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Takes before the sanctions start to be suspended. >> there's already talk of john kerry for the nobel peace prize. ken pollock in an article said kerry will be in line for the nobel peace prize. >> this is still just a frame work. >> assuming you get to something in place. >> this is way more promising than anything i had anticipated. >> james? >> before we give the peace prize to kerry, obama has already got one, you can't give him two. but let's remember that from the first days of his tenure barack obama has said this is the goal. this is the most important thing he's been trying to do. >> ...

On thursday, u.s. officials were saying they were confident that u.s. troops that are already on the ground in iraq in the embassy compound, some of which are going to be retasked with this surveillance mission, they're okay. but that new troops were coming in, u.s. officials said they were confident the iraqis would give them that protection. i asked secretary kerry today do they have that protection, i asked other officials, they said it is still being worked out. still a question to be worked out. they say they're working it actively and believe the iraqis will get. it after all, t the iraq...

Government that is incredibly corrupt as well. so there is a hope that if he steps aside that a better government could be replaced, a more effective government could be created. but, no, people don't think that a new government is going to erase the deep-seeded sectarian problems that this country still has. >> all right, richard engle in baghdad for us. richard, thanks very much. joining me now ken pollock, former cia military analyst. he's currently a senior fellow at the brookings institute. okay, ken, you want it the president to do something. what do you think? >> i think the informati...

Part of a country that they don't want to be part of. the problem was always that we worried that if the kurds declared independence, baghdad would fight them. baghdad is not in a position to fight them. >> so the kurds are out so that means this becomes pure sunni/shia. >> correct. >> this is a regional civil war at this point. >> absolutely. it's syriaque. partition is not what any iraqi wanted and it will be a sad outcome but may be the de facto outcome of this. >> i've seen a lot of the word stability but i've not seen the utterance of democratic iraq. people seem to be on the stability si...

Of iran and you see that live on your screen there we'll bring you any headlines that come out of this pros conference. as we understand it fox is not allowed into the press conference to ask questions but that doesn't mean we won't keep you posted about any headlines that come out of it. we'll watch it from the u.n. as we speak. recap of the last 24 hours. it has been an interesting one. high-level meetings between the united states and iran happened. the first meetings of their kind really since 1979. here we are three decades later. secretary of state john kerry meeting with his counterpart...