this week and again in november, a big test of the trump effect. >> we'll be counting the results here tonight. stay with us on cnn. see you back here for "inside politics" tomorrow as well. wolf starts right now. i'm wolf blitzer. it's 1:00 p.m. here in washington, 7:00 p.m. in tehran. wherever you're watching, thanks for joining us. the world holds its breath as the president gets ready to decide the fate of the iran nuclear deal, a decision that will have a ripple effect from everything to iranian relationships to gas prices. he was a champion of the me too movement for now, new york state's attorney jena bankrupting resigning after allegations from four women.

also just in, cnn reporting on the embattled epa chief. why president trump may now be entertaining the idea of firing scott pruitt. stand by, we have new information. but let's begin with the biggest foreign policy decision of the trump presidency so far. about an hour from now, the president announces whether the united states will pull out of the iran nuclear deal. sources say he's expected to announce that he will reinstate sanctions against iran. that would be the first step toward withdrawing from the agreement. but those sources also caution that nothing is final until the announcement by the president is made one hour from now, 2:00 p.m. eastern. cnn's chief white house correspondent jim acosta is joining us live. jim, we know the president spoke with the french president emmanuel macron earlier in the day. macron is trying to persuade him to stay in the iran deal. what are you hearing about that conversation? >> wolf, what we're hearing about that conversation and other conversations is that all indications are at this point

that president trump will begin to either fully or partly withdraw the u.s. from it rthe nuclear deal. the devil is in the details and we'll get those details this afternoon at 2:00 when the president makes that announcement in the diplomatic room here in the white house. i've been talking to a number of sources this morning. a diplomatic source telling me they're equally optimistic in great britain about what the president will announce because they would like the u.s. to stay in the iran nuclear deal. the u.k., france, all sounding like the president is going to make an announcement he's pulling out of the deal. i just talked to a congressional source in the last couple minutes that at this point compared to what they're being briefed on by white house officials, the expectation on republican lawmakers at this point is that the president will fully or partly withdraw the u.s. from that iran nuclear deal. that measures what we hear from a cnn official who told me

earlier this morning, wolf, that most of the work going on behind the scenes in the last several days in the lead-up to the announcement of this decision by president trump has been on withdrawing the u.s. from the iran nuclear deal. so barring some last-minute surprise announcement from the president, reversal from the president, all expectations at this point are that the u.s. will begin to fully or partly withdraw from the iran nuclear deal. of course, it's a very intricate and complicated agreement that was crafted by the obama administration, so the details really are going to matter here. but just from a rhetorical standpoint, we do expect the president to give a full-throated announcement that he's scratching this agreement. that obviously is going to thrust u.s. allies into a state of chaos. i was talking to a diplomatic source earlier this morning who said at this point they really don't have any kind of expectation of the u.s. announcing a plan d at this point in terms of what to do with the iran nuclear deal, what to do about the iran nuclear program because it's really

unclear at this point how the iranians will respond. it's expected that they will try in some part to restart that nuclear program, but they also want to gauge the domestic reaction in iran to see how the iranians are going to react, and of course that may obviously impact how the u.s. deals with that at this point. but all indications are, wolf, that president trump will make this announcement that the u.s. is getting out of that deal partly or fully here in the next hour, wolf. >> critically an important decision indeed. we'll of course have live coverage. jim acosta, we'll get back to you in the white house. president trump has called the iran nuclear deal insane and ridiculous. he says it doesn't do enough to address iran's ballistic missile program or activities in the region. jake sullivan was top aide to then secretary of state hillary clinton and opened the channel that paved wait for nuclear negotiations in iran. jake, thanks for joining us. >> thanks for having me, wolf.

>> what do you think? how do you respond to the president's really severe criticism of the iran deal going back throughout the campaign, worst deal ever, he says. he hates it, wants to get rid of it. hates all the money iran got as a result of the deal. how do you respond to his criticism of the iran deal? >> reporter: well, wolf, i respond with the basic facts. and the basic facts are that the deal is working. iran is complying, the international community is united and holding the iranians accountable, and the world has blocked every pathway through this deal for iran to get to a nuclear weapon. their nuclear program is in a box. and the iaea, the international atomic energy agency, has reiterated over and over again, confirmed by the u.s. intelligence community, and most recently by secretary of state mike pompeo before the congress that iran is living up to its end of the bargain and that the deal is stopping iran from getting a nuclear weapon. so why would the united states

decide, for basically no reason at all, to walk away, to give that up, to allow a situation in which iran could move its capability forward? it just makes no sense. >> the president, i assume, is going to say, and what he has said on many occasions, it does open the door in seven, eight, nine, ten years for iran to resume its nuclear program, and it has given the iranians hundreds of billions of dollars that they use. the state department itself regards iran as the number one state sponsor of terror. what's your response that the deal did nothing to prevent iran from engaging in what the u.s. regards as terrorism and other activities? >> first let me respond to this notion that somehow after seven, eight or nine years or 10 years or 15 years iran can go ahead and get a nuclear bomb. that is flat out untrue.

the deal keeps iran from not just seeking a nuclear weapon but any form of weapon activity, and crucially, it remains a permanent requirement that iran allow inspections so the world can be satisfied that it's not, in fact, seeking a bomb. >> after 10 years, can't they resume their program to enrich uranium? >> they're currently stockpiling now not even one bomb's worth of retro grade uranium. they will be able to do even more in the type of peaceful nuclear weapons, but they are permanently barred from being able to do anything that even approaches weaponization activity. i would just add this, that to

the extent we're concerned about making sure that after 10, 15 or 20 years we continue to keep this very tight lid on them, the united states has a long history of negotiating follow-on agreements. we've done it with the russians, we've done it with other countries. this is something we know how to do. but to walk away from the deal today because of a hypothetical scenario of what might happen 10 or 15 years from now, and to create that scenario now by ourselves just doesn't make any sense. and just quickly on the regional issues, the nuclear deal expressly reserves the right for the united states and for our allies and partners to pursue aggressive economic pressure against iran for its sponsorship of terrorism and for other things it does in the region. the fact that it doesn't address regional issues, this deal, works for the united states, not against the united states. and i do believe that we should continue to step up our pressure against iran in the region, but

that doesn't mean walking away from the deal, it means enforcing the deal to the hilt and then pursuing an effective regional strategy. >> as you know, the former secretary says skbrjohn kerry i urging the president not to withdraw from the iran deal. he's also been in contact over the past few days with the iranian foreign minister who has been in new york at the united nations to discuss ways of keeping the agreement. that prompted this tweet from the president. let me put it up on the screen. john kerry can't get over the fact that he had his chance and blew it. stay away from negotiations, john. you are hurting your country, end quote. do you believe the former secretary of state is overstepping his authority getting involved in these sensitive talks with the iranian foreign minister at this delicate moment? >> i don't think that john kerry is doing anything of the sort. i think he's having ongoing conversations the way that former diplomats always do.

he's not trying to interfere in trump's decision. what he's trying to do is argue publicly as he did today that the president is making a big mistake. and in terms of the substance of president trump's tweet, that secretary kerry somehow blew it, again, the facts suggest otherwise. all of the indications are that this deal is working. it's working for the u.s., it's working for our allies and it's working to protect our partners in the region like israel and the gulf states. what the critics said what happened at the start of this, that it would never work, they've been proven wrong. so from my perspective, john kerry has every right to go out and say that he believes this deal should stay in place because he thinks it's in the best interests of u.s. national security. >> do you know, jake, if he at all coordinated his conversations with iranian foreign minister with any u.s. officials, any state department officials? usually in sensitive negotiations like this, a former secretary of state would be in touch with the current

administration. do you know if that happened? >> i don't know whether he has spoken with the administration or not. what i do know is that john kerry isn't engaged in some kind of intricate negotiation. he's engaged in a transparent process of making his opinion clear, and in trying to persuade mistake by walking away from the deal today. you know, it seems, wolf, that one of the things that is driving president trump in all of this is that he wasn't the one who negotiated this deal, barack obama was. and that just doesn't sit well with donald trump. that may be a reason for trump to be annoyed, but it's not a reason for a commander in chief of the united states to walk away from an international agreement that we've signed up to with all of the world powers. >> jake sullivan, thanks so much for joining us. >> thap >> thanks for having me. >> we'll stand by to hear precisely what the president has to say.

but right now this coming in to cnn, the president thinking about firing embattled epa chief scott pruitt as his list of allegations grows longer and longer. we have the latest developments. what are you hearing? >> the president's support for his epa administrator scott pruitt may be wavering as the white house makes a push to the president he should fire his embattled epa chief. the white house officials saw a fresh opening to sway the president on pruitt late last week after atlanta published a report about trying to spread stories about a fellow cabinet member, interior secretary ryan zinke. the interior struck a chord with the president who was bothered by this development and was more open to arguments by his aides that pruitt must go. this was an aide close to the white house who talked to my

colleagues, jeremy diamond and sara westwood. trump has resisted calls to fire pruitt despite nearly a dozen investigations because he's been worried in part that it would be difficult to confirm a successor that would carry on the same deregulatory agenda. but white house aides have assured the president, we're told, that the agency's work can continue on unabated in the epa. after andrew wheeler came on board, they convinced him he will take the reins and continue the same sort of work. the ground has completely shifted, saying the president is becoming convinced that pruitt is doing more harm than good in his position. what's really changed here, wolf, what you're seeing here, is white house aides have gone from just not defending pruitt to now trying to convince the president to fire him. >> did they think that by shifting the attention on ryan zinke that that would help pruitt? is that what they're thinking? >> that's what this atlantic

article said, that this aide to pruitt was essentially trying to shop around negative stories to other media outlets in order to take the attention away from pruitt and put a negative light on ryan zinke. this obviously is something the white house does not like. they don't want to catch wind of one agency trying to spread negative stories about another agency or leader of the agency. so all of this combined with the fact that there are nearly a dozen investigations into pruitt is sort of adding to this momentum we're seeing to fire pruitt. of course, we'll have to wait and see what happens. there is that big concern over a confirmation by the president who doesn't really want to see that, but at the same time pruitt does have a deputy who could carry on the same agenda. >> if it's true, it's pretty ugly trying to change the subject to the interior secretary as opposed to the epa chief. i appreciate it very much, good reporting. a dramatic fall in the matter of only hours. we have details of behind the scenes resignation of new york

state attorney general eric schneiderman after four women came forward with accusations of abuse. plus, rudy giuliani's media blitz starting to get to the president. there is a new cnn about why his legal team may be put on the back burner. some white house republicans, including devin nunes, make the push to hold the attorney general in contempt. this after this break.

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that's coming up. there are other news we're following right now, including shocking allegations of abuse against a key critic of president trump. new york attorney general eric schneiderman resigned after four women accused him of abuse. he made this statement. serious allegations, which i strongly contest, have is been made against me. they will effectively prevent me from leading the office's work at this critical time. i therefore resign my office. we have our panel here. were you surprised at how quickly, molly, schneiderman resigned? it was a matter of only a few hours after the story broke. >> that's right, almost exactly three hours after the time stamp of the new yorker's story published on line. i didn't have time to be surprised, frankly, because it

did happen so quickly. you have to think given the damning and conclusive nature of this report detailing multiple women on the record, as well as other women who didn't want to be named, very consistent allegations, very consistent stories of physical abuse. if you're eric schneiderman, you look ahead and think there is no way that i'm going to come out of this. there is no way that i'm going to be able to move forward with my political career. and you had the governor of new york, drunandrew cuomo, calling his resignation. schneiderman was thought to be ambitious in democratic circles but you have to think that's over. >> it's so damning. let me read to you one quote from a woman who offered this charge, this accusation against the new york state attorney general. quote, sometimes he would tell me to call him master and he would slap me until i did. he started calling me his brown slave and demanding that i

repeat that i was his property. when you read that, that kind of sentence, that kind of line, what went through your mind? >> i was pretty shocked, actually, that, you know, usually in these stories you do see something in there with a governor who actually had a conversation with him before demanding a resignation. he did not even stop to do that, and he didn't need to stop to do that. these two reporters, jane mayer and ronan fero who just won a pulitzer prize had it locked down tight. and we have another unnamed prominent new york attorney lawyer, which we'll probably find out who that is, but ronan is on this incredible role with the facts locked down, and for schneiderman to resign within three hours is incredible, absolutely amazing. >> only an hour after the governor of new york, governor

cuomo, said he's got to go and he's got to go quickly. also didn't take very long, jeff, for the president's inner circle, kellyanne conway, donald trump jr., among others firing off some pretty gleeful tweets. they hated schneiderman like a lot of supporters did. schneiderman was often going after the president like kellyanne, tweeting, gotcha. are you surprised by the response? >> not exactly. it gave them a moment to smile about this whole thing. the reality here is that eric schneiderman appears, if these allegations are accurate and they seem to be or else he wouldn't have resigned so quickly, he was a hypocrite. that was the biggest thing of all. he's been someone who has been on the leading edge really making a name for himself being a crusader against donald trump. that, of course, is why they responded so much. i think it's a good reminder as we head into the current election season where there is a

me too movement. it does happen in both parties. fact in the story there, and ronan said this morning on "new day" that some people advised him not to come forward because it could down a democrat is offensive and absurd, really. it's a reminder that democrats do this as much as republicans ask it's dis gusting. >> it certainly is, guys. stick around. we're also following new news about rudy giuliani. the president is apparently becoming frustrated with his newest lawyer. the media blitz, among other issues. we have details. plus we're awaiting the president of the united states to announce a major diplomatic statement on iran. will the u.s. formally pull out of the iran nuclear deal? we'll have live coverage of that. we'll be right back. hotel, car and activity all in one place. ♪

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apparently some chaos is escalating within president trump's newly assembled legal team, ask now his newest addition, rudy giuliani, may be walking on rather thin ice with the president. his recent string of unscripted tv interviews and the negative coverage surrounding his comments has left president trump flustered and annoyed. one source speculating that the president will move giuliani to the back burner. all of this as senior officials say they remain in the dark on rudy giuliani's interviews and his next move. my panel is back to discuss this and more. what does it mean, jeff, for giuliani's future because he's caused political moves in the president's congress. >> he's only a few weeks into his public performance here, and we learned that the president is not fond of t. heit. he's a long-time friend of

giuliani, so he's different than others. he's someone who he's known fire long time. that said, we're told the president is not pleased with everything that's happening. sometimes he is, but then he watches the news coverage of it and sours on him. some of the president's other lawyers are also not pleased with this. i think that is perhaps the more interesting thing here. is this a wise strategy to have giuliani out front so often? i don't think we'll see him as much in the spotlight as we have over the last several days, but he serves at the pleasure of the president. the president, as we've seen in many examples, he can be irritated and not pleased, but he can still work for him. so i think he's not on thin ice per se of getting his job taken from him, but i don't think we'll see him out there quite as much. >> not necessarily another anthony scaramucci who was on the job for 10 or 11 days? >> right. the big problem is it doesn't appear to be a strategy other than rudy giuliani talking on

air to anchors and getting questions he can't answer, and there is sort of this collision of ignorance about campaign and finance that he seems to know nothing about it. obviously in the legal profession it should apply here, too, and he seems to be harming his clients. i think it's safe to say had he stayed off of tv, donald trump would have had a better result. it's not acceptable to have sessions with sarah sanders, to go out and face the press every day, stand there not knowing. even if she can't answer specifically, not even understanding the strategy. this has been a disaster. >> and you hear pamela brown reporting on scott pruitt, the epa chief, that he may be on very, very thin ice right now. the president may be turning against him. >> we heard that the white house is becoming cooler to him, and it had been -- the whole white house had been pretty much standing behind him throughout this endless stream of

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we're now just a few minutes away from president trump's announcement on the iran nuclear deal, sources telling cnn that vice president mike pence has been briefing leaders on capitol hill, also suggesting the president will announce a withdrawal from the 2015 deal. joining us now from capitol hill is utah congressman chris stewart. he's a republican, a member of the house intelligence committee. congressman, thank you for joining us. have you been briefed on this deal? do you know flatly what the president will announce? >> i don't. maybe speaker ryan or others do,

but i haven't spoken to the vice president, although i agree with you all. i think indications are they're probably going to announce they're going to withdraw. >> as you know, the president says this agreement is awful. this deal that was worked out during the obama administration deeply flawed. you have serious problems with this as well, but do you support a decision to reimpose sanctions on iran right now, which for all practical purposes, would end u.s. support for this agreement worked out with the other permanent members of the u.n. security council in germany? >> i've always supported that we should impose sanctions. i always said this was flawed. the flaws of this agreement was that president obama wouldn't bring it before the senate as a treaty because he knew the senate would reject it. if he brought it as a treaty, it would require two-thirds vote. we have to reflect for a moment. if you have a treaty like this, we would have negotiated an agreement that many of us could have supported. but as it is, we're left with

this agreement that many of us have considered deeply flawed, it's allowed for iran to expand their power and influence in the region, it's freed up billions of dollars for them. i think it's time to start over, but i do hope the president will start over. i think it's very important that we engage with iran now, and our allies as well, and try to craft an agreement that will actually bring us long-term security. >> everyone agrees the international atomic energy agency, the allies, even mike pompeo, the former cia director, now state secretary, dan coats, the director of national intelligence, that iran is complying with this nuclear agreement. they have not violated the terms of the agreement, so why go ahead and withdraw from it? >> because it's the terms of the agreement -- you're right, and mike is a good friend of mine, a man i have tremendous respect for. we were on the intel committee while this was being negotiated and while was being implemented,

but we share the same concerns. you can claim to be not in violation of the agreement and still have the agreement be flawed. and that is if we're unable to inspect certain critical facilities, for example, because we can't inspect those facilities, we don't know if they're in agreement on those very critical elements, so once again, we say we're in agreement but we don't know what's going on over here, and that's one of the primary disagreements i have with this agreement with iran and our allies is it didn't allow for the inspections that we truly needed. then like i said earlier, wolf, and that is the freeing up of billions of dollars which iran is using to fight in yemen, they're use to go fight in syria. they're causing just danger ask da -- and death everywhere they have their footprint, and we allowed them to have access to those funds without having a verifiable process to know if they're actually complying with not building nuclear weapons. >> what they are doing, whether in gemmyemen or syria or iraq o

elsewhere was not part of the nuclear deal, those were separate issues. why should other countries, for example, north korea right now, and as you know, the president is getting ready to meet with kim jong-un, why should they want to negotiate an agreement with the united states knowing that even if they stick to the strict terms of that agreement, the u.s. could one day just announce they're withdrawing it from the agreement, throwing it out? >> yes, that's a great point, but it's my first point, and if you will, you've made my argument for me. and that is we didn't go through a normal treaty process with this iranian agreement. it wasn't something that would have passed the senate, and if we had negotiated something that would have passed the senate, it wouldn't be on this thin ice right now. so now shifting to north korea which is kroyour point, i think north korean leaders kim jong-un and others in the region, hopefully they will look and say we have to negotiate a treaty that the u.s. senate and the house will approve of, and if we do that, we'll have a lasting agreement. they won't have to worry about this being changed by the next president who may come in to

view. if we have a treaty in place, that would be much more stable and longstanding. >> why not keep the treaty agreement and work with britain and france and germany and china for that matter. they were part of the original deal. improve the agreement down the road but keep the existing agreement in place. >> i've asked that question sincerely myself. my starting point was can we keep the agreement? can we tweak it as necessary, work with our allies and improve it to our satisfaction? after looking at that over the last few years, i've just concluded that we can't. it's much better to start over, to engage iran. once again i hope the president engages iran tomorrow or even this afternoon and says, let's start again. i hope he engages our allies and says, let's start again. but in my view, and we'll see if it's the president's view, again, this was fundamentally -- the foundation of this was so thawed, it really required a

start-over rather than just tweaking the edges. >> let me get your reaction as to what former secretary of state john kerry is doing. he met with the former prime minister of iran. he's going after the criticism of the deal. he was one of the chief negotiators, as you well know. he wants the president to stay in the agreement. the president, though, is going after kerry big time. he tweeted, john kerry can't get over the fact that he had his chance and blew it. what's your reaction to kerry getting involved in all of this right now the way he is? >> i don't think it was helpful. i think honestly it probably backfired. if you wanted to persuade the president, then go talk with the president. i think it puts him up -- we know this president reacts this way. you know, he'll dig his feet in. if you put him in a corner, he'll fight back, and i think he feels like -- and i'm just speculating, but i think i would understand if he felt this way -- mr. kerry is going against the u.s. policy and

against u.s. administration, and i think that makes him less likely to stay in the agreement rather than more likely. i also have to say i think it's inappropriate for a former secretary of state to be engaged like this. we've never seen another former secretary do that. condoleezza rice centrtainly didn't, although she disagreed with the secretary that followed her. i don't think it's helpful. if he wanted the u.s. to stay in the agreement, i think this is the last thing in the world he should have done. >> congressman stewart, thanks for joining us. president trump will officially announce the decision of the iran nuclear deal. we have reporters spanned out across the globe with international reaction. we'll dmek wicheck in with them. also stay tuned for the president's live announcement that's set to be at the top of the hour. from the very beginning ...

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iran will be fine either way that they have played by the rules and no matter what the difficulties arise iran will be okay. >> orrin liebermann is in jerusalem for us. as you know, the israeli government, the prime minister specifically have been strong advocates of pulling out of this deal. what's the latest over there? >> prime minister benjamin netanyahu launching a campaign over the last days and hours criticizing the deal and essentially trying to force a nixing of the deal in his words. if the u.s. pulls out of the deal, it will be a reimposition of sanctions. he wants to see the toughest most punishing sanks from the u.s. that would be what he would like to see come out of trump's decision. either way, they will welcome whatever decision comes out of this. but it's clear netanyahu is pushing for a nix the deal strategy. >> the french president, emmanuel macron has been aggressively lobbying president trump to stay in the deal.

phil black joins us from paris right now. what are you hearing? >> we know that presidents macron and trump spoke by phone earlier today. it is logical to think that macron knows trump's latest thinking on this issue because the two have spoken at length in recent weeks. macron has led publicly the european effort to keep this deal alive. he put it on the line. he invested his international reputation, invested his domestic capital and tried to take advantage of his warm personal rapport with president trump. we saw that during his visit. despite all of that, he ultimately believes trump will withdraw from the deal. more than that, he talked about what he fears it could mean for the region and the world. he fears it could lead to war. >> phil black thanks very much for that. german leaders also are quietly

pressuring president trump to keep the deal intact. eye teaka shubert joins us from berlin. what's the latest there? >> absolutely. i mean, following up from what president macron did, chang lore angela merkel here in germany flew to d.c. again to drive home the point that germany believes in the iran deal, that it has to be kept intact. and germany has made it very clear that no matter what president trump says today germany believe this is deal needs to be kept in place and it will work to make sure it does. >> atika, thank you. thanks to call of our reporters. we be checking back with you to get reaction after we hear from the president. any minute now, the president will announce his decision. stay with us. we will have live coverage. it's a bold blend of coffee with rich flavors of uganda, sumatra, colombia and other parts of south america. like these mountains, each amazing on their own. but together? magical. all, for a smoother tasting cup of coffee. green mountain coffee roasters.

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washington. i want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. this is cnn's special live coverage of the most impactful and far reaching foreign policy decision of the trump presidency so far. we are talking about the future of the iran nuclear deal n. only moments the president will announce from the diplomatic room over at the white house whether the united statesl pull out of the obama-era agreement that aim to stop iran from developing nuclear weapons. if president trump rejects extending the deal, it would unravel several years of negotiations between iran and the world's major powers, including russia and china. and to the iranians, the u.s. exit would leave, quote, no deal left. and according to the iranians would be a historic mistake. still, sources say president trump is expected to push ahead on sanctions against iran, reimposing those sanctions. and that would be a first step toward pulling out of the actual agreement. and in an administration caught up in confusion and

contradiction, president trumps that consistently condemned this iran nuclear deal. >> the iran deal, which may be the single worst deal i have ever seen drawn by anybody. >> one of the worst and most one-sided transactions. >> it is a bad deal. it's a bad structure. it's falling down. should have never ever been made. >> what kind of a deal is it where you are allowed to test missiles all over the place? >> as we await the major announcement, we have the sorry covered only as cnn could do with our correspondents here in the united states and around the world. i'm going the start over at the white house. pamela brown is standing by, our senior white house correspondent. pamela, you are learning of more signs behind the scenes and at least right now that indicate the president will in fact exit the agreement? >> that's right. president trump is poised to announce a withdrawal from the iran nuclear deal.

and he's expected to make the case in the diplomatic room just moments from now that iran has continued with its nuclear weapons program. and we just received an excerpt of his prepared remarks. here's what the president is expected to say. the so-called iran deal was supposed to protect the united states and our allies from the lun asy of a iranian nuclear bomb. in fact, the deal allowed iran to continue enriching uranium and over time each the brink of a nuclear blackout. the president will add today we have definitive proof that this iranian promise was a lie. wolf, it is important to point out, though, that the president's chief intelligence officials have said publicly, as recent as a couple of months ago, that iran has not been in breach of the deal. in fact, the director of national intelligence said quote there has been no material breach of the deal when he was testifying before congress. and his new secretary of state, pompeo has also said there was no evidence that iran has not

been in compliance certainly the devil is in the details from what the president will lay out from the diplomatic room in making his case despite what his chief intelligence officials have been saying that there is evidence that iran has been moving forward with its nuclear weapons program. vice president pence is meeting on capitol hill -- or happenity meeting on capitol hill with senate republicans, briefing them on the details. and just in the final hours he made calls to chief congressional leaders, including paul ryan, mitch mcconnell as well, to bring them up to speed about the details of this decision, a decision a source is telling my colleague kevin lip tack, a final decision that was made just over this past weekend. but as you know, wolf, the president has been saying this for quite some time even from the campaign, that this is the worst deal in history. and he's been talking about potentially withdrawing. now we are finding out, wolf, that he will be making that