it is together that the united states and france will defeat terrorism. france and america are both confronted to it in various forms on our respective soils, or in africa. it is together that we ll counter the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction be it in north korea or iran. [president macron speaking french] it is together that we shall build a new form of prosperity for all peoples which means innovation, free and fair trade, and the protection of our middle classes. [president macron speaking french]
america s newsroom. sandra: good morning. a beautiful sight at the white house. i m sandra smith. we re waiting the macron s arrival. big topics on the agenda. foreign policy, north korea, syria, the iran nuke deal. bill: meanwhile the president s nominee for secretary of state mike pompeo making it through a senate committee awaiting a vote on the senate floor. drama in that as well. let s start at the white house. john roberts joins us now from the south lawn. hey, john, good morning. we ve seen this many times before with previous presidents but this is the first time in the trump administration a foreign dig that tore will be honored with a full state visit. we expect the pomp and ceremony to start momentarily. military bands, 21 gun salute. national anthems of both
happening in any virtually any place in the middle east iran is behind it. what kind of deal was this where it wasn t discussed. john kerry didn t want to discuss other things while he was making the deal. despite all the money we gave them, he didn t want to discuss it because it was too complicated. that s not the way to do it because it was too complicated. we made this terrible deal but we ll be discussing it. it won t be so easy for them to restart. they restart it they ll have big problems. bigger than they ve ever had before and mark it down. they restart their nuclear program, they will have bigger problems than they have ever had before. thank you very much, everybody. thank you.
the iranian in the region. president trump: it seems no matter where you go especially in the middle east iran is behind it. wherever there is trouble. no matter where you have it, iran is behind it. now unfortunately russia is getting more and more involved. but iran seems to be behind everything where there is a problem and you just have to take a look. you look at what is happening and you look at the fighters, iran is always there and we aren t going to allow certain things to happen that are happening. the iran deal is a disaster. they are testing missiles. what is that all about? you look at the ballistic missiles that they are going and testing. what kind of a deal is it where you are allow i had to test missiles all over the place? what kind of a deal is it when you don t talk about yemen and you don t talk about all of the other problems that we have with respect to iran, especially look at what they are doing in iraq. you just take a look at what is
relief. so trump is the only person in the world who can really give it to them. also this whole idea about inspections. previous deals with north korea failed because we could not verify their promises. for instance, the 1994 agreed framework was really great in a sense but the north koreans violated it the moment the ink was dry. when we look at all this it s a question of inspections. it s the same. both iran and north korea. you can t trust them but you can inspect them. sandra: defense secretary mattis talking about how he is optimistic heading into these talks. now i think there is a lot of reasons for optimism that the negotiations will be fruitful and we ll see. sandra: we will see. we certainly will. this is a question not of kim. we know kim is a villain. the real question is whether president trump will use the elements of american power to disarm north korea. we can certainly do that with force. but we can also do it without the use of force.