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Earlier talking about this as well. was it ever assumed by the state department, was it ever assumed by u.s. negotiators, that the iranians had accepted this as one of the -- one of the parts of the deals that they would agree to if everything else fell in line? >> reporter: no, joe, that wasn't assumed. there are a couple different ways iran can get rid of that stack pile. and this is the key part of pushing their year to a year breakout time. one way they can do that is ship that overseas and another way they can do it is diluting it inside the country as they've been doing under the joint p...

Sanctions might be the best direction to take in the wake of a deal that does not come together. >> let's go to switzerland right now where nbc news chief foreign affairs correspondent, andrea mitchell is with us. andrea let's play game here. we're doing to start around the set of "morning joe." why is joe wrong? i think the president is desperate for a deal and will take whatever he can get. but it's not looking that way this morning. is it possible that both sides at the end of the day walk away from table with nothing? >> reporter: it is very possible that they walk away perhaps not with no...

The blame on us and it's funny, hearing mary harf say the ball is in the iranian's court because that's exactly the rhetoric coming out of iran here. i think both sides are setting themselves up for a fall to blame the other side if this wasn't going to work. there's no doubt that the iranians want this deal to go through. they've invested a lot of political will in this. but it's not going to be so bad for them if it falls through because they are in a somewhat of a position to say, look it was the other person's fault. we made the biggest efforts we could. as for the stockpiles of enriched u...

>> yeah. and if we don't get a deal and if we take military action in any form against iran we lose. >> yes. >> that pro-western sector of the iranian society. i wanted to ask bob. you've spent a lot of time with the president. if we get to midnight in switzerland tomorrow night and there is no deal how do the white house handle it? >> they can push it down the road a couple more months if, you know -- look there are some assumptions in all of this that i think get us off the trail here. and that is that the iranians don't like sanctions because they're hurting them which is true but, as joe w...

Because isn't the practical deadline really mid april when congress comes back into session and gets ready to vote on legislation that you guys think will blow up the talks? >> well, i do think that the president has been very clear as said secretary kerry, the end of march is a real deadline and the choices the iranians don't have to make don't get any easier the longer they wait. we have been very clear we're not going to take a bad deal and we don't know if we will get there in the next 24 hours. we believe congress should not act while we negotiate. we should let the negotiator s do their ...