he's a political consultant in washington d c and a former safety at the ambassador dennis ross the former u s middle east presidential envoy to stay with the international relations committee of the us house of representatives welcome to the programs that a few days ago to the us ambassador to the un talks about around forty thousand people reportedly being killed in syria. just since the geneva to talks began in the woods of samantha power was the most concentrated period of killing in the meat on a generation of the conflict. g thing to me that she's actually making things worse is that links to this death toll perhaps. but i know it's making things worse but it's only now making things any better these thoughts one would say a word deadlock from the get go and always are transmitting on the ground which is which are referred to was the actual actually the regime intensifying its bombing using barrel palms over aleppo on the only thing that came out of the witch one possibly can say was a silver lining is that very limited agreement that both our homes is that any jaunts to the us can d

dennis ross, one of america's preeminent diplomats and foreign policy analysts who has served under democratic and republican presidents alike, has said iran should retain no more than 10% of its centrifuges, which is, in essence, no more than 2,000. now, these estimates are crucial because at the end of the day, we in this body will have to decide whether this is enough to merit terminating sanctions. is a six-month delay in iran's breakout ability enough? even when combined with a robust 20 years inspection and verification regime? understanding that in allowing iran to retain its enrichment capabilities, there will always be a risk of breakout. it may be that this is the only deal we can get. the real question is whether it is a good enough deal to merit terminating sanctions. my concern is that the joint plan of action does not speak to these recommended centrifuge limitations dennis ross or dr. albright suggest. in fact, iran has already made its views about the limitations of the agreement quite clear. what the joint plan of action does concede is that iran will not only retain its abili

drives me to concern is the gulf between the list that you and the institute and others have said dennis ross in his article for example and the gulf between that and everything that we here in iran in which president rouhani says we are not going to destroy. but there is a huge difference between where these two parties are at and certainly from the west perspective p5 plus one would be absolutely necessary to have a deal that is verifiable and that can be embraced. >> i think we have to plan for the deal not working or the negotiations to fail. president obama gave a 50/50 chance and the iranians gave less of a chance and administration officials below the president have given it a pretty low chance of success so if that is the true picture, then i do think we have to start putting in place some plans for failure and what will happen then and it may turn out that it may incentivize or give the iranians an incentive to compromise more. >> that brings me to the other point and i appreciate your work and insight overtime. first let's talk about the value of the sanctions relief that has been p

ross. >> just turning around. >>> meanwhile, one top market watcher says markets could be in for an ugly correction. dennisold cnbc the s&p 500 could fall 15% from the highs that were reached last week. >> you can't say a bear market has started until you've broken the trend lines, until you've rallied back. i'm not willing to say this is a bear market at all. i think you're going to have a very severe, very substantive and ugly correction that will probably make a lot of people wail and mash their teeth before it's done. >> sir richardson joins us now. it's possible, isn't it? we've come a pretty long way and a very straight loonk line for a long time. >> absolutely. in the last two, three years, every time we've had that sort of correction, we've had the authorities, whether it be in europe or the fed stepping in and doing whatever it takes. and this time around, we have the fed in the december minutes quite clearly. they've been very consistent now. our impression is to not do 10 million pem meeting now, something has to go wrong. >> yeah. they're not going to worry, we had this not to worry about equit