kind of dramatic action. and when you re backed into a corner, you do some crazy things. i am concerned about how this could escalate very quickly and that congressional determination can t happen. right. i think that they have pushed iran as far as they possibly can. all right. we are going to begin with the situation on the ground in the middle east. nbc news at the hahn bureau chief joins us now from the iranian capitol. good to see you again. iran said early this year it will reduce its compliance with the nuclear deal. right now the european union says it s still backing the deal, but is there a point where iran pushes it too far and it looks like it s pulling the plug on the agreement, and as a result the european union and other allies who are part of the deal say, all right, we re all out? well, ali, we are actually heading down that road right now. iran is taking small but provocative steps that could have much more serious
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the iran nuclear deal. right. well, first of all, let s maybe tamp down the tensions here. people are too often in this town i use the w-word too much. it was not war in 1988. it was a planned military strike against oil facilitates, and it ended iranian aggression in a day. so the rest of the world shouldn t start digging, you know, fallout shelters just yet. but if this thing persists and depth oil is choked off by the iranians i think this administration is willing to act. one final point, ali. the situation is so different today than in the 80s that the united states really can t do much without this whole effort, potential effort, becoming a team effort. and so far what we ve seen in the region is that the united
directions. i am not real sure about some of the other i think cory booker has touched on some of those things, but nobody really is talking about poor people and poverty. that s the issue that we have. we talk about those people that are rich in the things they are doing, the middle class and moving them out. but what about the people that are working more than one job and they cannot live. reporter: and, ali, one of the main people that i was looking to see here what the man who led it all off, joe biden who often talks about the middle class but not much on the poor class. where these other candidates are just kind of rotating on and offstage making their pitch to voters. and this is really one of the first ones that i have seen joe biden at. he got a chance to do it in a way that we got to contrast him with the rest of the field. we ve only seen andrew yang follow him up on stage.
joining me now executive director of the black economic alliance. thank you for joining me. thank you for being with us. thank you for holding this forum. did you get anything out of it? do you feel like there was real movement there in having these democratic candidates address issues that will move the needle for african-americans? a needle that has not been moved in a very long time. thank you, ali. it s great to be here. absolutely. we are thrilled with the success of this forum. as we all know, the last 2016 campaign have largely devoid of any real serious policy discussion. so we held this forum to ensure that the crucial issue of black economic progress, how we are going to advance work, wages, and wealth in our communities was going to be front and center in this conversation. we are thrilled to see a lot of these candidates even before the forum laying out policy descriptions and announcing many of them at the forum, touching on everything from pay discrimination to