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Keep spinning enriching uranium. that's a very bad deal. >> reporter: today, the white house fired back pushing the u.s. energy secretary and m.i.t. trained nuclear physicist and top negotiator of the deal to argue israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu was wrong. >> this is not built upon trust. this is built upon hard-nosed requirements in terms of limitations on what they do. >> reporter: the israeli government is now on an all out offensive, distributing to reporters a set of detailed questions about the deal and suggesting areas where it could be strengthened including stopping iran's ...

Would take the opportunity to squash that before the final deal was reached. there's been a happy median here. clearly not everything has been agreed to. looks like iran will continue the research and development program. we'll have to see what kind of limits are placed on that when they have the final details hammered out. again, this is a political frame work. these are political understands. you hear that phrase the devil is in the details. the devil is really in the details. we all know these parties can agree to big concepts and theories. when they sit down at the drafting table to negoti...

Congress is really the elephant in the room here because if there is no deal by tomorrow, they're threatening, as you know, to impose sanctions by the end of the month -- next month. >> that's what i keep wondering about, which is why -- i always hear these end in extensions when they don't end in deals. can you tell me if they're showing their cards as to which of these issues is trickiest? >> reporter: i think there are a couple of very tricky issues. one is the research and development program. iran wants to continue to enrich uranium and do advanced nuclear research. in the end years of th...

And the most intrusive nuclear inspection. this is a map showing how complex some of iranian's nuclear facilities. this is going to be the center of the international inspection program if a deal is struck and also major cause of concern for the u.s. there are so many facilities iran in the past hasn't been open about them that's one of the main points in the p 5 plus one talks. they want iran to come clean about all facilities until the research and development program. >> ayman, thank you so much. joining me gentlemen, thanks for being with me. what are practical implications if the midnight...

There's also a question about what to do about the research and development program by iran and how quickly could sanctions be lifted? we know that iran wants sanctions on oil and other things to be lifted immediately. the president has said it's going to be a slow rollout. that's not going to happen. and so these negotiators have been working around the clock. we know for sure this one thing they're going to work through the night tonight and we'll see what happens tomorrow thomas. >> all right. the clock is ticking. chris jansing at the white house for us. chris, great to see you. thank you....