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. >> to follow up now joining us is christopher dickey, for the daily beast.s written as an agent of social change. soap opera. i have an american sense of soap opera. a little sex, and a little crazy. these are quite sophisticated productions. >> they are. they are the same as a soap opera in a sense that people come to identify request the characters. anyone who watches soap operas in the united states gets to know all the women and men involved, gets to know the romances and relationships almost as if they're part of their own families. what these open operas for social change is act on this kind of emotion. so you bring the public into the situations of the characters and the open some ar are soap operat just selling soap but inside, ideas for social change whether its birth control, or bringing society coming together to work as a team. >> isn't the aim to make the messages ex-polithe's if you have a fight then this will happen? this sort of violence results in this? i don't know, no, joie. if it's didactic like that then no one will watch it, and no one

christopher dickey for "the daily beast" and news week. i'm glad to see you, my friend.t and the prospects of a deal. where do you put it in. >> i think the prospects are good for a deal but maybe not this weekend. i think they've come to a point where they have to cross a lot of ts and dot a lot of is, and once they in this paper, once they have this paper, it's going to be very hard to back away from. so everybody's getting very nervous the closer this he get to actually firming up the deal. but it was unimaginable a couple of years ago that we would ever come this far this fast. and just the last two months have seen enormous progress. i think there will be a deal just maybe not this weekend. >> word is christopher, the last 24 hours or so it's the french that are holding up this draft deal because they say it does not do enough. how have they approached iran in recent years? >> well, they've been very tough on iran. the previous french administration nicolas sarkozy's presidency was tough on iran and francois hollande has been, as well. they don't trust the iranians.

. >>> christopher dickey is the mid east editor for the "daily beast." i asked him why some members of congress are pushing for more sanctions. >> you know, it's easy for the senate and for the house to look tough on iran. there is no real iranian constituency in the united stat states. nobody is going to go to their voters look we stood up for iran and nobody wants to be portrayed that were. in addition, you've got, of course, the israeli or the israeli government and its representatives in the united states pushing very hard agains israeli government and its representatives in the united states pushing very hard agai t against. and you have the sawudsaudis, m kwooiblt strongly pushing for a tougher stand on iran. in a sense, there is no percentage in backing the administration at this point. and the president is in a weak position with congress on this issue. >> the way it's portrayed in the media is that the french may have stopped any sort of deal. is that from your standpoint what happened or not? >> yeah, that is what happened. the french have beco