Now questions how hard mexico is really trying to recapture him. Ill talk with the candidate rick perry. Im wolf blitzer, youre in the situation room. President obama in a rare form today during a wideranging press conference in which he vigorously tried to sell skeptics on the land maker agreement to contain Irans Nuclear program. He was tough and candid as he spoke at length not only about the deal with iran but about race in america, justice in america, even the rape allegations against the comedian bill cosby. Were also learning new information about the hunt for the leader of isis. Sources now telling cnn a flurry of solid intelligence on his whereabouts has now dried up, leaving the United States scrambling to find new sources of information about his movements, were covering all of that and more with our correspondents and guests including republican president ial candidate, the former Texas Governor rick perry. Lets begin with jim acosta. You were in the east room with the president s news conversation. Update our viewers. President obama came out swinging blasts his opponents, even scolding a reporter he thought was out of line, as he snows said the plan was never designed to solve all the problems with iran, only the big one. Please have a seat. Reporter sounding supremely confident, president obama brushed aside all of the criticisms of his nuclear deal with iran demanding that opponents in congress simply read the agreement. I think that if congress does that then in fact based on the facts the majority of congress should approve of this deal. But we live in washington and politics do intrude. Reporter even though under fire the president relyished the opportunity to ants detractors. I am enjoying this iran debate. Reporter he praised the agreement and the process, dismissing doubts that iran would get away with cheating. Suddenly something is missing on the back end, theyve got some explaining to do. Reporter he insisted is the agreement is more than j. C. PostIrans Nuclear ambitions. Im always hopeful behavior may change for the sake of the iranian people as well as people in the region. Reporter one question did get under his skin. Can you tell the country, sir, while youre content with all the fanfare to lead of strength of this nation unaccounted for in relation to these four americans . The nothing that i am content as i celebrate . With american citizens languishing in iranian jails . Major, that thats nonsense, and you should know better. Ive met with the families of some of those folks. Nobody is content. Reporter the deals biggest kept ink is Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu is blasting the inspection process which could take 24 days to look at suspicious sites. Thats a long time with the loss of evidence down the toilet. Kind of like telling the drug dealer were going to check your meth lab in 24 days. Reporter the president asked his critics, where is their plans . For all the objection from are the leadership that has already spoken none of them have presented to to me or the American People a better alternative. Reporter besides iran the president raised eyebrows when he conceded he wont defeat isis or settle the Syrian Civil War while in office. When pressed whether he would revoke the president ial medal of freedom for bill cosby, the president said he did not have that authority. It was certainly an Interesting Press conference. It certainly was. Elise, theres deep skepticism about trusting iran. Did he answer his critics . I dont think so. The argument the president is making is not answering the argument of the critics. The president s argument is all about the science of the deal. I think the main critics of this deal are not necessarily about the program anymore. I think its about the fact they feel this deal gives the iranians a bigger lajes to do the other nefarious activity. Theyll have a lot of money to spend it on proxies like hezbollah and hamas. They feel while this doesnt necessarily keep the iran yang program in check iran will be much more dangerous particularly to israel. The president also said its not the job of the president of the United States to solve every problem in the middle east. Whats your read on that . I think youll get a lot of raised eye browse because they feel this president created a lot of the problems in the middle east. Dont forget president obama came to office in 2009 blejing to engage the muslim world, to engage the arab world. All that time you saw the arab spring the countries felt the president was slow to answer that particularly in the civil war in syria. They feel he didnt get involved early enough and now you have this bigger problem with syria with isis and now for him to say hes going to leave Office Without solving the Syrian Civil War or the problem with isis i think they always felt a lot of the gulf allies in particular and israel that this president kind of abandoned them. I think those comments will only fuel that criticism. Were also following the hunt for the leader of isis sources telling cnn after promising intelligence a trail has now gone cold. Our pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr is joining us. What are you learning about this effort to locate al baghdadi. Reporter what we know is theres been a stream of intelligence that u. S. Officials have monitored indicating al baghdadi was in and aaron the Northern City of raqqa, the selfdeclared capital of isis. Now, the intelligence was never solid enough timely enough for the u. S. To order in an air strike to try to kill him. Officials are very adamant about that. It was a stream of intelligence that they were following. Then a couple weeks ago, by all accounts according to sources we have talked to the intelligence essentially dried up. Not very surprising these kinds of things usually recess involved around intercept of cell phone conversations, intercepts of electronic conversation. This kind of covered activity comes and goes. You can certain assume they are trying to pick up the trail again. All eyes are on the city of raqqa. Several officials telling us over the last many days and weeks isis is moving around a lot, in and around that city. Isis leadership weapons, personnel, equipment on the move. They were getting pressure from Kurdish Force to the in order, u. S. Air strikes are picking up. This is the play that the u. S. Is looking at around the clock to see what intelligence they can pick up. Barbara thank you. Joining us the republican president ial candidate, the former Texas Governor rick perry, joining us from austin texas. Thanks very much for joining us. An honor to be with you. Youve kale this deal one of the most destructive Foreign Policy decisions in my lifetime. Give us an analysis. More destructive than the vietnam war, for example . Since 1968070 we have worked with a nonproliferation concept. Thats been our policy for decades. This president has turned it on its head 180 degrees in my opinion. Thats why i want this is one of the most destructive policies i have seen. This is truly a major change. The president says it stops virtually all areas, opportunities for iran to develop a Nuclear Weapon. The president and i obviously disagree that you can trust the iranians. This is the country that killed stanch at number of our marines in beirut. This is the country that delivered weapons that killed our soldiers in iraq. This is the country that literally less than 90 days ago we had a naval blockade to keep them from delivers womens to the Houthi Rebels in yemen. Somehow or another this president naively believes theyre going to live up to these agreements. I think b. B. Net n ya brksb. Bibi netanyahu is spot on. The clear challenges to look into those facilities and know what they are doing, all this sends a terrible message to our allies. Again, the president may be the most naive individual in the world to think he can trust the iranians. The president says he doesnt trust the ran yawn. Thats why he las all these other contingencies included precisely because he says he doesnt trust them. Their line now is dont trust, but verify. Ronald reagan used to say trust but verify. He says dont trust, but verify. I think the president believes these safe cards that he says are put in place for the inspector toss go in for instance i mean the idea were going to give them 24 days notice . I mean this was i dont want barack obama i dont want president obama negotiating for me. He gave away the farm before we ever really sat done. I mean we had iran in a very tight position on the sanction side of this. I think we could have brought them to the table with the sanction pressure we had in place. We could have insisted upon the stopping of terrorism being exported out that country, but he takes the position of all he wanted was this nuclear agreement, which my takeaway from that wolf is that the president you that he couldnt get any of these other things and he kept getting narrower and narrower with this agreement to where he got one thing. The good news is the United States senate will have the last say. I hope that senators democrats and republicans, do use some very good thoughtful observations before he agree toe an agreement that could literally put the middle east in great chaos. What would you do governor if you were president of the United States on day one . Assuming this deal goes into effect, what would you do . Well number one, i think were putting the cart before the horse here to say that the deal will get done. I said assuming. Sending the message now that on day one rick perry, if president of the United States would do away with that and clearly put sanctions back into place, put back an ability to be able to squeeze iran . I mean that country wants to be clearly the leader of the middle east. I think the saudis the majoritienance the turks the egyptians, obviously israelis as well thats the making of a coalition along with the United States that put iran in a being of being a Good Neighbor a country that can indeed not be exporting terrorism, that doesnt try to create chaos in that part of the world. I think they missed an extraordinary number with the arab spring a number of opportunities to get iran to be a legitimate decent neighbor. Today they are celebrating in the streets. There are two people happy today. Obviously the leadership in iran and mr. Assad, president assad. 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We just learned a few moments ago your junior senator from texas, ted cruz just entered trump tower in new york for a meeting with donald trump. What do you make of whats going on . Everybody gets to pick with who they hang out with. I have no idea whats going on. Im focused on talking to the American People about the only person that will be standing on the stage that has actually done something about Border Security and i looked the president and said if you dont secure the border texas will along with our ranger recon teams that we had in the river along with our national dar, but saw a 74 become in the apprehensions. If you want to talk about Border Security theres only one individual in this country thats been engaged with it and had some success with it. I know how to do this, wolf. The put the personnel on the ground you have the strategic fencing, the aviation access of assets with quickresponse teams to the activities that are either clearly illegal or suspicious. Thats how you security the border. We just have not had the will in washington, d. C. To do that. I tell people if you want to security the border elect me to the United States and the will will reside in washington, d. C. Donald trump says he has the best ideas on securing the border would build a huge fence and get mexico to pay for it. Your reaction . I know how to secure the border. I think is a wall is a what he calls this. The bottom line is we know how to secure the border and rhetoric will not do it. Action is going to be whats required. You put the personnel on the border. A wow personnel there means nothing. You build a 30foot wall and the 35foot ladder business gets good. The rhetoric is one thing, action and clearly having a plan and having the executive experience of having done this before is i think what the American People will look for. Hes doing well having him at 17 , jeb bush is down at what 13 or so. Could you see donald trump as the republican president ial nominee . I think were a long way from being able to have any faith that a poll is going to hold up between now and into when the primary season is over with. Theres a lot of good men and women that will be standing up and talking about their vision for this country. Mine will be a positive vision about the great opportunities economically. The fact is america is not going to be secure until we have an economy that allows us to bring the resources into this country so we can rebuild our military so we can send a message to allies that america will be strong again and stand up with our allies. Its a long time to the primary. I suspect the poll with his ebb and flow. Do you think hes qualified to be president of the United States . I think there are a lot of people qualified. What about trump . I think the real question is whos the most qualified . At that particular point in time whether its my Life Experiences of having grown up on that farm in texas or having worn the uniform of this country, whether its been the chief executive of the 12th largest economy in the world for the last 14 years, and i think inarguably a record of job crazy that nobody else even gets close to. Thats what the American People are going to look for. Not whether theres a lone list of people who may be qualified. Who is the most qualified. Heres a hypothetical question. If he did get the republican president ial nomination and asked you to be his running mate, would you say yes . I think that is a way premature question to be asking me. Were running for the presidency at this point in time. Lets talk about el chapos escape from prison in mexico. This is the second time hes escaped. He was arrested last year the u. S. Requested to have him extradited. Mexico refused. Whats going on in mexico . You live right there on the border. Its not passing the smell test thats for sure. There are some real challenges with corruption in mexico. We have known that for a long time. This goes right to the hard of why washington, d. C. Must live up to its constitutional requirement to secure the border. The drug trafficking, the transnational gangs. Weve been dealing with this for lots of years here. We see the impact of it and it doesnt just stop in texas. Obviously county attorneys and sheriffs in New Hampshire came up to me last seven and said governor thank you for what you are doing to secure that border. Were being impacted by people coming into this country who are, you know pushing their drugs, committing crimes against our citizens so this entire example of a lack of being able to keep this very, very dangerous man in