turning to iran and the jcpoa. the jcpoa agreement was flawed at multiple levels. first i'd like to address the technical problems. it allows iran to continue to conduct certain research and development activities on more efficient centrifuge machines that, , if deployed on a larger scale, would significantly reduce the number required to produce highly enriched uranium, and could make clandestine enrichment facilities are difficult to detect. it also does not provide irreversibility of limitations imposed on existing centrifuge equipment. for example, i are one centrifuges in excess of jcpoa limitations are stored, not destroyed. now, president trump has underscored the dangers posed in a sunset provision in the jcpoa. but technical examples include ending the limit on iran's stockpile of uranium hexafluoride, rich to 3.67%. in selling infrastructure for the advanced ir-8 centrifuges. and eventually ending containment and surveillance of centrifuge rotors as well as ending prohibition to operate additional heavywater reactors or accumulations of heavywater. the ve

there are likely be our jcpoa today. there is little evidence that iran cheated in the iran deal. but the chance for these people they squander the economic opportunities instead of focusing on us is something that we should be able to get behind. as a media and government, and this is built for western democracy support. >> going back to the point of how intelligent people choose their slogan really hits hard at the regime itself, my colleague mentioned -- it's much more recent because people are not loving it because of the tater. people love him because he oppose the clergy. the 200 years of coalition between the clergy and the imperial court he single-handedly ended that coalition, kicked it out of the interior court. that's why they're calling his name and not his son who actually brought back that coalition and the limited sense of away, give more freedom and much more freedom to clergy he talked that it would be in his favor against the left. but at the end they were the same clergy that actually cause the collaps

agreed thatof us the jcpoa fueled this adventurism. forcesas not for the activities outside iran, there would likely be a jcpoa today. there was little evidence iran treated, but there was all the evidence that annexes fueled this adventurism. and a chance for the iranian people that he squandered the economic opportunities on this adventurism, instead of focusing on us. it is something we should be able to get behind as a media, and as a government. again, this is built for western support. >> going back on the point of how intelligently these demonstrations choose their slogans. to really hit the regime hard. mentioned they are for, or as a shop -- rezasah. people are not loving him from dictatorship, people love him because he opposes the clergy , he200 years of coalition single-handedly and the coalition. checked the clergy out of the imperial court. that is why they are calling his name, not his son who actually brought back the coalition in a limited sense. who gave a more freedom and much more freedom to the clergy. he said they

i think that the jcpoa is just one part of that overall picture.know if that's going to succeed in time but looking in the near term and the long-term the intellectual effort that's gone into how to think about u. s. sanctions is going to weaken sanctions and weaken the role of new york and the banking sector. >> thank you very much for your thoughts this morning. that was the senior fellow now u.k. trade secretary says a no deal brexit is is now the most likely out tps cocome he put the chance at failing to reach an agreement with the eu at 60% and also lashed out saying that brussels needs to decide whether to act in the best interests of its people u.k. chancellor phillip hammonds warned of a french-led attempt to try to bind them in red tape after the brexit he urged businesses to find ways to compensate for any loss of business with europe and in corporate news, softbank has reported a 50 fold increase in first quarter net profit largely due to revenue earned through it's saudi backed $100 billion investment funds >> softbank sales were up by

we removed from jcpoa and ratchet up sanctions, iranians are clearly threatened and feel they need to deter up and i think that's what was behind naval exercises. mike: speaking of naval exercises which carries the world's oil, that gets the attention of the u.s. military as well. >> it sure does. that's not uncommon effort by the iranians to deliver a message frequently use, recently they threatened to shut down and again, this highlights that right now we are in a period of great aclamony because they are causing problems in the region, you look at what they are doing in syria with assad, that's iran's doing and russia's and efforts in iraq to sell discord among shiite population against most governments and against sunni population. they've really, i think, should be held accountable in responsible for creating dish that's middle east. lots of threats developing there as a result of ongoing violence clashes. mike: how much of this is iranian regime under pressure from its own pressure? we have seen stories, video, people taking to the streets and protesting their own government, ho

is in violation of the terms of the jcpoa.ropeans and which i these can save a rump version of the deal, maybe there's a way back into a diplomatic process. this idea that we tear up the deal, we impose partial economic pressure that doesn't quite measure up to the pressure that we altogether imposed eight years ago and miraculously we go back to the table and get much, much more than we did the first time around, that just doesn't work. >> hagar, the president did tweet that iran's economy is going very bad very fast. you can see it there. he says i will meet or not meet, it doesn't matter, it's up to them. there are some signs that there are real issues in the iranian economy. how does that play into this back and forth? >> well, listen, the iranian government has never really pursued good economic policies. they complained for years during sanctions that the u.s. san sanctions were targeting their people at large which wasn't true. they had bad economic policies and terrible safeguards which is one of the reasons european b

i think we all agree that the jcpoa fueled this. if it wasn't for the activities outside of iran, there would be a jcpoa today. there is will evidence that iran cheated and the deal. the resolve the evidence that -- fueled this. a chance if you squander the opportunities from the jcpoa and feta focusing on us, is seven we should be able to get behind. as a media and as a government. going back on the point of how intelligent people and demonstrations chooser slogans to really hit hard at the regime mentioned that they're not calling for -- bird --. who is much more recent, people are not loving russia because of the --, he opposes the clergy. betweens of coalition the clergy and the imperial court. russia's single-handedly ended that coalition. that is why they are calling his name and not his son who dropped sensealition in a limited , gave more freedom and much more to the clergy. they would be in his favor against the last. cost the same clergy that the collapse. on the positive note, you can see the slogans are very intelligent.

to maintain the support they have, the other signatories to they have, the other signatories to the jcpoaes to thejcpoa, will continue the same course. if you see iran moving towards a harder line, especially with regards to developing its nuclear and ballistic missile programme, europe will shy away quickly from the jcpoa. china programme, europe will shy away quickly from thejcpoa. china and russia will be the outliers, they will continue to be upset with the us and some their nose at the us, to get them to go along with us sanctions. there's going to be a real disconnect not only between the us and the other signatories, but probably also between what europe is willing to do versus china and russia are willing to do. so if you don't see much help coming from other signatories to the deal, that is going to be really bad for the iranian economy, isn't it? allowed the iranian economy is already in a pretty bad place but there's going to be some leakage from the sanctions. europe is to dollar rise to two avoid us sanctions and get away with it, china is not. that's going to be the interest

they can do that because of the fact that once the united states walked out of the jcpoa, the russian government became the only refuge for iran. europe will do nothing for iran, that is pretty clear. certainly the united states won't, even though trump says he will now negotiate with anyone in iran, they certainly don't believe him. that leaves russia. iran does not have anywhere to turn except russia and possibly china and while china may give it money, it cannot give it the political and military support it needs against the west. therefore, russia is in a position, or so it believes, to deliver, if i may use that term, iran in some sense, but it is not strong enough or willing to enforce the situation where a -- iranian gets kicked out of syria altogether because it cannot do that and knows it would simply further destabilized syria and undermine everything moscow has accomplished. so it is in a strategically fortunate decision. -- position. it is now the primary interlocutor between israel and iran and the united states has been forced to accept russia on its terms. which is the

partners, and is reimposing sanctions on companies that are doing business that's allowed under the jcpoa. >> the purpose of the sanctions is simply to deny the iranian regime revenues to finance terrorism. that's the purpose of maximum economic pressure. the point is not to create any rifts with other nations. but when you look at the kind of money that iran provides to assad and to shia militias and to hezbollah, it's billions and billions of dollars. we need to look at drying up those revenue streams. that is the purpose of our maximum economic pressure campaign. we have had teams from the state department and the treasury department who have now visited i want to say 24 countries in most regions of the world. that work will continue in the coming months and we have very good discussions with allies around the world, because when you look at the range of iranian threats, especially around missiles and cyber, maritime aggression, terrorism, these are concerns of other nations. united states is not alone in that regard. i find that when we sit down and talk with other nations, there are

off yesterday by the eu and the three major member states of the eu that negotiated and signed the jcpoa following the us line for a change, germany and france. that statute basically says you cannot impose sanctions on us, is that the gist of what they are trying to say? it goes even further. it was introduced in 1996 in similar circumstances in retaliation to us sanctions on sudan and cuba and says it is actually illegal for european companies to comply with these sanctions, then it says that they cannot be enforced in any court in europe and finally it says that the eu will facilitate legal action by any company to recover assets from the sanctioning entity, rather than mutually stated, no less, the us government, to compensate itself any losses it has occurred. tough language, see how that pans out. for iranians, it is certainly not symbolic. already, ever since donald trump said we are going to do this, they have had to feel the pinch. as you going to do this, they have had to feelthe pinch. as you have going to do this, they have had to feel the pinch. as you have said, going to do

critical will be how firm europe stands behind the jcpoa.p administration said that will continue, they aren't imposing vat, or not imposing their political will on that area, or has that moved? that hasn't necessarily moved —— that. there is ambiguity about waivers being granted in the way they were last time the sanctions we re they were last time the sanctions were arrived. -- imposed. is she still sticking to the fact europe and the wider world should be taking oil? that's exactly right. all of the signatories to thejcpoa, apart from the americans, who withdrew unilaterally, for the moment are fully behind it, and that includes the eu, france, germany and the united kingdom. as we saw yesterday, ambassadorjohnson, the us ambassador to the uk, was in the broadsheets basically urging the uk to stand with america on this. colin, thank you very much indeed. let's brief you on some other business stories. uk firms are struggling to recruit staff after a steep fall in people arriving from from the european union according to a new report. some

>> what they have been doing is desperately trying to keep europe on board with the jcpoa. they have been lobbying hard. even some former officials i hear, u.s. officials, have been in europe trying to get them to keep the deal and ignore the u.s. sanctions. let's face it. iranian leaders have a lot more to worry about than u.s. sanctions. they have had the deal with iras a matter of respecting international agreement and security. do you think european countries are willing to let their companies do business with iran? >> i think iran is cornered. eventually this deal with collapse and put iran into the brotion they have to come back to the united states and ask for a new deal. if iranian leaders listen to their people and the people who put the rouhani regime in place, we'll see what we can do to move forward. adam: the president said he would be willing to meet with mr. rouhani. >> he has opened the door for hem to do so. we'll see what happened. there are more sanctions to come if their behavior does not change come november. adam: if the president were to meet with rou

with missile programs, we know that iran in various ways was violating the iran nuclear agreement, jcpoauropeans have been trying to undermine our policies. they are not succeeding because europe is still relatively free, the government can -- can't tell the businesses what to do and the businesses are being told by their compliance officers and others, look, we can do business with iran but we will cut out from the u.s. market and the u.s. market is absolutely essential to us, the iranian market is not. increasingly we are seeing european businesses saying we are going to abide by the u.s. sanctions, we don't want secondary sanctions on us and we don't want to be cut out of the market, that's very frustrating for the governments but the government deserves to be frustrated because they should be acting with us to curve the nefarious behaviors of iran. paul: cliff, we don't have much time but let me ask you one final question what about iran,e u.s. policy towards iran is not regime change, design today change behavior. is that really true or do they secretly privately really want regime

there is very little that the europeans can do to save the jcpoa so that the europeans can do to savecan‘t do is compel international companies to maintain their presence and visibility in iran. many european and international companies are withdrawing to protect themselves from us sanctions. mr trump thinks iran will come back to the negotiating table. i have a feeling they will be talking to us soon. but lately all we‘ve had is a lot of heated rhetoric on both sides. of donald trump is trying to change iranian behaviour, it‘s not happened yet. now it‘s time to get all the latest from the bbc sports centre. i‘m chris mitchell and coming up some of the biggest names in tennis and the little master, one of the biggest names in cricket. preparations are stepping up for the us open. the final tennis major of the year is less than a month away and 19 of the world‘s top 20 mens players are in toronto for the rogers cup. the world number one rafael nadal — who hasn‘t played since wimbledon last month — is the top seed and the spaniard says he feels much better for a rest. it's it‘s importan

and find themselves to be in precarious position, iranian people expectations had to be rising after jcpoaigned, may have believed that economic situation would get better but in fact, it's getting worse, they've always been concerned about the potential for arab spring coming to iran with populist uprisings that could threaten the regime, watch for the potential for increased domestic oppression in iran while secretary pompeo who just announced that brian hook would be our special representative for iran seeks to message iranian people and deliver coherent strategy for dealing with iran's aggression. rob: could get even worse as the u.s. starts sanctioning countries that are buying iranian oil as they are threatening to do, thank you for your time, we appreciate it. >> my pleasure. >> first andrew cuomo started war of wards with president trump after saying this, remember. >> we are not going to make america great again, it was never that great. [laughter] >> here he goes again, wait until you hear what the new york liberal just said in a church. rob: milk or water, those could be the onl

they are signed on to jcpoa, the fravp germans said they are sticking french and germans say they areusiness agent are you confident they will come with us. >> first off if i had great suggestion would be when you are done talking to me to maybe bring ambassador bolton on, to answer that, he is coming on in a few minutes. >> yes he is. >> what you have -- that is right so you have some companies inside of these countries, that they have to choose between doing business with the world's largest economy or iran going to choose united states all of the time, we saw it as jcpoa was being negotiated, a fact remains today in different crunches, that is an important aspect now, the uk it seems, is just about there at this point, i think uk has -- you know original objections, and made progress towards our position, france might be behind uk, germany last, but i think that reality of having to choose between two academi economies maximum leverage people take for granted. >> i want to get your take what you want to see in terms of social media with targeting conservatives do you want legislati

pulling out of the jcpoa. what will europe do? will it go against the u.s.?they are in a bit of a box. the european union had made steps to try and protect its companies from the effects of the u.s. sanctions but as a practical matter, these firms are not going to be willing to risk the massive u.s. market in exchange for the prospect of small gains in iran. so the effect of the sanctions, though the europeans may speak against them and want to resist them, will, in fact, still have an impact on businesses trying to do work in iran. one of the u.s. officials said that 100 companies have already announced they are going to withdraw from the markets, so they are in a pretty tough place. >> thank you, joe. let's do a quick check of the latest and softbank is mulling an i.p.o. over its wireless arm with the potential of over $90 billion. talking to advisers of the final decision and will depend on feedback. $30 billion would make it the argest listing ever. >> seeing creditors and bankrupt toys 'r us are making an opening bid for its operations in asia. far less

with missile programs, we know that iran in various ways was violating the iran nuclear agreement, jcpoa, the europeans have been trying to undermine our policies. they are not succeeding because europe is still relatively free, the government can -- can't tell the businesses what to do and the businesses are being told by their compliance officers and others, look, we can do business with iran but we will cut out from the u.s. market and the u.s. market is absolutely essential to us, the iranian market is not. increasingly we are seeing european businesses saying we are going to abide by the u.s. sanctions, we don't want secondary sanctions on us and we don't want to be cut out of the market, that's very frustrating for the governments but the government deserves to be frustrated because they should be acting with us to curve the nefarious behaviors of iran. paul: cliff, we don't have much time but let me ask you one final question what about iran,e u.s. policy towards iran is not regime change, design today change behavior. is that really true or do they secretly privately really want

the iranians have been incredibly unhelpful especially since the president pulled out of the jcpoa. problems for the israelis and all over syria, certainly in yemen. of course, they're causing problems once again as predicted in the strait of hormuz. so this is something that we have grown accustomed to. i know the secretary of defense, jim mattis said just yesterday that look, we think it's unlikely they're going to try to block the strait primarily because they know the entire international community would come down quickly on their capability. they're already in economic stress. their money is way down and gas prices are up. food is expensive. the people are not happy with president rouhani. >> trish: given the economic stress, could that lead to meaningful change? change that would be beneficial to say our allies in the region like israel and might it, you know, create actually some good in that environment if you could actually get a change in power? >> well, you know, the president's strategy i think is to force rouhani and the mullahs back to the negotiation table. if by chan

nook play now after president trump pulled the united states unilaterally out of that multi-national jcpoa with eastern. so iran is worried, it seems that there is going to be a knock on economic impact. indeed, that's already happening. what we've heard from the commander of the forces who we understand from u.s. defense officials is leading these naval exercises. he has said if iran is unable eggs port i'll through the strait of hormuz, that one else will. that has been echoed by the supreme leader. that's the concern here because it looks like this military exercise as these pentagon officials are calling it could be a hint that that's iran's intention to block that. what we know about the sanctions, however, that some come into effect early next week. >> that would affect buying a dollar's hard currency, buying gold or other precious medals. that seems to be having an effect on the economy at the moment. but the effect on oil products and shipping ie the strait of hormuz, that's not due to come into effect until november. so why this military exercise now? again, it's that question mar

words with the united states continues as the ayatollah says that iran could pull itself out of the jcpoalear deal at any time if the agreement stops serving iranian interests. on the official government website he said iran should give up hope that europe can save the deal. this coming after president trump's decision earlier this year to exit from the agreement from the perspective of the united states. this as the iranians are refusing to negotiate farther with u.s. officials calling them indecent. in light of the ayatollah's comments about europe this week there is concern in the international community the deal could fall apart waving the way for iran to restart its nuclear program coming as iran's president said he would like the europeans to work with the united states to bring in the trump administration back to the table. so a lot of mixed signals here from the iranians. a bit of an interesting situation as you have the country's supreme leader saying he has given up hope to save the deal and the country's president saying he would like to bring the united states back to the nego

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the jcpoa was a deal that we felt was the best possible deal achievable. none of us pretended it was a perfect deal, but actually it did deliver a number of important measures that i think everyone benefits from. we really just encourage the united states to start talking to its partners in iran in order to be able to find a route forward. in terms of the saudi's, that has been a long-standing and traditional ally of the united kingdom and they will remain a long ending ally of ours going forward. the amount of work that we do dealing with counterterrorism, when we deal with instability in terms of strength as an industrial partner and ally is something that we value greatly and we see that going forward many years hence. >> let's see, i saw this gentleman's and first. >> independent consultant. general jones mentioned strategy. you briefly alluded to the u.s. national security strategy. my question is -- what is your view of the role of grand strategy as opposed to you know -- it appears that china has announced a grand strategy. is there still a role for

you hear rouhani today saying come back to the jcpoa. everybody else wanted it but you.learly that's not the way the united states is playing their cards. it's really not clear where this is going to go. >> also, sanctions don't necessarily lead to regime change, which we've seen for such a long time with north korea, cuba. >> speaking of north korea, now there's talk a second summit between the president and the north korean leader kim jong-un. what are you hearing? >> there needs to be a second summit since the first one didn't really go anywhere and didn't really define what even the outlines of what each side wants will be. so it's possible that this could be before the end of the year. location is not established. would it be in pyongyang? would it be in washington? we know they've been communicating by letter. so it's possible this is progress. i mean, you know the administration wants to call even the fact they're talking progress. but if they do meet again, i mean, it's time for there to be some kind of structure around where this is going in both the short-term

. >> the europeans foolishly rushed in to make their investments after the so-called jcpoa deal was agreedthey rushed in and made this huge investment. and now they're about to lose everything. i think you will see more people follow mercedes-benz. i think you will see more groups, more organizations, more corporations, withdraw their investments there while they still can before they lose everything that they had invested in. >> yeah, because the situation around mercedes, it has people wondering if other european companies will also suspend practices and iran. the trump administration is saying look, you do business with iran, you will not do business with united states. and yet, we still have a lot of business going on between european companies and iran. >> yeah, that is right. and i don't think that you will see the european government, certainly not in the short turn acknowledge that they are withdrawing. i think this will buy by corporation, by investment groups and i don't think that you'll see any of our european allies in the short term step up and say, you know, the united state

now you have the jcpoa being torn up. make sense for the president to release this plan or announce this plan before the midterms or wait post-midterms? >> i think it makes sense before the midterms, particularly if it's one that as expected is, you know, sort of weighted towards israel because it motivates his base. >> all right. ga gail, jonathan, thank you very much. we'll be right back. i tried the patch. they didn't work for me. i didn't think anything was going to work for me until i tried chantix. chantix, along with support, helps you quit smoking. chantix reduced my urge to smoke. i needed that to quit. when you try to quit smoking, with or without chantix, you may have nicotine withdrawal symptoms. some people had changes in behavior or thinking, aggression, hostility, agitation, depressed mood, or suicidal thoughts or actions with chantix. serious side effects may include seizures, new or worse heart or blood vessel problems, sleepwalking or allergic and skin reactions which can be life-threatening. stop chanti

released by the iranians during the jcpoa negotiations, we have pushed as hard to get iran to denuclearizeu always have to watch out for those things. you have to watch out for the sideshow, things that will get covered by western media and will be in newspapers, and look at the actual, tangible events on the ground. >> neil: how much do you look at the ongoing trade talks between china and the united states as a factor in the whole north korean commitment? >> the trade negotiations deal with not only north korea, but china's position on saying that they will violate u.s. sanctions on iran by moving oil out. they are altogether. china has recently said they will be involved in syria. it is not only the engagement with syria on north korea, but there are levers we could use. as north korea more important to china than iran? is around more important to china than syria? we have to focus on what is more important to them and use it as leverage. >> neil: michael, it is good to see you again paired thank you very much. it is not about the markets, it is not about the approved savings rate, it h

these as other topics, our work continues including with third countries interested in supporting the jcpoa and maintaining economic relations with iran. >> the journal is now reporting citing u.s. officials that germany is moving forward with a proposal that would essentially block a 300 billion euro transfer of money out of a bank in germany. that's something that the u.s. certainly would want to sees a the united states is lobbying germany and other countries to cut off ties, business ties with iran, dana. >> dana: all right. rich edson, thanks so much. an attempt on the life of venezuela's president. how he was targeted and who he is blaming. plus, an enormous fireball ripped through a major freeway in italy. hear what led to this deadly accident. and georgia officials warned about the security of its voting machines before the 2016 election. what that could mean for the mid terms and how lawmakers are trying to safeguard the system ♪ ♪ >> i think the one area where both the congress and local officials and the federal government and local officials need to be working together is to be

i am concerned, while i did not support the jcpoa, i am concerned that just unilaterally walking away from it is itself not a strategy. what would you advise the secretary and the president as it relates to developing a come prehencive strategy on iran, something that is called for under catsa that was due in january of this year, it's now august and we have not received? >> well, i think the appropriate strategy at this stage is to maximize our financial and diplomatic pressure on iran and isolation to build a web of allies or like-minded who will join us in that effort to neutralize iran's highly objectionable behavior and interdemeanors in the affairs of their -- interference in their affairs of their neighbors. to increase the cost of that and, of course, to do everything to prevent their acquisition of a nuke weapons program. nuclear weapons program. >> we need to multiall rightize our -- multilaterallize our efforts. it's difficult when you slap tariff ares on your are closest allies and when you walk away without engaging them in a process that will will bring you a multilatera

rouhani obviously we're not having talks unless you take away the sanctions, also hearing they want the jcpoanstated if they were to sit down with the president and negotiate from there. what is the possibility that rouhani and trump are to sit down in the future? do you think that the sanctions have basically dunawone away wi that possibility? >> what the trump is betting is either stepping back the sanctions -- this is just step one, there's more to come -- will convince the iranian regime they have to sit down with trump and make a deal on his terms, a much tougher deal than the one they've already made, or that pressure on the regime will just build because people in iran will be so upset by the economic pain they're feeling. iran is saying that's not going to happen. the europeans are scrambling meanwhile to save the existing deal, so it is a chaotic situation. this is just step one. >> let's switch gears and talk about the paul manafort trial. yet rick gates testifying. all eyes were on that, of course. that is paul manafort's ex business partner as many of us well-know. is that testimo

sincerity is to say your agreement is shot through the halls and we are not going to stay with the jcpoa is, if you want to talk about closing the loop holes, if you want to talk about cleaning up your act in the world anyone to talk about reducing the asymmetries of how you treat your people versus the way you run the revolutionary guard and things like that, okay. >> harris: you know, we talked about this last hour on outnumbered, during the revolution, the united states did not step up and do potentially what it could have done to help the iranian people, hillary clinton and others are very much kind of sit on your hands and let's watch it burn basically, and now we are where we are, and these sanctions are the people more than anybody else. >> remember that a piece that never works in the obama administration trying a lot of that, i happen to be in london for a meeting the time that green revolution started. and nobody that it was with foreign policy people from around the world to believe that we were silent while those people were being murdered in the streets trying to show that t

pulled out of what's referred to as the jcpoa. that joint agreement with other countries that were doing this together. so when the u.s. is going out alone, it's obviously less forceful than it would be if you add other allies in this effort involved. we know russia and china are not in on this deal. the latest sanctions specifically focusing on industries including autos, precious metals, the steel industry s in that country. it's what the white house is trying to cast, not dissimilarly, as the pressure being placed on north korea now, a maximum pressure campaign. my colleague geoff bennett at the white house just moments ago caught up with the white house national security adviser john bolton. >> sir are you concerned that countries like china, india, russia, might try a work-around that will make the u.s. sanctions less effective? >> no, actually, we're working with all countries to reduce oil imports from iran to zero. we're making progress on that. we think these sanctions are biting already. we think they will continue to bi

i think a problem we have is after withdrawing from the jcpoa we have lost the support of our europeanies. in fact the europeans are going to lengths to try to cushion the blow to the iranians and again you are into a situation where what's going to happen with interneuron. i think there's a strong feeling that the hardliners will take more and more power, that they will begin to marginalize those people and i think using the term moderate in iran is not particularly accurate but those much more sensitive to world opinion will be marginalized and the hardliners will take over and the iranians have the ability through proxies particularly to interrupt, interfere and in fact cause us harm in iraq and syria and throughout the region. i think the biggest problem here is that we do not once again have a world standing with us against the iranians and they will try to divide and conquer, separate the europeans from us and continue to do that. >> martha: i want to ask about the space force, a lot of attention, even some rating this week. but it's a serious proposal on the part of the presiden

president trump is done a good job with iran point out of the jcpoa, at least i think. he's really gone after isis, but here clearly it's not working. according to microsoft, like last week they were at it again. so do you support the legislation i drafted with senator menendez that i called the sanctions from hell against russian? >> yes, i yes, i do senator anda that's in my written testimony. >> i just want the committee to understand that what we're doing is not working. it doesn't use any good to blame obama. doesn't do us any good to blame trump because what we're doing is just not working. now, mr. fanning, you have nuclear reactors, is that correct? >> yes, y sir. >> do you have armed guards around those reactors? >> you bet. >> is not required by law? >> yes. >> do you have a requirement when you build a nuclear reactor to think about natural disasters that could compromise that reactor? >> yes. >> if you go in a certain part of the country you have to tell the people in charge that regulate you, i have a count of earthquakes, other natural disasters, , correct

these were asked about the paris climate treaty and the jcpoa. the silent generation is a little more supportive, but really there is no generation change from boomers through millennials on these questions. they are all about as supportive as each other. millennials maybe even a little more than the people who are their parents. nato, same sort of thing. here you see millennials and gen things,in the mix of all fairly supportive of nato, and no big difference there that you can see between the generations. finally, trade. this is an interesting one because millennials, of course, scarred by the great recession, you'd think would be particularly sensitive to trade issues and globalization, but in fact millennials are just as embracing, or more, of globalization and free trade as their elders. do you think international trade is good or bad, good for the u.s. economy, for consumers like you, and creating jobs? you can see mild or not very much difference across the generations. when it comes to free trade deals, it is interesting that millennials

where he denounced the jcpoa. days, the kurds decided to hold a vote. we basically abandoned the kurds. shortly after that, we had iran invading, people were dying. we have abandoned some of our best friends of their. matter of -- i know some state department say it is not really involved. sebastian: nobody says that. nobody who knows anything about that says that. >> iran is acting with impunity. said that if the kurds want to hold a vote -- is there a change now? are we going to go back and try to reestablish relationships? >> at the beginning of the administration a year ago, there was a significant problem. i promise to the president i would not criticize serving members of his administration. but rex tillerson does not serve but rex tillerson does not serve him. rex tillerson was a disaster. kurds,u spoke to the like i have spoken at an event on capitol hill shortly after i resigned, they would tell you they were the same table they were speaking do under the obama administration. change at simply not the people who had represented a bad policy. th

the allies want to stay under the jcpoa.their government signed. >> bill: they have a lot of this out there, too. a lot of europeans doing business. >> they want the money, that's it. and the notion was that the americans would never enforce secondary sanctions on european businesses so they will not pull out. wait for us to call our bluff and look what is happening. they're pulling out of the iranian market. it is not a lucrative market. it's a small and corrupt market. not a place you really want to be. toward what end is this, right? what is the plan of all this and what are we working toward? a new iran deal or what bolton said we don't want to do, regime change. i think the policy has to be toward regime change. it has to be to exacerbate the tensions in the streets. where iranians are saying death to gaza, death to hezbollah. why is our money being used there for these terrorist organizations? >> he wants to get iran to stop the behavior that is so destructive and wants them to quit being the largest state sponsor of t