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President rouhani offered his own fig leaf of sorts. >> translator: hoping that he will refrain from following the short-sighted interest of war mongering groups we can arrive and manage our differences. >> rouhani's tone was noticeably sharper than his very conciliatory op ed from last week, but he, like president obama, had a domestic audience to speak to as much as an international one. joining me is barbara lee. you were there today at the u.n. general assembly. were you at all surprised by rouhani's tone, given how much it seemed as if both countries were opening a kind of back-and-forth ...

President, hassan rouhani said he listened carefully to president obama's speech and president rouhani offered his own fig leaf of sorts. >> translator: hoping that he will refrain from following the short-sighted interest of war mongering groups we can arrive and manage our differences. >> rouhani's tone was noticeably sharper than his very conciliatory op ed from last week, but he, like president obama, had a domestic audience to speak to as much as an international one. joining me is pobarbara lee. you were there today at the u.n. general assembly. were you at all surprised by rouhani's ton...

Rouhani's tone, given how much it seemed as if both countries were opening a kind of back-and-forth approach to each other toward some kind of sitdown negotiations? >> chris, i was not really surprised at his tone, but what's important is that the president, our president gave a magnificent speech calling -- we know it's going to be very tough as we heard today, but i think we need to applaud president obama for really ensuring the rest of the world that he's going to take that step and it's going to be slow, but i've offered the legislation for many years now calling for a special envoy as it...