>> it certainly is.
>>> all right, who do we have on
now, willie?
>> joining us now at the table,
former deputy national security
adviser under president obama,
now an nbc news and msnbc
political contributor ben
rhodes, the author of the new
book "the world as it is, a
memoir of the obama white
house."
>> and willie, he's got to be
thrilled.
how smooth we operate here.
>> he dives right into the nbc
family, we've taught him the
secret hand shake.
ben, just broadly, to ask about
your reaction to the decision by
president trump to pull out of
the iran deal, something you
helped orchestrate.
in your view what are the
implications of that?
>> well, first of all, this is
something that took seven years
to put th.
years of sanctions with our
allies, years of negotiating
these painstaking restrictions
on the iranian nuclear program.
now you'll see a gradual
unraveling of the deal.
it's likely iran may restart
elements of its nuclear program
and that will leave us between a
choice of taking...