Are calling to review bump stocks like the las vegas gunman used to make a semiautomatic weapon fire faster. Fully automatic weapons have been outlawed for many, many years. This seems to be a way of going around that. Chris is this the start of sweeping gun controls . Well ask chris cox, executive director of the National Rifle association. Plus, as President Trump decides whether to decertify the Iran Nuclear Deal, his secretary of state denies hes considered quitting. The Vice President has never had to persuade me to remain the secretary of state, because i have never consideredded leaving this post. Considered leafing this post. With we must put an end to irans continued aggression and nuclear ambitions. Chris well ask our sunday panel about the relationship between the president and Rex Tillerson as they weigh a major policy change. Chris and our power player of the week, a professional Football Player goes out of this world to make a difference. My perspective shifted. I wanted to come home and really help inspire that next generation. Chris all right now on fox news sunday. And hello again from fox news in washington. Well get the latest on the investigation into the Las Vegas Mass Shooting in a moment with a live report. But we begin with breaking news. Hurricane nate made landfall early this morning striking biloxi, mississippi, with heavy rain and winds of 85 Miles Per Hour causing needing and Power Outages flooding and Power Outages. Nate has now been downgraded to a tropical storm. Lets get the latest on nates path, chief meteorologist Rick Reichmuth is in new york. Rick. Reporter yeah, the fourth hurricane to make landfall in the u. S. This Hurricane Season which is quite remarkable. Taking a look at the satellite picture, you can see it moved onshore, it still is moving very quickly which is great news. That means its not going to sit in any one spot and allow it to rain for that long, so the flooding wont be as bad as it could have been. That said, over time this is going to pull up in across parts of the tennessee valley, ohio valley and eventually out across parts of the northeast because its interacting with a cold front coming in. Its going to bring a lot of moisture. So this is the future radar throughout the day today rain moving through the north georgia mountains, the tennessee valley, in towards the central appalachians during the overnight hours. And by tomorrow, all of that moisture moves in across parts of the northeast. So a very wet start to the week, a very wet commute for the day tomorrow as well. But take a look at this overall rainfall totals are going to be extreme, some spots potentially up to 10 inches far inland from the storm. That means flooding could be widespread especially across parts of the central and southern ap a latch chans. Chris . Chris rick, thank you. Now to las vegas where investigators are still looking for a motive into why Stephen Paddock opened fire on a crowd last sunday night killing 58 people and wounding almost 500. Will carr is live in las vegas with the latest. Will. Reporter chris, Authorities Say as paddock was perched on the 32nd floor of mandalay bay, he left a note on his night stand. Now 60 minutes reporting that note had calculations so he could maximize his accuracy as he fired down upon the crowd. And when that happened, thousands scattered. People raced over in this direction. They physically pushed down this fence, and then they ran over onto airport property trying to get to safety. While questions continue to swirl around motive, authorities are putting up billboards across town asking for help. There are also reports that the fbi is starting to believe paddock had severe Mental Illness that went uncieg nosed. 58 people were killed in the attack, almost 500 injured before pa paddock shot and killed himself. Investigators are continuing to question paddocks girlfriend, mary lieu cannily. Marilou danley. This community continues to try to heal. Vice president mike pence took part in a unity prayer walk on saturday. We do mourn with those who mourn and grieve with those who grieve, but we do not grieve like those who have no hope, because heros give us hope. [applause] reporter along those lines, a carpenter drove into town from chicago s and he put up 58 wooden crosses. On each cross is the victims picture and their name, really a touching reminder of all the peoples lives who were lost. Chris. Chris will carr reporting from las vegas. Will, thanks. The Las Vegas Massacre raises new questions about how to prevent these attacks. Joining me now for an exclusive interview, one of the giants of las vegas, steve wynn, chief executive of wynn resorts, whos been thinking about this problem for a long time. Steve, it was over a year ago when you said that las vegas was a target city, and you were going to harden your hotels and casinos. What did you do . Actually, it was two years ago thanksgiving. I got every consultant and adviser i could think of to come through from ray kelly to people from seal team six. It took us from thanksgiving until may to develop and institute and recruit a ram of counterterrorism a program of counterterrorism, and itll be two with years this may. It started in 2015. Chris and without going into great detail, what kind of things do you have on your facilities . Basically, we had to recruit and expand security by tens of millions of dollars to cover every entrance, to retrain the entire work force from housekeeping and room service and people in the tower and observing people. We had to cover every exit and every aspect be of the building aspect of the building to see if we could identify and preempt any kind of terroristicking terroristic or violent action. Its never perfect, of course, but what you can do, to use local vernacular, you can change the odds, i guess. Chris so given all of that, and i know you had hidden metal detectors and you had profilers in your casinos watching the people walking in and out, would any of those measures have prevented Stephen Paddock from checking into one of your hotels in instead of the mandalay bay, to have brought in the suitcases carrying his arsenal, a couple of suitcases at a time, checking into a room on a high floor, knocking out the window and raining terror down on people below . Well, i know that my friends at mgm are particularly fastidious about trying to protect their employees and their guests. Having said that, there are a couple of things in retrospect and its always good to look over your shoulder on these things, but we have a routine with housekeeping, with room service, with audio visual, anybody who goes in the room to do an inspection. We also have rules about do not disturb. If a room goes on do not disturb for more than 12 hours, we investigate. We constantly we dont allow guns in this building unless theyre being carried by our employees, and theres a lot of them. But if anybodys got a gun and we find them continually we jekyll them from the hotel. Chris so if he had suitcases carrying these automatic or semiautomatic weapons, would you have been able to spot that if they were in the suitcases being carried up to his room . Well, we certainly wouldnt invade the privacy of a guest in a room. But lets put it this way, the scenario that we are aware of would have indicated that he didnt let anyone in the room for two or three days. That would have triggered a whole bunch of alarms here. And we would have, on behalf of the guest, of course, investigated for safety. And it would have been provocative situation. Im sure that the same is true in other hotels, but in this hotel a 36hour, a 24hour, a 36hour do not disturb on a room is a predicate for investigation. Chris after the shooting last weekend, you started having security at the entrances to your hotels wand people, wand, inspect bags being brought in. Are you going to keep doing that . And with 20 20 hindsight, the benefit there, have you thought of new measures that youre going to take to try to prevent another one of these massacres from happening using one of the wynn resorts as a perch to fire down on thousands of people on the street below . Well, if i can clear the record, we have been guarding the doors for two years every single day, 24 hours a day. We have magna tommer thes at magna tommer thes at any place at every Employee Entrance and at every place of human collection, like the nightclubs. We dont want people at the door, thats not necessary. We profile or inspect or examine everybody that enters the building. And under most circumstance, its unnecessary to wand people or to do any kind of invasive procedure. The things were looking for that represent potential threats are much more, much more obvious and allow us a great deal of freedom in allowing us to not interfere with the normal flow of people in and out of the building which is close to 15 or 20,000 people a day. Chris i understand that Stephen Paddock had gambled and stayed at your properties along with a lot of other places along this trip. I know you talked to your Security Team afterwards. Looking back after talking to all of them, how much of a profile did you have on them, and was there anything in that profile that should have raised a red flag . Its interesting question. Hes been staying in las vegas since 06. So were talking about 11 years with his girlfriend or at least in recent years, frequent visitor, once or twice a month to this hotel and others. The most vanilla profile one could possibly imagine. A modest gambler at least by our standards, you know . Nothing serious. Paid promptly, never owed any money anywhere in las vegas. He didnt fit the profile of a problem or a compulsive gambler. What was if there was anything interesting that we discovered in the years of service and we have butlers and waiters and masseuses and people in the beauty shop that know this woman and this man completely, they talk about normal, mundane things. But if theres anything interesting that stood out over the six years, nobody thats ever worked here had ever seen the gentleman or lady take a drink of wine, beer or alcohol of any kind. Now, a lot of people dont drink, but considering the frequency of all the restaurants and their behavior as normal tourists taking advantage of everything thats available in our resort, they never, ever imbibed in any liquor. Their behavior was conservative, private, understated in every way. You never, ever would stop a man like this coming in the building. However, nobody in this companys history, no public person has ever walked in the Service Elevator unless they were accompany by security. Accompanied by security. That wouldnt happen. Secondly chris did he go in the Service Elevator, steve . Im just saying anything like that. Im not sure whether he did. But nobody ever goes in the back of the house unaccompanied by security. But another thing, being this a room for three being in a room for three days in a do not disturb situation, that would have triggered an alarm here and would have considered, would have been considered as a potentially dangerous thing from the guests point of view, that maybe the person was ill. We would want to inspect and see that they were safe. Wed go into the room. Wed want to know more about anybody who was sequestered in a room for more than 12 hours. That would be, that would be something that would, our people have been trained to look out for. Chris steve, you and i have known each other for some years, you are a very smart man who knows almost anything, has seen almost every aspect of human conduct. Do you have a theory, do you have an instinct for the big question, why Stephen Paddock did what he didsome. Didsome did what he did . No. No. But i have this feeling, chris. This is a man who behaved rationally, privately a little introverted, liked to play video poker, but he was a rational man. And every Historical Review of his behavior indicates that he was a rational man. So was his girlfriend. And yet he prepared over an extended period of time a totally irrational act. Now, this sounds like someone either totally demented behavior, which he never evidenced, or someone whos sending a message. This is a plan. We dont know what that message is or if there is one, but this behavior according to my employees is as stunning, as unexpected as anybody, any of them have ever met. And thats the status, you know, that i hear from the sheriff and watching television that seems to be the moment, the momentary analysis of the situation. I really dont have anything to add to that. Chris steve wynn, thank you. Thanks for your time. Well be watching how you and the rest of las vegas respond to this terrible tragedy. Thanks again, sir. Well be fine. Well be fine. The president did a good job. Chris up next, after still another mass shooting, the debate over gun control reignites. But this time even the National Rifle association is calling for more regulation. Well talk with the nras executive director when we come right back. Theres nothing more important than your health. So if youre on medicare or will be soon, you may want more than parts a and b heres why. Medicare only covers about 80 of your part b medical expenses. The rest is up to you. You might want to consider an aarp Medicare Supplement insurance plan, insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company. 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Joining me here is chris cox, executive director of the National Rifle association. Mr. Cox, welcome to fox news sunday. Thanks, chris. Chris the nra called for atf to review bump stocks. Heres part of your statement, lets put it on the screen. The nra believes devices designed to allow semiautomatic rifles to function like fully automatic rifles should be subject to additional regulations. This regulation had been on the books for certain years. Why for seven years. Why is the nra suddenly concerned, and what specifically would you hike to see atf do . What weve called is called for is, as you know, its illegal to convert a semiautomatic to fully automatic. Atf did approve these under barack obama, and atf needs to do their job, review these, and if theres a further regulation, then well work on further regulation. Chris, what we saw last week was pure evil, and weve seen that evil has existed in this country. Weve seen box cutters and airplanes, cars, bombs, trucks full of explosives and, yes, firearms. As we look at this, we need to have an honest discussion about what works and what doesnt work. And our concern is that all this focus on devices takes away the attention from the underlying behavior. And until we address that, these things are going to continue to happen. Chris well, lets just talk about the underlying behavior. Youre the nra, so were going to talk to you about the specific technique. Would you be okay with banning bump stocks . Well, we dont believe that bans have ever worked on anything. What weve said has been very clear, that if something transfers a semiautomatic to function like fully automatic, then it ought to be regulated differently. Fully automatics are regulated differently in this country. If something copies a semiautomatic into a fully automatic, then those should be regulated as well. Chris did you get any blowback from some of your members . Because its unusual for the nra after one of these incidents to call for more regulation of either guns or parts of guns. There were nra members at that concert. There were nra members that were shot at that concert and nra members that were murdered at that concert. So what were getting from nra members is grief and fear, the same way americans are grieving and scared that Something Like this meeting happen again. So will are there be disagreements over policy discussions . Of course. Theres an ongoing discussion about gun control in this country. We had it during the debates last year. We had it throughout the campaign when the most progun control candidate was defeated. These conversations happen. What were concerned about is that were having a conversation when people are grieving. There used to be a common decency in this country where people paused from talking about policy. Unfortunately, with diane fine stein and michael bloomberg, they want to exploit the tragedy from day one. Its shameful, but apparently thats the new normal chris i want to pick up on that because while the nra is talking about bump stocks, there are a number of gun control advocates, in our this them democrats, who are calling for more sweeping measures. Heres a few. I cant believe that one whole Political Party in the greatest country on earth is totally sold to the gun lobby. Theyre going to say if you give them bump stock, its going to be a slippery slope. I certainly hope so. Chris now, i know that sets your teeth on edge. You say common decency, lets wait. Whats enough time . I mean, here were 58 people killed, almost 500 injured. Is it common decency to wait a day, two days, a week, a month . I mean, it is understandable. You can i know you dont agree with their solution, but whats wrong with saying need to address this issue. Let me talk about Hillary Clinton and nancy pelosi both and get back to that point. Nancy pelosi has said and i take her at her word, i take Dianne Feinstein at her word when she says if she had 51 votes in the senate for mr. And ms. America turn in your guns, they would do it. The underlying agenda never changes. Hillary clinton lost, but she gets an award for hypocrisy, because she will never spend a moment, a breath without Armed Security surrounding her for the rest of her life. Shell never dial 191, shell never live in a high crime area, but her life is no more valuable than the single mom living in chicago working the late shift who owns a gun and wants to carry it to defend herself. Chris i want to pick up on that, and im going to throw a little bit of a Monkey Wrench at the control room, because im going to play an earlier bite. You and i talked earlier this weekend, and you said that you want to have a sensible conversation about gun control. Wayne lapierre, the head of nra, talked this week, and i want to play a clip. One thing the American Public always knows is the elites always protect themselves, and they always protect themself with guns. And then they lecture the American Public how you shouldnt do that. Chris the reason i pick up on that is you were, in effect, saying the same thing about Hillary Clinton. Is that a sensible way to have this conversation, to try to turn it into class warfare where if youre for gun control, somehow youre part of an elite . Its not class warfare, chris, its what the American People want. The American People want to be able to protect themselves. They want to be able to defend themselves. Yes, were willing chris thats not actually true. I mean, yes, Second Amendment. But if you talk about background checks, if you talk about automatic [inaudible] chris well, let me just say that. In fact, the majority of people according to polls would like to see gun control. I just, i have to say im put off at the argument that if you believe in gun control, youre an elite. I know very few people outside of Public Officials she was a former first lady, former secretary of state who have armed bodyguards, one of the few people i know, private people who has armed bodyguards is wayne lapierre. As a lawabiding gun owner, i am Armed Security, but i couldnt bring a gun into washington dee because my licensed gun chris i dont want to my point is you cannot have a gun. Now, we can argue about the merits of it, but i think to dismiss people and say, well, thats just the elite and they have armed guards, it seems to me, does a disservice to your argument. Its the hypocrisy that bothers the American People coming out of hollywood, the hi hypocrisy coming out of politicians and out of a lot of people in the media who refuse to accept that lawabiding people in between new york and los angeles and in between washington, d. C. And miami deserve the right to defend themselves. Thats what the National Rifle, association exists for. The murderer in orlando, tucson, aurora chris lets talk about background checks, and lets talk about specific issues because youre certainly right, he did pass them, and he bought all these guns legally. There is a 72hour limit on background checks. And as a result, some people call that the charleston loophole because dylann roof, the man who bought a gun through a background check and then killed nine people in a church, youre seeing his picture there, he got the gun because the background check wasnt complete in 72 hours even though he would have with failed that background check. Question for you, mr. Cox, when its a matter of life and death and i understand you dont want background check toss go on forever, thats not appropriate, but when its a matter of life or death, couldnt it be four days or five days and not three days and he gets his gun . Sure. The National Rifle association has worked to include every Mental Health record, every court adjudication, every criminal record to make sure that people dont fall through the cracks chris thats not true, sir. Thats absolutely true. Chris no, it isnt forgive me. In february President Trump signed a measure that said that the Social Security administration no long longer has to provide information on mental disorders to the National Background criminal check and the nra supported that. That is a complete misrepresentation of our position, a complete misrepresentation of what plump did. What he said is you cant arbitrarily deny a Senior Citizen their Second Amendment rights based on no finding of dangerousness. The only finding was that they asked somebody to help them manage their financial affairs. If you think somebody needing help with a checkbook should eliminate them from exercising their Second Amendment chris this was [inaudible conversations] mental disorders, and now i agree, it wasnt everybody. It was some people with mental disorders, and you backed that. Their definition was someone who asked for help handling their finances. That is not a prohibitive category, chris, and it shouldnt be. Chris let me ask you about another measure that has been talked about, and before i do, i want you to just watch this video. Here it is. [gunfire] [inaudible conversations] chris you hear that gunfire. One reason that Stephen Paddock was able to fire so quickly, so many shots so quickly was because he had a highcapacity magazine. He had a bunch of them that held between 60100 rounds. Now, i understand Second Amendment, Supreme Court has ruled opposite. Why do you need to have a magazine that holds 100 rounds . Theres no one in america who watches that video whos not horrified, and the nra members at that concert, im sure, were more horrified. Its a fair question. To ask if banning me from owning these sorts of things would prevent a criminal from going out and own toking them, thats a fair question. Congress banned semiautomatics and highcapacity magazines for ten years. Ten years in bill clintons own Justice Department said it had no impact on crime. California still bans those magazines, but it didnt prevent San Bernardino or santa barbara. In europe it didnt stop chris were running out of time, sir, but even when you see that horrific video and hes firing, and its because of the 3wu6r7 stocks and its because of the magazines that hes able to fire 100 rounds in a few seconds, less than a minute, no qualms about allowing people let me flip it around. Why should, in 30 seconds if you will, why do shooters need, people who hunt, to protect themselves, why do they need magazines with 100 rounds in them . First of all, its intentionally designed to scare people. People own magazines with deft capacities for Different Reasons chris you dont think ten rounds would be enough . People can own things safely and responsibly and be a danger to no one, and thats the part of this conversation it cant be fair and balanced if youre not willing to discuss the broader problems we have with the violent culture coming out of hollywood, with video games that fundamentally change how military simulators work. Chris mr. Cox, this obviously didnt agree, were going to settle this in this short period of time. Thank you so much for coming in today. Please come back, and well continue the conversation. I look forward to it. Thanks, chris. Chris hopefully, not after another one of these terrible tragedies. Up next, well bring in our sunday group to discuss where things stand in the get debate over gun control. Plus, what would you like to ask about chances for new gun laws in the wake of the Las Vegas Massacre . Go to facebook or twitter fox news sunday, and we may use your questions on the [vo] quickbooks introduces jeanette and her new mobile wedding business. At first, getting paid was tough. Until she got quickbooks. Now she sends invoices, sees when theyve been viewed andtadahpaid twice as fast for free. Visit quickbooksdotcom. Apparently this allows you to take a semimautic and turn it into a fully automatic so clearly thats something we need to look into. I hope senators will finally summon the political courage to stand up and say enough is enough. Some rare bipartisan agreement this week from democratic senator Dianne Feinstein and House Speaker paul ryan at least on the issue of bump stocks. And its time now for our send group. Former National Security council staffer jillian turner. Columnist for the hill juan williams. Julie page Washington Bureau chief and the Associated Press and tom rogan of the washington examiner. Julie, what do you make of republicans like paul ryan saying that they want to take a look at bump stocks . Is this the beginning of a conversation a broader conversation on gun controls or are they trying to limit it to this one device which is so hard to defend . Im not sure were going to see any broader conversation on gun control. I think the fact that republicans and the nra came out, the white house as well came out and expressed openness on bump stocks is certainly an Interesting Development because we rarely even see republicans go after some of the low hanging fruit on this gun control debate here. I think that theres going to be a reluctance on the part of g. O. P. Lawmakers to go any further on that, certainly the nra would push back pretty aggressively if they started to do that. But i think on this issue, look, theres not a huge constituency for bump stocks. I think most people can agree that if you are going to take a device, put it a legal semiautomatic and turn into it a fully automatic weapon thats something that needs to be addressed. You have unanimity on that across the political spectrum. On this issue of gun control in the wake of the Las Vegas Massacre, rick royce tweeted this what conceivable Gun Legislation could have prevented the evil that occurred in las vegas . As chris cox of the nra pointed out. Stephen paddock bought all these guns legally. He passed all the background checks. How do you answer, rick . I think the broader point here is whether were talking about this particular incident of gun violence or the broader issue of terrorism and the age of isis, and im not drawing a connection between the two points but the relevance of potential mass casualty events makes them similar in terms of the issue. You could for example put in checkpoints at every major public event, at every major hotel. You could have personal inspections. But the ultimate problem comes down to what measure of freedom of movement, ease of movement are you willing to give up in return for a greater measure of security . Ultimately that goes back right back to the 2nd amendment debate. I suspect what we will see here and if you look at the two most recent Supreme Court cases on the 2nd amendment, theres actually quite a lot of wiggle room there for local governments, especially when it comes to the public carrying element to do things. I think it will get down to that. I did an interview some years ago with scalia who wrote the decision and he specifically said there is an unfettered right to the 2nd amendment but that doesnt mean there cant be gun controls, reasonable, sensible ones that dont infringe. Lets turn to another hot topic. The Trump Administration on friday announced broad new exceptions to the obama care mandates on Birth Control. The insurance plans have to provide contraception coverage to their employees. Here was President Trump earlier talking about religious freedom. We are ending the attacks on your religious liberty and we are proudly reaffirming americas leadership role as a nation that protects religious freedom for everyone. [applause] jillian, the religious right is delighted with this. The president s decision, and hes made several in this regard to say that employers for reasons either of religion or moral belief are not to be forced to provide Birth Control contraception to their employees. On the other hand, womens groups are incensed by this decision. And groups on the right look at this as a victory, but i would caution the president and all republicans that chipping away at the Affordable Care act, executive order, one executive order at a time is going to be an awfully painful exercise over the next few years. If we look at what Chuck Schumer said to the president last week over the phone which was allegedly repeal and replace is now dead for the final time let me back up and for folks who dont follow it like we do, the president and schumer talked and the president talked about maybe we can do a deal with the democrats. And then schumer said mr. President repeal and replacing obama care is officially dead. It died its last death a couple of weeks ago. If we take him at his word, the president has two paths forward, one is reforming obama care through executive action which is the option i refer to is going to be incredibly painful for everybody involved. He can also try and cut a deal with dems. I think the president is showing this week, this past week that hes trying to pursue both those options at once. I mean, maybe he will forge a certain degree of success with Congressional Democrats on this . But hes not going to get a deal thats going to repeal and replace obama care. Whatever way we look at this going forward, because of the republicans failure to get this done, its going to be painful for him. I want to pick up on this, because im curious about the politics of it. One the one hand, look the president promised this on the campaign trail. Hes keeping a promise that helped get him e elected. If you look at the polls most people support the idea of the provision of contraception. So, you know, hes pleasing his base, but hes turning off a majority of voters. Yeah, but hes pleasing his base. It is an interesting political dynamic here, chris, because hes not only pulling the contraception mandate but hes also pulling money for the promotion of obama care and to enroll people at this point. So hes actively trying to undermine obama care i think to make the case to schumer and the democrats this is imploding and youre going to come to me to want to make a deal to try to rescue it. I think thats his bargaining position. With regard to the politics with the base, the base has no wall. They have no obama care repeal. They have a deal with chuck and nancy, if you will recall. I think theres a little bit of anxiety inside that white house with steve bannon gone about making sure that you are always playing to the base, but i worry that its less catering at this point than pandering to people who are i think misinformed about the consequences. It is almost like trump is now saying, you know what, yeah, we didnt get done what we promised you, conservative base, but we are still actively here trying to drain the swamp were disrupting. Has your life improved . Thats what Ronald Reagan asked. Is your life better off today than it was when theres not a rhetorical question. Some people would say the economy is doing pretty well. Oh, yeah, we lost jobs for the first time because of the hurricane have you heard of harvey and irma . Have you heard the first time in seven years, have you heard about a tax cut deal that benefits the rich disproportionately not the bluecollar worker . I think people will have to get that information at some point. I think the president deserves courage on, it is not fashionable in the age of Bernie Sanders to say Corporate Tax, but if you speak to economists, investment productivity, that is the case. I have to say only on our panel do we go from Birth Control to Corporate Tax reform without missing a beat. We have to take a break here. Up next, will President Trump decertify the Iran Nuclear Deal this week . And what about his relationship with secretary of state Rex Tillerson . President trump raising a lot of questions during a photoop with his top military brass and were back now with the panel. One thought about a possible storm is that the president may and in fact is expected to announce this week that he will decertify the iran deal, say it is no longer in the national interests, but that doesnt end the deal. It then goes to congress, and the congress has 60 days to decide whether or not they are going to reimpose the sanctions that were lifted as part of the deal, and if they dont do that, then guess what . Were still in the deal which raises the question, gillian, what would that do, he decertifies but the sanctions stay lifted what would that accomplish . It is sort of middle ground for the president which is why maybe hes going to go in this direction. It is a middle ground in that it doesnt kill the deal, but it passes the buck to congress. So the first reason i think the president is not going to recertify is that he enjoys nothing more than passing the buck to congress, making them make these hard decisions, like we saw with daca. What will happen if he does not recertify irans compliance on october 15th which is the iran deal . Hands it to congress and they have 60 days to debate and then make their own decision by a vote. The second reason i dont think hes going to recertify is that the albatross around his neck at this moment is every 90 days hes got to very publicly sign an agreement that shows iran has been complying with this deal. It is something that is a thorn in his side on the Foreign Policy spectrum like nothing else. From President Trumps perspective, this is an obama era legacy once he decertifies, he is off that book . Hes itching to free himself from that. It is the act of having to certify every 90 days that trump actually has to sign a certification that is driving him crazy, that that is one of the driving factors to this which is Pretty Amazing actually. Defense secretary mattis testified before congress this week and he was asked the key question on this matter. Do you believe it is in our National Security interest at the present time to remain in the jcpoa . Thats a yes or no question. Yes, senator, i do. You can tell how excited [laughter] defense secretary mattis was to have to answer that question. Juan, the president is apparently going against almost his entire Senior NationalSecurity Team in making this decision to decertify. Why do you think that is . Well, i think hes playing to the base. We were talking about this a moment ago, but i think that this is a very aggressive step to say listen to the base. I promised you during the campaign that i would get rid of this iran deal. I said it was the worst deal ever for the United States. It was a ripoff and im going to act on my Campaign Promise because its not only his inner circle and theres lots of reports this week that, you know, tillerson called him a moron and all that, but also that tillerson, kelly, mattis have some kind of suicide pact, where they said, you know, if he fires any one of us, were all going, but they are there because in the words of bob corker, the head of the Senate Foreign relations committee, republican, they act as a buffer. They are stopping chaos in terms of our Foreign Policy from becoming imposed by the president. Its a very intriguing situation, but the president i think in this instance is playing to the base once more. Yeah, we should point out those were the views of the statement of senator corker, not of yes okay. Lets talk about the split with Rex Tillerson. There was a report this week that tillerson had seriously considered quitting over the summer and at one point, not to the president , but to some other people he called the president a moron. That led to this. Continues to be misreported. Theres never been a consideration in my mind to leave. We have a very good relationship. We disagree on a couple of things. Sometimes id like him to be a little bit tougher, but other than that, we have a very good relationship. Other than that, i think whats really going on here and is tillerson out or not . This has been a complicated relationship for a long time. Months ago i had a Senior Administration official tell me that trump liked the idea of tillerson the businessman more than he actually liked tillerson himself. He gets annoyed the way tillerson handles himself in meetings. He doesnt like the idea that tillerson especially on the issue of north korea has been pushing this idea of dip lo ma si diplomacy. Tillerson has been frustrated by being undermined by the tweets. Hes frustrated that kushner has picked up a large part of the Foreign Policy portfolio. The big challenge, and i think what he will have to decide in terms of future here, what kind of juice does he have left with foreign governments . When hes meeting with foreign leaders and he says this is the position of the United States government, do they believe him anymore . And frankly, talking to diplomats around town, they dont always believe him. I want to pick up on exactly that point with you, tom, because whether tillerson stays or not, you would think that his effectiveness as secretary of state has been dramatically diminished, leaders around the world are watching all this play out and we have seen we have seen the president in the case of north korea, as soon as tillerson said in china last week that we have avenues to talk to north korea, the president tweeted dont waste your time, rex. I mean its unity of message stupid would be the Foreign Policy equivalent of the famous line. When foreign diplomats hear from american not just about tillerson but it is about all the foreign offerses in every embassy foreign officers in every embassy of the world. This is also a huge problem for President Trump. In the sense that if you talk about the iran deal now, with that short window, if he decertifies effectively to get the french crucially on board who may come on board with him about reforming the deal, if they donn trust the only guy who is in the room in paris with them, secretary of state tillerson, their willingness to say to all their domestic manufacturers who have those nice deals in iran, hey, by the way, were going to push on this, but those manufacturers say youre talking to tillerson, trump is tweeting tillerson is an idiot. Thats very hard diplomacy. I think tillersons future hinges on whether or not he did call President Trump in a moron. I mean this in a specific sense. If he did, it will be made known to the president. It is a fireable offense for any secretary of state throughout the history, including henry kissinger. It is nothing something he can survive. All the disagreements will fall by the wayside, and it will come down to whether or not there is proof that he spoke about the president ive got ten seconds. Did he call him a moron . I personally have not confirmed it, but i will say i had someone point out that he is an eagle scout and he did not specifically deny it in his press conference thank you, panel. See you next sunday. Boy scouts. Up next our power player of the week, from a football field to outer space. How a former astronaut is using his story to inspire others. I had some severe fatigue, some funny rashes. Finally, listening to my wife, i went to a doctor and then i became diagnosed with hodgkins lymphoma. That diagnosis was tough. Im a concrete mason. I own my own company. I went from being a guy that could pick up anything i wanted, to having to ask for help. Im a person that likes to take control. At that point in my life, i said theres nothing i can do. 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My mother gave me a chemistry set when i was probably 7 or 8 years old. It was an age appropriate chemistry set where i created the most incredible explosion in her living room melvin was hooked. He played football and won a scholarship to university of richmond as a wide receiver but that was never his passion. I didnt watch monday night football in the nfl. I was doing Chemistry Lab so it wasnt something that was my favorite thing. But it was something that got me to college. Football did more than that. He was drafted to play in the nfl, but even trying out for the Dallas Cowboys was a balancing act. By day im catching footballs for Americas Team and at night im watching science engineering videotapes. A hamstring injury ended his football career. Melvin went back to school, got his masters, and became a Research Scientist at nasa. Then in 1998, he applied to be an astronaut. Only a few of us had been in the nfl and engineers and scientists at nasa. 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Last night the nationals beat the cubs 63 to even the Division Series at one game a piece and someone was so excited he showed up this morning, george washington, to help urge on our team. George has delegated me to say go nats. Did i do that okay . All right. Chicago were not doing so well. Thats it for today. Howie the gun control and whether the tragedy is being politicized. It was an act of pure evil. Though we feel such great anger at the senseless murder our fellow citizens, its our love that defines us today and always will forever. Pitch perfect from the president right there. I thought the president s statement was so emotional. The tone was exactly right it was