the former deputy speaker of the belgian parliament in kearney joins me on the line this evening lowder a pleasure to speak here do you think this could be used as what's been described as this major blocking tool to think the e.u. will implemented we learn from that is really a possibility in the coming weeks or i mean we should not accept any drastic changes in the policy of from the u.s. side now whether this is a very strong powerful tool that remains to be seen you should not forget that even when it is applied it is still up to the e.u. member states themselves to apply true their own legislation and then let's not forget that sanctions like the are mainly a political matter and not so much a matter of legal lever legal matter it's more opinion political power how likely to think it is that the u.s. would actually impose sanctions on e.u. businesses. it happened in the past let's not forget even in served in the eighty's there been moments when the us applied sanctions on the steel industry shouldn't cetera when we should not forget the e.u.'s u.s. does apply when there is in an i

let's go to 2020 advisory board member for tim trump, mark lowder.e iran thing going forward between data north korea, oil prices are up at multiyear highs. gas prices expect it to fall. a lot of this -- i don't want opinion oil or not. but how is the president going to address that? should he address that? you might be facing higher prices at the pump, but this is for our collective good that we take this position with iran even if the volatile market to go to the gas station, pay a little bit more. it will be well worth it longer-term. how does he position that? >> first off come or go to realize oil prices can be the determining factor in terms of confronting iran's destabilizing a pivot is, their pursuit of nuclear weapons, they're launching attacks against israel last night and then multiple times so far this year. we've got to confront out for long-term security, long-term stability and in the meantime i would hope the administration would go to some of our allies in the middle east and opec and work with them to try to pick up production, to l