the other was a scholarly work by a gentleman named john plaster and wood bed cnc central and ran recon. most of the people that john plaster tried to interview refused to speak to them in myself when i first started writing about because as far as we know, they were still classified. a lot of the information in john's book, got the one or two people they were willing to talk to and in all cases, eyewitnesses, everyone of them has a different view of the same incident. there were things that were left out. but today, more and more authors are coming forward in writing about special projects. john mayer has written to really find the and toby todd and i think a couple of the others. i love them in their effort to come forward and tell people about their peers. i didn't write it for myself. i wrote up for the guys i was there with. the most incredible people i've ever met in my life, all of whom are old friends of mine. i hope that the book gives you an idea of what it was like to be there and not time. it's not a scholarly work. there is a lot of profanity. it is the viewpoint of someone

john kerry broke a femur. >> he was hopping around in a plast plaster -- >> high stakes, they are first to acknowledge it isplete, imperfect by design because the feeling was, yes, iran is a rogue state in any number of other ways. the nonnuclear missile tests, the kidnapping tz, the human rights abuses. but you aren't better positioned to address all those issues if you also have on the table they are on the verge of becoming a major nuclear power. and in that one narrow respect, christiane, as you know, all of the world powers arrayed around this and behind this deal agreed that iran was complying and it was at least temporarily working. so there is great concern from the experts whose stories i tell in this book that the withdrawal from this deal will drive a wedge between the united states and all those other allies and also send this incredibly troubling message to north korea at a time when we so desperately want them to come to the table and stick to any commitments they make. >> let's unpack that a little bit. in terms of the deal, it wasn't perfect, but it was a good deal. and in the aftermath of p