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Have it both ways. they're trying to say it's not a treaty. we don't need full approval yet it is going to be binding. that's nonsense. congress made a huge mistake giving away some of their oversight authority. not only do they need anytime, anywhere inspections. they're not giving up their plutonium pathway, not giving up many of the other things that should be part of a good deal, much less saying they're going to cut off support for international terrorism. republicans should tout this administration a bad deal is worse than no deal. we're going to take military options off the table. i th...

Think they were keeping open the path to a bomb? i know you believe the path is now closed with this deal, do you think they were trying to keep the path open? >> certainly we would not be in the situation with the sanctions on iran if there weren't considerable suspicions in the international community about their programs possible military dimensions and of course they have not cooperated with the iaea in terms of answering those questions. but as you said the whole point of the framework today is we believe we have -- or we will have blocked when the agreement is final, both uranium and plu...

Pathway and the plutonium pathway at iraq and of course the covert pathway. now, we, our partners, and iran have agreed that the only uranium enrichment facility iran will operate moving forward will be the facility at natans. even that one will undergo dramatic changes. the vast majority of the centrifuges and their infrastructure will be removed. and for at least the next 15 years, the stockpile will remain at 300 kilograms, and any uranium that is enriched at natans will be capped at 3.67%, which is a typical level of enrichment for civilian nuclear power but doesn't even begin to approach ...

That's another option. what matters to us is less how they get there but how they're able to dispose in the stockpile think cannot use it to get to a nuclear weapon. that's what we're most concerned about and that's what we're focussed on. >> why is it taking so long in these final hours that's either make or break? >> well these issues are incredibly complicated not just on the technical side. the scientific know how and all the pieces on how you enrich uranium and get to a plutonium pathway, it's all complicated and each piece of that there's a thousand decisions to make at a technical and p...

Picture of a bomb, he was referring to 20% enrichment, which the concern was if you get too much of that, you now have sufficient capacity to go ahead and create a nuclear weapon. we're taking that down to zero. we are stopping the advancement of the iraq facility, which would provide additional pathway, plutonium pathway for the development of nuclear weapons. we are going to have daily inspectors in ford rowan na tons. we will have additional inspections in iraq. and as a consequence during this six month period, iran cannot and will not advance its program or add additional stock piles of a...