Just imagine the site of those huge piles of money. Being halled off by the iranians and waiting at the airport for the cash. I wonder where all that money went. One of the of all the deal allows iran to fund the Nuclear Program and in just a few years, as key restrictions disappear, iran can sprint towards a rapid Nuclear Weapons break out. In other words, we got weak inspections in exchange for no more than a purely shortterm and temporary delay in irans path to Nuclear Weapons. Whats the purpose of a deal that at least only delays Nuclear Capability for a short period of time . This as president of the United States is unacceptable. Other countries think in terms of 100 year intervals and not just a few years at a time. The saddest part of the deal for the United States is that all of the money was paid up front which is unheard of rather than at the end of the deal when they have shown they have played the rules. Whats done is done and thats why we are where we are. The Iranian Regime committed multiple violations of the agreement. For example, on two separate occasions they have exceeded the limit of 130 metric tons of heavy water. Until recently the Iranian Regime failed to meet our expectations in its operation of advanced centrifuges. The regime intimidated International Inspectors into not using the full inspection authorities that the agreement calls for. Officials and leaders have claimed they will not allow inspectors on to military sites even though the International Community suspects some of those sites were part of irans clan destine Nuclear Program. Many people believe that iran is dealing with north korea. I am going to instruct our Intelligence Agency to do a thorough analysis and report back their findings beyond what they have already reviewed. By its own terms, the iran deal was supposed to contribute to regional and International Peace and security. And yet while the United States adheres to our commitment under the deal, the Iranian Regime continues to feel conflict, terror, and turmoil throughout the middle east and beyond. Importantly iran is not living up to the spirit of the deal. So today in recognition of the increasing menacy posed by iran and after extensive consultations with our allies, i am announcing a new strategy to address the full range of irans destructive actions. First, we will work with our allies to counter the regimes destabilizing activity and support for terrorist proxies in the region. Second, we will place additional sanctions on the regime to block their financing of terror. Third, we will address the regimes proliferation of missiles and weapons that threaten its neighbors global trade and freedom of navigation and finally, we will deny the regime all paths to a nuclear weapon. Today i am announcing several major steps my administration is taking in pursuit of the strategy. The execution of our strategy begins with the long overdue step of imposing tough sanctions on irans Islamic Revolutionary guard corps. The revolutionary guard is the iranians Supreme Leaders corrupt personal terror force and militia. It hijacked large portions of irans economy and seized religious endowments to fund war and terror abroad. This includes arming the syrian dictator and supplying proxies with missiles and weapons to attack civilians in the region and even plotting to bomb a popular restaurant right here in washington, d. C. I am authorizing the Treasury Department to further sanction the entire Islamic Revolutionary guard corps for support for terrorism and to apply sanctions to officials, annuals, and affiliates. I urge our allies to join us in taking strong actions to curb irans continued dangerous and destabilizing behavior, including thorough sanctions outside the iran deal that target the regimes Ballistic Missile program in support for terrorism and all of its destructive activities of which there are many. Finally, on the grave matter of irans Nuclear Program, since the signing of the Nuclear Agreement to the regimes dangerous aggression has only escalated. At the same time it received massive sanctions relief while continuing to develop missiles program. Iran entered into lucrative Business Contracts with other pears to the agreement. When the agreement was finalized in 2015, Congress Passed the iran Nuclear Agreement review act to ensure that congresss voice would be heard on the deal. Among other conditions, this law requires the president or his designee to certify that the suspension of sanctions urn the deal is appropriate and proportionate to measure and other measures taken by iran to terminate elicit Nuclear Program. Based on what i put forward, i am announcing that we cannot and will not make this certification. We will not continue down a path whose predictable conclusion is more violence and terror and the very real threat of Irans Nuclear break out. That is why i am directing my Administration Work closely with congress and our allies to address the deals many serious flaws so that the Iranian Regime can never threaten the world with Nuclear Weapons. These include the deals sunset clauses that in just a few years will eliminate key restrictions on irans Nuclear Program. The flaws in the deal also include insufficient enforcement and near total silence on irans missile programs. Congress has already begun the work to address these problems. Key house and Senate Leaders are drafting legislation that would amend the Iran Nuclear Review act to strengthen enforcement and prevent iran from developing an internet this is so totally important. An intercontinental Ballistic Missile and make all restrictions on Irans Nuclear activity permanent under u. S. Law. So important. I support these initiatives. However in the event we are not able to reach a solution working with congress and our allies, then the agreement will be terminated. It is under continuous review and our participation can be canceled by me as president at any time. As we have seen in north korea, the longer we ignore a threat, the worse that threat becomes. It is why we are determined that the worlds leading sponsor of terrorism will never obtain Nuclear Weapons. In this effort we stand in total solidarity with the Iranian Regimes longest suffering victims. Its own people. The citizens of iran have paid a heavy price for the violence and extremism of their leaders. The iranian people are just longing to reclaim their countrys proud history. Its culture and civilization and cooperation with its neighbors. We hope that these new measures directed at iranian dictatorship will compel the government to reevaluate the pursuit of terror at the expense of its people. We hope our actions today will help bring about a future of peace, stability, and prosperity in the mideast. A future where sovereign nations respect each other and their own citizens. We pray for a future where young children, american and iranian, muslim, christian and jewish can grow up in a world free from violence, hatred and terror. Until that blessed day comes, we will do what we must to keep america safe. Thank you, god bless you, and god mess america. Thank you. The president of the United States announcing that he cannot certify that iran is complying with the nuclear deal. Announcing new steps in effect throwing the ball right now to the congress. He said congress will work closely to address what he calls the flaws of this agreement. We listen he went further than all the advanced work going after iran and making it clear. He sees this deal that was negotiated during the Obama Administration with other permanent members of the Security Council. He sees this deal as a horrible, horrible deal and the u. S. Must get a new deal. This is potentially enormously consequential. The president has in effect said congress, fix this. He is not pulling the u. S. Out of the deal today, but made clear if they do not fix it to his pleasing as he is demanding here, the u. S. Will walk away from the deal. Similar to what secretary tillerson said. Fix it or we will nix this deal. That is consequential. Its not guaranteed that he will get the changes he wants. New triggers and new sanctions. Thats a question. For several of the moves, you need 60 votes. You need a democrat to sign on. Thats important. Two, the president alleged something contradicted by every agency head. He said iran has delivered multiple violations of the agreement. His defense secretary and Intelligence Community and even his secretary of state speaking to reporters yesterday have all said that iran is in compliance with this agreement. The fact is this agreement covers only the Nuclear Program. It doesnt cover Missile Technology or terrorism. You can argue that it should have or you should have fought for that, but the agreement does not. Though the president is decertifying and saying it is violating the agreement, the senior advisers said publicly and repeatedly, it is not. The final point i would make it this. The u. S. Is alone on this. The allies who negotiated with china and russia have constantly and continued to declare public commitment to the deal. I smoke to a diplomat and he said the following. We along with our e 3 eu partners have been expressing ongoing commitment to the deal. We would be wary of any developments that undermine the parameters of this agreement. As the president goes out here on this in effect, he is doing so without the cooperation and agreement of his closest allies. He did announce new sanctions on the guard core. Thats a huge part of the Iranian Regime. Thats a significant step. A big part of the icon me. They have our own lead to a degree. We have many of their own businesses there. If they are shutout of the Banking System that has consequences to iran. Jim acosta at the white house, the correspondent has been well briefed over there. The president seem add i lot bolder than aides were suggesting he would be. Thats right. We are getting mixed messages on this iran deal and what the president will be doing about it. I think we should look back to what Rex Tillerson told reporters in the White House Briefing room yesterday. The secretary of state said that yes, this policy decision by the president moves the Iran Nuclear Deal to congress and this is what rex tiller son said yesterday. If congress does nothing, they remain in the agreement. Despite all of the president s tough talk, that is still the state of play in washington when it am cans to this nuclear deal. He made a lot of strong statements saying it was the worst deal ever negotiated and so on. He was really trapped by his own Campaign Rhetoric in all of this. From talking to sources over the last several months, we have been given the full picture that time and again people like the National Security adviser hr mcmaster and Rex Tillerson and the defense secretary james mattis tried to go to the president and impress upon him that you dont like this deal, but guess what, if we pull out, we are isolated by much of the world. This is not a Bilateral Agreement between the United States and iran. Other parties are involved here. This may be something where the president issues a lot of tough talk that makes him feel good and at the end of the day, congress and the senate need 60 votes to deal with whatever bob corker comes up with. He is trying to craft a deal and the congress can act on. If congress does nothing, we have been told by officials the iran deal stays in place. Until he decides it shouldnt. He can clearly make that decision. Our International Correspondent is joining us from tehran right now. You were listening to what President Trump had to say. How is this likely to be received in iran. This will lead to reactions and anticipation of what the president said and what they thought he was going to say. On the one hand, the nuclear deal. You can see the moderates and the hard liners who have been at odds after the agreement was put in place. Im not sure that is going to weaken. And the agreement being set aside. Earlier our crews spoke to the hard liners. We told you this all along. They thought this was a bad deal for iran. The many moderates here have been saying 245ir7 looking forward to the deal and thought it would bring relief. Many thought it could bring him closer. Many of them dont believe it could happen anymore. We will get reaction from the architects of the Iran Nuclear Deal, but i want to go to christian amanpour. You studied all of the history and the negotiations leading up to this deal back in 2015 whats your analysis of what we heard . Clearly it was a brought brush stroke painting iran as the satan that President Trump believes it is. It went all the way back to 1979 and it was a long way to go back. Omitted very important things. The reality of this is that this deal was struck by iran with the United States to europeans, russia and china. All of them including the only agency qualified to do so which is the iaea has testified over and again that it is verifying this deal that iran is in compliance with and if the deal breaks up, there is no more verification and transparency into the iranian program. Thats important. The president and the United States frankly always had sanctions against the irgc. It always his sanctions on iran for terrorist allegations. Those already exist. I think its important to remember that even israeli hawks such as the former Prime Minister said so yesterday expecting this speech today. The deal is done. Pulling out, even though the president didnt say that, but raised the spector it could happen. They could blame the United States for it and that could be what the rest of the world would think. As for the sunset clauses, of course people want to see a forever sunset. No sunset. A forever dole with this. It wasnt possible and all the proponents of the deal and those who struck it remind us that there is a forever clause on the prohibition against Nuclear Weapons that under a certain period of time it foresaw iran and it maintained this deal signing on to the Additional Protocol that alous any time, anywhere aggressive inspections into everywhere. If iran agreed to that and most of the provisions were way beyond the next several years. Its very hard to see how weakening this deal will achieve what the president wants. All the bad things they are accused of. How weakening the deal that israeli National Security and global security. You are trying to persuade them and they come in from the cold and freeze. Thats why opponents of what the president has done are concerned about how they go forward to keep a more security world rather than add a new level of insecuri insecurity. I thought it was significant that the president said he wants further study from the cooperation between iran and north coares. Right now he is raising that possibility in recent weeks, several of the president s top National Security advisers made no secret and iran is in compliance with the nuclear deal. I believe the agreement that delayed the development of a Nuclear Capability by iran. My deal is they are in Technical Compliance of the nuclear arrangement. Do you believe it is in our interest to remain in the jcpoa . Thats a yes or no question. Yes, senator. I do. Parsec tear of jfs james mattis and the Global Affairs analyst during the Obama Administration and you working with secretary kerry and worked closely in putting the deal together. The president said it may be the worst deal ever. You guys simply signed on to this horrendous deal. I often wondered theed if the president read the deal. The fact is with this incredibly difficult relationship with iran, the one thing that is working with the nuclear deal. We pulled them way back to having a nuclear weapon. It makes it easier to have something challenging and deal with the manifestations of bad behavior. It would be a heck of a lot harder to do that. What the president is doing today is totally counterproductive to trying to more effectively contaping iran. Its also a huge gift to the hard liners of iran in the struggle for supremacy. This is the i told you so moment for hard liners in iran. America is not good to its word. He talked himself into a corner, trashing the deal. Then he becomes president and under the law he has this very galling thing which is to have to certify every 90 days. He has done it twice. Under the facts, they are. He wanted to get from under that trap. This will be fraughtful. They have 60 days to consider this. Who knows what happens in the 60 days. This could Push Congress to pull the plug on the deal. If that happens, america will be isolated, not iran. The Treasury Department even as we are speaking. The new quite dogs and and the irgc guard core of iran. Terrorism authority and targets irgc and supporters under counter proliferation authority. There will be new sanctions imposed against the Islamic Revolutionary guard corps . Is that seen as a violation of the agreement under the Iranian Regime . I dont think a violation of the agreement, but we have a large battery of existing sanctions against individuals and we have plenty of authorities to go after them. I think there is a risk that they will take this and try to retaliate against American Forces in iraq. You have to be careful. Previous administrations as well as Obama Administration use the existing authorities we this to deal with. We were very careful about going after it as an entity. When the period said there have been multiple violations of the agreement in terms of the centrifuges and intimidating inspectors and not letting them go to military sites, does he have a point that these are violations of the agreement . No, he doesnt. What happened is this. On a number of occasions, there have been concerns about actions iran has taken. They were brought to whats already in the agreement. Thats basically a dispute. We control that with our european allies and we have the majority vote. Each of these where we had a concern has been resolved and iran pulled back from doing things we thought were questionable. Lets clear up one thing. There is access to military sites under the agreement. There is a red herring that they are not allowed to go there. If they have concerns about an activi activity, they can ask for access. They can get referred to the Security Council and a Single Member that is the United States can snap back the sanctions if they think iran is blocking access. Executive director of the foundation for democracy. You see what the president is doing as a positive step. Its a first positive step. There is a lot to be seen. What the president has done, the problem with the nuclear deal is not complianceo violations. The problem is that the deal itself because the restrictions go away overtime give iran pathways to Nuclear Weapons. They give iran the ability to build up a trillion dollar economy against our ability to use sanctions and give them what they got already which is the ability to build out places like iraq and syria. Its not a question of violations and the president has decided not to certify the deal not in terms of compliance, but he said that the sanctions rethat has been provided is not appropriate and proportionate to the steps that iran is taking and is supposed to take under the deal. Thats the bad deal condition of the iran Nuclear Agreement. Thats the condition under which he is. Would you like the president to go a step further and not just certify that the iranians are in compliance, but to rip up the deal . He said the worst deal ever. He said he would tear it apart. Would you like him to do that or are you satisfied with what he has done and said we will work with congress and see if we can negotiate a better deal . I long recommended that we shouldnt walk away from the deal. We should try to fix the deal. What he has done is sent a message to congress and the europeans that im going to give you time and space to fix the deal. Legislatively and more important i will work with the allies to try to do what they say they are willing to do as Emmanuel Mac Ron said. We are willing to find ways to strengthen the deal. Sunset provisions and missiles. The european position moved from keep it to fix it in the past three months. Thats because of their fears that trump will walk away from the deal. Let me get tonys reaction. What do you think . First its important to know while provisions expire 10, 15, 20, 25 years after iran is permanently barred from developing weapons under the treatment. It is barred from doing weapons related activities and because its signing on to the protocol, its not taken up provisionally and its supposed to ratify it. That means it is subject to inspections. If the provisions and constraints expire, iran starts to build up and develop the potential for arsenal. A future president will have every possibility of bringing the world together to block that and stop that. If we are the ones who get out of the deal, any unity we so pain stakingly built up will be gone. Iran will divide us from our partners in europe. Never mind the others. This is a totally unnecessary action. One that creates tremendous opportunity for a real problem to develop. April ryan is with us for urban Radio Networks and analyst as well. This is going to play with the president s political base. It will play with the president s political base. He is doubling down and doing what he talked about on the campaign trail. Listen to what the president said and listen to him through history when it comes to our relationship with iran. But we have to remember and the approximate the is right. We have a delicate relationship and tumultuous relationship with iran. He started talking about the hostage issue. Park are when we look at iran and why this deal was made and christian touched it and not hearing the piece of the transparency and the deal was created because our intelligence is faulty when it comes to issues of iran. We dont know so much. When you have these deals and all of this going on, you get a little bit more of a glimpse into whats going on. The president said he is fearful they could work with north korea and other rogue nations. We have been hearing that for decades or the last 20 years i have been in the white house. At issue if the president says look, i dont like that and i have the authority and i can pull this and his own Intelligence Group is saying i think we need to keep this, there is a lot to be said. Doubling down on your base, i understand the issues of sanctions. There are real issues of security. April is exactly right. What is unique about the deal. Not just where they were spinning. Every step along the way. Look at the criticisms where there cant be surprise inspections and they have to give notification if they want to go to a sensitive base. They cant just show up. And the certain is they can clean up the base. You are allowing inspection. This is important. The particles that exist when you start to work with this material for years and decades. They tried to block access not just forever a day or week or a month, but precisely because it knew that if inspectors got in many years later, they could find the activities and again, if they are blocking something, we go to the council, one vote and sanctions go back. If you speak to the agencies about it and i asked folks like the director of National Intelligence how they keep an eye on this, satellites can in addition take photos of these sites, they can sense Radioactive Material and have other ways to monitor to make sure they are doing that. Talking about iran if not being a black hole, but a gray hole which he shares with north coares. Exactly. Other agencies who were on the iran desk who have never set foot on the ground and they will ask me questions because i have been there a dozen times. Christian, its interesting that mark said he senses there has been a shift in the european attitude because of what the Trump Administration is saying. You interviewed Emmanuel Mac Ron from france. Did you get a sense from him that he wants to fix it as opposed to keeping it going . Well, they dont want to reopen it or renegotiate it. They know it cant happen. The eu Foreign Policy chief who i also interviewed in the u you n summit is speaking. Her headline is that no one country can terminate or pull out of this 2015 Iran Nuclear Deal. Thats their position. As i said, president mac ron said they would be interested in seeing if they can extend certain clauses. As was explained, there are decades of proi had bigs on iran as it exists right now. If its possible to increase them, people would love it. If its at the risk of terminating the deal, its a me in go. The eu is not imposing more sanctions. This is if congress is going to set up conflict political and economic between the u. S. And closest allies over sanctions. I want to ask you, wolf, and i dont know whether i heard it or misheard it. You read that the treasury announced certain terrorism provisions under which it is going to expand sanctions on the revolutionary guard corps. I dont know if you said the trump d main station is designating the irgc as a terrorist network, but if it does, there is already response from iran. The moderate Agency Leader was part of these negotiations said that if the United States does that, that is going to amount to a declaration of war against iran. Iran will respond. Lead me read to you that the Treasury Department put out christian. Its specific today. The u. S. Department of the treasurys office of foreign assets control. Designated the islamic guard core pursuant to the global terrorism executive order. They said that the activities of the irgc, the Islamic Revolutionary guard corps for providing support for a number of terrorist groups as well as the taliban, they provided Material Support including training, peshl, military equipment. It does sound as if the trump ads min station is designating the islamic guard corps as a terrorist Organization Even though the administration would shop short of that. Its hard not to read the statement in so many ways. It is designating it. That has been interpreted and granted the bluster. Asserted as a declaration of war from irans perspective. It is significant and just to be clear, the revolutionary guard core has a military function and enormous function in iran. These sanctions have enormous consequences. You were the deputy secretary of state. How are the iranians going to react . There is going to be blow back. Thats why the bush and Obama Administration use other sanctions against leaders resisted and designating the organization. The state Department Already brands iran as the worlds leading state sponsor of terrorism. Why should this be different some. None of us should have any love for the irgc. In iran, they are considered the armed forces of the regime and have the ability if they want to use it to make trouble. The question is can you use existing sanctions without sticking it in their eye publicly and endangers our troops. There is so much to respond to. I can talk about the revolutionary guards. That was a statutory requirement. Do they believe they designating the guard corps as a terrorist organization. That was passed by almost every lawmaker recently. They followed through ask they have done the right thing. They designated the irgc and everyone knows there were no lovers of the irgc who is responsible for all of irans dangerous and destruction activities. Support for the genocide in syria and hezbollah and ha mass and the enormous oppression taking place in iran today. This is a move that is required by a bipartisan congress. We are missing the president s speeches and violations and inspections and they are back. The fact of the matter is, they rolled out a comprehensive policy and use all instruments of national power. That is a major pivot point in the strategy. The administration argued that the jcpoa obsession we see at the table today paralyzed u. S. Iran policy and the decertification is a necessary first step to breaking that paralysis and allowing the United States to go out and do what they need to do with our allies in the gulf and european allies and around the world, his counter iranian aggression. The fear they would walk away from the deal is a fear that paralyzed the Obama Administration and that gave the Supreme Leader and the ultimate black mail threat that he would walk away if we did anything. Donald trump said i am prepared to pauk warks i. I can walk away before you do. Thats an important first step to say we will not be paralyzed by the jcpoa. We will work to fix the deal with allies. The short answer is i will work to fix the deal as long as you keep the deal, mr. Trump. The president created a perception that he is prepared to walk away from the deal. I dont know if he is or not. I wouldnt recommend it. There is a lot of fear at this table and a lot of fear in the United States and around the world that he is. That fear is motivating people to say we may have to fix this deal, but we definitely need to end the paralysis and push back strongly against the destructive behavior. I think thats the headline. If anything, the paralysis is during the Trump Administration. During the Obama Administration. Against vary malicious activities. Including sanctions on the books by congress and the administration and today. He is right. There is a larger strategy than the president talked about. It is right to try to push back and contain irans activities in various places that are profoundly against our interest. By creating a huge distraction, a self inflicted distraction ask raising up with an agreement that is working. That will make it harder and not easier to get focused and rallied. There is a lot to assess. We will continue our coverage on this. More breaking news we are following today as well. President trump taking a hammer to another major item of the obama legacy. Health care. He is being accused of sabotaging the Affordable Care act by ending the subsidies for lower income people. Why this will up end the Insurance Market potentially. A surprise News Conference from the Las Vegas Police to update the investigation into the massacre there. 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President trump followed through on his threat to stop paying key obamacare subsidies to Insurance Companies that helped people pay for health care coverage. The Budget Office estimates this move will praise premiums by at least 20 and increase the federal deficit and cause so many to lose their health insurance. Insurers warned that ending the payments could spell the end of the Affordable Care act here in washington. President trump made clear thats exactly what he intends to do. You saw what we did yesterday with respect to health care. Its step by step by step. That was a very big step yesterday and another big step taken the day before yesterday and one by one its going to come down and we will have Great Health Care in our country. Paf. We will go to our congression congressional. What are you hearing on this latest move to do away with a huge very important part of the Affordable Care act of obamacare. They are unify and outraged and they are worried and concerned about how this will undercut the market place and obamacare on the whole and they believe a legislative solution will have to be found in the near future saying they are going to demand it to keep the government open before the december spinning deadline. The party is interesting and its split. No question about it. You have moderate republican who is feel like the funding needs to continue. They recognize what it means. You have conservative republicans who made clear not just the opposition, but also these payments themselves. That a court found should be made and appropriated by congress. They are found to be illegal and should be cutoff all together. I want to read a tweet from a florida lawmaker and a republican and more moderate republican who is retiring at the end of the year. Cutting health care will mean more uninsured in my district. Potus promised more access and this does the opposite. Thats where the split occurs and will decide whether or not a legislative deal is possible. You know where the democrats and moderate republicans and conservatives are. Where is leadership. They are okay with the administration continuing these payments until repeal and replace is done. That is no longer the option. There is no near term access for that. They need to figure out if there is a legislative deal being made. There are republicans including key republicans including the senator who try to work out a fix to this. The big question is, is there a way to bridge the divide and is there a willingness to reach a deal before the end of the year . I know you are going to be busy, but thank you very much. I want to bring in David Gregory who is still with us. The president tweeted this. He said the democrats obamacare is imploding and massive subsidy payments to Insurance Companies. Dems should call me to fix. Is he seriously interested in working with Chuck Schumer and nancy pelosi to fix all of this . I think he may be or may come to be. One of the difficulties of the terrain he is walking in is saying we will enjoy obamacare and when you give an entitlement, its hard to take it away because people are benefiting from insurance now and they didnt have it before. A lot of those folks voted for President Trump to become president. He is going to feel the sting o. I think the art of the deal, the businessman, saying, lets work on the areas and lets get it write and get a constituency that wants to do away with all of it. The difficulty is pronouncing that suddenly we have a Better Health care system. It takes time, it takes a lot of certainty and he he has injected into the marketplace. In april, as you know, allowing individuals to create the cooperatives, the group Insurance Companies that will allow them supposedly to have lower insurance costs, a lower premium, and that they can buy insurance across state lines. Today the Justice Department says other subsidies will go away and can you do just that. Right. That will create a system of higher rates. And everything that youre saying, i asked someone from the Obama Administration who had worked on this, and i said, what did you think about it . He said, quote unquote, its evil. Wolf, when you talk about cutting subsidies and trying to recreate market with uncertainty, you are hurting the least of these. Going back it what davto what d said, the people hurt by the lack of subsidies, im not just thinking about the africanamerican community, who at first when they joined in on the website thought, i dont know if i can pay for this, and a lot of them did not jump to it to click the button to enroll because they didnt realize that subsidies would help them get insurance. But im thinking about the poorest of the poor. Those in appalachia who need the aca, Affordable Care act because they dont like obama care. Because they didnt understand the difference. So im just thinking about those kinds of people and how this will hurt them instead of helping. The president is embarking on something he want to fix this, repeal, replace, whatever he wants to do, totally abolish obama care. He want to create something new but he doesnt really realize the ripple effect. This is where i think this relationship is what we are talking about with iran. He would like to shock people, dare people yeah. Shock and awe. Working to perhaps strengthen in ways that arent clear yet in either case. I think would he want to do a deal on obamacare that says a deal with the democrats. Yeah. Because republicans werent able to get it done. On the other end he wants to show there is something on the other end of it. He cant help the people not joining in. That makes the whole thing not work so well. But there are a lot of people who are benefiting and they will remember it is dup. Yesterday, the president said mark short told me that, a new effort to repeal and replace obamacare probably cant come at least until the spring of next year. But you know, there is an effort in the senate right now, lamar alexander, putty murray, democrat, they are working on fixes to the obamacare. There are problems with obamacare. They are working to come up with fixes. Potentially they could get significant support across party lines. They could. But the problem is, everyone on all sides, even the people in the Obama Administration said there are issues, but lets Work Together and fix this. But when you have a president held bent on just abolishing it period, you know, you could say lets fix it. He wants it the way he wants it. And it is not coincidence that everyone when they created it before, the repeal and replace, certain people were left off and certain people would be hurt. This is once again, it is following the pattern. So you know, they can come up with something that might help the people, but this president is going down the road of what we have seen before. He is hell bent on making it the way he want it. But he doesnt necessarily know how he wants it. People who have worked on this issue who worked directly with the president said he is pretty shallow. He he has seven years to figure it out. Piece by piece is not wait to get comprehensive change. David, also in april, trying to do away with several of the legacy items of the obama presidency, whether it is the paris climate accord, nafta, Trans Pacific partnership, Iran Nuclear Deal, as we just saw. The obamacare, Affordable Care act. Some of the legacy items, you know, he says, get rid of them. This could be a really perilous bet. Lets look at our recent history. A lot of what president bush did post 9 11 is in response to the president you covered, president clinton. What they described as more of a wishywashi Foreign Policy and they were going to be stronger an reject american power. We saw with the iraq years meant. So this unwinding of a predecessors legacy, is can be good politics. But its got its huge down sides. And it is interesting how President Trump is huffing and puffing but not quite blowing all these things down yet. But what cost . Gail, talk a little bit about what we heard from the president today. I know you were listening very carefully too his decision to decertify the Iran Nuclear Deal and say you know what, he will work with congress to work with a better plan and allies will have to go along with that. What was your reaction . It is fascinating. You have have dessert if ication. So you can decertify without causing it to collapse entirely. I think thats what you really saw happen today and a lot of people were worried, i think, that it was going to go the full road. I think that shows you a lot of what this administration has done, which is really to talk a great deal about making a break with the past. But when it comes down to the substance, there is much more of what was than you would have expected perhaps listening to some of the Campaign Rhetoric. You think the european allies, british, french, germans will go along with what the president has in mind . They have already registered very deep unhappiness. They have talked, just last month, what secretary tillerson was laying hints that this might be coming. The europeans said, listen, we have one potential Nuclear Crisis in north korea. We dont need another one. Secretary mattis, actually, even on the hill as recently as just a few weeks back, saying that as he saw it at that moment, the remained in the national interest. There are a lot of voices that said, listen, dont go looking for another crisis. I think what you see today is some measure of listening to those folks while also really accomplishing what he wanted to do from the president s perspective in terms of the domestic politics and really giving into folks who said this sbad deal, talk about how bad of a deal this is. But when it comes to actual substance, there is much less change than you might expect. How do you think, gail, the iranians will react to the president s tough talk . Well, i mean, they would certainly be watching very closely. They have said tle wont renegotiate the deal. But it is interesting. If you look what the is happening in the kerds, this is separate but related. Iranians have not tried to provoke the u. S. Ira iraqi kyrgyzstan had this big revere referendum. There was a thought that they he would come in hard, in terms of what the iraqi and kerds have done. They havent wanted to go too far because they know the kurds are american allies. So there is discussion from the iranian side and on their side, some sense after game that they can look like party that is really holds its own end of the bargain without aggravating the americans too theory on other fronts including and when it comes to the kurds. And the Treasury Departments decision today for practical purposes to designate the Islamic Revolutionary guard corps, which is a huge element hold on one minute. The president just made a statement moments ago. Lets listen. What it is going to do, is it is going to be time to negotiate health care that will be good for everybody. That money is a subsidy for Insurance Companies. Take a look at their stocks. Look where they are. They are going through the roof. From past, i dont know about today, but the Insurance Companies have made a fortune. That money was a subsidy and almost you could say a payoff to Insurance Companies. What we have to do is come up with Great Health Care. Thats what i did partially yesterday. Thats going to cover a big segment. But now for the rest, we have to come up with whether it is block grants or something else, and we just about have the votes. Now if the democrats were smart, what they do, is come and negotiate something where people could get the kind of health care that they deserve being citizens of our great country. [ inaudible ] why not just now [ inaudible ] we will see what happens over the short period of time. I could do it instantaneously but i like the twostep process better. [ inaudible ] no, because i think what we will be able to do is renegotiate so everybody gets we just took care after big chunk. Now we will take care of the other chunk. What would be nice if the Democratic Leaders could come over to the white house. We will negotiate a deal thats good for everybody. Thats what i would like. But they are always a block vote against everything. They are like obstructionists. If they came over, maybe we could make a deal. But the subsidy is really a subsidy for the insurance company. Thats not going to people. Thats making Insurance Companies rich. John . [ inaudible ] i may do that. I may do that. The deal is terrible. So what we have done is through the certification process, we will have Congress Take a look at it. And i may very well do that. But i like a twostep process much better. John . The deals made on baik wioba and executive order yes, great support. Can democrats say, look, come to the table and ne gotiate well, as you know, thats a big chunk and it is very popular. You will have millions and millions of people sign up of that. Im not doing that consciously, i will say this, john, that the democrats should