would sign an agreement with a group of people who, in my opinion, have no intention of keeping their word. >> joining me now maryland democrat ib senator ben cardin, member of the foreign affairs committee. a pleasure to see you. >> good to be with you, jose. thanks. >> if we get to wednesday and there's no deal, what happens? >> first, we hope there is a dealened the best case is to have an effective arrangement with iran where they give up their nuclear weapon ambition. if they don't sanctions will be tightened. we will continue to isolate iran as much as we can. we hope to have the type of cooperation from those who have been with us in these negotiations to make sure that we not only have all of the sanctions, we would have a snapback to the relief already given iran but we would pass stronger sanctions and hope the international community would follow us. >> there are those who believe all the ts crossed, is dotted and really it's up to now