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evening friends we start tonight with president trump who is expected to decertify the iran nuclear deal by october fifteenth the troubled ministration believes that it is not in the best interest of the united states' national security interest to remain in the agreement the president is trying to convince the world of iran's bad intentions are to correspondent jacqueline vogel explains tonight i believe they're funding north korea i believe they are trading with north korea i believe they are doing things with that korea that is totally inappropriate in terms eyes iran is teaming up with another arch enemy of the united states but hey there's no challenge that trump can't overcome i think that the president is the one that's keeping the world from chaos the truth is this coming week dahlan trump is expected to take a major step to question the game changing nuclear deal reached with tehran that's

despite the fact that iran has been playing by the rules the u.n. nuclear agency the e.u. and the trumpet ministration itself have all come from the country is playing ball and sticking to the agreement washington has been trying for months to confuse the matter. adding a bit of double speak we agreed on the fact that. if you're dealing with a nuclear deal is that even. if he wants. to do it right i'm all for agreement with. the spirit of their agreement a little. revenge but that attempts left a couple of questions hanging in the air how do you determine if the spirit of the deal is being violated and is that reason enough to back out so unsurprisingly that approach wasn't quite cutting it and perhaps that's why trump's latest strategy involved adding another international troublemaker p.-n.

yang to the mix it's obvious that trump wants to discredit iran by making false accusations when it with regard to north korea trumps accusations have no basis to the united states gives or sells hundreds of billions of dollars of weapons to regimes like saudi arabia the united arab emirates where's your honest defense spending is but a fraction of these countries is very small in comparison and if he does decertify the agreement basically it will show the international community that the united states is an untrustworthy country and it's not a country that you can negotiate with the aggressive rhetoric between north korea and the white house has put the possibility of nuclear war on everyone's minds and with no solution to that in sight we are now also facing the possible consequences of dismantling the nuclear deal with the iran on friday trump met with top military officials reportedly addressing the agreement and left everyone uncomfortable with

an impromptu and rather ominous message. to. the world is perplexed by what that could possibly mean but we think we have a pretty good idea storm donald is already making landfall. batten down the hatches . president trump is expected to make an announcement on the iran nuclear deal later this week this move is leaving many of america's european allies quite nervous and uncertain about the future the military has been following the story tonight and joins us with more below what is the latest reaction on the show you know ed america's european allies still view this nuclear deal as an international achievement despite president trump admonishing it as the worst deal ever the german foreign minister said margot brielle told reporters that not only was the iran nuclear deal a great diplomatic success but that the president's assessment of it contradicts all of the findings from the e.u.

here's what the vice president of the european commission had to say about the possibility of decertifying the deal since we reached a deal two years ago the international atomic energy agency has been monitoring the implementation of the deal including with inspections and had a certified iran's to compliance eight times we have an interest and the responsibility a duty to preserve the nuclear deal with iran and the implications of decertification go well beyond any potential backlash from iran itself but rather it will impact america's capacity for negotiations with others such as north korea now former pentagon official michael maloof told me that this will weaken america's image not only with our allies but perhaps more importantly among our enemies the europeans and selves could say the same thing look you entered into this in good faith we have not found any material violations of the agreement and that's one of the

stipulations in the even in the congressional act. nobody has been able to point per se to a violation as such and therein is a weakness in terms of the administration's position what they're trying to use that agreement for is to get other elements. so as you saw there it's unclear if the president really intends to truly withdraw from this international accord or if he is simply using the withdrawal as a negotiating tool for more leverage in business dealings with iran in the future whatever the case partners china russia they intend to uphold their end of the bargain with iran and seek to improve relations there with or without america. thank you manila for more on this and the future of the iran nuclear deal we're joined tonight by former u.s. diplomat jim jatra jim why are there so many countries all over the map on this issue well i don't think they are mostly all over the map i think most of the

countries are on the side that this deal is whatever its flaws may be needs to stay in place it was a positive step and and actually is something of an achievement really the only significant achievement i can think of of the obama administration and does decertify if somehow the u.s. does pull out of this agreement i think we will be pretty much alone ok so how damages that damaging is that you think i think it really depends on what happens next if the president trumps thinks that by decertifying the deal or by pulling out we can then pressure iran into a much better deal which the dresses the other questions like missile development i don't think that's going to happen my fear is however that a lot of the people who are calling for us to pull out of the deal were to take the deal what they really want is a war with iran they want regime change in tehran and the question isn't so much what trouble do about this deal but if he does pull us out of the deal what happens

next are we really going to go down that road. well this opens the door for a big response from russia and china where do you think they'll come down on this i think they'll denounce the move if we do that i think the real question is what do the iranians do because i think part of the strategy of the people here against the agreement is to force the iranians or at least to press them to say all right that's it if the americans are not going to stick by the agreement we're calling off to we now are no longer bound by the agreement i think the ago radians would be very foolish to do that because right now if the united states does pull out they still got a deal with the europeans the russians and the chinese they will be all be on the same page and it will be the united states that's nice elated i think that's actually would be a good move for the iranians i think we all know how trivial the president can be at times is there any motivation here just to undo this because it was accomplished under president obama what about that i think that's an element of it i think there

is an element of ego here i think the other thing is this idea that i can make a deal better remember unlike most of the other republican candidates he did not say i will tear up his deal he said i will i like to take over bad deals and make them better maybe he thinks that somehow he can press the iranians to renegotiate that in fact there was a report the other day saying oh the iranians now will negotiate on missile technology but the iranians rapidly denied that. so where does this leave north korea in the mix doesn't this really open the door for north korea to make sure that they have and keep their nuclear program if this deal is done do you see a connection here at all i do see a connection but to tell the truth that i don't think it changes that much because i didn't don't see if iran didn't exist i don't see any circumstances where the north koreans are going to give up their nuclear weapons it's not even a so much what what's going on with iran they look at libya they look at iraq they realize that the longevity of the regime of kim jong un personally depends on

having nuclear weapons i don't think we're going to give them up no matter what happens with iran. jim janitress always a pleasure good to have you with us tonight thanks so much. in other news on capitol hill tennessee senator bob corker who is the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee is sounding the alarm about president trump corker tells the new york times in an interview that the president is leading us to world war three corker also said the white house is an adult daycare center they've gone back and forth from return fire on twitter claiming that corker didn't have the guts to run for reelection in tennessee and wanted to be the secretary of state in the trumpet ministration what corker is saying might have a lot more impact if he was running for reelection you could make might make that judgment. he has nothing to lose but maybe an old score to settle whatever that might be for more on this let's go to our panel tonight mitch caesar former florida

democratic chair is with us and also sean steele former california g.o.p. chair with us gentlemen good to have you with us i don't i don't know what the upside of this is we've got so many hot spots around the world this rainy a nuclear deal the issue with north korea the back and forth there and now the president's decided to pick a fight with the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee it almost demonstrates i think a lack of stability xan what do what does this signal to the country about donald trump. you know i think it's another case of underestimating donald trump bob corker kind of an average senator nothing really special closely aligned to the iran deal but he's also close a lot line to the old world order of republicans in the senate where they won't change the rules they tilt in favor of the democrats they slow down the process and i think you're looking at some very serious primary challenges and corker is

a first of all he would not survive a primary in a conservative state like tennessee so he's an angry person but he's part of the old order that trump who is a very impatient businessman is pushing out and first of all the odds are overwhelmingly good for republicans to capture the senate notwithstanding some of the the the wishes of the democrats and secondly you're going to find a new element a new newer younger leadership of senators that is going to a change the order so i think this is part of a long term strategy i think it's smart politics in the sense that it lets people know let down the marker that that the old horses in the in the u.s. senate are changing a bass lee new political dynamic you think of smart politics to attack the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee i mean mitch i have never seen a president do this before in my lifetime in this manner. no i don't it honestly

you know the fact that corker is not running i call him a free range politician that means he can roam around and do what everyone's to do and say we want to say from his heart i think this chap would always use a very fragile majority the senate which hasn't worked out too well for the president not only among foreign relations which he shares a comedian who said if they ever go back to health care if they ever have a tax package plus senators in the back of their mind know that trump deals with alternate realities when he doesn't like an answer he simply creates another one that's part of the show business reality show thing i think it's it plays to the base again and remember trump is made it and successfully i have to say he has made him more self more popular than any of the republicans in congress this way he can get into this kind of engagement corkers being honest he's giving people the courage to come forward which so far none the republicans really in congress have done and obviously because he's not running again but it's not

a good long term strategy nothing's getting done in the republicans are in charge of everything you know and could this start a revolt in the republican party there's a lot of whispering on capitol hill that there are other republicans that feel this way and they just haven't said it yet you think there's any credibility in that i don't because they've showed no courage so far remember you have steve bannon now on the outside of the white house which is a much better place for him to be politically for trump he's the lord high primary executioner he stands there is the threat saying we will primary you so i don't see them coming forward and and having a lot of courage maybe god can it will take some terrible world event for that to happen and shine you don't think that corker's got any support on capitol hill how do you assess that. well i think he's a very lonely person he really wanted to be secretary of state he applied for it he

gave interviewed for it he didn't get it and now we know why because he's a bit on tethered not acting very professional in a sense that you would think a dignified senior statesman should but his political career is over he knows that he's not going to be even a very good footnote so he's kind of a sore loser the way he's walking away but well you know it's going to be ten big it's interesting ted you've got a guy that i will not run running for reelection that a guy that's not running for reelection decides to come out be so aggressive i'll hand you that shuns deal and also. both of you with us tonight thanks that thanks so much well we'll see thank you the e.p.a. will work to repeal the obama administration's two thousand and fifteen clean coal plan the legislation encourages states to move away from coal towards renewable sources of energy e.p.a. head scott pruitt referred to the legislation as part of the war on coal several leading environmental groups of condemned the move in are promising legal action

meanwhile the republican tax plan is likely to include clauses to open up arctic national wildlife refuge to oil drilling for more on all of this we're joined tonight by former u.s. trading commissioner part chilton part nice to have you with us you know let's talk taxes first the republicans have been saying for three decades that they want to simplify the tax forms and simplify the process and lower the rates but then they just never get it done is this the year and minucci is saying that it's going to get done by the end of the year you've got capitol hill experience what do you make of all of this well i think that maybe treasury secretary minucci is looking through not just some rose colored glasses but maybe some drug inspired glasses me getting anything done this year it is just really i think almost impossible i wouldn't put any bet on it now it could happen you know first quarter second quarter. next year but i just don't see it happening everybody other than you know

i guess maybe accountants and tax preparers want tax simplification and that's what the president talked about changing the rates to just going down to thirty five from thirty nine point six for the for the top rate and twenty five for the middle rate in twelve for the ten to twelve for the lower rate and that's all good but you know i think it's justifiably a legitimate criticism that you're reducing the taxes on the people at the high end and raising the taxes just from ten to twelve on the lower end so we'll see what happens is also going to reduce the corporate rate of course said down to twenty percent from thirty five percent so we'll see how it goes but at this point i think there's not much hope of getting it done this year. well you know and the big story here as far as taxes are concerned is that the senate budget and the house budget proposals are going to be looking for new revenues and they're talking about anwar

is this going to happen well you know they come up with all sorts of creative financing mechanisms and opening up the arctic national wildlife anwar as you say might raise a you know i know several hundred million dollars this plan that they put forward for tax cuts ed is going to cost five trillion dollars are the estimates yet the budget only requires only calls for one point eight trillion dollars so they've got a lot of money to make up to make this thing revenue neutral and they have to find what they call it and as you know in this town the pay for this and the pay for is here may include anwar i mean these this interior department the administration but specifically with regard to anwar this interior department is trying to scale back on a lot of these rules just like e.p.a. scaling back as you've talked about the clean coal program the obama administration so you know this is all about scaling back and if they can scale back at the same

time raise some revenues like they can with oil drilling in anwar they may look at that as a good thing but long way till anything gets completed in that regard. bart chilton always a pleasure nice to have you with us tonight thanks for the insight in other news wildfires are ravaging california destroying homes and displacing thousands of people over a hundred people are being treated for smoke inhalation and burns in sonoma and napa valley authorities estimate up to fifteen hundred structures have been destroyed along with fifty seven thousand acres so far in these fires ten people have lost their lives and twenty thousand people have been displaced people from liberated towns in the syrian province of dura zor are trying to get their lives back in order and on track after three years of being surrounded by islamic state extremists. as the story tonight of two young sisters who battle for survival

continues. meet sadly she's five maybe six seven she doesn't know and the smog of the streets. surviving ice is siege of datasource was no mean feat soon and many perished as a result of the sickness might. sally is a survivor she has a sister and brother who abandoned by their parents years ago they divorced and left the children to fend for themselves she spent the days baking stealing playing and surviving a new lease you don't for them in this life now back home i wanted to take her in and she kept escaping that i sent people to look for her and she never stays in one place long scapes.

sally's system all she has left since her brother died of starvation we found the older girl at the end of this gloomy bullet riddled cargill is a room with broken windows in it leaves a young girl with only flight bloodstain mattresses for company. about some month ago sagitta who doesn't remember age was brought in with a head injury when she fell she damaged an implant that siphons away the fluid different people tell different versions some say the full was accidental others attempted suicide the reason for optimism sidesteps suffering has touched

a chord action is being taken to get the pills out of bed and saw but for now all they really have aside from their promises. is each other or i guess do you see from that it's over syria. hundreds of thousands took to the streets of barcelona spain on sunday took back spanish unity and denounced the cattle and governments push for independence the rally comes as catalonia as president is expected to proclaim the region independent in an address to the regional parliament on tuesday artie's on a stasi a charkha has the story tonight. thought he was. absolutely lovely. these people by u.t.c.

until. their region i don't believe and so on. but the ninety percent of those who came out to vote in favor waving spain goodbye and of silver first also expects promises to be kept for the over eight hundred people injured on the day of the referendum the question of could it also have been for nothing is now live. meanwhile madrid has made it clear it won't budge spain's prime minister mariano rajoy point. says he's not ruling anything out including suspending the region's autonomy and has vowed to take any measures necessary to prevent catalonians independence we're going to prevent independence from occurring that is why i can tell you without salute frankness that it will not happen when all i mean about him on nobody seems wrong to me not because he thinks so but because in a democracy the president must protect the people's right to choose our goal was to

do as little damage as possible what happened was due to stubbornness and holding a referendum when they knew it was absolutely illegal it was very irresponsible of those who made that decision. i think the government has behaved very severely and aggressively towards a kind of legitimate and democratic of catalan citizens it's about two for europe it's about two for european values and we have to win the national populism goes against european values and i think it would appear european i don't think so because europe should give us more support it doesn't seem to me that there's a battle going on between his government and you who does not say anything that makes sense he does not listen he does not try to hold a dialogue and i do not understand why he is still in his post if he was receptive and humane person he would resign from behind these walls of the capsule and parliament that the next big steps for the region are expected to come from catalan

leader carlos puts demond promised action towards independence within forty eight hours of official referendum results but has avoided specifics since this week all eyes will be on what happens here next. well known film producer harvey weinstein has been removed from his position at the weinstein company over allegations of sexual harassment a statement released by the company mentioned new revelations about weinstein's misconduct although hollywood insiders say weinstein's behavior was an open secret for decades conservative groups like breitbart have used the scandal to point to a double standard when it comes to liberals who were accused of sexual harassment for more on this let's turn to legal and media analyst lionel tonight lionel where is the double standard here in this story as you see it the same way. well a couple of things let's look back at two thousand five there was a clandestine conversation between billy bush and then candidate trump or not that

have been gathered from just drawn from two thousand and five know this wasn't made in front of anybody who it was it was awful behavior i can go on and on and on that was resurrected by and i use these terms liberals are edgy trump folks to get the man impeached over a private conversation now recently it has been that was has been the subject and the baiting of the existence of many many people who are claiming that trump is unfit to do to serve as present president this week when as said now after this harvey weinstein came up not to mention lauren michaels that to new york thing but add as this has occurred as this develops and sunday night this is changing hour by hour the latest apoc recy is lisa bloom lisa bloom who was the daughter of gloria allred famed feminist lawyer of renown took on the case was kind of sort of harvey weinstein's lawyer turns out she had penned a deal for

a docu series with harvey weinstein members of the weinstein board said we don't think you're able to serve as his representative then the new york times reveals that she proposed perhaps discrediting witnesses women who came forward this is from a feminist lawyer they also said that harvey weinstein himself was removed because he was perhaps this is what variety alleges today and involved in getting people to perhaps change their testimony so all in all you have since sunday a maelstrom of activity the likes of which i have not seen or can imagine you know . and of course he's a big political donor to liberals and some on capitol hill are giving their money back senator blumenthal says that he's going to donate all of the money that he got from weinstein lionel good to have you with us and i appreciate it developing story

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