right now they don't have my vote. i want to get there. >> gop leaders hoping to win over holdout witness stand a new version of a health care bill. >> republicans have campaigned on repeal and replace. it's going to be very close. >> this is the biggest catastrophe in modern history for puerto rico. >> 70,000 at risk for another life threatening situation. >> puerto rico is a resilient community. >> this is "new day" with chris cuomo and alyson camerota. good morning, everyone. welcome to your "new day". chris is off today. john berman joins me. we have a lot to talk about. of course president trump facing a wave of protests across the nfl after calling for the firing of players who kneel during the

national anthem. dozens office players and owners unite to go defy the president's rhetoric president trump said it has nothing to do with race. but many are blasting him for his divisive rhetoric. the white house rolls out a new travel ban that includes north korea and venezuela. the plan to are peel obamacare. one more no vote from a republican would all but sink it. we have a lot to cover. i want to begin with joe johns live at the white house. joe? >> reporter: good morning, john. the president doubling down on his rhetoric condemning professional ball players for taking a knee during the national anthem. the president's critics questioning why he had harsher words for players engaged in a peaceful protests than white

supremacists was implicated in violence in charlottesville, virginia. the president insisting his remarks have nothing to do with race. >> i think it is very disrespectful to our country. >> reporter: president trump exacerbating a culture war with this rant friday night. >> wouldn't you love to see one of these nfl owners when somebody disrespects our flag say get that son of a pitch off the field. he's fired. >> reporter: the president calling again for an nfl boycott and for players who kneel during the national anthem to be fired or suspended. >> you're the leader of the free world. this is what you're talking about? >> our leader of this country is acting like a jerk. >> i think it is very unbecoming of the office of the president of the united states to talk about that. to degrade people like that. >> dozens taking a knee or sitting during the national

anthem sunday. other teammates and coaches standing shoulder to shoulder on the sideline interlocking arms. >> there's no disrespect to the anthem. we locked arms in unity. >> reporter: the majority of steelers players choosing to stay in the locker room until the anthem was over. even some singers taking a knee along with players. the president responding saying, standing with locked arms is good. kneeling, not acceptable. nfl commissioner roger goodell sounding off in a comment saying divisive comments demonstrate an unfortunate lack of respect for the league and the players. even prominent trump backers finding it hard to defend the president. >> i'm pissed off, i'll be honest with you. because i supported donald trump. i'm reading these comments, and it's appalling to me. >> new england patriots robert kraft, the president's friend who gave $1 million to the

inaugural fund, said he is deeply disappointed by the tone of mr. trump's comments. >> i like bob very much. he has to take his ideas and go with what he wants. >> president trump adding fuel to the fire by publicly rescinding a white house invitation to the golden state warriors stephen curry after he said he wouldn't go. >> i don't know why he feels to target certain individuals. that's not what leaders do. >> his long-time rival lebron james criticizing the president's response. >> for him to use this platform to divide us even more is not something i can stand for. >> reporter: the president's attacks on players pinning fans against each other at sunday's games. >> reporter: meanwhile, there is a lot of policy on the plate here at the white house. the administration is keeping a watchful eye on the progress or lack of same of the health care revamp proposal now on capitol

hill. the president expected to hold a jobs event here today in washington. back to you, alyson and john. >> is joe, thank you very much. let's bring in our political panel to discuss all of this. cnn political analysts gregory and kara. gregory, politically speaking, is this part to play to his base friday night with these comments about sobs, or is this dumb politically in that it creates all of this backlash this weekend? >> well, you know, we'll get a gauge of that i suppose over time. i actually don't think that's what's most important. whether it's smart or dumb, it is irresistible for donald trump who as a political figure and now as president cannot help himself but to insert himself in a way that is so counter productive that only further divides us, only stokes grievances between factions in

our country and doesn't try to bring people together and help people understand this is a tough debate over the appropriateness of his protest or to validate where the protest is coming from on the part of largely african-american players who are protesting police brutality or misconduct in this country. this is a tough issue. and for the president to wrap himself in the flag is particularly rich given the fact that, and we were reminded of this last night, said john mccain, war hero, shot down in vietnam, refused to leave captivity because it would have put him ahead of his fellow prisoners, he said he was no war hero because he was captured. and he doesn't like people captured. this is the president who wants to lead us by calling these people s on obs, who should lose

their jobs for disrespecting the flag? >> the president who got his own deferrals during the vietnam era. his treasury secretary was out making the same case yesterday saying it is patriotism not racism. listen to the treasury secretary. >> this is about respect for our military. this is about respect for our first responders. this is not about republicans or democrats. players have the right for free speech off the field. on the field, this is about respect for lots of people. >> wesley lowry, he said it is about respect for first responders and military. two, he said you shouldn't do this at your place of work. first of all, if you talk to people in the military, some will agree with what the president have said. they know they don't fight for flag, they fight for country and constitution. >> it is stunning. we have to remember what this is.

you have government officials, members of his cabinet advocating private business take punitive measures for political speeches that the president does not agree with. they do engage in patriotism. the u.s. government does not open the nfl. instructing nfl owners how to or to punish their players for political speech does have a potentially chilling effect that i think we can't lose here. they are private businesses, private citizens. it is up to those businesses to decide if they want to allow employees to president political speech. i don't know that members of the cabinet have any say whatsoever. we have the president of the united states asking for punitive measures to be taken against private citizens who engage in speech he disagrees with. this is not.

the u.s. government can compel to engage in patriotic expression that people don't want to engage in. that is the core of th conversation. again, it is a pretty stunning statement for the white house to be doubling and tripling down on this idea that if you do not honor and respect our government the way we want you to, we are going to use our bully pulpit to have you lose your job. >> i know that gregory just shot down by political angle. and he's right. there are much larger issues here that i'm glad we're talking about. but i'm confused on the political angle. just as charlottesville dies down, why would the president launch another grenade into the culture wars? how does that benefit him? >> you can ask that for various rounds of charlottesville as well. this seems to be an instinct response from the president, something he doesn't want to let

go of. whether it appeals to his base or not or if it's his own position, that's difficult to say. you can ask the question wyatt so many junctures the last few months. this one is something that he has observed before. this time he weighed in more sternly, which has gotten everybody else up in arms to defend these players who have officially taken a knee. the president doesn't think two steps out of how galvanizing his comments can be for people who don't agree with him. >> you had your chance, gregory, and you upset alyson. >> it's not the first time. >> maybe it's not the fact that charlottesville is dying now, because it's because charlottesville is dying down. >> how does that make sense? >> i'm not saying it makes sense. but the president is more

comfortable talking about the culture wars and in flaming these things than he is about talking about health care, or the hurricane or his son-in-law's e-mails. >> he might be upsetting his base in a different way. his base isn't in puerto rico. or they aren't looking at the details of the health care bill. the idea that his base doesn't watch any football, that is a live war and unpredictable situation. >> i wasn't trying to dismiss the idea of political calculus. i think it's actually -- it is less important and it's really problematic, right? because what happens is that trump looks at how to fashion swralize the country. he did that in the course of the campaign. to skwrebgt himself into culture wars, saying hillary clinton should be locked up, or these

people should lose their jobs for a protest, it goes to two points. one, historical framework. what did richard nixon do to rise to power? he divided those law and order people, the silent majority, against the excesses of what many people thought the excess of the civil rights movement. he sought to divide people further. johnson did it in the vietnam war, the anticipate-war movement during vietnam. here the president is doing it now over race, over patriotism. and these are the kinds of things that he has exploited well during the time when we are factionalized about religion, political polarization. as president, you have an opportunity to insert yourself in a way to be productive. because there's lots of elements to be counter productive. only one president can try to tamp these down and bring people together. >> the problem, though, for what

this -- where he is choosing to have these fights, though, he's not picking something that is as clear and obvious as the vietnam world. it is football. sometimes it's movie stars. it is going into the cultural space to start the cultural wars. that's when you can't tell which direction it is going in. >> the president said this has nothing to do with race. i've never said anything about race. what do you say to that? >> in politics, sometimes we like to pivot towards that. if you did not explicitly have the conversation, it cannot be about race. we know that isn't true. this conversation, a conversation that is about black athletes largely taking a knee during the national anthem in protest, in demonstration of police violence of racial disparities and the number of black people killed by police. and then a conversation weftd the last year in light of those protests whether or not they are

allowed to or should use these platforms to do this. these black athletes in the league largely constructed of white owners. they have faced punitive measures and have been left off teams for speaking their minds and using their platforms. this is a conversation that's closed in america's racial history and the current racial context. >> again, and beyond that, you have a president who has time and time again, winked and nodded about these type of things going to alabama and calling a bunch of athletes sobs. i mean, come on. >> enough said. >> wesley, david, karen, thank you very much. coming up next, sportscaster bob costas joins taos talk about this firestorm. we have a lot of other news including the travel ban. trump administration unveiling restrictions in eight countries including north korea and

venezuela. jessica schneider is live with all the breaking details. what do you know about it, jessica? >> reporter: there will be new restrictions. in some cases an all-out ban on travelers from eight different countries. here they are somalia, syria, venezuela, and yemen. new notable nations on this list. in particular you heard north korea. chad and venezuela have been ordered. they are using this bolster their argument as this is not a muslim ban as past orders have been criticized as. he tweeted that we will not admit those into our country that we cannot safely vet.

the president said we will not admit those is into our country that we cannot safely vet. civil rights groups are crying foul saying this is part of the ugly white supremacist agenda. this could be taken up with the supreme court. the legality of this latest travel ban could take center stage october 10th when the supreme court is hearing arguments about the temporary travel ban that took effect over the summer. >> jessica, thank you very much. president trump said the objections to the protests are not about race. so what are they about? we ask two sides of the argument. that's next. how do we say that this fall, our guests can earn a free night when they book at choicehotels.com and stay with us just two times? fall time.

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so what is it about? ern nest, who played for the browns, redskins and ravens before to coach, and dante stallworth. ernest, i want to start with you. you say you are in favor of protests in general but don't think it should happen on guam day on company time. do your job. explain. >> well, the thing about this -- first of all, i would like to say that we're getting caught up in some of the issues more than focusing on what is this really about. i do believe guys have -- we all the freedom of choice, freedom of speech, the freedom of protest. we all have that. but on your job is not the place where it needs to be done. now, we do have platforms. and those platforms should be used inside the as opposed to

the stadium. we talk about the veterans and disrespecting the flag and tkus respecting the country. we should respect the country. we do respect the countriment should be spreading more and more love as opposed to getting caught up in these issues about the flag, about the discrimination. you know, we've got to get some more love happening in our world. >> dante? >> i think tnumber one issue wa to promote awareness, was to promote a conversation, inspire conversation to bring this to the forefront. this issue has been going on for a very long time. until we're able to face these

uncomfortable truths, i think conversation will be much more difficult. but i continue to go back to, and it's becoming redundant to -- for me to try to get people to understand or at least to understand where they're coming from how this has anything to do with the military, how this has anything to do with disrespecting or respecting the country when players are human beings just like everyone else. and they are obviously allowed and afforded their first amendment rights. when you say they shouldn't do it at work, the very first amendment is the one the founding fathers of this country thought they should have as the number one amendment. whenever you start to tell people this is when they can't talk or this is when they should talk, anything is up for grabs, not only in the constitution but

especially with the first amendment. >> i want to play sound from tom brady, someone who was friendly with donald trump, had a made in america hat in his locker last year. this is what he said just on the radio about the president's comments. let's listen. >> i certainly disagree with what he said and thought it was just divisive. >> earnest, to you, you say they should not be protesting on the field. what about the president's comments specifically, when he called the players if they did a son of a pitch. >> welsh i don't think any of the athletes look at themselves and characterize themselves as that. when you try to balance what's going on, what has happened in this country and what has continued to happen, one of the things i think is paramount is

this galvanized a lot of people. we need to use this energy in a way that produce the type of growth that is necessary. when i say it's in thenot a pla your work to go ahead and protest, when i say that i really mean -- obviously you've gottfried on freedom of express. and we do have respect for the veterans. a lot of things we are doing with different aspects of this life that is building. we need to build from this. we don't need to keep being divisive and keep focusing on the fact that we are divisive. we have a lot to build on. this country is a great country. we love this country. we will continue to try to build from different aspects of the

experiences that we go through. >> dante, what do you say to people who say athletes. they should just go play the game. make this sports. or what we have heard from some supporters of the president, the players are privileged. they have the privilege to play this sport and make a lot of money. it's disrespectful not to stand during the anthem? >> there's a lot of people in this country who are making a lot of money and athletes or celebrities draw the eye more than other people. you have executives on wall street who essential ran this economy into the dirt. no one talks about the money they make or no one talks about a game show host making tens of millions of dollars. that is moot about how much money you make. when you're in a position to influence positive change, then

you can't allow yourself to be deterred about what others are saying about you not being patriotic. this goes back to what martin luther king and mohammad ali were telling us. people were calling them unpatriot unpatriotic. it was so obvious and clear for them and not for others. sit a similar situation in my eyes today. >> it has been an honor to speak to both of you. been a fan for a long, long time. >> will revisions in the republican health care bill get them the vote they need to pass it? we talked to one senator he set to take part in today's only health care hearing, next. patp with back pain. but he has work to do. so he took aleve. if he'd taken tylenol, he'd be stopping for more pills right now. only aleve has the strength to stop tough pain

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those will get a hearing because senators there are still holding out support. so the first and only hearing on this issue will be held a few hours from now. and that's where senator from oregon will be. good morning, senator. i can't hear you. >> can you hear me now? >> i can. thank you, senator. why have there not been more hearings on this issue? >> you'll have to ask the senate republican relationship. it doesn't pass the smell test. when you talk about 300 million americans, one-sixth of the economy. and the reality is the senate is legislating in the dark. and right now the senate republican leadership has embarked on a frenzy of special deal making, elbow twisting in the middle of the night apparently they made revisions in her bill. but the bottom line is still the

same. they are trying to defend the indefensible which is making so many americans pay more to get less coverage. >> as you describe it, those are sweeteners given to holdouts, murkowski and collins. do you think that will help tip them over into the "yes" column? >> i hope not. i mean, this whole idea of trying to pass a health care bill which is about holding down premiums and protecting our people and turning it into a park parade where you just give out huge slabs of pork in order to try to win a vote, that's not how you make health policy. the way you do it is in a bipartisan way. one reason i'm so opposed is beyond hurting people now. we've got a but partisan bill ready to go that would help 9

million kids. senator orrin hatch, myself, a big group of people on both sides of the aisle are saying let's not miss the fact that the funding runs out at the end of this week. instead what senate republicans are trying to do, as my 9-year-old say is trod out a big bunch of whoppers to try to sell this bill. >> the democrats didn't do obamacare in a bipartisan way. that seems to be what senator john mccain's issue. he doesn't think it should be rushed through with just republicans and cutting all democrats and all that stuff. do you think your hearing today will go any steps towards getting him on board? >> i think senator mccain obviously has made it clear that he doesn't like this pros. just with respect to a little bit of history, i sat on the on

senate finance committee and we took republican amendments. we had scores of meetings and forums and opportunities for both sides to be heard. bottom line is on the affordable care act, we took republican amendments on the on senate finance committee. >> okay. that's a good reminder. lipp lindsay gram and john mccain are famously fast friends. everybody knows that. do you think this is -- what's it like behind the scenes there that john mccain is one of the no most vocal voices on this bill that his best friend is pushing? >> well, both of them have said that they're going to make decisions and john mccain always has -- lindsey graham said is on the basis of principle. what john mccain is saying the principle of making sure that you at least try to find some common ground is more important than his friendship with lindsey

graham. and you can only commend him for saying he's doing that because that's what public service is supposed to be all about. >> is this going to move the needle this afternoon? >> we're going to hear these republican senators, for example, talk about how what they're doing really doesn't hurt people. but every single major health group, every single one, alyson, says it does. as far as i can tell, the latest draft actually weakens key protections for people who have pre-existing conditions. you basically take america back to the daus when health care was for the healthy and wealthy. the democrats are going to do everything they can to block that. >> senator, we will look forward to seeing what comes out of today's only hearing. join us tonight.

we have a debate tonight 9:00 eastern only on cnn. john? >> thanks, alyson. another emergency unfold anything puerto rico. tens of thousands being told to leave their homes under a failing dam. where are we?

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puerto rico still without power a week after hurricane maria devastated the island. 70,000 people are being told to leave their homes after a dam is in danger of failing. let's start with the dam. great concern for the 70,000 people. what's the very latest? >> reporter: well, on friday i went immediately to the dam to assess the damage. we didn't have communication with that area of puerto rico, so i had to go with the national

guard and police and make sure we evacuated people. there was a critical infrastructure failure. some of the dam has fallen apart. now we are making sure if we can assess the other part is falling down as well. it represents a great danger for an estimated 70,000 people. >> do you think it's at risk of failing right now? >> well, i have to assume so. i don't have all the details, but my action has been to order evacuation. i'd rather be wrong on that front than doing nothing and having it fail and costing people their lives. >> 70,000 people aevacuated. are they out of harm's way? >> most of the people in the vicinity have evacuated. still some efforts on the peripheral sides. we are making sure we can make proper mitigation efforts within that dam to prevent this dam from falling apart. >> so it is a very difficult

situation we know in puerto rico. but you have been able to achieve some successes the last week or so. i understand you have now made contact with all the communities in puerto rico. is that the case? >> we have made contact with all of the municipalities. we had most of the mayors come to san juan. we established runners all around puerto rico to go to those areas where we don't have telecom. we established routes to deliver food, water, diesel so things can keep on moving. we energized the main hospital and given fuel to alternate hospitals around the island. we have opened the ports so we can get more resources to puerto rico. and a lot of people, and i want to thank them, are giving us aid within the united states and everywhere else. the phone number to assist is 202-800-3133.

to give donations, that's the phone number to call. >> communications. i understand power is still basically out to the whole island. what about communication, cell service? >> it is critically limited right now. essentially only the metropolitan area has infrastructures. but we're getting better. we have reestablished growth through the northern and eastern part of the island. but still there are some areas that are not communicating. and our priority is to get to those antennas. apparently the infrastructure hasn't been severely hampered. it's not just a matter of convenience. communication is vital to getting aid to the places it needs to get. i know why that is a priority. how about the federal government right now. what do you want to see from the administration and from congress? >> well, let me take this opportunity to just say that we need to prevent a humanitarian

crisis occurring in america. puerto rico is part of the united states. we need to take swift action. i want to thank congressmen and women for their solidarity in aid to this point. but we need to take action on an aid package for puerto rico. let me tell you a few important components to consider. number one, we are u.s. citizens, proud u.s. citizens here in puerto rico. we served for irma as the base of the whole region where we rescued 3,500 citizens from different islands and different parts of the caribbean. number two, the magnitude of this hurricane and the two we passed is unprecedented. this is a major disaster that has had major ramifications across puerto rico. number three, we have a fiscal crisis already in our hands. and this needs to be taken into

consideration. so my ask to congress is the following. the quantity needs to be consistent. the aid package needs to be consistent with the damages. number two, we need to make sure that there is flexibility because puerto rico cannot operate. there is no flexibility on this funding. number three, we need to get financing whether through the treasury or through the fed so that puerto rico can operate again. let me tell you something, puerto rico had already started doing their part. i was embarking on a very aggressive fiscal agenda. we have reduced $1.5 billion in our budget. we started reducing agencies, making the changes we have to. but now this is a game changer. this is a completely different set of circumstances. and this needs to be taken into consideration. otherwise, there will be a humanitarian crisis. there will be massive exodus to the united states. so i call upon congress to take action to make their wishes --

their solidarity at this moment. we need something tangible, a bill in answers to our need right now. >> governor, thank you so much for your time. wish you the best of luck. the country needs to focus on this as opposed to other things there has been a lot of discussion about the last few days. i appreciate your time, sir. >> thank you. thank you so much. and thank you for your prayers as well. >> alyson? hurricane maria is still churning in the atlantic and leading to trouble in the carolinas. cnn meteorologist allison has the latest. it is due east of savannah, georgia. as it pushes north, it will start to have impacts for the north carolina coast. we have tropical storm watches and warnings out for the eastern coast of north carolina. the good news, it is expected to stay weak. we don't expect any more intense

fiction as it goes north. it will come into blocking mechanisms. this is good news. it prevents it from getting too close to the u.s. to actually have a direct land fall. we are still expecting to have impacts, however, john, most of those will be incredibly dangerous rip currents. storm surge 2 to 4 feet, as well as the potential of tropical force winds along the coast. the president this morning writing a lot about the nfl and his players kneeling during a national anthem. he wrote just a few minutes ago, many people booed the players who kneeled yesterday which is a small percentage of the total. these are fans who demand respect for our flag! >> it is clear players had a plan how they were going to show they were unified after president trump's comments. over the weekend some players decided to take a knee. some sat on the on bench.

many locked arms during the national anthem. for the teufrt first time we awe owners, some who donated to president trump's campaign, standing arm in arm with their players showing that they had their back. and after the games, players around the league explaining why they decided to do a show of unity. i felt like he attacked my brothers. my brothers. i thought it was appropriate to stand up with them. >> he mess with one, he messed with us all. we are in unity. we want to stand for something. >> steelers, titans, seahawks all decided to remain in the locker room yesterday, alyson. we reached out to the nfl and they said they are not planning any fines or punishments for the teams who did not come out for the anthem. >> look, the debate continues this morning. and the president is tweeting about it. thanks for the update.

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president trump threatening the north korean leaders "won't be around much longer" after north korea's foreign minister said firing rockets at the u.s. mainland is inevitable. joining us to talk about this, the former energy secretary under president obama and now the ceo and co-chairman of the nuclear threat initiative. thank you very much for being here. when you say that you feel that the threat of a misunderstanding leading to some sort of nuclear showdown is higher today than it has been since the cuban missile

crisis, what are you basing that on? >> well, i think we see in 2340r7bnorth korea and, by the way, elsewhere in the world the risk of a miscalculation that could be through the escalation of taunts. it could be through the militaries of the united states and other countries put together. we need diplomacy. it has to tum to the fore whether dealing with north korea, iran or russia. in all of these cases we need to have serious discussion. we need to work with our allies, certainly in north korea. we need to work with you our allies, south korea and japan, and with china, to understand what is a general framework that will satisfy all of our security needs. >> when you hear the president call kim jong-un "little rocket man," how will that impact possible diplomacy?

>> that's the kind of thing that can lead to unintended escalation. we know the north korean leader is very concerned about the survival of the regime. there's no substitute for diplomacy. now, with china, for example, we need to really have a serious framework discussion. part of it is their responsibility to implement sanctions that they have voted for, but as you know, china also, very much wants us to have at least discussions with north korea. so i think it starts, again, with discussions with china, with south korea and japan. get us a general framework that will allow us to engage north korea to remove the very real threats that they represent to our allies and friends, and, of course, to the united states. >> and did you think it was significant last week announced that china the central bank was telling its smaller banks not to do transactions with north korea?

>> yes. again, china really needs to enforce all of the sanctions that have -- that they themselves have voted for, and so whether it's addressing banking. the cash flows. sales of commodities to and from north korea. all of those must be enforced. there are other actions that could be taken as well in terms of understanding maritime traffic in to and out of north korea. again, it's a foundation that sanctions must be enforced, but so is the foundation of having a discussion of all of the security issues, some of which, frankly, the united states has not wanted to discuss. military exercises and the like. i think we need to have all of this on the table for a serious discussion that will be's consistent with at least a longer term denuclearization of the korean peninsula. number one, we need to talk.

we need to freeze the program. we need to, over time, work towards that denuclearization. >> mr. secretary, you were part of the negotiations for the iran nuclear deal. last week before the united nations the president said the u.s. should be embarrassed by that deal. i'm wondering what your reaction was when you heard that? >> well, once again, inflammatory language does not substitute for diplomacy. let's make it very clear -- the iran agreement, first of all, is a very strong agreement. certainly our european allies have been very clear about that. it accomplished what would not have been accomplished through other means. namely, making it very clear that iran will not have a nuclear weapon. i might say that the deal also has unprecedented verification measures, and it also contains a direct commitment from iran that they will never have a nuclear weapon. diplomacy there really -- really has -- given us great strides in

terms of removing that existential threat of a weapon in iran, but, of course, we have many other issues with iran, and the president, just like president obama, is quite correct to work with our allies, the gulf countries, israel, to, in fact, push back on other elements of iran's behavior in the region that we believe is quite destabilizing and frankly support for groups like hezbollah, fundamentally unacceptable. so we need to push across the board. let me just link, also, the two issues we've talked about. certainly if the administration chooses not to certify iran's compliance when the international inspectors say they are complying, that will just be one more step in under cutting the united states reliability in the eyes of our friends and allies and in the eyes for our adversaries, for in particular, why would north korea or others engage us in discussion if we do not show our

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