i'm joined by two foreign policy veterans: stephen hadley was national security adviser for president george w. bush. he's now the chairman of the board of directors at the u.s. institute for peace. and vali nasr is a former state department official and current dean of the johns hopkins school of advanced international studies. let's start with you, nasr what was your opinion of the speech? >> i think content was not new, but i think one can say that the way the prime minister laid out the case it will make it much for difficult for the united states government and iran to arrive at a deal because i think the field has been significantly narrowed for the president in particular to argue a deal with iran is actually a good deal. i think the definition of a good deal was largely defined by the prime minister of israel today. >> ifill: stephen hadley? >> i think it was a very effective presentation. people said the arguments were not particularly new but a lot of americans had not heard them in such detail. i think it was a forceful presentation. i think it will have the impact that val

for more, i am joined by stephen hadley.e served as president bush's national security adviser from 2005 2 2009. you have been in tricky negotiations. if you were in switzerland today, what would you be advising the american team to do? >> the american team is focused on getting agreement on a set of terms that can offer some reassurance iran is going to be blocked on any path to getting a nuclear weapon. the outstanding issues remain. there is a lot of anxiety about this agreement. i think the biggest thing they need to do is to try to get as tough terms as they can because this agreement is not what anybody hoped for. what the resolutions have called for all this time is no enrichment, no reprocessing, the two ways in which iran could get the material to make a bomb. this agreement is going to allow some considerable amount of enrichment. this is the problem. the agreement has two problems. one, it is not going to be the agreement many people hoped for. two, it is in the context of the middle east melting down and violence