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Started, people said oh, you can't get there from here. it's too hard. the russians will never agree. you'll never be able to come up with the verification measures. i hear all of that now for cyber. but yeah, it takes awhile and yeah, we don't know the solutions right now but we have to begin the process and the trump administration has eliminated the people in the state department who are doing that. the trump administration eliminated the position in the white house that was thinking about that. >> but the argument people would make is unlike arms control and unlike nuclear weapons, the pro...

Can iran get to a stage where the can develop nuclear weapons any time in the near future? >> well, first of all, we already know that iran did have a structured nuclear weapons program up through 2003. so they certainly have a lot of -- had a lot of work in that direction. but by the same token, there is pretty wide agreement that since that time, they have not had anything like a structured program. now, the jcpoa, the iran deal, as you described, already gave us a really solid way of making sure that iran never went to a nuclear weapon. what i want to emphasize is the piece that has not bee...

All might be fine in front of the camera and hand shakes and things might seem rosy. in four or five or six months we don't seep this coming together in terms of the instrumental frame work on paper being carried out by officials in north korea and here with verification measures, then the meeting is just a meeting. so i want to be optimistic. i want to believe we can reach a positive conclusion if not a positive development here. i mean, the worst case scenario here is for something to go wrong in the meeting or in the lead up to the meeting. then you might see them resume missile testing lik...

He said we accomplished what we wanted. is this him trying to be accepted by the globe as a nuclear power? or is this him saying, which i didn't read in the statement, that he's going to reverse what the north koreans have accomplished. i think there's too much optimism on this one. second question, if we believe that the north koreans are serious, i don't see anything that gets into things like, what the verification measures are. would they let inspectors on site? what would those inspectors do? the big question is is this is reversing what the north koreans have done or acknowledging they a...

Foundation. if we went all the way and reimposed sanctions while iran is in compliance, again, our allies made it very, very clear they would not be following us. this would be a slippery slope towards a bad outcome, something very much not in our national security interest. >> all right. what's driving the president's decision is this. it's a bad deal, mr. moniz. that the way the testing is done and the certifying, not in regard of him decertifying the agreement, but their following the deal is too much dependent on what iran wants to tell people. and that they are violating the spirit of thi...