and then you have assad apparently waffling on the transparency aspect. this is the great challenge in all of these deals. how do we assure that we will have full transparency? >> well, i think by never testing a proposition, you know where that goes. right? we know where this heads. it heads toward a military confrontation. so the sanctions were always a means to an end to bringing iran to the table. and, again, to imagine down the line that we would be able to go from zero to 60, let's say we're here six months from now and i say, joe, we've got a comprehensive deal. let's do it. you're not going to believe that any more than i would believe. this is a first phase where we have to get in there and test more than we have up to this point. and we always have the option of slapping more sanctions on as the president said, i think, a couple days ago. we would lead the charge in that effort. >> i'll be quiet after this. i promise. and pass it around here. you just talked about if -- if we don't make the deal, if we keep these sanctions in place, that's a march towards war. that's something we've heard from jay carney.