ships in the straits of hormuz. iran has launched numerous ballistic missile telfts in violation of the u.n. security council resolutions, they violated the jcp to, a by produce -- jcpoa by producing excess heavy water. they continue to kidnap americans and hold them for ransom. let's put it where it lies. the destabilizing impact doesn't belong with the united states, doesn't belong with any statement by an american policyholder. the destabilizing nature belongs, mr. speaker, to the iranian regime. the mullahs themselves. so, our friend from california said she's disappointed. well, look, i mean, disappointment, get used to it. it's the nature of things. and the nature of the disappointment is that we now have american companies that are saying, you know what, let's go in and let's do business with a terrorist regime. how's that? let's just go make a buck. that's the scabble of this. the scandal -- scandal of this. the scandal is there are american companies, international companies, boeing, airbus, that are now linked

the iran sanctions act through 2011. in 2010, i worked with then foreign affairs chairman howard berman on yet another comprehensive iran sanctions bill which also extended the iran sanctions act through the end of this year. and so today i'm so pleased and honored to support chairman royce's effort as guided by mr. engel's as well to extend the iran sanctions act for another 10 years, keeping the foundation of sanctions against iran in place for when iran violates the nuclear deal. i believe that those violations have already taken place. earlier this year we already saw the administration buy heavy water from iran. why? because iran was producing more heavy water than it was allowed to under the terms of the agreement. and just a few days ago, mr. speaker, it was announced that iran is once again over the allowable total of heavy water. we have also found out that there have been secret exemptions for iran and that without these exemptions iran would not have been in compliance with the jcpoa, which is the initials of t

and that i was too critical of the islamic republic of iran. in particular, my reviewer accused me of showing quotes, reflexive hostility towards islamism which is a particularly sweeping generalization and incendiary phrase to use against anyone at the time of rising sectarian and religious tensions. the reviewer did not inform her readers that in order to better understand islam as it had been practiced before the revolution, i had traveled to iran on a sabbatical to study shiism at alamo stop at university in the theological city of ball. nor did my reviewer informed her readers that earlier in my career research at united nations and at human rights watch. in fact, my training made me more qualified than most on the highly sensitive issue of human rights in iran in the 1950s. now, you wouldn't have known it from reading the times. but my book was the product of research and scholarship that entailed travel to iran but also to lebanon, egypt , france and several other countries. during my travels, i met with or interviewed more than 100 peopl

the iran agreement is a new path forward and we should seize it. > critics of the deal try to portray the people as puppets, who were manipulated by a macavelian national security add virz. complete nonsense. >> president of the antinuclear group, the plow shares fund, helped the white house shape and deliver their message. >> on this iran deal, we're in alignment. and that's outside experts do. i don't promote politicians. i promote policies. >> on january 16th, 2016, secretary of state john kerry announced iran had met their required commitments and the nuclear deal officially called jcpoa or joint comprehensive plan of action, was go. squl. >> had the iranian really fulfilled their required commitments at that time? >> they had not and still have not. the pry one was to completely clean about the nuclear facilities. >> there are some things the iranian have done that are actually positive. they have reduced the number of facilities they have operating down to 5,061. they had over 5,000 kilograms. they have shipped all by 5,000 out of the country.

take the iran nuclear deal. trump has gone to the campaign saying, this is a horrendous deal and, we are going to make great deals. if you break the deal, suddenly iran is able to make nuclear weapons. even israeli intelligence, a country whose prime minister was ferociously against the iran nuclear deal, will be the first to tell you the iran no longer has what is called breakout capacity. do you really want to reverse that? charlie: there is an indication that some people who were against it now says we do not want to abdicate this. david: in other words, this is what one can hope for. this is what obama has bargained for himself. i will keep my head cool and try to encourage what good instincts they are among trump and his people and hope for the best, because what else can he do? his job is not to be a political firebrand. the question is, what happens on january 20 with obama? had hillary clinton won, i think you would have gone off to a ahu and had a good long rest, started writing his memoir. he is awfully

you talk about the iran deal. mean, pompeo was one of the people who has calls for not ripping up but completely renegotiating the iran deal. again, on the benghazi committee, he was very, very tough and outspoken against the obama administration and particularly hillary clinton. he and jim jordan, who is another republican congressman, member of the benghazi committee, when the committee under trey gowdy issued its report, pompeo issued a dissent saying the report wasn't tough enough and, again, being very, very critical of hillary clinton and the obama administration overall. >> rose: he seems to be a bright guy. graduated, according to his web site, first in his class at west point and went to harvard law school and returned to kansas and went into business. david what do you know about him and his views? >> well, karen had it exactly right. one of the other things i found striking about his views is as soon as he came in in 2010 as part of the sort of tea party wave, he was extremely critical of president obama

you talk about the iran deal, pompeo is one of the people who called for completely renegotiating theran deal. on the benghazi committee, he outspoken against hillary clinton. committeember of the under trey gowdy issued its issued ad pompeo dissent saying the report was not tough enough, and being very critical of hillary clinton and the obama administration overall. he graduated first in his class at west point and then went to harvard law school, intoned to kansas and went business. david, what you know about him and his views? david: karen had it exactly right. one of the things i find -- heng about his views came in in 2010 in the tea party wave. he was extremely critical of president obama for closing the black sites the cia had used to interrogate prisoners in iraq and afghanistan. he has been very critical of any move by the cia backwards on the and whatterboarding the bush administration delicately called enhanced interrogation and president obama called torture. the big question is if he tries to move the cia backward on this, if you tries to go back to where was, is he goin

really high hopes from the iran side. s been a number of big deals that have been signed, that have been at the preliminary stage. iran is looking to complete those. we are talking about the supply of some 200 aircrafts from boeing and airbus. of, quite aa lot lot of business deals hanging in the balance. manus: coming up on the best of bloomberg markets, middle east and turkey take control of inflation. we will discuss the impact on the lagging lire, next on bloomberg. ♪ manus: welcome back to the best of bloomberg markets middle east. turk's officials said the central bank will take any measures necessary to keep inflation under control. the currency has plunged to a record low against the u.s. dollar. policymakers what are doing to slow the run on the lire. it has been in a freefall since the u.s. election. with that depreciation was one of the agenda items turkish policymakers discussed on friday in a surprise meeting that lasted more than four hours. they said they were monitoring developments in the financial markets

the next few weeks. donald trump wants to keep iran deal. the agreement of iran blocked the country's pathway to a nuclear weapon. furthermore, no other country would reimpost american secti sanctions. we have been bombing the hell out of isis, says trump. the president-elect trump describes his phone conversation with president obama in which he learned that the united states has conducted more than 16,000 air strikes of isis, that's a lot. in syria, the obama administration had been focused on defeating isis and not on their president assad. they have been doing what i suggested all along. trump care will be an improvement than obamacare. it will enroll people with proassisting conditions. in return, the company will gain millions of customers since people are facing a mandate to buy insurance or facing a $10,000 fine. i figured out like with houses or cars, insurance cannot work unless we are all in. the president-elect trump explained. donald trump announces sales of the trump organization, the president-elect trump says he's decided that

those of us who believe the iran deal was the right approach, but it has refuted every sec. earnest: there was a suggesting iran would never sit down and negotiate this deal in good faith. was puts the sense that forward by opponents of the deal that iran was not actually negotiating an agreement. they were negotiating for time. they were wrong on that. critics said they would never live up to the terms. they were wrong about that. even the israeli military intelligence community that had significant doubts about the deal has confirmed that we have seen. iran has lived up to the terms of the deal. while iran lives up to the terms of the deal the united states is going to make sure we are fulfilling our commitments. allies -- the present had the opportunity to talk about this. they shared that sentiment. the next administration will have to decide what they want to do. the risk of pulling out of that agreement are great. askingspeaker is president obama to sign a 10 year extension of the iran sanctions act. >> there has been a robust debate about the wisdom of this approach. i

the next few weeks. donald trump wants to keep iran deal. the president-elect has come to realize that the agreement with iran has blocked that country's pathways to a nuclear weapon. furthermore, were the u.s. to pull out, no other country would reimpose sanctions so it would simply hurt american business. i haven't focused on the benefits of the deal, trump said. we have been bombing the hell out of isis, says trump. the president-elect described a phone conversation with president obama in which he learned that the united states and its coalition partners have conducted more than 16,000 air strikes on isis. that's a lot, says trump. noting that in syria, the obama administration has been focused on defeating isis and not on disposing of bashar al assad. they've been doing what i have suggested all along, he noted proudly. the trump administration plans to propose a health care bill that will require insurance companies to enroll people with pre-existing conditions. in return, the companies will gain millions of new customers since people w

. >> the story from middle east sources is that iran has helped the united states free a hostage from lebanon. >> they called it the reagan revolution. but for me it always seemed more like a rediscovery of our values. once you begin a great movement, there's no telling where it will end. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> thank you. >> we're faced with an unprecedented situation in this country today. jimmy carter's demonstrated inability to govern our nation. but i have faith in the greatness of the people of this country. this country has everything that it always had before, except the leadership in washington that this country requires. >> reagan put a lot of energy and effort into 1980. the economy had been through a recession, and in addition to that, the united states had been embarrassed by the iran hostage crisis. the country wanted to turn the corner and ronald reagan held the promise of all of that. >> america is turning to a new political direction for at least the next four years. to the right. republican. ronald reagan rode an electrical vote landslide to the white house. and republicans swep

the world. that's very important. iran has been allowed to run wild throughout the middle east for the last eight years. the president focused more than anything on getting this nuclear deal no matter what the terms were. that's one reason yz iran has been destabilized in the region in places like iraq and syria. iran needs to understand that donald trump is going to be a different kind of president. just like the -- ronald reagan was a different kind of president than gymy carter was and therefore they released all those hostages the very day that ronald reagan was sworn into office. >> what about syria? >> it's a very complicated situation because president obama has stood at a distance and let syria burn for five years. we've had the rise of the islamic state. we have russia that's reasserting itself as a major power in the middle east. so we have troops on the ground in iraq and in syria. ultimately though we have to focus on american interests which is destroying the islamic state once and for all and ensuring that sy

the world. that's very important. iran has been allowed to run wild throughout the middle east for the last eight years. the president focused more than anything on getting this nuclear deal no matter what the terms were. that's one reason yz iran has been destabilized in the region in places like iraq and syria. iran needs to understand that donald trump is going to be a different kind of president. just like the -- ronald reagan was a different kind of president than gymy carter was and therefore they released all those hostages the very day that ronald reagan was sworn into office. >> what about syria? >> it's a very complicated situation because president obama has stood at a distance and let syria burn for five years. we've had the rise of the islamic state. we have russia that's reasserting itself as a major power in the middle east. so we have troops on the ground in iraq and in syria. ultimately though we have to focus on american interests which is destroying the islamic state once and for all and ensuring that sy

secondly, let us all join together to rigorously enforce the iran agreement, the jcpoa. we need to do that. we need to make sure that every part of that agreement is adhered to, including making sure iran never becomes a nuclear weapons state. we need to continue the use of sanctions on iran's nonnuclear nefarious activities. they are still a sponsor of terrorism. we all know that. i was recently in the middle east. i had a chance to talk to a lot of our strategic partners. they tell me about ie rang's activity -- iran's activities in their region, how they're supporting efforts to destabilize other sovereign states in the middle east. they are supporting terrorism. we also know that they have expanded their ballistic missile program. that's in contravention to their international obligations. we can impose sanctions, continue and strengthen sanctions against iran in regards to those activities. they are violating the human rights of the citizens of their own country. we can take actions there. so there are areas where we can continue to work with the international commun

i don't know anything about the mazarati dealership in iran. it's an iconic brand that is decades old and i assume it probably had a franchise there from when the shaw was running the country. liz: thanks, peter. peter barnes. closing bell 45 minutes away. again, records all around. looking at the dow jones industrial, we are well above a closing record. we need to stay there, though, apple among the top movers here just dpiend -- behind dupont. maybe investors think problems are not as bad as samsung. apple's battery, has it happened to you guys, just shut down your phone, happened to me last night, what the smartphone giant is planning to do about it straight ahead. you should be worrying that a cyber crime syndicate is loading up there too. cyber response ceo joseph here live on why we should all be aware of the trap. what is that? you need to know next on countdown. you do all this research on a perfect car, then smash it into a tree. your insurance company raises your rates. maybe you should've done more research on them. for drivers with a

>> what the white house would argue it is working that iran from their perspective, the closeness withch they could break out and move to a nuclear bomb is significantly strong, at least there are eyes on iran and what they are doing. it has by and large largely worked. there are instances like you mentioned and close to reaching a deal with iran on that. but i think the over all case, and their view is that if you want to avoid a military confrontation with iran this is your best bet. and you may be, there may be places where you may want to be more forceful. >> more eyes. >> but their argument is that it is not something you you want to back out of or force iran to back out either because you are then in an military confrontation. >> we need more eyes on it. it is more about moneyyy and that's the background i bring to this. but one way the white house could strengthen the deal, is usher more companies in iran to do business. that is letting the jenie out of the bottle and hard to put those business relationships back in the bottle. and so many countries supported this it seems becau

speaker on this issue to the planes to iran. as a member of the military -- currently and also served in iraq, this is very be concerning to me on many levels but also the problem we see with iran is not about doing business, it's about protection of american interests and american assets. in fact, this is a bipartisan issue. one of the financial service committee members from across the aisle, mr. sherman, actually opposed this but he said this and it makes a lot of sense. he said, until iran gets out of the business of supporting terrorism and supporting the assad regime in sear yarks it is certain that iran air will use these aircraft for nefarious purposes. we are simply saying put our country in a safe position. we are not talking about denying business but we are talking about what many of us feel was a very bad decision with the iran nuclear deal. simply here just putting us back in article 1 position. i appreciate the gentlelady from new york. i think we just need to do our business and just put our interests first. not o

trump has expressed his extreme dissatisfaction with the iran deal. be able to completely scrap it and start renegotiating? i do not think that will be easy. lookingpeans are forward to expanding business with iran and increasing political engagement. there you got the russians to whom trump would like to get closer. on the other hand, you got the error and the israelis, very unhappy with the iran deal, but there are other areas where there would be potential compromises. "i will give you this in return for that." i would be very surprised if he goes and totally scraps the deal. i do not think the europeans and the russians would be particularly happy about a complete renegotiation. very, very briefly, he suggested in the run-up to the campaign he had a grand plan to he did notsis, but say he wants bashar al-assad to go. do you think he will stick to that line? >> again, that was part of the wish list. i do not know how much of that wish list he can implement. i do not know if he really has a plan or not. is he going to simply drop a nuclear bomb? i do

they had high hopes from the iran side. had a number of big deals signs that have been at the preliminary stage. iranians are looking to complete those. fromupply of 200 aircrafts boeing and airbus. business deals are hanging in the balance. >> the other component is of course oil. they have ramped up production recently. what does a potential rollback of the iran deal under trump mean for that section of the economy? have been speaking with traders. >> this really will remain to be seen. tracy: thank you. edition offor this markets middle east. anna edwards and others will have all of the top stories from london daybreak. that is next. ♪ >> it is 1:00 in hong kong. opec failed to agree on output levels for iran and iraq. they feel to resolve the question of resumption's -- exemptions. iraq wants to keep hoping to pay for its war with militants. donald trump abandoned his pledge to prosecute hillary clinton. during the campaign he said that if he was resident, she would be in jail. now, the president-elect has told "the new

there was a robust debate of the merits of the iran deal before it was complete. and i actually was proud of how our democracy process that. it was a serious debate and people of goodwill on both sides of the issues. ultimately, we were able to persuade members of the politublic at least enough support him. at the time, the main argument is iran would not abide by the deal that they were cheap. we now have over a year of evidence that they have abide by the president. that's not just my opinion or my administration. they'll look at facts cause to unravel a deal that's keep in mind this was not an agreement between us and the iran people. it is between other countries. some are closest allies. for us to pull out would then require us to start sanctioning or china or russia that were still abiding booing by the dea because from their perspective, iran had done what they're supposed to do. it becomes more difficult, i think to undo something that's working than undo something that's not working. and, when you are not responsible for it and you can call it a terrible d

he talks about tearing up the iran deal. e does, we would be back to the situation at year or two ago where a million barrels is taken off the market by sanctions. of course, that will push up prices a lot, it will make opec told job easier and it will help u.s. drillers. there's quite a lot of hurdles. not least, the other partners on the iran deal, russia and china, with a iran so far has been complying with the deal, so therefore why would they rip it up? here's an existential question on on early sunday morning, given what has happened with shale, given the rise of people like donald trump, geopolitical populism, nationalist parties, how does relevanceain its among oil-producing nations? opec will continue to exist. shale is not an existential crisis for opec, but it is a crisis unlike any they have seen before in a very serious challenge. i think you hand, have a world of, say, more geopolitics and trade barriers, more economic nationalism, opec and its mission actually fits very well into such a world. tracy: the origin

but on the iran deal, there has been violations. days we saw the iaea tell us that the iran violated the 130-ton limit of heavy water. heavy water is really important because it moderates reactors. and this specific iran deal says that if they go over the 130-ton limit, they're supposed to make that available on the international marketplace and sell it they're not allowed to keep it except they kept it so, they violated that right away. i think that an administration worried about keeping iran's feet to the fire would have immediately called the security council meeting. would have said this is a violation. asked to be fixed. if they didn't fix it go to the senate and ask for sanctions. at least start with u.s. sanctions. maybe roll out banking banking sanctions right after that there are things that we can do. certainly we have to start over. >> those sanctions we had. and we have lifted those. i want to focus in on syria policy. we have had, i don't know what we have had. we had a hodgepodge of syria policy over the last few year

keep in mind this was not an agreement between us and the iran people. it is between other countries. some are closest allies. for us to pull out would then require us to start sanctioning or china or russia that were still abiding booing by the dea because from their perspective, iran had done what they're supposed to do. it becomes more difficult, i think to undo something that's working than undo something that's not working. and, when you are not responsible for it and i think when you are responsible for the deal then preventing iran from getting nuclear weapon, you are more likely to look at the facts. that's going to be true in other circumstances, for example, the paris agreement. there is been a lot of talks about the possibility of undoing this international agreement. you got 200 countries that have and, the good news is that what we have been able to show the last five-six or eight years it is possible to grow the economy really fast and possible to bring down carbon emissions as well. it is not just a bunch of rules that we set up. you got ut

on the other side, how we fight series concludes with a look at the iran nuclear deal. donald trump in scranton. let's listen in. >> so high i won't tell you what it is. it's very high. all 67 counties in pennsylvania, most of which i won in the primaries -- right? almost all. almost every one of them. are losing obamacare insurers next year. that puts you in a bad position. the truth is, not going to matter. because we are going to repeal it and replace it. not going to matter. don't worry about it. so you can leave here happy. premiums are surging, companies are leaving. insurers are fleeing. doctors are quitting. and deductibles are going through the roof. yet crooked hillary clinton wants to double down on obamacare, making it even more expensive than it is right now. i'm asking for your vote so we can repeal and replace obamacare and save health care for every family in pennsylvania. it was happening so fast. somehow it felt like everything was moving in slow motion. if i didn't react, things could have gotten messy in a hurry. i mean just got that sweet ride with a

which is a red herring because the export -- ex-im bank has not supported exports to iran since the 1970's and is legally prohibited from doing so as long as iran is a state sponsor of terror. notably, the bill removes the president's national security waiver with regard to these restrictions, a move that denies the president the flexibility necessary to work with with our allies to find the most effective ways of changing iran's behavior. the fact is all previous iran sanctions' bills have passed the house and become law have included a presidential waiver that gives the president the flexibility to act quickly and maneuver when doing so serves the u.s. national security interests. mr. chairman, i am particularly concerned that this bill comes at a time of deep global uncertainty about u.s. foreign policy. we have a president-elect whose talk on foreign policy has ranged from vague and contradictory in some areas to utt leer incoherent elsewhere. he's inserted unpredictability into the international arena, thrent the cornerstones of decades of american -- threatens the cornerstones

they're instead urging the president to sign a extending sanctions against iran. the white house says president obama would not sign any legislation that would undermine the ability to implement the iran nuclear deal. gop leaders say it should be up to president-elect donald trump to set u.s. policy. >>> investigators in china say icy and foggy conditions triggered this chain reaction crash that killed at least 17 people. as many as 40 others were hurt in the crash. crews are working around the collision. officials say it could take another day or two before that highway reopens. >>> coming up, local politician adopted as a young child says thanks by giving back to those who need it most. >>> by the time it takes me to finish these next two sentences a woman will be attacked by someone who claims to love her. it's time to talk about the signs and it's time to save lives tonight at afoot and light-hearted i take to the open road. healthy, free, the world before me, the long brown path before me leading wherever i choose. ne. all seems beautiful to me. we are the tv

pete: you mentioned the iran nuclear deal. is that something the president by himself can nix? michael: it's not that simple. remember, that was a deal among five nations and iran so it china, great britain, russia, the united states and france and ended with a security council resolution. there is some debate about would internationalg law if we tore up the deal and us. would it mean for there are things iran could do a response to that, that span variety of scenarios, including split us, playe, us against europe, or cut ideals russia and china so it's not as easy as with a stroke of a dead,e iran deal is iran's nuclear program starts again. i think that's true of a lot of has saids that trump about foreign policy on the campaign trail. implementation, they're more complicated than he said they were and we don't know he'll followthrough on and if he tries, whether he'll be able to and how it will play out. we've almost never seen ambiguity like this on foreign policy. pete: things happen that he'll have to respond to. i'm wondering about syria. he have to make big decisions abo

the iran deal, $150 billion going back to iran. and then we are going to give them $400 million in cash, right? but the $400 million turned out to be $1.7 billion. terry is looking at me saying that is not possible. $1.7 billion? $1.7 billion, we could do that -- we could use that in iowa. we could do -- we can do a hell of a job in iowa.

some of the rhetoric in this town, not i think there was a really robust debate about the merits of the iran deal before it was completed. and i actually was pretty proud of how our democracy processed that. it was a serious debate, i think people of good will were on both sides of the issue. ultimately we were able to persuade members of congress and the public at least enough of at the time the main argument against it was iran wouldn't abide by the deal. that they would cheat. we now have over a year of evidence that they have abided by the agreement. that's not just my opinion, it's not just people in my administration, that's the intelligence officers who are part of a government that vehemently opposed the deal. so my suspicion is that when the president elect comes in and he is consulting with his republican colleagues on the hill that they will look at the facts because to unravel a deal that's working and preventing iran from pursuing a nuclear weapon would be hard to pl were to have them freed from any obligations and go ahead and pursue a weapon. and keep in mind this is not just

on iran, the saudi oil minister saying they would be allowed not to cut, iran. they would be allowed to produce at pre-sanction levels. the iranian petroleum minister saying after that we have not finalized a deal, but we're optimistic that we'll reach a deal. it will be down to the 11th hour again. >> it all sounds interesting. the words of the saudi oil minister sound good in theory and in public in terms of everyone cutting equally. he went on to say there will be some free pass cards for a couple countries, libya, nigeria, iraq given -- iran given a semi-free pass to stay at sanctions-free levels. it sounds good, but in reality there's individual negotiations to keep everybody happy and it comes back to the three key players of saudi arabia, the uae and kuwait. it's up to them. they would have to shoulder the burden of a cut. >> why do we even need this deal in the marketplace if the oil market is set to rebalance itself and the implementing of a deal would take 6 to 12 months. >> it would give a couple dollars per barrel a boost to oil price which they would

and i couldn't watch it when they made the iran deal. they give them $150 billion to a terrorist state. a state that was ready to collapse until we made them rich

at the time the main argument against it was iran wouldn't abide by the deal. that they would cheat. we now have over a year of evidence that they have abided by the agreement. that's not just my opinion and not just people in my administration, but the opinion of israeli and military officers who are part of the government that opposed the deal. so my suspicion is when the president-elect comes in and he's consulting with his republican colleagues on the hill, that they will look at the facts because to unravel a deal that is working and preventing iran from pursuing a nuclear weapon would be hard to explain particularly if they were freed from any obligations and pursue any weapon. keep in mind, this isn't just an agreement between us and the iran but our closest allies. pull out would then require us to sart sanking those other countries in europe, china or russia, that were still abiding by the deal because from their perspective, iran has done what it supposed to do. becomes more difficult to undo something that's working than to undo something that isn't

, but at the same time the president is trying to get more businesses involved in iran so it will make it more difficult for donald trump to tear up the deal. what do you think? >> i don't think any businesses are going to do anything between now and january. there's way too much uncertainty. there's an administration going out and a new one coming in. it would be crazy for businesses to change course right now. i think there's a lot of -- there are a lot of people both republicans and democrats urging the president-elect trump to be cautious in his actions in iran and i think that's something the country is going to stand behind. >> the country is getting fed up with the way iran has been dealing with this. we had this announcement from the iranian supreme leader saying the current u.s. government has breached the nuclear deal on many occasions. for them to tell us that we're breaching the deal is ridiculous after they've done it a number of times. >> look, i'm not will biggest fan of the iranian regime. i know that if you look at several of the most outspoken critics of the

and if that's not going to happen, doesn't that mean that the iran deal, emission limits, immigration, transgender, all those things are sort of gone on january 21? >> there's a lot there. that's good. that's ok. these are important questions. i think the first thing is i can't speak to the nature of the conversations between president bush and then president elect obama. i don't know if president bush lobbied president obama on any issues or not. i think what i would say in terms of trying to help you get a sense of the kinds of conversations i'm trying to describe, i wouldn't use the word lobby. i think what i would do is basically say the intent of president obama and his team is to brief president-elect trump and his team. >> you were there. >> well, again, the point that i'm trying to make is this -- is that -- and president obama has acknowledged this. that the view of certain policies once you're inside overnment give you a new appreciation for the benefits of those policies. am i suggesting that president trump is going to reverse himi himself on a whole range of things? no. i

but to say that the deal was clinton's is misleading. >> the iran nuclear deal was not hillary clinton's deal, there had been negotiations beginning a period of years ago, but by the time it was put together, she had been away from the secretary of state's office for two-and-a-half years. $150 billion given to iran was not american money, but frozen assets owned and returned to iran. they rated the claim mostly false. >> and you can read more about those stories online. >>> all right. from 60s to possible snow. >> say it isn't so. >> talking big change expected to move in this weekend. >> chief meteorologist john malan joins us now with the weather. >> and there's rain in between, as you can see on this picture. ben franklin elementary school, the theme was my funny because of john malan. so all the kids put their faces like a weather kid on individual unbelievableably perfect well-drawn well put together posters for my mom dresses me funny. you can see there's winter, there's -- i think this young man weston. and look at fall. these are actually -- thank you kids, great time as your sch

here's the problem, right now we're effectively aligned with iran. we are providing the air cover, the bombing, the rest of it. so that the pro iranian militias can take mosul and eventually raqqah, and that means aligning with al bashar. can we confront iran at the same time, support their offensive on mosul? i don't like either side. neither iran or saudi arabia, and the middle east is just -- you just don't know the way it's going to go. it's very, very unpredictable. i'll be fascinated to see what this president does. this president-elect may have intimated which way he will go by this tweet saying general james "mad dog" mattis who is being considered for secretary of defense was very impressive yesterday. a true general's general. i don't think you would say that unless you were a serious contender. >> general mattis is an impressive guy, he can get to the heart of an issue extremely quick. and he's a veracious reader, married to the profession. no one is more, i would say, steeped in the profession of arms but also the implication of the profes

connell: we're going to talk about the iran deal for a few moments. ng more measures or trying to, to the deal, before the new administration comes into office. so some look at that and say this is proof that the deal was weak to begin with. formerly of the state department, we have david tufuri with us and fred fleiss with us. if you're trying to put new items into this as the "wall street journal" reported on the iran deal, is that proof that we didn't get it right to begin with, what do you make of it? >> i don't think it's proof of that. what it's proof of is that the obama administration staked part of its legacy on the iran deal and that iran which benefitted from the deal are both worried that the incoming administration might change the deal. so they're take action right now to shore up the deal to show that iran is complying with the deal, and that in a sense benefits the u.s. iran is coming far below what it's required to do in terms of having uranium, and it's also making other changes in order to show it's going even beyond what is required

i have been a strong opponent of the iran agreement because i believe it will allow iran to keep the infrastructure legitimately for nuclear weapons capability. i have also been a leader in introducing sanctions to address iran's ballistic missile program of deep concern. they have tested ballistic missiles, some of them saying they want to wipe israel off the face of the earth. so it is very important to focus on this iranian threat and in addition to that, i've strongly foreign aid to israel. i've had the privilege of beautifulto the country of israel on several occasions. and one of the greatest honors i've had in the senate is to introduce the congressional gold medal for the late statesman, shimon peres, and to be present receivedpitol when he that gold medal. i will never forget that. amazing person for humanity. so i am honored to be here with all of you today. i look forward to answering your questions about domestic and national security issues. this is a very important forum and i really appreciate all that you do for the manchester community and for our state. much.you very

space in terms of the sanctions against iran. he can make them stronger, upgrade them, but the problem he may run into is if he's going to hit european firms, he's back to where he was several years ago in terms of destabilizing relations with european partners. >> the chance of doing something against iran bilaterally is much more difficult. let me ask you about syria. do you see more military involvement in syria for the united states under trump? >> no, i think if you're looking at eastern syria and the war against isis, yes, the potential upgrade of it, strengthening of it, but it's important to see. if you look at the initial appointments, for example, national security adviser, flynn. also you have the cia director, representative congressman pompeo. people are thinking this is going to be -- it's heart starting to form to be a hawkish nati s key thing, i don't think it's a neocon time that's going to want to redesign the middle east and the region, but it's going to be mostly one that says on a limited basis, when you mess

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. >> the past three days have been some of the most violent in iran since the protests began. >> actress farrah fawcett lost her three-year battle with cancer. >> south carolina's governor mark sanford revealed yesterday he was in argentina to visit his mistress. >> always another story on the heels of the one before it. >> i've been unfaithful to my wife. >> jackson announced a series of 50 concerts in london, it's to be his big comeback. >> typically in newsrooms we think of summers as very slow. there's not a lot going on. then things begin to happen. it's unusually not one thing. it's two things, throw things, and there you go. tragedies in iran, attempts at revolution. >> what's going on in iran is massive, mostly peaceful protests over the alleged stealing of an election. >> in the u.s. capital, a political storm erupts over a ground breaking climate change bill. >> we have been talking about this issue for decades. and now is the time to finally act. >> south carolina has literally lost its governor. >> once you get to a certain level of importance, particularly in public service,

i think there was a really robust debate about the merits of the iran deal before it is completed. and i actually was pretty proud of how our democracy process went. it was a serious debate. people of good will or on both sides of the issue. ultimately we were able to persuade members of congress and the public, at least enough of them, to support it. at the time the main argument against it was iran wouldn't abide by the deal, that they would cheat. we now have over a year of evidence that they have abided by the agreement. that's not just my opinion. it's not just people in my administration. that's the opinion of israeli military and intelligence officers who are part of a government that vehemently opposed the deal. so my suspicion is that when the president-elect comes in and he's consulting with his republican colleagues on the hill that they will look at the facts, because to unravel a deal that's working and preventing iran from pursuing a nuclear weapon would be hard to explain, playly if the alternative were to have them freed from any obligations and go ahead and pursue a

what is required, the nuclear weapons, plans from iran. porter: so would you -- [no audio] john: -- haidi: having some technical difficulties. let's check in on the headlines, including one of our top stories. new zealand central bank saying it has done enough to return inflation after cutting interest rates to the fresh record low. to 1.75%. inflation has languished below, 1.3% target for two years. the strongest growth seen in the developed world. the kiwis are rising on that statement. >> monetary policy will be accommodated. current projections and assumptions indicate policy including today's easing swissie growth shrine have to have inflation near the middle of the target range. at someormer officials of south korea's biggest companies have been questioned with peddling investigations linked to the president. he had summoned executives from lg, s k group and others. accused the president's friend of coercing companies into making donations. the european commission going to court over a record $14 million tax bill on acid -- apple. the

. >> donald trump has promised to tear up the nuclear deal with iran. some conservative critics point out a rule that you helped to pass in the senate which allowed the iran deal to be voted on in the senate by whether members disapproved, which meant that the president needed only 34 votes to sustain a veto instead of 67. it gets a little complicated there. >> yeah. >> do you think president-elect trump should ditch the iran deal altogether? >> let me make sure first, you know, they went straight to the u.n. security council and had this approved at the security council level, before we ever voted. so we had nothing to do with helping make this happen. we created a process -- we were able to pass a process that actually gave us the ability to keep it from happening. we had a 90-day stay passed to keep this from happening before it came to us. so he didn't go the treaty process, which is a shame. now, as you mentioned, president trump coming in, he can do away with it in five minutes if he wishes, with the flick of a pen. so our process was to stop it, t

he's a staunch opponent of the iran deal. he was opposed to closing guantanamo bay. he's a supporter of the nsa's bulk collection program. what do you make of this? >> i don't have as good a read on representative pompeo as i have on some of the other appointments. when it comes to the iran deal, if you have someone who is an opponent of the iran deal, president-elect trump who has said repeatedly on the campaign trail that this is one of the worst deals he's ever seen, or worst deals in american foreign policy history, what i wonder is if the administration is going to move forward and try to either renegotiate that or change their posture towards iran, what is their strategy going forward? a lot of these appointments, carol, i see less of a challenge for both the administration and the congress in terms of the individuals or the personalities, and more of a challenge on how they're going to get everybody on the same page policywise. that i think remains to be seen because i think that president-elect trump, a lot of these things still remains an open book. >> let's

so then you have the worst of both worlds. you have an iranpport terrorism around the world and an iran that is pursuing a nuclear weapon. but i have to say this is crazy talk. this is not world war ii. we are not in a world war ii moment. and the other thing we know about trump is he did read the american people to say no more wars of choice, no more putting boots on the ground in the middle east. so you're not going to reconcile a man who says we're going to stay home with this apocalyptic vision. >> 15 seconds. what is the single-most important thing that happens in the trump administration first term? >> i think it's the fact that we may not be in world war ii but it is the end of pax americana, and american allies are going to be hedging. this is going to be a radically more unstable geopolitical environment. >>> next on "gps," how did everyone, including me, get tuesday's election so wrong? i will be joined by the same two prognosticators who joined me last week to eat some crow. that goes beyond assuming ingredients are safe... to knowi