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Hill where the House Foreign Affairs committee is about to hear from secretary of state john kerry, jack lew, and earnest muniz. Last week the three secretaries were grilled before a senate committee. Libby casey is live on capitol hill. Libby, good morning, last weeks hearing did get testy at least at times. Are we expecting the same today . Stephanie we certainly are. The House Republicans intend to go over their own set of questions, and well hear tough questions from democrats too. It wasnt just last weeks hearings where senators used words like you have been bamboozled and fleeced. The rh...

To take out the facilities and who has actually deployed that weapon, but iran has already mastered the fuel cycle. They have mastered the ability to produce significant stockpiles of fissile material and you cant bomb away that knowledge any more than you can sanction it away. I was chair of the committee when we a lot of us joined together and put most of the iran sanctions in place, and i know well as you do that the whole point was to bring iran to the negotiating table. Even the toughest sanctions previously did not stop irans program from growing from 1 163 to 300 to 5,000 to more than 1...

Ultimately, yes. Ultimately they are the iran sanctions act itself. There is the lifting of sanctions. Ultimately they would have to vote. If we dont do that pursuant to the agreement are there any penalties on our part . We would have broken it, and all bets are off. Can a future president choose to abide by the president . Absolutely. A future president can but its our adjustment if this agreement is fully implemented and its working well no future president is going too choose to do that because of the implications. If this is working its achieving our goal of not having a weapon in iran. T...

The iaea contradicted that and said while its true with some of the larger scale operations some things such as manufacturing uranium components and triggers could be covered up in the 24 days. Im trying to get a clear answer on this issue because i think its one of the key components when trying to look at this in an intellectually honest way to see if we have a verifiable deal. Ive spoken with mr. Hinanen. Hes up the river at harvard these days, but the issue i want to emphasize and what ive always said is that work with Nuclear Materials we have very very high confidence in terms of finding...

Come to order. I want to thank the witnesses for being here today. And we look forward to a fulsome hearing. I want to thank those, also in attendance. I know there was a little bit of an outbreak prior to us convene convening. We thank you for being here. We do hope youll respect that now the meetings in order. Outbursts of any kind are unwarranted and will respect the democratic process that is taking place here. So, again, we thank you for beg being here. We also thank you for your courtesy as we move ahead. I know the witnesses have agreed to be here as long as we wish. So well start with ...