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The most major way kind of blowing through the deal that was set in 2015. was it only a matter of time in your mind after the president pulled the u.s. out of the deal that they would be doing something like this? >> first, it's hard to ignore the irony of president trump decrying, complaining about the iranians exceeding the threshold established in the agreement of the obama administration which the president has roundly criticized. and i frankly am surprised that the iranians went this long. >> really? >> by continuing to comply with the provisions of the agreement. now, what they're doing,...

With a very sensitive program, it's very successful, we've got great capabilities, and to talk about this with "the new york times," it's criminal. it shouldn't be done. there is more of this we can do, the sanctions are having a definite effect on iran, who is a bad actor. but i am pleased and glad that we pulled back and did not attack iran. this is in the backdrop of almost 18 years of war in the middle east. i don't want to see us go to war with iran, a fourth country. >> harris: i want to get to what they say they're going to do, which is shootdown more drones if they want to. what happen...

I think it verified something that is a limit, an element of their strategy which is ultimately trump wants negotiations. but bolton and pompeo prefer war. and the further the iranians essentially counter escalate and pressure the united states so that the pressure is not just on iranians, the further they get to the point in which tensions between trump and bolton and pompeo will increase. part of their calculation is as long as they are in that zone in which that tension is there the likelihood of both getting fired is at the greatest and perhaps an opening for new yorkers once bolton is out...

But nothing beyond that. what do you think they ultimately do? >> i think what we are concerned about, which will in fact reflect what they may do, we are concerned about the fact that they have got uranium 235 at about 3% level, and in a matter of days, they could bring it to 20%. they could bring it to 90%, and that his weapons grade. so they know that we know that we want them out of that business. what do they do? they are in between us rock and a hard place, as we used to say. they either start behaving like a civilized nation and ultimately come to the table. at that president has put th...

Sanctions. the question is how we deter iran from taking these very dangerous actions in the persian gulf while we wait for negotiations. pete: how do we because it's a bit underreported that iranian is upping uranium enrichment to a point where they could quickly get to weapons grade and that could -- red line is overused but we could reach a point where there is a points notify return. how do we deter them from that? >> right. well, they have been stockpiling low grade uranium and they're threatening to enrich that uranium to high -- to weapons grade level. that -- the question -- the presid...