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Own reporting speaking with intelligence officials in the last couple of days the israeli intelligence he reference there had did not change the u.s. assessment and in fact existed a number of weeks ago. if the president is privy to new intelligence that contradicts the already public u.s. threat assessment about iran's nuclear program then he owes the american people an explanation as to what that information is. and the senate armed services committee need to call back the director of national intelligence dan coats and say do you stand by what you said in march, or secretary of state pompeo...

Will be very tough, he's also warning friendly countries, other countries around the world if they get involved and deal with iran's nuclear program, they will be sanctioned as well. do you think that kind of pressure on the iranians could convince them to come back to the negotiating table? >> no. i thif it will end up isolating the united states and are we going to sanction our closest allies, britain and france and germany, which have said they're going to continue to comply with the agreement which means they're not going to reimpose their own sanctions and if we start sanctioning our euro...

Deputy director at the atlantic counsel and anthony cordesman. nice to have you here. your argument is, look, this is a deal that is untenable. >> the iranians have said that they won't be party to any kind of deal. but they also said in the past that they would be unwilling to put limits on their nuclear program. but when they're put under severe international pressure, they show that they were willing to put limits on the program. so the current deal as you point out, the limits all expire over time. and so just continuing with the current deal will leave us in a very bad place, so we need t...

The purpose of renegotiating the deal or getting a better deal is to stop iran's nuclear program, not to let it proceed. so if the trump administration pulls out, they need to have a very comprehensive strategy for what comes next. i haven't seen that yet, but the goal would be to increase the economic political military pressure on iran to get a deal that eliminates this nuclear threat, not just kicks the can down the road a few years, which is what the current deal does. >> tony, how do you think iran will respond to all of this? >> well, it is already said it is going to take strong action,...

Negotiated that deal. finally, i think to the questions by the reporters that were hurled at the president as he went out, how does this make america safer, it is incredibly difficult to try to fathom that sitting from here. all those things that he laid out about the danger of iran, about his regional ambitions about supporting terrorism and the like, how does pulling out of one deal that constrains -- and it does, no matter what the president says -- the deal constrains iran's nuclear program. so how does pulling out of it make you safe while you are trying to deal with all the other thing w...