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. day after meeting with the nation's spy chief, president obama sat down with the lawmakers as he makes new rules on nsa surveillance programs. let's bring in our chief national security expert jim sciuto. what is going on? >> i'm told that an hour is focused on 9 bulk collection of phone metadata. the president has said that there are three other reforms that the president is seriously considering, including making public exactly how many times the nsa queried phone companies. with the decision on nsa reform looming, today the president pet with key members of congress. senator mark udall ...

I'm joined now by jim sciuto. so six months, where do we go from here in terms of the next step in this deal? >> arguably, this is the tougher time. they have had weeks of very difficult talks to get to a temporary agreement, a temporary halt to some of these agreements here. now they're going to -- you look at centrifuges, iran has agreed to add no more centrifuges, now they're going to get to dismantling all of it. they're going to get to the discussions of tearing it down. so in effect, they have hit the pause button. now they're going to have to hit the delete button. >> it was not made be...

President obama now attending a luncheon at the united nations hosted by the u.n. secretary general ban ki moon. there is the picture. many world leaders are at this luncheon. apparently the iranian president, hassan rowhani is not. maybe he will surprise everyone and show up in a little bit. according to iranian officials and others, he did not rsvp to attend. maybe they'll let him in any how if he decides to come. we're all anxious to see if there's going to be some sort of exchange, some sort of encounter between president and the iranian president. president obama says despite potential ro...

Will help iranian people meet their extraordinary potential in commer commerce, in culture, in science and education. >> clearly, jim sciutto, the president is sending an olive branch to the iranians. there hasn't been a meeting between the president of the united states and a president of iran in three decades. >> this would be truly historic. he talked about mutual respect, something that was also in his cairo speech four years ago when he reached out to the muslim wo world. that's the footing they find important. they don't want to be batted around by the american, carrot and stick. they wa...

Gop senator bob corker captured much of the bipartisan disappointment. >> i did not think this was a good moment for our country. >> now as one senior republican congress leader put it to me earlier today, it was shocking to see the president side with putin, but another source close to the white house who's familiar with the president's thinking is that the people around the president are too air frayed air afraid to confront the president. >> pretty shocking indeed. we're following all the reaction to the trump-putin summit here in helsinki and around the world. let's bring in our chief na...