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Agreements between the iaea and iran, when i asked the secretary if he's going to present that to the congress i didn't get an adequate response to it. i also asked him if he's actually seen the side agreements, these secret deals that were done and his response was he has been briefed but has not seen them. so this goes to the verification process itself in terms of how can the iaea adequately verify that iran is not cheating which is done multiple times in the past. >> well, what they say in response to that and i was in vienna when all of this was being negotiated. the head of the iaea went...

>> well, under the law that we passed, the corker bill congress has the right to review this agreement. so if we're not going to produce everything, if we're going to hide secret deals from congress -- >> they're saying it's not secret. they are briefing you on it but it's not part of the agreement. >> i have not been briefed on it. >> verification process. okay. >> i have not been briefed on these secret deals. apparently the secretary has. and they have not presented this to the congress. i think that's -- you talk about trans parns si transparency, i think it will be helpful if there's no d...

Which is something the negotiations were designed to avoid happening. as your summation of what is going on here mentioned, the verification process to see that iran is living up to the deal is complex and somewhat unwieldy affair involving having the committee of nations determine whether the requested access to a certain site in iran is necessary and could take up to 24 days for that to be vindicated and that would provide potential time for iran to do away with anything. the argument is made that is not enough time and we are going to be hearing that playing out. there it is. it was always ...

Lifting of sanctions and the embargo on conventional arms and missiles. i don't know where we're doing. that i do not want to empower iran, make it easier for iran to equip hamas, hezbollah and other bad actors. number two, the verification process. as i read this agreement, it seems to me that iran has three weeks or more to determine whether they will allow iaea inspectors on to specific sites. that's a far cry from what i understood to be anywhere any time. >> joe? >> it certainly doesn't sound that way. chuck todd break this down for us. we talked about chuck shumchumer and how important s...

U.s. >> absolutely. this has to go before congress. the final wording of the u.n. resolution has been worked out it has to go to the u.n. security council. then you get a verification process after iran has completed a verification process to check that. it could be sometime next year before iran sees those sanctions being lifted fr eed fredricka. >> nic robertson, thank you so much. let's talk about this. now the president has to sell the deal to u.s. congress joe johns is on capitol hill. the president said he will be working hard to answer questions from capitol hill. >> we know he called c...