mr. ismr. salahi. both sides had good functional teams and we could manage the technical discussions. we both had this m.i.t. background and very soon got into a problem solving mode and hopefully that shows with the scope and the specificity of what we were able to negotiate. >> rose: is it sometimes one on one just the two of you? >> many, many times. >> rose: and what are you trying to get at the two of you? >> well again, there is many tradeoffs. a perfective is i think the way i look at it, at least, and i think the way we the administration looks at it, the agreement, it would be that, look, the goal here is in the very long term -- and we're talking decades -- is to hopefully is established confidence in the international community that iran is, in fact pursuing a peaceful program of nuclear power and nuclear facilities. however, that confidence is frankly not there today. the degree of sanctioning would be a manifestation of that and so clearly we start out with a very strong set of restrictions on the program and then over time, that will eventually go to a long-term -- again

mr. salahi. i think both sides had good functioning teams, and then we could manage the technical discussions. i might say, we both had an m.i.t. background. we soon got into a problem-solving mode. hopefully, that shows with the scope and specificity of what we negotiated. charlie: is it one-on-one, just the two of you? sec. moniz: many, many times. charlie: what are you trying to get at, the two of you? sec. moniz: there are trade-offs. the way i look and the way the administration looks at the agreement, the goal here is in the long-term and i do mean long-term. decades. the goal is to hopefully have established confidence in the international community that iran is pursuing a peaceful program of nuclear power and facilities. however, that confidence is frankly not there today. not to the degree of sanctioning would be a manifestation of that. we start out with a very strong set of restrictions on the program. then, over time, that will eventually go to a long-term again, if everyone performs,