let me go to david ignatius with that question as well. u formulate your thoughts in the coming days and weeks and write your columns to your avid and faithful leaders, the leaders of not only this country but across the middle east and the world, what are you going to be looking at? let me frame harold's question to you as a journalist and an opinion shaper. what parts of this deal are you going to be looking most closely at? >> joe, i'm going to start at the same place that you did. i'm going to look at the way in which iranian compliance with this agreement will be inspected and verified. iran says privately that it is prepared to accept the additional protocol so-called which allows iea inspectors to go to any facility in iran where they have reason to suspect that prohibited activities are taking place. that's known as managed access. i want to look at the details of that, precisely what the trigger is. how much debate there is before it's on the ground. those details are really going to matter. i want to look at research and developme

brzezinski and david ignatius, thank you for coming on.omplicated, the deal with iran or my dad and i planning a trip to maine main. you try to plan a trip with this guy, it is point by point by point. >> what? >> have john kerry help you. ? we need john kerry. we do. all right. thank you. >> i think, so. mika, by the way, president carter said at some point we need to talk to your father about what the president gave him for his 50th birthday. that will come another time. >> no. not today. >> not today. not today. >> not today. dad, thanks. david, thank you. coming up deputy secretary of state tony blanken is up next on "morning joe." we'll be right back. listerine® total care helps prevent cavities strengthens teeth and restores tooth enamel. it's an easy way to give listerine® total care to the total family. listerine® total care. one bottle, six benefits. power to your mouth™. and for kids starting at age six, listerine® smart rinse delivers extra cavity protection after brushing. when you do business everywhere, the challenges of keep

next up, former cia deputy director steven capps and "the washington post" david ignatius talk abouthe ongoing efforts and challenges of combatting isis. the center for strategic and international studies hosted this event. >>> good morning everyone. thank you for joining us here at csis. for those who have not made your first visit to the building, i offer you a special welcome. before we get started i want to point out the emergency exits to the main doors in which you came today, also around the corner to the left there's another emergency exit. and in the back left corner near the little lounge area there's an exit there as well. my name is tom sanderson. i'm the director of the transnational threats project here at csis. happy to welcome you here. we are currently as a little bit of background conducting two studys that are ongoing, foreign fighter study looking at turkey tunisia and several other nations and the phenomenon of foreign fighters. just had an interesting conversation with steve about privacy and the foreign fighter issue and our values. i think maybe we'll get to t

a speechwriter for vice president joe biden, a republican strategist, and david ignatius is a columnist with "the washington post." david, i want to start with you. what was the option play for the president? i've been saying deal, no deal, bomb them. is there something else? >> well, you would just leave the situation as it is, walk away from the table. >> no deal. >> and say come back when you're ready to talk seriously and assume things will stay in place. what struck me about the deal, i read every page of it today, was that there had been a lot of fear secretary of state kerry would pull back from the framework negotiated in april. in fact, the squishy parts of that framework are made more solid and there's some new quite useful controls on iran that have been added. so all this talk about a cave-in, i just don't see it in the text of the deal. >> let me go to john. it seems there's real extreme talk on the republican right. some of it, i think, is just being supportive of israel politically which is not a bad move to make in any primary and the other is this very extremist, almost

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david ignatius associate editor and columnist for "the washington post." long and distinguished career, including since 2003 twice weekly globally distributed column on global politics and international affairs. executive director of the -- editor of the international herald tribune. the foreign editor of the post and for "the wall street journal," david served as a reporter, middle east correspondent and chief diplomatic correspondent. he's published in foreign affairs, "new york times" magazine, atlantic monthly and others. david is the author of nine novels including "body of lies" which was made into a movie starring leonardo dicaprio. his latest novel "the director" is about hacking and espionage. he's a fellow at harvard's kennedy school and is an adjunct lecturer. stephen kappes is a partner and chief operating officer of torch hill investors. he retired from the cia after 30 years of service. from 2006 to 2010, directly involved in the leadership and management of all elements of the agency under two different directors and two presidential adminis

as david ignatius said, it is a cosmic gamble.long time and i believe that it is every bit as dangerous a bet of george w. bush going into iraq in 2003. and yet, and yet. >> and yet. >> the difference between munich 1938 and today, the difference between marching jews 6 million jews into ovens and just negotiating a bad deal you can always go back on when you call up israel and say, you know what, i think we're all going to have to go in or six months from now, which i think is nor more likely when the french and british and americans go the iranians can't live by these words. we'll have to break the deal. to say they are marching them into ovens when there are so many other variables before we get there, mike has to be something crass and political. because why else would you compare it to marching people into ovens? >> you have to separate the deal from what's going on with mike huckabee and the others. you have a handful of republican candidates clinging to relevancy right now. clinging to relevancy. >> 3%. >> trying to make th

we heard from the former cia deputy director and "washington post" columnist david ignatius. this is an hour and a half. for those of you that haven't haven't made your first visit to the building we offer you a special welcome. before we get started i want to point out the emergency exits. there is an exit there as well. there's the transnational threats product happy to welcome you here. there's a background conducting two studies that are ongoing. the foreign fighters to be looking at turkey and tunisia and several other in the phenomena of the foreign fighters in the foreign fighter issue and values and i think maybe we will get to that today. also looking across the africa program run by jennifer cook won't make a couple of field visits bareknuckle. before it gets started i want to recognize the folks that joined us. the former cia and the transnational project committee of the senior advisor to the program and john nelson. thank you for joining us. and i would also like to welcome one of our advisors sitting in the back. let me first start off with a brief biography on

let me bring up the concern we heard around the table from everybody from david ignatius to donald trumpwait period. can you tell us scientifically why that doesn't matter why you can give iran a 24-day lead time before an international inspector has access to sites? >> first of all, let's distinguish between declared sites where we know they have nuclear activity where we have daily access or more precisely, the inspectors have daily access versus undeclared sites where our or other intelligence agencies point us to suspicious activity. in those cases, the p-5 plus one have established for the first time a finite time period for iran or any other country, for that matter to respond to the allegations, provide the access or be in material breach. when the 24 days we're very confident that activities involving nuclear materials will be detectable, in fact in 2003 exactly that happened. iran denied some nuclear activities in tehran. the agency the international agency finally got access after six months and they found uranium and caught them red handed. >> steve? >> we're recognizing all o

david. >>> in the green shirt? >> i am based in beirut, lebanon. >> following what mr. ignatius was saying but in a different way. there's a reality in the region about the seriousness about the u.s. and coalition to fight. is it really priority for the united states and its key allies in the coalition region to fight d.a.s.h. as the primary danger, the serious danger, the priority, or the potential influence of iran as a region or power, and the context of what is going on in the region, there is two camps the sunni and she shiite camp are fighting, and that's the reality about that. so is the united states capable of advancing fighting d.a.s.h., isis or al qaeda who has been forgotten in yemen now over turkey, saudi arabia qatar, others, where they have their priority to settle in the region against iran or removing the assad regime? who is driving the policy now? >> i will take a first quick shot. that's a great question, and it goes to the heart of the u.s. problem. we're trying to mobilize sunni allies fight isis daesh, who are more motivated to fight iran and shia power. and that is the basic problem of our