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CSPAN Washington Journal March 30, 2015

Host host very good monday morning to you. Here are the latest headlines in the major newspapers around the country on the Iranian Nuclear negotiations. First on the Washington Post, negotiators race against deadline in iran talks. Wall street journal, today deadline looms is the headline there. The New York Times this morning, iran backs away from key deal detail in nuclear deal. We ask our viewers to weigh in on how big a threat the Iranian Nuclear program is to the United States. Our phone lines are open if you want to start piling in dialing in. We want to turn to justin White House Correspondent for bloomberg news. Good morning to you. Guest thanks so much for having host with the data go before that deadline, how close are we to a breakthrough and what needs to be negotiated in the final hours . Guest i think there were actually some troubling signs overnight for those who want a deal. As you just mentioned, the New York Times reporting that iran is backing away from an agreement a few weeks ago. A deal with russia rather than trying to dilute it, i nice symbolic step if nothing else, for allies to say that this deal is going outside and ran, it will increase the breakout time iran has to build a Nuclear Weapon. Diplomats are not describing that as a dealbreaker itself. The big issue is sanctions, the big Sticking Point throughout the negotiations. Iran obviously wants these sanctions off as quickly and as comprehensive as possible, while the United States and other countries are interested in facing them in as iran takes concrete steps to dismantle part of the program. Iran is under a lot of pressure to start delivering sanctions relief to its people as quickly as possible. They want those things pulled back. The u. S. Wants to see concrete steps. We know that no matter what we wont see anything until june, when the Technical Details of the framework are put out. How quickly they come off after that is the major Sticking Point right now. Host as you mentioned, some concerns in the final days of these negotiations. How hard of a deadline is that march 31 deadline . This is being described as a preliminary deadline for a later june deadline, if you can explain that. Guest sure. The white house has made very clear that this they see this deadline this week as a hard one to have a Firm Political agreement that hits a couple major goals. In terms of needing to lock in at least a yearlong breakout time for a Nuclear Weapon and a needing to lock in at least 10 years of an agreement. This would be some sort of political deal that spans a decade. What the white house and of the negotiating partners have been said is that this agreement that is reach this week needs to have all the Technical Details of what exactly iran will do, how is the tradeoff of certain steps iran will take, the no uncertain a certain amount of fuel out, diluting a certain amount of material in exchange for sanctions those sorts of details are what negotiators hope to iron out going into the summer. In terms of the actual framework of the deal, a needs to happen the next couple days. Justinhost justin sink is a reporter for bloomberg news. What is the white house doing to prepare for a financial announcement potential announcement . Who would be announcing it at the white house . Guest most likely the first word of an agreement would come out of europe. We expect to hear words from them first, and then possibly secretary kerry, who has been involved in the negotiations. But pretty quickly after that we will start to see president obama and top cabinet officials really try to sell this deal. There are many skeptical lawmakers in congress, including some democrats and a big concern for the white house is that congress will pass legislation and even pass it with the vetoproof majority saying that they should be able to review and possibly close down any deal. That is a big concern for the white house. Something we are seeing Administration Officials and the president himself lobby aggressively against in the final days as we get close to a deal. Host we will keep watching in the final two days of the negotiations. Justin sink is with a bloomberg news. We appreciate your time on washington journal understand . I believe if they get up on the first thing they will do is launch it on israel. They have already stated they want to wipe israel off the face of the earth. It is totally unstable and i just cant believe that you have this administration appeasing an enemy like this. Host robert, if no agreement is reached by the tuesday midnight deadline, what would be your recommendation for the United States . Do you think military action should be on the table . Caller definitely. They are an enemy. They have been killing soldiers in iraq. Covertly but that is what has been happening. Cant believe we are even negotiating with this enemy. What is their slogan . Death to america. What part of that doesnt anybody understand . Host imax, jamestown, maryland also on our line for independents. Caller good morning. Brief comment. If iran wants Nuclear Weapons so bad, why dont they simply take them from their neighboring country pakistan instead of going through this show of negotiating . Thats it, thank you. Host gary, before you go, still with us . Caller yes. Host the concern being expressed over a nuclear iran do you think it was a symbol level of similar level of concern over pakistan or north korea . Do you think people are as concerned about those other countries as iran right now . Caller it doesnt seem to become a nice i said we dont understand why the concern is in there for that. I simply dont understand why they the concern isnt there for that. Like i said, if they want atomic bombs is about, dont waste time trying to build it yourself. Host why dont you think the concern is there for other countries, gary . Caller you know, i dont know. I would say it would have something to do with what happened back in 1979, when the iran took the hostages. Host gary in jamestown maryland. David in brooklyn, new york, our line for democrats. Thanks for getting up this morning on washington journal. Caller unlike the last gentlemen, i dont see the concert i am like the last gentlemen, i dont see the concern. It wouldnt exist anymore. I dont know what is going on. Israel has lots of Nuclear Bombs, too. They fire one at israel, the same thing would happen. Iran would be obliterated. Thats my thought. We should be more, you know negotiations, if they do on the ground whatever, they decide to use it, we have got to do what we have to do. Host david, on that to terrence issue deterrence issue you brought up, the issue recently in Foreign Policy magazine. On the one incomes and some National Security experts argue that a nuclear iran would be contained by Nuclear Forces the United States and israel poised to deliver death blows within minutes of our first strike. In other words, any Nuclear Action by iran would be suicidal. On the other hand, many observers worry that a nuclear iran could take a role to a proliferation tipping point. Iran getting the ball might trigger an arms race in the region. And with each new player in the nuclear game, risks announced that weapons will fall into the wrong hands. If you want to read that piece the headline is nuclear iran a threat or a distraction in Foreign Policy. Lydia, Upper Marlboro, maryland, line for democrats. Caller good morning. The question is ridiculous. Iran is no Nuclear Threat to the United States. Iran is the most stable country in the middle east, have the most highly educated population in the middle east. Iran is not suicidal. They would never this braggadocio about the destruction of israel is just talk. I dont know why we would take this seriously. If people keep harping on 1979, when they took our hostages, go back to 1953. Google on the history channel, when the cia overthrew mossa degh, the duly directed duly elected leader of iran, and install the shah, and torture and thousands of iranians disappeared until they overthrew him. People want to act like our relationship with iran started in 1979. They have reason to hate us. They would never use Nuclear Weapons. The whole question is ridiculous. Thank you. Host lydia in Upper Marlboro maryland. Several members of the administration and congress were on sunday shows yesterday talking about the potential deal that could be in the works with iran over limits to their Nuclear Program. One of those white house officials was white house spokesman josh earnest and he was what he had to say expressing his optimism that a deal could be reached. Josh[video clip] josh earnest it is time for the iranians to send a clear signal to the International Community whether they are willing and living up to their rhetoric to not acquire a Nuclear Weapon. They should be able to do that by the end of march. Host that was white house spokesman josh earnest yesterday. Also appearing on state of the union was House Speaker john boehner expressing his doubts about the possibility that an agreement could be reached. Here is a bit of his comments. [video clip] representative boehner well, lets see if there is an agreement. I had serious doubts over the last year that there could be an agreement i still have doubts. We have a regime that has never quite kept their word about anything. I dont understand why we would think an agreement with a group of people who in my opinion have no intention of keeping their word. Dana bash if there is no agreement, how quickly would you move to further sanctions against iran in the house . Representative boehner very. Very quickly. Listen, the sections were working. They would have never come to the table frankly, we should have kept of the sanctions in place so we could of got into a real agreement. The sections are going to come and they are going to come quick. Host House Speaker john boehner yesterday. We want to hear from our viewers on washington journal, how big a threat is nuclear iran to the United States . A few comments have been made already, one from randian on facebook. Considering that iran just blew up a mock u. S. Navy carrier, i would say that threat is pretty big. Below that margie writes, i think there is concern but it is england out of proportion. Being blown out of proportion. It is huge. Anyone who says none has never stepped on foreign soil. You can send us a tweet as well. Brendan is in petersburg, virginia, line for democrats. Brenda, how big a threat is nuclear iran . Caller not at all. Host why is that . Caller israel has Nuclear Bombs, saudi arabia has Nuclear Bombs, United States has Nuclear Bombs. Nobody has ever done it. The atomic bomb the United States is the only nation in the world whoever set off an atomic bomb on the rest of the world. Now, if israel got Nuclear Bombs and atomic bombs saudi arabia got all of them remember, all the terrorists are coming from saudi arabia, not from iran, iraq, and everything. They are all coming from saudi arabia. Saudi arabia is our ally. All the bombers of 9 11, they were from saudi arabia. Im trying to think of his name Saddam Hussein is from saudi arabia. Lets focus our attention on where it needs to be, and that is the United States interfering in the whole world. Host minnesota, line for independents. Good morning. Caller yes hi. I would like to comment. I sort of agree with the previous callers that we are making a mistake in trying to tell americans that iran is a big problem, atomic problem for us. No as we can see from the past 37 years, iran is a very welleducated country. Even the sanctions that are on the a not quite working because all we have to do is look around. Please lets not make the same mistake as we just did 12 years ago in iraq, as we just did three years ago with libya and p arab spring. It is just continuously costing us money money, and there are no results. We never change anything. We need to look very, very hard on our diplomacy. Thank you. Host john is in akron, ohio, line for democrats. Caller thank you for taking my call. My comment is that i believe iran is no Nuclear Threat to the United States, nor ever will be. I am also convinced that they have convinced the American People that they are just as the republicans bush, cheney, and rumsfeld convinced the American People that iran and nuclear not nuclear, but weapons of mass destruction. I believe probably it is about oil. If the sanctions were lifted, the only commodity that iran provides is oil. It would drive the price of oil further down and we can get well companys profits. Host that is john in akron ohio. Just to be clear about which countries in the world have confirmed nuclear stockpiles, the place to go for that is cnn has a world map, Nuclear Weapons whowho has what . Is the name of that. The most recent tests that have been confirmed, total tests and estimated warheads the United States russia, united kingdom, france, china, india pakistan, north korea, israel, and iran all listed on that. If you want to click through the Different Countries to learn about the Nuclear Weapons stockpiles and the latest information on that. Frank is in the beaker kansas line for independent topeka, kansas, line for independents. Caller good morning. Thank you for having me on. I agree with that lady that the iranians are pretty savvy. They are not dumb. If they were to launch any kind of Nuclear Weapon toward israel or anybody else, they would be suicidal. I agree with that. There must be some kind of negotiation. It is ridiculous. Otherwise, if they start the suicidal thing, if they choose that, it may be the end of the world. Who knows . And then the isis are claiming that the end of the world is coming soon and if we want to do that, we will destroy each other. I think they are smarter than to do Something Like launch a weapon toward his israel or anybody else. Thank you. Host a few tweets on this topic as we have been talking this morning on washington journal. Why should i rent trust the marking government . Iran is no threat to us. Theyre just being used as the ussr was during the cold war and excuse to waste money on military spending. Our legislative branches the biggest threat to the u. S. They want to torpedo negotiations without a backup plan, just like the Affordable Care act. In terms of what members of congress are pursuing, that explored in the wall street journal piece on this topic. Senate lawmakers have presented to bills that mr. Obama has vowed to veto. Senator bob corker, chairman of the Senate Foreign relations committee, has proposed legislation that gives congress the ability to improve, and end, or reject an agreement with iran. A second go wood a second bill would impose escalating new sanctions on iran starting in july if no grecian is reached. The white house and suggested that it could support of the bill proposed by senator proper boxer of california, which would require the administration to certify iran was abiding by any agreement. Some of the latest from members of congress. Another member of congress on the sunday shows yesterday was senator richard burr, republican of north carolina. He is also the chairman of the Senate Intelligence committee and he was on face the nation and talked about his believe that the u. S. May be making the wrong deal with iran. [video clip] senator burr it doesnt seem to be headed in the right direction, and with a deadline of tuesday, im concerned about what we might give away. The iranians dont seem to want to conclude this. More importantly, when we see isil in 12 Different Countries around the world, iran in about Nine Countries financially or physically, i think now is the time to push back and ask ourselves, is it really time to trust the people we are negotiating with, the iranians . I would encourage the administration, lets take more time. Lets not hasten to a deal. I fear that secretary kerry believes he has got to get a deal by tuesday. Bob schieffer what you are saying is that you would be one of the ones favoring postponing a deadline and keep working . Senator burr well, listen, i think that is better than a bad deal, and i have a really bad feeling about what they might come with. Host here is a few newspapers from around the world talking about these iranian negotiations. Here is the daily star from lebanon. Iran holds firm on key demand as Nuclear Deadline approaches. One of the larger newspapers in israel. Israel reduced to heckling iran pact from afar. 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