the deal. and i have been told tonight that the president of the united states, barack obama, has communicated to these senators that he will veto this if it were to pass, which is new news, and i think very important. i've heard from another very senior administration official who is arguing that bob menendez, if he gets the way he wants to go, is going to trip us into a war. so the stakes, as you've defined them, are very, very high. and this is not just another crank at the wheel on sanctions. this is a very important historic moment in u.s. diplomatic history, to systemically change the relationship of the united states with another key nation that has been problematic for us for three decades. this is a nixon goes to china moment. and it would be like the u.s. senate handicapping and kind of cutting the legs out from underneath richard nixon in normalizing china. that's how big this is. >> because of the domestic pressures, and it's groups like aipac leading the way. they've been seen as the lead push on this in terms of an