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To have to stop doing some things. >> what message do you think this is sending to our adversaries right now, these cuts? >> i believe they question whether we will be able to respond. and so they're willing to take maybe a bit more risk than they might have just a few years ago. in my mind we don't have the capacity to deter. what i remind everybody about the reason we have a military is to deter conflict and to prevent wars. and if people believe we're not big enough or capable of responding then they miscalculate. >> reporter: general odierno says he supports a nuclear deal with iran but wa...

Courtroom, the "the washington post" correspondent is fighting allegations he was spying on tehran for the u.s. since she's negotiated with iran's government during her time at the state department and she did so for both republicans and democrats. hilary it's good to have you. you understand how this government works very well. what makes this different is that they're not saying this man is charged with political crimes which is what they usually do. but what makes it the same is that once again it seems iran is doing something that just flies in the face of justice. what's your take? >> wel...

Sanctions on tehran and how soon they might be listed. notion ace they are demanding relief something the united states and other world powers won't agree to. ed henry joining us live with more. >> reporter: good to see you. it's interesting. john kerry is wrapped up this round of negotiations. he will head to europe to try to brief some of our allies about where the talks are ahead of this march 24th deadline to get a deal. we're told he is going to be on the phone with the chinese and russians to try and build support, of course, within the u.n. security council potentially down the road to ...

Nuclear deal with iran. lawmakers are working to keep the pressure on tehran. let's bring in our chief security correspondent jim sciutto. a little complex but critically important. >> no question. you can argue the administration had two very difficult negotiations under way. one with iran over its nuclear program. another with congress to hold off new sanctions on iran while this diplomatic path is open. now, at least those first negotiations are moving forward. the landmark nuclear deal with iran will spring into action on january 20. one week from today, u.n. inspectors will be inside iran...

What we have done in exchange is kept all these sanctions in place, the architecture remains with respect to oil, with respect to finance, with respect to banking. what we've done is we turned the spigot slightly and said here is maximum $7 billion out of the over $100 billion of revenue of theirs frozen as a consequence of our sanctions to give us the time and space to test whether they can move in a direction, a comprehensive, permanent agreement that would give us all assurances that they're not producing nuclear weapons. >> i understand that. a quick question as relates to the 7 billion, i...