under the jc poa. so my understanding is that our efforts to understand that iran has access to assets that we have committed to release to them is really about ensuring the banks understand how that money can be accessed, it is not my understanding there is anything beyond that. >> has the department received instruction from the white house or has the department of state signaled treasury that it needs to search for ways to allow iran to get access to dollars through mechanism that doesn't directly impact transaction within the u.s. bank. >> i've not received that instruction. >> the fundamental question, i know you said that doesn't touch the dollar but i want to make the point for the record. by allowing a u.s. u.s. bank a general license to move money offshore it is in essence access to the u.s. dollar. it is not technically happening within the united states per se, but we know that money is going to be used for. the general license would be used to provide liability protection to the u.s. bank.

under the jc poa. so my understanding is that our efforts to understand that iran has access to assets that we have committed to release to them is really about ensuring the banks understand how that money can be accessed, it is not my understanding there is anything beyond that. >> has the department received instruction from the white house or has the department of state signaled treasury that it needs to search for ways to allow iran to get access to dollars through mechanism that doesn't directly impact transaction within the u.s. bank. >> i've not received that instruction. >> the fundamental question, i know you said that doesn't touch the dollar but i want to make the point for the record. by allowing a u.s. u.s. bank a general license to move money offshore it is in essence access to the u.s. dollar. it is not technically happening within the united states per se, but we know that money is going to be used for. the general license would be used to provide liability protection to the u.s. bank.

i wanted to ask you a final question about the jc poa or the iran deal. in their there is a provision that said the u.s. must cooperate through training and workshop to strengthen their ability to prevent sabotage. has the u.s. help them protect against sabotage of their nuclear program? >> i cannot speak to the u.s. government as a whole. i can tell you sue u.s. cyber command has not participated in any activity. >> thank you. >> thinking mr.. i miss some of the discussion and i don't want to be repetitive, but i want to go back to an interchange that you had with the chair in the open question that he asked. i met recently with the senior military leader who try to basically summarize his sense of things and he said we have plans but no strategy. i've been thinking about that. i think in your back and forth with the chair you talked about, and i think others may have asked you, this notion that we are reacting case-by-case to cyber attacks and deciding in each instant what we want to do. the idea of a broader doctrine, if it's a deterrence policy on how