abstentions. what happened under the obama administration is russia and china and drifted away and iran has been in a position to circumvent even the existing security council sanctions. it's the obama administration's weakness that has given iran 3 1/2 years of respite from international pressure. megyn: he says we weren't respect bid our friend and fear bid our enemies. he says today that is starkly, starkly different. your thoughts, ambassador. >> i think it is starkly different. i think we are even less respect bid our friend and even less fear bid our adversaries. the effort to prevent iran from getting nuclear weapons has had a lot of failures the last 20 years. but the last 3 1/2 years the pace and the scope of iran's program has stepped up. that's why we are at the critical point where within a short time iran can get nuclear