joining me is steven hadley one of the former official who is signed a letter last week criticizing the proposed deal because it did not address their concerns about iran's other behaviors, regional behavior. thank you very much for being with us. from what you know of what is being negotiated here is this a good thing or a bad thing? >> well, one of the messages we sent in that letter was that there's no rush here, that we think there is more pressure on the iranians actually because they want to get out of sanctions and the administration ought to stay at the table until they get an agreement that meets the objective that president obama has set, which is a good agreement and one of the things we tried to do in our letter was set some of the four or five key elements of what we thought a good agreement in order for something to qualify as arguably good agreement you had to at least meet these four or five things we set out in our paper. of the administration has been if you can deal with iran's nuclear