeal process that can be exhausted in order to have the claim in court to be right. You have to exhaust all of your administrative uses. Then, you can go to court and say, we tried the best we can. Then in court, you are asking a why aredistrict court you not producing these records . That is sort of the pattern of what we see. I mentioned earlier, we made requests. Rest 3400 of all of these, our experience has been, unfortunately, that we very often have to file a lawsuit in order to get the attention of the government and compel them to actually answer and start producing the records. It is unfortunate, but it is a fact. Host a few more minutes. Harry is next. He is joining us on the independent line. Caller i have a few comments. The words are very prejudicial. I amthe word outlaw looking at my list here. Is proven to doing anything wrong. The private server, everyone knew where those emails came from. The state department knew. Im trying to read out of my hand here. They are innocent until proven guilty. There is no guilt proven against her. Host thank you for your call, harry. It has been established as outside of the law. She conducted her official business on a server outside of the official state Department Communications systems, outside the law. It is outside the law and the regulation of policy. Law of the land. If you are doing Something Like that, it is unlawful. I use the word grave because that is the language and wording in United States law with respect to the classification of material. If you reallys topsecret information, or inappropriately handled, or jeopardized, the cause grave it will damage. I agree with the color. You are innocent until proven guilty. Hillary clinton has admitted that she set up the server and ran it offline outside the state department. No one contested that the server exists. Some of her screams were deleted. Others were produced. Wereome of her screens deleted and others were produced. These are facts. The issue now is, regarding the security. I investigated these things and in my opinion, it is a reckless act. It is a dangerous situation. Their are older abilities outside intelligence agencies that would love that information. Host i would like to go to your earlier point. Wendy think this will reach culmination question point when will this reach culmination . Are going to attempt to reconstruct what was supposedly destroyed. They have interviews to conduct. This will take weeks, if not months. Farrell was aher researcher. Thank you for being with us. On the next Washington State legislatures have a role in the process of amending the constitution. We look at how themes like economic populism are playing out in the president ial race. And, we have at the local the look of the impact the big game has. Err joins us. We can also get your reaction on face took on facebook and twitter. Julian bond, a leading figure in the Civil Rights Movement in a chair on the and sub naacp died last night. He has a long career in politics and with a cofounder of the southern poverty law center. In a 2011 interview, he was esked about the state of rac in the United States. You have been involved in the Civil Rights Movement for your entire life. What is it like to have a black man elected to the president of the United States. Together, with a joke upstairs. A black man gets the worst job in the United States. [laughter] have means the work we been doing for all these years has paid off. It does not mean the work is over. There is more to be done. Nobody could believe that barack obama could not be the president of the United States, had it not been for the naacp. The work done by these people and these groups over the years. It was like vindication that all of this labor has been worthwhile. Were happy to do it and see the results. In spoke at a convention 1999, the Centennial Convention . Is that right . 2009. My wife is here in the front row. She has many wonderful purposes. [laughter] one of them is correcting me. Im glad she did that because i could not have gotten it right either. He spoke at the convention in 2009. We were so happy to see him. He spoke to us as senator obama. He spoke to us as candidate obama, running for the presidency. To have them come to us as president was a great victory for all of us. When he was first running, and even after he was nominated, there were civil rights veterans , who seemed to be resentful. Noticularly because he had lived the black experience. Jesse jackson was the most it, inntly unhappy about that respect. Is that important . It is important to note. It is important to note that reverend jackson became a strong supporter. For himbe campaigning again when he announces his formal campaign for reelection. Many of those people who felt that way, i felt that he made a wonderful president. We have this great state senator and he will be president someday. He is a u. S. Senator now, he will be president one day. I said, oh sure. Then, he won in iowa. And for me, that was it. If you can win in the whitest of states, he can become president of the United States. I became a convert them. I did not not support them because i didnt like him, but i did not think it was possible. He proved to me that he could win and i was happy to support him then. Africanamericans in the United States are still disproportionately suffering. You have worked so hard to correct this, and in many ways, you have succeeded. Fort harder now to argue affirmative action, to our gear argue for to issues of that time . It is a little bit harder. Having elected lack and. All of these problems have insult. The remedies that solve these problems are no longer needed. The fact that a black man is in does not meane there is a wonderful place where everything where everything is happy. Many people do believe. Obama issued a Statement Today saying in part, michelle and i have benefited from his example, his counsel, and his friendship. We offer our prayers and sympathies to his wife, pamela and his children. Julian bond helped change this country for the better. What better way to reremembered than that to be remembered than that. With the senate in his august feature programs on cspan2, starting at 8 00 a. M. Eastern. We are lifegust 22, from jackson, mississippi for the inaugural mississippi book festival beginning at 11 30 eastern. He discussion involves harper lee, civil rights, and the civil rights ordinance. Followed on sunday with the live indepth program with former second lady and a senior fellow at the American Enterprise institute, lynne cheney. On cspan2, television for serious readers. Obama Administration Officials discuss the Iran Nuclear Agreement and the nationalations on the on the International Community. This is one hour and 15 minutes. We have a somewhat unusual ,ormat this afternoon because in a city where this issue has been filled with debate, what we are attempting to do is bring you three of the experts who helped draft and negotiate the agreements. He will give you the opportunity to ask the most challenging questions you can. Let me emphasize the word question. If you look around, you will see that this is probably one of the worst formats to make a long speech in lieu of the question imaginable. I used to tell my students when i was teaching that if you could not ask a question well in three sentences, you not only should not get a degree, you probably should not get a job. [laughter] beyond that, i do not want to put any limit at all. The issue here is, you have three leading experts colin kahl, who has a very wide background in the middle east, within the background of teaching. Wolfstal, who is here. Role inlayed a key control and the National Security council. You have Chris Backemeyer who has the enviable job of being the coordinator for the sanctions committee. Bym going to basically start asking a few questions and give you the opportunity to formulate the questions you would like to ask. I know a few of you and i do not bite any means by any means know all of you. I will call on you by roe and position. Do, i would appreciate it if you could give me your name and affiliation. Then, just move on to the question. Let me begin. Amid begin by asking you two questions about the way this debate has unfolded. The problems it has not addressed. It has focused on the idea that you can bind the future. , 15, or many years in advance. Rather than start and arms control process. You have to renegotiate and adapt with time. What is the capability to do that . The most damaging aspects of this debate is the focus on how quickly you can get one crude gun device that you have material, in terms of rather than how it will affect irans ability to develop a nuclear force. And i willn there start looking around for those with questions. Colin thanks to all of you for coming on a lovely day. Much, and thank you all for having us here. To talk about this important issue. Let me put one up biographical clarification. I was not one of the poor souls, like chris, lived in vienna for weeks and months at a time, and other places, negotiating the deal on the front lines. Had theike john and i harder task of negotiating the deal back here in washington. I just wanted to make that clear. Kerry, andsecretary Wendy Sherman and others, and people like chris, deserve all of the credit for the very strong agreement. Asking whether this is the final, whether this is the period at the end of the sentence, as it relates to this issue, the final longterm answer to all the controversies with iran, it is not. The agreement itself is in place a series of very important longstanding commitments for iran that we believe will give the International Community confidence. Put significant constraints on them for the next 1015 years and puts permanent restraints on the heavy water reactor. It puts permanent obligations on iran as it relates to Intrusive Inspections and generational obligations. Theirncludes plutonium and uranium resources. It is true that there are inadequately inevitably going to be issues and parts of the deal. Even a document that is more than 100 pages long, and a precise, there will be disputes and disagreements. People will find ambiguities. One of the good innovations is that there is a mechanism for addressing that in the form of the joint commission. That is basically modeled after the joint commission we had with the existing interim nuclear agreement, jpoa. There is a mechanism for working through those issues for toplevel give you a very brief example. There was an existing nuclear agreement, regarding the introduction of gas and the centrifuge. Whether this was a violation or not. The text of the jpoa was unclear. But what the iaea pointed out, we raised a strong objection to that and said it was inconsistent with their obligations under the jpoa. The rest of the p5 plus one agreed with us and iran stop. That was the of something that was not completely settled in the jpoa that got put back in the box. There will undoubtedly be things like that moving forward. There will be issues outside the four corners of the deal. The reality is, this deal was never intended to solve every orblem we have with iran, every problem we have in the middle east. There will continue to be conflicts of interest, in some places, animosity. Places,ther opportunities for constructive engagement. It does not address these at all because it is a nuclear deal. Undoubtedly, we will have to address those issues and we are committed to doing so. The only thing i would say on the second question, which is the deal focuses on what you un typethe rush to one gyn device. Who have of you followed this less technically, re have been a watch of there have been a lot of problems on the notion of a breakout. The math of time it would take for iran to produce reversed of nuclear material. Bepacit capacity would the fastest route. If the Supreme Leader decided , itrrow when he woke up would take 6090 days for them to develop the first bombs wi orth of material. For the next decade or more, the breakout timeline cushion will be at least a year. Beyond the 10th year of the deal, we expect the breakout timeline to be meaningfully greater than it is today. It is here that there are other aspects of designing a weapon. This because you have nuclear fuel does not mean you have a d that canted warhea fit on top of the missile. There are a lot of other types of research and work that must go into that. Would the issues is that for the first time, it locks i ran into a series of commitments. Y consequentially, they have a 15 year ban on doing research. That is hugely important if they were ever going to design a Nuclear Warhead. It also includes use of highspeed cameras, work on certain types of trigger devices, etc. Many of which are activities iran engaged in during the past. Thisare forbidden, in deal, from doing so forever. It is true that this deal does not address specifically, the very large arsenal of Ballistic Missiles that iran has. They have the largest number of short range Ballistic Missiles of any country in the region. With this deal does address is the problem of putting a Nuclear Warhead on that missile. The missile issue itself, will continue to be something that we are going to have to work through. We have eight more years of restrictions. We have other international agreements. We have Ballistic Missile defense. Work that we are doing on our own and our partners, that is a particular issue we are committed to getting after. It is one of those that falls outside the four corners of the deal because these could be weapon, vehicles for a in fear he, they are central to their conventional deterrent. Relationshipuclear , but they are not solely a Nuclear Related activity. I do not know if chris or jon wanted to continue with that before we move on . Up so far . Scrwewed anthony i think, this man in the third row. I support the agreement. I have several concerns. I do not see that the white house, at this stage, as anything but a ad hoc strategy to support the deal. I want to do with plans for doing that between september 17 when the congress votes, but more importantly, what is the longterm strategy for the region that will support this deal. Where in the case it fails,will stop it . What structure will we produce for the longterm . Both great questions. On the day of the deal, we had a 30 paved rollout strategy. Thatve been building on document ever sense. We are doing a lot of Public Outreach. The public the president has done more on this topic than any other issue in memory. Testimony, and all of us, from the president to the Vice President , secretary of state, and all of us minions below that, are basically i spent my day every day, on the phone with members of congress. There is no question that it may appear ad hoc on the outside. I think we have a plan and it is circumstances and sentiments are adapting. We are pretty focused on this, even though it is august. In terms of the longterm strategy in the region, i think you can think of it in terms of different buckets. This deal is about the nuclear issue. Putting that issue aside, for a moment, we still have a lot of challenges in the region. Some are related to iran and its lebanon,ng needs in yemen, and elsewhere. We also have a number of other challenges in the region that includes the socalled islamic state, which we are confronting in iraq and serial with a collation of and syria with a coalition of countries. Going to of he was the leaders of the gulf countries come to camp david to have precisely this number station. I used to run the middle east office at the pentagon. The fact that we are working closely with the gulf states to build up what we call the Regional Security architecture is not new. The president did feel it was time to reenergizes some aspects of that. Of the work some that we have done with the gulf states to address some of their specific concerns as they relate to iran. The gulf states already have an extraordinary quan