Continue to be a partner in it or should we pull out of it . Heres how you can let us know. 202p 488001 for republicans. 2027488000 for democrats. And 2027488002 for independents. If you wish to tweet us about this topic you can do so at cspan wj and facebook. Com cspan. How you post on our facebook page. Secretary of state made comments yesterday specifically towards the deal. It was earlier that he sent a letter to congress about the administrations desire to review the deal and specifically its policy toward iran. Dear dear, mr. Speaker, the letter says. This letter certifies the Atomic Energy act of 1954 amended by the Iran Nuclear Review act by 2015 enacted in may of 2015 are met as of april 18, 2017. Notwithstanding, iran remains a leading state sponsor of terror through many platforms and methods. President trump has directed the National Security councilled interagency review of the joint comprehensive plan of action that will evaluate whether suspension of sanctions related to iran pursuant to the jcpoa is vital to the National Security interest of the United States. The interagency review is completed, the administration looks forward to working with congress on this issue. Again, the administration desiring a review of the nuclear deal. Essentially pulling out of it perhaps. Your thoughts on if that should be the case . Should the u. S. Pull out of the deal that was established by the Obama Administration and other countries. Again, if you want to let us know. 2027488001, republicans. 2027488000 for democrats. And 2027488002 for independents. Well hear more from the secretary of state Rex Tillerson. Iran is the worlds leading state sponsor of terrorism and is responsible for intensifying multiple conflicts and undermining u. S. Interest. In countries such as syria, yemen, iraq, and lebanon, and continuing to support attacks against israel. An unchecked iran has the potential to travel the same path as north korea and take the world along with it. The United States ask keen to avoid a second piece of evidence that strategic patience is a failed approach. The comprehensive iran policy requires that we address all of the threats posed by iran. It is clear there are many. Iran continues to support the brutal assad regime in syria. Prolonging a conflict that has killed approximately half a million syrians and displaced millions more. Iran supports the assad regime even as it commits atrocities against its own people, including with quems. Iran provides arms, financing, and training, and funnels foreign fighters into syria. It is also sent members of the Iran Revolutionary guard to take part in direct combat operations. In iraq, iran provides support to some iraqi militant groups, primarily through the cudes force which has been undermining security in iraq for years. Iran maintains a longstanding hostility towards israel. Providing weapons, training, and oning to hamas and other Palestinian Terrorist organizations. Indeed and in propaganda iran foments discord. Host theres some of the defense by the secretary of state as far as the review of the Iran Nuclear Deal by the u. S. Administration, and we want to get your thoughts on if the u. S. Should still be part of that. 2027488001 for republicans. 2027 488000 for democrats. And independents, 2027488002. Well start with landon, richmond, virginia. Republican line, go ahead. What do you think as far as the u. S. Being part of this deal . Caller well, United States has to be involved with china hold back iran, we got the wrong people thats working on the deal. Tillerson used to work for exxon. The iranians nationalized the Oil Companies doing the iranian crisis. And tillerson working for exxon. It doesnt make too much sense to me what tillerson is doing. Hes made so many mistakes already. He says that host specifically to iran, when you talk about pushback to iran, what do you mean by that . What are your concerns about iran and this nuclear deal . Ller well, i just hope that they wont enrich uranium. The iranians are like americans, they have been involved with america. Nobody really wants a war, nucleartype war. Its nothing much you can do with iran except watch out because the Ottoman Empire is trying to bring itself back again. These people dont know much about history. Host ok, lets hear from tori. In new mexico. Also on our republican line. Hi. Caller hello. Host go ahead. Caller yes, im calling this administration doesnt know what ts doing. Year were in this with five other countries, its not just us by ourselves. They seem to not understand this. If we pull out, the other countries are still in. What are we going to do . Sanction them, too . Host youre saying stay in and then what . Caller iran deal, nuclear deal has nothing to do. Theres two different deals going on. It has nothing to do with terrorists. Yes, stay n stay in. Host thats toris opinion. Shes in new mexico. Give us your thoughts as well. It prompted the decision and announcement yesterday prompted reaction on several fronts. This is the statement from the National IranianAmerican Council saying that today secretary tillerson and the Trump Administration placed the security of the American People and world at great risk. Public statements lambasting the nuclear deal as a failed approach and comparing the country with north korea are reckless and false. It is nothing less than unnerving for the secretary of state to ignore the advice of nearly all security experts, foreign and domestic, on the efficacy of the nuclear deal. This comes one day after the secretary acknowledged that iran was complying with the terms of the deal. Such policy positions have come to define this administration. Lets hear next from mike, fort lauderdale, florida. Democrats line. Caller good morning. I just wanted to make a point that we have so much on our plate right now going on and we have to deal with the iranians. Why not just take our time with that, take care of corea first, and then take care of the take care of corea korea first and then iranians. Host what about the statements the secretary of state was making . Caller i believe korea is more important right now because they are a time bomb waiting to happen. Host liz is next from washington, d. C. , democrats line. Caller thanks for taking my call. My comment is that this deal is about the Nuclear Capability of iran. We have seen every single time that they are in compliance with the terms of that deal, much like during the cold war we did the same thing with the soviets. Stick with it. And then address all the other issues that are side issues. Whats more troubling is that this administration didnt prepare itself by reading all of these things that were now seeing that they are coming back and saying, well, lets have a study. Lets have an interagency look at t lets spend more money to determine that what we already whats already been discussed and negotiated and dealt with very smartly. Its a waste of our taxpayers money. Unfortunate that these voters got bamboozles by a Good Business conartist. Host the reaction from mike mccaul, republican of texas Senior Member of the Foreign Affairs committee, he put out in light of the statement from secretary tillerson. Saying that i have long stated that any nuclear deal that includes sanctions relief without addressing irans support for terrorism and Ballistic Missile testing is a flawed deal not worth the paper its written on. The Iranian Regime is grectly irectly responsible for terror attacks. I applaud the Trump Administration for launching a review on whether continuing to lift sanctions against iran is in the security interest of the u. S. Once this review is complete i look forward to working with the administration to take any additional steps necessary to prevent the worlds leading state sponsor of terror from endangering americans and our allies. Gene is next on our question should the u. S. Pull out of the Iranian Nuclear deal. Hes in houston, texas, republican line. Hi. Caller good morning. I absolutely believe that we should pull out of the iranian deal. Its a farce to begin with. And i believe that it was simply put in place to prevent israel from taking any kind of military action. I know its a very complicated geopolitical thing, but its pretty obvious thats the point. He had a previous caller saying that people were bamboozled voted for this businessman. Thats not the case at all. What really happened is the liberal left got bamboozled by the d. N. C. And chose hillary. But back to the topic. I think we should pull out of this iranian deal and actually use a carrot and stick without a deal that they can break. So we should partner up with israel and take the reins off and let them do whats right for their country. Its a geopolitical world. Maybe trump is not exactly the smartest guy in the world, but i would vote for him 10 times out of 10 times over Hillary Clinton. Host representative don beyer, virginia democrat, in response to the initial review of the deal saying this. Saying off twitter, glad to see the poe tuss changes his mind on the jcpoa. Certified iran is complying with the terms of the iran deal. He adds give peace and diplomacy a chance. 2027488001 for republicans. 2027488000 for democrats. 2027848002 for independents. Alan is next. Joins us from east chicago, indiana. Democrats line. Caller good morning. Thank you for cspan and taking my call. Im totally in favor of staying in on the deal. I think it was at least we were able to talk with the iranians. Not having too much discussion with north korea what they want to do. I also we call them state sponsor of terrorism. One persons terrorism is another persons freedom fire. We do have a history of interfering in our countrys business. The iranians are not children. We cant tell them how to run themselves. Thats us being imperialists. As far as terrorism, they havent hamas, hezbollah, these are the people who are palestinians trying to get their country back. Its not a difficult situation at all. My opinion is not israel, its occupied palestine. China has north korea. Russia has syria. We have israel. All of them are trouble spots. Host off twitter, this is we persist saying that by pulling out now we lose the benefits from the deal. We havent even see yet so why do it . All in caps and question mark. The thought of sean in california, independent line. Caller whats going on, pedro. The way im looking at it is why are we even talking about a nuke already deal in the first place. Do you know how devastating a Nuclear Weapon is . We shouldnt even have them. We shouldnt even be in the spot, hey, man, lets make a deal. Its like why create dinosaurs again. Host were in the deal currently. Hould we stay in it . Sean . Caller we shouldnt. We shouldnt. I dont think we should. I think we shouldnt and we should bail out of our Nuclear Weapons, testing, all that, too. Host lets hear next from gary, moorefield, west virginia. Democrats line. Caller good morning. How you doing. Host fine. Thank you. Caller yeah. Ive got a friend that lives in tehran with his mother. She has m. S. And he is a dual citizen. He is a u. S. Citizen. When he comes home, he tells me whats going on over there. Like you said, everyones wanting to back out of this nuclear thing. If they didnt want us in there to do what they said they were going to do, they would just back out plain out and not let anybody in. They are a people when they say what they are going to do, thats what they are going to do. Dont get them mad because like they said, they do not iranians will not fight against iranians. Thats why they go to the outside and get outside help. If you try going in there, going to be like trying to go into japan during world war ii. The whole country is going to come out. Men, women, and children. They just thats just how they are. It these i know for a fact. You have a great day. Host the Trump Administration, this is some of the analysis of the mechanics of whats going to take place. The nork sometimes reporting the administration has given itself 90 days to complete its review. It will need to make a series of decisions in coming weeks about whether to continue its support of the deal, which was brokered with britain, china, france, germany, and russia. Both governments along with representatives of the United States and iran will meet next week in vienna to review the progress. Mr. Trump faces a mid may deadline whether to continue the suspension of sanctions backing away from the agreement would spur enormous consternation across europe and moscow. Right next to that a statement from senator bob corker, chairman of the Foreign Relations committee on yesterdays announcement, saying that, quote, secretary tillerson made clear that regardless of irans Technical Compliance with the nuclear deal, the administration is under no illusion about the continued threat from tehran and prepared to work closely with congress to push back, making that statement on wednesday. Lets hear from ray. Ray in homestead, pennsylvania, independent line. Go ahead. Caller good morning. Just my own take on this. I think that the United States, trump, is getting ready to go to war with iran. Hes not going to get health care, tax reform package, hes not going to get the wall. Hes going to get nothing that he promised the American People. Typical of any republican, the only way he can divert attention from all the failure is to get into a war. Theres going to be a false flag somewhere along the line, somethings going to happen and its going to be blamed on iran. And a few months from now, i bet we we cant fight syria, they have russia. We cant fight north korea because millions of people will dy. The only country we have left we can fight, that trump can start a war with and take everybodys attention off of his failures, is iran. Look for a false lie. Blamed on iran and a war within six months. Thank you, pedro. Host secretary of state also made further comments about iran and what he perceived as the global threat of that country. Heres a statement from yesterday. Apart from the abuses inside irans own borders, it is the threat it poses to the rest of the world. Irans Nuclear Ambitions are a grave risk to International Peace and security. It is their habit and posture to use whatever resources they have available to unsettle people and nations. With its latest test of a mediumrange Ballistic Missile, irans continued development and proliferation of Missile Technology is in defiance of u. N. Security Council Resolution 2231. And it has previously stated it will conduct a secretary test flight of the space launch vehicle which would put it closer to an operational intercontinental Ballistic Missile. Any discussion of iran is incomplete without mentioning the jcpoa. The jcpoa failstocheeve the objective of a nonnuclear iran. It only delays their goal of becoming a nuclear state. This deal represents the same failed approach of the past that brought us to the current imminent threat we face from north korea. The Trump Administration has no intention of passing the buck to a future administration on iran. Host off twitter, jim says, what benefits do we get from this deal . I thought we were merely removing sanctions. What benefit were we to get . You can make your thoughts on twitter at c spafment wj. Facebook fage at facebook. Com c spap. On the phone lines debi from kentucky. Youre next. Caller hi. Im a democrat and i have been for 55 years, but i feel like that donald trump has went in there and done something that president obama avoided over the past two terms. The past two terms he has led them over there, break the rules, by continuing with their nuclear. And hid that from the American People when i think he knew it all along. And then were turning around and going to pay the consequences because our military has, we have trained those people over there to protect themselves. And its going to come back and bite us in our ass when they turn around and use it on us. Host youre saying with that in mind stay in or get out of the deal . Caller i say pull out because if were going to go to war no matter what, with them. Host Washington Times gives some analysis this morning if you find it online or in print. Saying that the statement suggests, this is a statement from the Trump Administration, that the administration could reimpose sanctions on iran something tehran has said would lead to pull out of the deal. Critics say would allow the Islamic Republic to develop nuclear arms in 10 deals t permits iranian enrichment and calls for snap back sanctions if tie tai ran fails to abide by the terms which are aimed at preventing the development of nuclear arms. The jcpoa restricts Extensive International monitoring to delee claire Nuclear Facilities and calls on iran to permit inspections of any suspicious facilities. They have stymied suspect of sites like the parchin facility not included in the deal. Located 20 miles southeast of tehran was the location for most of irans past nuclear arms related work. It also quotes the c. I. A. Director mike pompeo, a critic of the deal when he was a republican member of congress, and he said, recently intelligence estimates of iranian compliance with the accord remain uncertain, quote, i dont want to say much about their compliance with the agreement he made in remarks, i prefer to present to the president and let him communicate that. You should know were actively engaged in a lot of work to assist the president in making sure he has an understanding where the iranians are complying and where they might not be. Lets hear next from katie. Katie is in oregon, independent line. Katie, go ahead. Caller hi. I find it really interesting right after 9 11, soon after sharon and israel said the United States should take out iraq, take out iran, and syria because when a physician goes in to take out cancer they dont i guess we have already been to iraq. They take. To here we attack syria. Now were going to attack iran. I cant believe these people calling in so casual about war. It should be something we consider very carefully. War is ugly. War can destroy this whole planet. Host just to be clear. There is no statement about attack. This is just about consideration of the deal. Caller and how has everybody been talking who called in . Host thats their opinion as long as yours. As far as the deal itself what do you think specifically we should do . Caller i think we should work with iran. I do. I think pulling out of the deal is bad. I dont think we should have sanctions on iran. Iran helped us after 9 11. I dont know why we demonize them so much and dont work with them. That is my comment. Thank you. Host juanita joins us from cincinnati, ohio. Democrats line. Hi. Caller hi. First of all i find it strange that the administration would even talk about reconsidering anything when they cant even get the carrier to go in and write direction, something going towards australia when its supposed to go to korea. I have a real problem with that. Number one. Number two, at least were talking to iran. They cant get fat boy in north korea to talk about anything. Number three as far as i have read, none of the considerations of the agreement have been broken. And fourth and finally, as an aunt of four nephews, i have no intention and will fight any intention of this country going to war to satisfy a situation that will satisfy israel because of iran. I wont do t you have a good day. Host viewer mentions the topic of aircraft carriers and their presence in the north Korean Peninsula in response to announcements by the u. S. That they were in the area to monitor north korea. The white house spokesperson, the press secretary, yesterday talking about this during the briefing which you can see if you go to our website. But this is the hill writeup of what happened yesterday saying that the press secretary, sean spicer, on wednesday denied that the Trump Administration misled the public. When the president said last week that a u. S. Aircraft carrier was heading toward the sea of japan. That exchange took place during the briefing that takes place regularly at the white house. Heres a bit of it. Well, i mean paycome put out a release talking about the group ultimately ending up in the k Korean Peninsula. We were asked very clearly about the use of a Carrier Group about deterrence and foreign presence. What that meant. Thats what we discussed. I would refer you back to any other issues with that to the department of defense. Does the president believe he might have spoken too quickly on this location of the vessel before it was sean the president said we have an armada going towards the peninsula. Thats a fact, its happening. Reporter follow up on that. Obviously when the president of the United States says theres military hardware going to a region in the middle of a crisis on the Korean Peninsula, the allies of the United States are encouraged. When that happens to not be the case, they can interpret that is a false encouragement. How is this white house explaining to south korea and japan that in fact during the buildup and the actual nuclear nifflelaunch there was no u. S. Carl vincent. Sean i ask you to either touch base with paycom or department of defense. The group was headed to the Korean Peninsula, it is headed there. It reporter it said they are now. Sean thats not what we ever said. We said it was heading there. It was heading there. It is heading there. So that remains reporter allies have . Sean if there is an impression then there should have been clarification from people who were speaking it. Paycom put out a release talking about what its ultimate destination was going to be. Thats where tended up. Host you can watch that in full on our website at cspan. Org. Off of twitter this is karen writing since iran is complying with the deal why pull out if only to fulfill Trumps Campaign promise. Not the way to run Foreign Policy. Next sam in gaithersburg, maryland. Democrats line. Caller thank you for taking my call. Registered republican for many years. What this guy that is sitting in the oval office, is looking for collecting the credit and since hes not successful and mistake policies like health ensures, immigration, pretty soon the budget and financing, pushing his agenda, hes looking for some area that he could start a war and get attention on domestic issues and start a war. For the iran deal i dont think i lost hing to do my line of thought. I apologize. Host its ok. Well go next to ira, new york on our independent line. Caller hello. Host youre on. Caller yes. Thank you. First we wouldnt be in this whole situation if it wasnt for obama making this deal. It was the worst deal in the world. And this other considerations here. If iran iran is getting money to support terrorists. And they are still working on nuclear bombs. Now, if north korea, if you get the rockets and give it to iran, to use them, theyll use them. And another thing. Iran gets a bomb and we can prove obama is being indicted for treason and supporting terrorism because hes the problem here. He caused this problem. And the democrats are in denial that he did wrong. And they need to look at themselves. Thank you. Host this from the wall street journal. Another International News on its front page. Their lead story about exxonmobil seeking a waiver when it comes to the deal with russia saying that the company has applied to the Treasury Department for a waiver from u. S. Sanctions on russia in a bid to resume its joint venture with the state owned giant rosenet according to people familiar with the matter. Exxon has been seeking u. S. Permission to drill with them in several areas banned by sanctions and renewed a push for approval in march shortly after its most chief executive Rex Tillerson became secretary of state on february 1. The Company Originally applied for waiver to gain access to the back sea in july of 2015, but the application wasnt approved. Mr. Tirlson during his time at exxon forge add close working relationship with the russian president , mutin and roseneft the Company Critical to russias oil economy. The state department is among the u. S. Department has a say on the application submitted to the Treasury Department office of foreign assets control. It goes on from there. You can read the rest at the wall street journal site this morning. And other international use, the president is set to meet with the italian Prime Minister today. That meeting will take place at 3 45 this afternoon. If you want to watch not only the meeting itself, the joint News Conference and topics that might arise from that, including what were talking about today, potentially, can you go to cspan, go to cspan. Org and also see it on our listen to it on our cspan radio app. Good morning from georgia. Republican line. Caller yes, jose. Jose. Host its pedro, go ahead. Caller sorry, pedro. Host thats ok. Caller pedro, i dont know whether you are a democrat or republican. Thought had my guess i aybe that democrats it calling in and Somebody Just cut me off a while ago and i called back. m disabled. 72yearold lady from georgia and im 100 behind donald trump. Hes very sensible. And he has a lot of people likes Rex Tillerson is a wonderful guy. Es doing a wonderful job. And i want all the democrats to know that im so glad Hillary Clinton is not our president. Donald trump in the white house, i did not like hillary because i thought she would win. Like my sister i did not host jeanette, before we let you go, what do you think about this nuclear deal we have with iran and what should we be doing . Should we stay in or get out of it . Caller im sorry. It jose, sorry, whats your name . Host pedro. As far as the nuclear caller pedro, we should stay in the deal with iran. Bama said and bill clinton about north korea. Ere in there because of clinton and obama. Obama wanted the nation to go down the drain. Host columbus, georgia. We invite you to win tin on with the calls on this topic of the nuclear deal we have with other countries toward iran. Secretary of state tillerson talking about the deal. Potentially reviewing it and see what might happen as far as sanctions are concerned. If you want to let us know what you think as far as staying in r getting out of it, 2027488 001 for republicans. 202748800 for democrats. And 2027488002 for independents. The president of the United States signing a bill that would extend Health Care Options for veterans who seek it from the veterans administration. Joining us on the phone to give us a sense of what happened and what it means for veterans, leo shane of the military times, serves as our Capitol Hill Bureau chief. Could you tell us exactly about this event at the white house, what happened . Guest this is a bill signing for a measure the v. A. Has been pushing very hard for in recent months. Its an extension of the choice act program. This is a somewhat controversial program. It was founded in 2014 in response to the v. A. Wait time scandals. This allows veterans to go to private care, to outside v. A. Care, if they meet certain requirements. Theres been a lot of frustration around the program because of red tape and some of the bureaucracy, some of the eligibility requirements, but for the most part lawmakers have liked it. It had a sunset date coming up in august. And this just lets the program go on until it runs out of money. President trump and v. A. Officials, some of the top congressional officials were there to celebrate the they provided a shortterm fix to problems of access and care. The bigger story will be down the line what they decide to replace this program with. Even with this extension, the money for the program is going to run out by the end of the year. So the next question for the administration and for folks on the hill is, what are they going to replace it with . Whats the next Program Going to be . Host what are options when it comes to the future of this program . Guest you know, we have heard that from the v. A. Secretary that we should see a plan in the next few months here. Maybe as late as the end of the summer. The starting point is this choice program. And then changing eligibility rules. For example, right now veterans are elinge eligible for this program if they face significant wait times or live 40 miles away from a v. A. Facility. The secretary has said he wants to get rid of those rules. Make it easier in general for folks to go see a private doctor if its more convenient to them. If its better for their schedule. If it fits their care. But thats a pretty substantial expansion in terms of cost. Thats going tonight real fight for lawmakers is how do you pay for all this . Everybody likes the idea of making it easier for veterans to find care and access their doctors, but the question is how do you pay for and how much is it going to cost if you make it real easy . Host how much are veterans groups lobbying for these changes and what do you think they think about the announcements . Guest they are Excited Congress could get this conand the president sign t the shortterm fix but one that the v. A. Said is really needed now. Frankly with the state of congress and slow pace of passing any legislation, everything is a cause for celebration when you can get some of the easy things taken care of. So they are anxious to see what the next step will be. As i said theres been mixed reviews on the choice program. A lot of frustration over some of the bureaucracy and how its been administered, but a lot of support for identity deand for the potential of finding more ways to get veterans in front of doctors. To cut down on some of these wait times. Host is the private industry ready to accept the people that are going to be coming to them . How do they get paid, what are some of the specifics there . Guest those are some of the Great Questions were going to see here. This bill that was signed yesterday, this extension, has a slight tweak in how v. A. Handles deductibles and copays. Theyll pay those directly to doctors instead of refunding vets. Thats one of the kind of tweaks they are looking at. How do folks get refunded. How does v. A. Pay for these. Is there ways to simplify . A lot of private sector physicians have complained how difficult it is to get reimbursements from v. A. To the other point you raised, theres a lot of Big Questions about what is the best choice for veterans who are seeking care. While the doctor down the street might have openings, might be easier for you to get to, that physician might not understand things like ptsd or prosthetics or even know to look for some Service Specific things. Theres some trepidation among the veterans groups that if this goes too far, if we go into just pushing veterans to private care solely, they wont get the best care they need. But by the same taken, veterans groups want to see a good mix. They want to be able to have a robust v. A. System that veterans can use as a safety net and can use as an expertise. By the same token if theft flu or something simple, they want to go to doctor down the street. Host leo shane with military times the capital bill chief talking about the signing of the this act taking care of veterans camplete can you see more of that on the website of military times, thank you for your time. Again for the remarnede of our time, 20 minutes or so, your thoughts on the Iran Nuclear Deal and should the u. S. Stay in it. 2027488001 for republicans. 2027488000 for democrats. Independents, 202p 488002. Joy from california, democrats line. Thanks for waiting. Go ahead. Caller hi. My name is joy. Thanks for having me. I believe we should stay in the deal. They have said on the news that they were in compliance with all the things that they were supposed to be in compliance with. Russia is also assisting assad and no one disputes that. So why is it a problem that iran as well . Ng assad the reason we have so many they keep having we have been in afghanistan for 16 years. Rex tillerson works for exxonmobil. Russia wants their sanctions lifted you read that russia wants their sanctions lifted so they can sell their oil. Sanctions bill the will go back on iran. How many times did we hear trump say when he was running for president , we should have kept the oil. So its my belief that Rex Tillerson, i saw him get pinned by putin as the highest award you can get from the russian country. And he is totally doing this because of oil. Host only because stay to the topic at hand. Carol says iran is not our friend. But friend and close to russia. Thats her thoughts off twitter. To montanes, democrats line. Ken is next. Caller good morning. I believe that we have inept and narsciesic president that is making decision narcissistic president that is making decisions based on nothing but publicity for himself. And the best publicity has always got hes always created by cutting down others. And this deal with iran was probably the best deal that president obama could possibly have made in his administration. But because of the narcissism of the individual we have leading right now, he cannot let anybody do anything unless he is in full control. Host ken, what do you think the iran deal gives us . What do you think it gives us in the long term . Caller i think it gives us a peace and respect that we have a country that has been one of the most civilized countries for a millennium. Its a country that has its own pride and individuals and is a well educated country. And there is no country that needs to have the threat of war continually hanging over its head. Host next to joe. Joe in bath, pennsylvania. Independent line. Good morning. Caller good morning. Im just calling to let people know that this problem is over obama. Obama did everything wrong for our country. This policy is not good. For our country. Donald trump is trying to fix things in this country. Like bringing back jobs, the executive orders that hes putting in there. And people are saying, thats jeong and senators. Those are your enemies, not donald trump. Host joe, whats wrong with this deal . In your opinion. Caller obama should have never did this deal to begin with. Look at all the money he gave that country. Look at all the money that he gave to that country. Thats power to that country. They should have kept the sanctions the way it were and leave it alone just like that. Host again the secretary of state made the case for the review of the Iran Nuclear Deal yesterday. Heres part of the defense from the secretary of state. Iran is the worlds leading state sponsor of terrorism and is responsible for intensifying multiple conflicts and undermining u. S. Interest. In countries such as syria, yemen, iraq, and lebanon, and continuing to support attacks against israel. An unchecked iran has the potential to travel the same path as north korea. And take the world along with it. The United States is keen to avoid a second piece of evidence that strategic patience is a failed approach. The comprehensive iran policy requires that we address all of the threats posed by iran. It is clear there are many. Iran continues to support the brutal assad regime in syria. Prolonging a conflict that has killed approximately half a million syrians and displaced millions more. Iran supports the assad regime even as it commits atrocities against its own people. Including with chemical weapons, iran provides arms, financing, and training, and funnels foreign fighters into syria. It is also it has also sent members of the Iran Revolutionary guards to take part of direct combat operations. In iraq, iran provides support to some iraqi militant groups. Primarily through the kuds force which has been undermining security in iraq for years. Iran maintains a longstanding hostility towards israel. Providing weapons, training, and funding to hamas, and other Palestinian Terrorist organizations. Indeed, in deed and propaganda iran foments discord. Host next to alex in kansas city, missouri. Caller good morning. My personal view is that the deal with iran is actually a winwin situation for both countries. It is for iran is they are getting their money back. Their money back. And maybe they got some of it and going to get the rest of it as the deal is an international deal, not just american deal or ranian deal. This is a shirt that has been woven and cannot be undone. I agree with that. Its a winwin for both countries. Thank you. Host james. Well hear from him in washington state. Democrats line. Caller good morning. I support the iranian deal that barack obama held. I think we should hold this to the t country up public view to show just how much of a terrorist country the United States has become. Were invaded every country in the world almost. We invade vietnam. We invaded iraq. The terrorist country in the world is the United States of america. Im sorry to say that. But this is true. This is whats happening now. Host james, when it comes to the iran deal, what do you think it does as far as benefiting the u. S. . Caller i think it keeps them in check for a few years. Israel already has Nuclear Weapons. Why dont we give israels Nuclear Weapons and then we can have room to say we need to get rid of iranians Nuclear Weapons. They dont have any yet. Why cant we get rid of the israeli Nuclear Weapons and make sure that iran doesnt get Nuclear Weapons and well be 100 better off. The other thing going in and trying to start a war with iran, which is what they are trying to do so they can get all the oil destroyed in the middle east so they can go to russia and drill into the north sea, which they say that field up there is like a hundred times bigger than saudi arabia. Host thats james in washington. A couple of political stories four. Starting off with an announced resignation by jepive jason chaffetz. The chairman of the House Oversight committee. The New York Times reporting that he told supporters wednesday he would not seek reelection to congress or run for any office in 2018. Hes 50. A utah republican who relished his oversight role more under a democratic administration. Said he was ready to return to the private sector after more than 13 years of Public Service. Calling his decision, quote, a personal one. Quote, i have long advocated Public Service should be for a limited time and not a lifetime or full career. He said in a statement posted on facebook. More than 1,500 nights away from my home, it is time he said his decision was not based on health or political concerns. Adding that he was confident of his reelection should he have pursued andt and retained support from Speaker Paul Ryan for his committee chairmanship. Thats on the New York Times. If you go to roll call it talks about his potential challenger should he decide to run again. This is the roll call piece saying his democratic challenger had outraised him by more than a three to one margin in the First Quarter of this year. Katherine allen, a physician who announced in march she would challenge chaffetz, chairman of the committee, told about the fundraising that she had done, alan had more cash on hand, acoring to the federal Election Committee report, with 534,278. To chaffetz, 402 670. The campaign hasnt started yet in ernest. But chaffetz had earned the ire of democrats nationwide during his five terms in Congress Ahead of the 2016 president ial election. He pledged, quote, years of investigations into Hillary Clinton if she was elected. Again thats in roll call this morning. Next to mark from new hampshire. Republican line. Caller i think that the iran deal was one of the worst deals we ever made in our countrys history. A lot of our friends in europe were saying, like america with its this deal makes all the concessions and iran made no concessions. What i dont get with this deal is its a bad deal to start with, it gives iran the opportunity to get Nuclear Weapons within the next five to 10 years. If you hit them with sanctions and with the u. N. Inspections, they dont get Nuclear Weapons. And i can even remember democrats saying to obama and biden this was a bad deal because they said the same thing. They get money back. They get Nuclear Weapons within five to 10 years. They are one of the biggest sponsors of terrorism in the world. Why make a deal with somebody like that . I believe at the time they still had americans hostages at the time. Its like dont make a deal with any country until any american hostages they have are home. Can you imagine like iran or russia or north korea selling Nuclear Weapons to a terrorist outfit like isis or al qaeda or taliban. That coned up being World War Three or perhaps even the end of the world. This is scary stuff going on. To me like with obama, if it wasnt a good deal to start with, then go back to the drawing board and come up with a good deal. If you have a bad deal, then dont make a deal at all. Its almost like with the last administration, they were like we have no other ideas. We know this is a bad deal, but we want him to have a little legacy. We want him to make history. Its bad dee. Just make it anyway. Host next from keith. In florida. Independent line. Hi. Caller yes. Pedro, id like to make a few comments just one or two. One is the agreement that was made with iran was very similar to the agreement, some of the people involved with the agreement with iran were involved with the agreement that was made with north korea. We see what type of agreement we had with north korea. These were democrats put in the negotiating sphere by democratic president s. Whether the agreement was good or bad, all you have to look at is some of the same people who did the north korea agreement are now did work with the iran agreement. Some of the lead negotiators. It can be verified. I forget their names. It could easily verified. If you really want find out about the Nuclear Strategy of iran, you really need to get a technical person on cspan to talk about whether they actually have enough uranium right now to make a weapon. The real issue is not making a weapon. Its to miniaturize a weapon so they can put it on a delivery system. Thats what the money that helps them that we gave iran helps them do because they probably have you need to get technical people on your cspan to talk about whether there is enough uranium in iran to make a Nuclear Weapon. Host the lead story from usa today takes a look at deportations under this administration and makes some comparisons to the previous one. This is gomez writing the Trump Administration has stepped up the deportation of undocumented i am granlts who came to u. S. As children and lost their protective status. Thats according to federal data provided to usa today. Under president obama that led to 365 former daca enrollees being deported. An average of seven a month since the first daca applications were approved in september of 2012. In the first month of Donald Trumps presidency, 43 former daca enrollees were deported according to the department of homeland security. Statistics requested by usa today, quote, this is more evidence that the Trump Administration is making nearly every person who is undocumented a priority for removal. That statement from the executive director of the National Immigration forum. A group that advocates for immigrants in the u. S. He adds thats a really poor use of Law Enforcement resources. Max in chesapeake bay, virginia. Democrats line. Go ahead. Caller good morning. Pedro. I think marks got a point. Its a bad deal but the best of all possible deals. Why make a deal if you got to make a bad deal . Because otherwise you get a bad deal when you have bad leverage. Countries like north korea and iran want to guarantee noninterference from the u. S. The thing that has guaranteed noninterference from the u. S. Across the globe has been our u. N. Membership as we weaken that and start to pull out of the International Sphere and start to pull in the nashistic sphere, then were going to drive these countries to Nuclear Power because its the only way they can guarantee nonaggression from the u. S. Host edward, good morning to you. California. Independent line. Caller how you doing. Host go ahead. Caller i was just calling to say everybodys been talking about how they have been giving them the money, which is true. I mean pretty much he gave them money. What i understood they gave them money. Not the United States currency but all different kinds much curncy. All that did was give them more support to actually toward their cause to actually pay other countries whatever they may need to pay to get whatever they need to get without anybody knowing other than just saying that were not going to do this anymore. Which really this just gives them 10 years of time to stockpile, whatever they need to stockpile. Host next to memphis, tennessee, democrats line. Thats where idele is. Go ahead. Caller good morning, pedro. How are you . Host well, thank you. Caller yes. I was just wondering looking back on it, on the agreement, what would the alternatives that we had . What alternatives did barack obama have . Hand knew exactly what iran had. No one had gone in there. They didnt allow anybody in, so you didnt know how far along their program was. So obama, i think, did the best he could at getting a deal. That could be questionable. I would like liked to have seen happen, i would have liked to seen us get our people out. That would have been great. But the money, pedro, am i correct in thinking that that was their own money that was given back to them. People thinking that we gave them money. But its my understanding that we had their money. And their own money was given back to them. Am i correct . Host others have made that assertion as well. Caller it was their own money that was given back to them. Money that we had taken from them and had been holding for years that belonged to them that was given back thow. And people just thinking obama paid them. Or we just get up and gave them all of this money. But this was their money. Its like somebody took your money and been holding it for years. The whats the alternative go to war with iran or bomb all those people to try and stop it . You hit that Nuclear Plant to stop what you think they got going on over there and star start a war . Host p thanks for the call. A few more calls, but this piece in the front page of the Washington Post takes a look the Foreign Policy of the Trump Administration, david, karen, as he nears his 100th day in Office President trumps efforts to appear decisive to fast moving global crises have been undercut by confusing and conflicting messages from within his administration. Over the past weeks policy pronational endowment for the humanities from senior trump aides have been at odds with one another. Such as whether syrian president assad must leave power as part of a negotiated resolution to end the civil war. Other cases former white house written statements have conflicted with those Government Agencies even on the same day. Monday brought reactions support from trump chides chiding from the state department. And even when there is unanimity, in the messaging, you such as trumps post based on pentagons statements that the u. S. Navy armada, the administration was force food embarrassing position that the strike group was sailing in the opposite direction. There is more on that if you go to the Washington Post website. View it online. Ernie from bullhead city, arizona. Independent line. Caller good morning. This is ernie. What im calling about is i think we should go to the beginning of this with ronald reagan, oliver north, irancontra. Start where it starts and try to pick up some of the pieces from there and work your way up. This last part about their money was sanctioned money and money that was locked away after we put the sanctions on. So most of these people are kind of ignorant of what really happened. I lived through all this so i know. And i am a vietnam vet. Thank you very much. I dont know if you got a question, ask it, i guess. Host el let the next caller with the next question or comment. Ron, spring hill, florida, democrats line. Caller good morning. I do support keeping the deal. As far as the north korean deal made by clinton, shortly after the george w. Bush came into office and essentially ignored it, thats what killed the whole deal with north korea. Same thing seems to be happening now with trump coming in. I say give peace a chance. I think what do we go back to, the sanctions . Sanctions didnt work. When they start all this they had 19 centrifuges. By the time the sanctions were put in place they had over 11,000 centrifuges. Didnt sound like that program worked very well. The only thing thats going to change iran is people. And if the people have peace and can start living normal lives, then theyll start voting to keep it. And thats what we can hope for. If they have 10 years to do it, i think we could give it chance. Host one more call, steve from missouri, independent line, last call. Caller thank you, pedro. Thank you for this were getting down to the point where they are going to send a missile right on our doorstep. Not ahough i am republican, i dont really like the democrats. If the iran deal is a bad deal, and we are just going to have to take out their Nuclear Facilities. As far as being delusional, trump is talking about topsecret submarines being off the coast of korea, too, so the republicans are pretty much delusional, too, even though i do not like obamas deal. Host last call on that topic. We are going to talk about Foreign Workers coming to the u. S. Under the h1b visa program, part of a buy america e america campaign. Later, we will talk about the administrations climate agenda. Journalas washington continues. Cspan, where history unfolds daily. In 1979, cspan was created as a Public Service by americas Cable Television companies, and it is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. Night on afterwords, a member of the Freedom Caucus discusses his book drain the swamp