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Agreements from last century. this is different in that this requires other countries to come up to our standards. what labor is concerned about, our labor standards, nafta, they were not inside the trade agreement and they were side agreements, and we have 150 guidelines required to be in any trade agreement to bring other countries up to american standards and if they don't meet the standards we have ways of getting our disputes resolved so we can hold them to account. the key thing is are these countries that we want to trade with going to open our markets to other products like we are open...

Successfully tested three suicide combat drones. demand december, iran's army successfully launched coast-based missiles, systems iran claims are its most advanced in at least the past decade. john, we're doing a deal with them, and they're doing that. >> i know. i think that john kerry has a mission here which is to get this deal done by march 24th no matter what, because he believes, and i know john kerry, i've known him for 35 years, i wouldn't trust him as far as i can throw him. >> really? >> he's done a similar deal with vietnam, where there were secret side agreements there was inspecti...

Skeptical, but they still view this as sort of steps forward, as baby steps forward, if you will, in that relationship. >> andrea, what are we looking at today? >> well, of course, as today, they get together for the major sessions of the summit. and they will be talking about the agreements, the statement from the summit to try to bring down the spread of nuclear weapons and, again, the spread of nuclear material. this is really building on what sam nunn and dick ruker did over the course of decades to try to control weapons from the former soviet union. you know, just getting the rest of the...

President tweeted out this morning he would be watching. was that to the president there or to the congress? >> yeah, he's talking to the president. here's what is going on. the e3 partners, the france, uk and germany have been working for months since the president signaled i'm dropping this like a hot potato, working to come up with side agreements. but if you're marketing with president trump, you're not going to call it a side agreement. so take note of the wording. new deal. okay? it makes it sound like it's being scrapped and replaced with something much stronger. but these are the same ...

Pompeo and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. i want to take you now to nbc's geoff bennett, live at the white house. president trump has been criticizing this deal forever. what are we really going to get today? if anything, people are afraid. >> yes, it certainly looks like he's planning to exit the deal. hard to see how he would have the political cover to stay in it. we have to add the usual trump caveat, he could still surprise us all by agreeing to stay in the agreement a bit longer while diplomats try to work out side agreements to address the president's concerns. but, again, e...