that was a firm with ties to the russian oligarch, virk vikto viktor vekkelberg. >> michael didn't gethis services were all about. we don't have all the facts, but it certainly, as brian said, it doesn't smell good and it doesn't look pretty and it certainly suggests some kind of shake down. how this will all turn out, i don't know at this point. but it's ugly. >> yeah. what do you think about this, laura? >> well, you know, we really are seeing the under belly of what it means to pay for play in washington, d.c., and while most people think to themselves, there's got to be laws against this concept of being able to have paid access to decision makers, to elected officials, to policy makers, what we're finding is there is a very, very thick line between pay for play and apparently bribery. and although the two can somehow merge in the future in some criminal activity, we're finding there's really a lot of tolerance for this sort of behavior. the most interesting thing about the issue with the russian oligarch is he was one of the two men that was stopped when he came onto american soil

from the deal so they were peons say we continue this because there is no alternative the deal has virk so far iran stop its nuclear program as far as united nations inspectors can tell and so that they try to convince mr trump and the administration the last month to negotiate about the other points you just mentioned from washington but this these are not part of the nuclear deal. i wonder eric randolph in tehran as far as the iranian government it is concerned if america does walk away from this just that and it just for a second said because it is one of seven eight coast signatures. yes president rouhani has explicitly said in the last couple of days that iran would stay in the deal even if the u.s. holdouts i think they really came to salvage as much as they can of the economic benefits that they depart from the deal with the europeans even if that has been fairly limited as a result of the pressure of the u.s. and the difficulties of doing trade with iran even after you know. that they're trying to go a very fine line you need you know they're very keen particularly to carry on h