along with me is "the new york times" top national security correspondent michael gordon. michael, we've been talking to sources, talking to the other delegations. we've heard the iranian deputy foreign minister speak very positively on iranian television today about the likelihood of a deal, but it is in their interest to push the u.s. say oh, we've got it we're going to announce it today. but also from some of the other delegations as well. they're very close to something. how specific do they have to be for it to be taken seriously? >> well i think the longer this has gone on the more important it's become for secretary kerry to bring back something substantial to washington. if he really wants to hold off the pressure for congressional sanctions, he has to do what the state department said they were going to do. come back with some sort of understanding that has concrete numbers in it to restrain the iranian nuclear program. >> especially with the drum beat coming from netanyahu today. we saw john boehner in israel this week. we've heard from arkansas senator tom cotton

five days later michael gordon and i and i was the one pushing for this wrote a story saying you knowpeople don't believe this. that's the kind of follow up that i hoped others would do and draw conclusions. i certainly wanted to go on doing it. had i been permitted to i probably would still be at the times but i had to go to jail. >> and more rigorous in the sources that you had? >> i couldn't have been. i talk in this book about how i went to an analysts house. i paced up and down. i felt like a journalistic cliche. there i am with my little note book. he said i can't talk to you about this. most of my sources were on the record. >> this is serious. "wall street journal" has an excerpt quoting you about suggesting that special council in his prosecution of scooter litty induced you to give what you now realize was false testimony. that's a serious charge against a federal prosecutor saying he induced me to give false testimony. >> what i'm saying is that he had information that would have helped jog my memory about something which i hadn't considered very important at the time which

. >> the final question is from michael gordon of "the new york times." >> [inaudible] >> no, let's just do one at a time. >> sir -- >> let's do one at a time. let's go to michael gordon of "the new york times". >> sir, you just said that there are not merely technical issues that remain to be threshed out, but still some policy decisions that need to be made. what are the most important policy issues that need to be confronted before there can be an agreement at the end of june? and also, nothing here has been said on how iran's large stock of uranium is to be disposed of, either by shipping it off the the country or dealing with it inside the country. and lastly on sanctions, minister zarif said the security council resolutions will be suspended or eliminated, but can you tell us some more how that will work especially since it could take years for iran to address the iaea's concerns over pmd? have you assured the iranians that the white house will be able to persuade the congress to revoke the sanctions it has imposed if iran keeps its commitments? >> the question of the sanctions, mi

the first question is from michael gordon of the "new york times." up. >> sir, i have questions for secretary carter for the japanese--you have been watching a live press conference with secretary of state john kerry. defense secretary ash carter and their japanese counterparts. the two gentlemen on the left. they have just announced a new agreement with the japanese government that sets out quote revisions to the u.s.-japan defense relationship. defense secretary ash carter also updated us on u.s. aid to nepal. he said that two c-17 cargo planes with supplies and personnel will be arriving shortly in nepal and more help is on its way. going back to the japanese-u.s. defense agreement, let's go to mike viqueira who is in washington, d.c. what is significant about these guidelines. >> we focus on people around the world, recently in the middle east and the current events unfolding in nepal but there is no shortage of upheaval and change in east asia and heightening tensions with every moment. mostly because of an ascended china. north korea doing what

that story appeared a few days after michael gordon and i had disclosed the existence of the aluminumubes and the importance of leading the intelligence community to think that saddam's program was up and running. you can disagree, and we subsequently wrote five days later, that there is a debate within the intelligence community about the purpose of those two. that story did not run on the front page. did i want it to? absolutely. you can say that even if saddam has wmd, that is not sufficient grounds to go to work. what you cannot say, after we have disclosed the existence of the tubes, is that there is no new information. as far as the cia was concerned, this was new, hot, important information. john mclaughlin, the deputy director of the cia, subsequently said in an interview that he had been carting around parts of the tubes to briefings. brian: here is another paragraph that you wrote. you wrote this about yourself. page 231. i was not a perfect reporter. i had broken quite a few rules in my 30 years of journalism and committed my share of journalistic sins. as a foreign corresp

." >> you mean michael gordon and i wrote an article. >> jon: sure.he "new york times" next to a giant picture of "never forget 9/11." it was right around the first-- there it is. "in memory 9/11," front page. the information came from the bush administration, yes? >> broadly speaking, yes. it came from intelligence analysts and people in the bush administration yes. >> jon: it came from the bush administration. >> right. >> jon: right. so you write this article. >> right. >> jon: and you have somebody named david albright who is your source for whether or not this claim is wrong. >> no, he wasn't the source. >> jon: he's an expert. >> he's an expert. >> jon: and he's the guy you rely on and trust to tell you if this is wrong or right. >> no one of several experts because opinion is divided and you have to ask a lot of different people. >> jon: he's the expert that you write in your book that you trust that you desperately are trying to reach. >> yes, i was desperately trying to reach him. >> jon: yes. >> couldn't reach him. >> jon: so you just went w

when michael gordon and i had just reported that in fact the cia had diverted a shipment of lume nim tubes, three days before that paper reported there was no new intelligence. you can argue the intelligence was thin or the intelligence community misunderstood what they had. what you can't argue is that there was no new intelligence. >> part of the problem is there is tons of data, right? so you can't say -- it -- >> not that's available to you and me. >> that's precisely the problem. >> this is what we had to learn, right? there are thousands of individual data points. so the whole problem from an epistemmic standpoint is one can truthfully report intelligence that totally paints the wrong picture about what is happening, and that continues to be the indicate in national security reporting long after judith miller left "new york times." >> that's not what happened here. the intelligence community, men and women of good faith, did the best they could, but they were terribly wrong. what should bother all of us, i think is that 16 intelligence agencies, which are paid billions to get i

michael gordon and bernard trainor called it an incomplete success. it was called strategically inconclusive and you get a little farther out, an american historian said publicly it was a botched work and brown university professor said it was the nothing war that resolve nothing and settled nothing. everybody can look at a single situation and make a different conclusion about how successful it was. bush 41 didn't want to have a quagmire that would drag on for years but his son did that later on. it is harder than it looks and everyone sitting on the sideline can appreciate the complexities of crisis management. this is one of my favorites. again back to domestic politics 1998, august, al qaeda bob two of our embassies in east africa. clinton was deeply mired in the monica lewinsky scandal at the time, to testify before the grand jury about his activities with that woman, and he suddenly decided completely out of character, made a quick decisive decision to retaliate against al qaeda. usually he did it over different policy decisions but not on this

michael gordon and bernard traynor from their book called it an incomplete success. burzynski caught a strategically inconclusive and then you get a little bit further out. theodore draper, american historian said politically it was a botched war and brown university professor steven brevard senate resolves nothing is settled nothing. so everybody can look at the single situation and make a different conclusion about how successful it was. bush 41 didn't want to have a quagmire that would drag on for years but then his son did that later on. it is harder than it looks. everybody on the hyde beside mine can appreciate complexities on the white house. this is one of my favorites. again, back to domestic politics 1998 and august, al qaeda bombed two agencies in east africa. clinton was deeply admired him with a scandal at the time. he was due to testify before the grand jury about his cavities with that woman and he suddenly decided completely out of their errata quick decisive situation that retaliated against al qaeda parties. usually did it over the foreign policy de

michael gordon and bernard trainor in their book called it an incomplete success. brzezinski called it strategically inconclusive and then you get a little farther out, theodore draper, an american history who said politically it was a botched war. and then brown university professor stephen bovard said it was a nothing more, it resolve nothing and settled that the. so everyone can look at the same situation and make a different conclusion about how successful it was. and bush 41 didn't want to have a quagmire that would drag on for years, but then his son did that later on. it's harder than it looks. everybody sitting on the sidelines can't appreciate the complexities of crisis management at the white house. and this is one of my favorites. again, back to domestic politics from 1998, august, al-qaeda bombed two of our embassies in east africa. clinton was deeply mired in the lewinsky scandal at the time. he was due to testify before the grand jury about his activities with that woman, and suddenly he decided completely out of character, he made a quick, decisive d

. >> michael gordon, new york times. the donation with iran. breakout time wall street after that. the facilities will be closed. iran will be a lot to do research and development on centrifuges. what is centrifuges. what is turkey's position on this agreement? other any circumstances in which turkey with feel that it should pursue the development of nuclear technology on its own as a precaution against an iranian breakout? >> okay. well, unfortunately human is concerned. check the control the whole country. democratically elected president had to leave the country due to security concerns. of course, due to the legitimate president gcc countries after operation. these operations became legitimate. in principle we supported this. and he announced that weekend, can, if they need we can support we can give them logistics support and intelligence. so far we have not received a demand from the coalition. but at the end turkey as a solution at immediate cease-fire humanitarian aid and political dialogue, meaningful political dialogue and possibly national unity. that is what we need. th

. >> michael gordon "new york times." a different subject, sir. you mentioned the negotiations with iran. the details aren't known. the principles are known. it will extend breakout time to a period of ten years. the breakout time will shrink after that. and iran will be allowed to do research and development on centrifuges. what is turkey's position on this agreement since the main elements are known? and are there any circumstances in which turkey would feel that it should pursue the development of nuclear technology on its own as a precaution against an iranian breakout? what would those circumstances be? thank you. >> okay. well unfortunately, yemen is concerned for all of us. and they took the control of the whole country. and democratically elected president

host: this is a piece from michael gordon in washington in open -- in "the washington times."uclear agreement sounds different from each side. what are the chief negotiators of iran's foreign minister and president of iran may be engaged in their own form to camouflage the significance of the concessions that they made. is this unusual between two countries are several countries? guest: i don't really think so. this is to be expected. there are critics in both countries about any compromise with the other. this is a negotiation that has been resulting in compromised from both sides. foreign minister and president of iran have been working hard the last couple of days to emphasize what they see as a positive element of the agreement. from the iranian standpoint, that is the promise of relief from the punishing sanctions that have been in place for many years in response to iran's nuclear activities. we are seeing from the obama administration, its description of the limits on iran's nuclear capacity, the president and secretary of state are deciding the constraints on the nucle

. >> michael gordon, "new york times." a different subject, sir. you mentioned the negotiations with iran. the details aren't known. but the basic principles are known. it will extend breakout time to a year for a period of ten years. the breakout time will shrink after that. no facilities will be closed and iran will be allowed to do research and development on centrifuges. what is turkey's position on this agreement since the main elements are known? and are there any circumstances in which turkey would feel that it should pursue the development of nuclear technology on its own as a precaution against an iranian breakout? what would those circumstances be? thank you. >> okay. well, unfortunately, the situation is yemen is concern for all of us. and houthis took the control of the whole country. and democratically-elected president had to leave the country due to the security concerns. of course, due to the invitation of the legitimate president, let gcc countries have operation. and this operation became legitimate. and in principle, we supported

m michael: they were expected to be up, but not that muchi. betty: you would rate james gordon passes performance as what? michael: pretty good. stated goal of getting there, he wants to do it on an annual basis. betty: compare him to jamie dimon and lloyd blank. michael: improving profitability . on the commercial side things were not as good this quarter. loan growth slow. continue to wait on the fed to raise rates. squeezed this quarter as they wait for rates to come up. this quarter was stronger on the investment traitor side. that is why coleman had a blowout quarter as opposed to the commercial side. betty: thank you for being here. great to see you. monday, as i mentioned, the comcast merger with time warner cable could be on the fritz. the u.s. justice department leaning against approving the deal to combine forces. it also has wide reaching implications for the industry. alex sherman has been very on top of the story. alex: how long? betty: we all thought this would happen. what is going on? alex: even people bearish on the deal tended to at least put it on 50-50. thro

michael nutter wants to raise property taxes. he's shooting for a nearly 10% hike to help the city's troubled schools. but city council members are saying not so fast. our bruce gordonas the story and why pizza has a roll in all of this. >> reporter: mayor nutter is using what we'll call the pizza pie pitch to sell his property tax increase. noting median homeowner would be asked to shell out $8.66 a month. >> you can't get asperse with one topping for $8 and 66 cents a month. you can in fact support a child to get a better education in this city. >> reporter: nutter plan would raise $105 million by raising property tax taxes by nine-point 3%. $104 a year for the median homeowner. city council ill began hearings on the nutter budget shows no appetite for pizza with attacks hike topping says council president darrell clark -- >> swallowing an tax increase after what's going on on the last several years is somewhat challenging. >> reporter: some in council believe state lawmakers in harrisburg should step up first. dennis o'brien used to be a state representative. >> i believe it's a shared responsibility but it used to be that we put up a dollar they gave us two. the

coming up michael doug slas in our studio and won an oscar for his performance in wall street and in some ways we will ask him. he may be channelling his inner gordonke up call that led her to make big changes in her life. >> living to 100. we will take you to a place where men live longer than just about anywhere else in the world. some of them swear by a certain soup to foster longevity. we will teach you how to make the recipe. >> i'm not so sure what he eats every day. >> that's why they ticked me al. >> let's get a check of the weather. let's show you what we have going on. wet weather in the east in the midwest and fog in the central midwest and a lot of wet weather o long the coast and also out along the california coast line as well. tomorrow that wet weather moves and a risk of strong storms from oklahoma and illinois and parts of southern iowa. wet weather continues here. believe it or not, we are talking snow tomorrow into tomorrow night. in boston we >>> 8:32. good tuesday morning to you. we have quite a bit of precipitation still coming through the bay area although the bulk of the activity is clearing out of here. temperatures today a