michael singh, the politics behind all this, what's going on? guest: to the extent we have made progress on iran that led , ithe stage we're at now was as a result of cooperation between congress and the president, perhaps unspoken cooperation. it was that combination of very tough sanctions as well as this diplomacy which has taken place as well as other factors that led to the place we're at now. the disagreement that you hear is really about the end state, what sort of final agreement would be acceptable, where am,uld we leave iran's progr to what extent can we get more from iran that we have gotten so far? element that does not deal with the interim. but deals with the final status program, whichar says we will allow iran to have a uranium enrichment program. congress believes that is a premature and unacceptable concession to the iranians. for the white house, you need congress is cooperation to lift i think you have no choice but to try to reach some meeting of the minds between congress. we are very far away from that, which is one big ob

host: we want to welcome back michael singh, a veteran of the george w. bush administration and now managing director of the washington institute for near east policy. let me begin with some news from the associated press. inspectors now in iran, led by the international atomic energy, and the u.s. looking at what iran has in terms of nuclear capacity. how much access to the have and what is their mission? guest: this is not a 1990's iraq-style inspection mission, show up wherever you want and get unannounced access to any place you want. there is a very defined list of facilities to which inspectors will have access in a very specified schedule as to when they will have access. many of these are facilities they have had access to before. their mission continues as it was before. they will have access to new facilities. these inspectors are verifying that iran is carrying out their obligations under this first step agreement. initially what we will be looking for is, to what extent does iran really throw open those doors to inspectors and how much do insp

michael singh, the politics behind all this, what's going on?: to the extent we have made progress on iran that led , ithe stage we're at now was as a result of cooperation between congress and the president, perhaps unspoken cooperation. it was that combination of very tough sanctions as well as this diplomacy which has taken place as well as other factors that led to the place we're at now. the disagreement that you hear is really about the end state, what sort of final agreement would be acceptable, where am,uld we leave iran's progr to what extent can we get more from iran that we have gotten so far? element that does not deal with the interim. but deals with the final status program, whichar says we will allow iran to have a uranium enrichment program. congress believes that is a premature and unacceptable concession to the iranians. for the white house, you need congress is cooperation to lift i think you have no choice but to try to reach some meeting of the minds between congress. we are very far away from that, which is one big obstacle

in a conversation with michael singh about the next that's in iran's nuclear deal with the international community. ♪ ♪ host: good morning, the president will be spending this week in washington to commemorate the holiday with a community service project. on thursday he will meet with a number of the nation's mayors in town this week. that meeting will take place at the white house. congress is in recess for the mlk holiday. the auto show will be at the washington convention center on saturday. welcome to the sunday edition of "washington journal." we continue our series on america's first

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