governments as you enforce the nuclear deal and you ramp up pressure with all of iran s other bad activities, it s actually the iranians who will create the opening to allow us to have new terms. i don t think the administration believes in just ripping it up is the best path forward. they think actually enforcing it will actually help with the international narrative and create a window for a better path forward. ed: scary situation, congressman, michael and ryan, we appreciate you bringing perspective and insight to this very important debate. thanks for being here. thank you. ed: the headlines say it all white house grapples with how to sell the first 100 days. 100 days of horror is to too soon to judge the president s accomplishments? we have a big day ahead. corey lewandowski, geraldo rivera and trish regan here live she said any way you want it that s the way you need it any way you want it
ed: new concerns now being raised that iran may be more involved in a nuclear weapons program than we thought. but former obama officials are denying reports that iran is not sticking to the deal. what does it mean not living up to the spirit? it s a yes or no question, andrea. the question is yes, iran is complying with the nuclear deal. so i have no idea what president trump is talking about. they certified themselves that the deal is working. iran is complying. and they should stick to it. ed: here now to discus middle east expert at the hudson institute and member of the house foreign affairs committee lee zeldin and national security analyst at the clarion project ryan morrow. good to have you all here. michael, i want to start with you. ben rhodes, former top white house official says iran is complying with the deal. how is that? well, iran says they re complying with the deal is that good enough for you? it s not good enough for me. i mean, this aspiring
i want to go back to michael. what do you know about this iranian opposition group? well, what i know is they are credible. yes, they were designated or an umbrella group for designated formerly designated terror group nek. one that iran sheltered. having said that of the information they provided in the past has been spot on. particular departure. what we are talking about this military facility named parchen where likely the russian s-300s went there were trace particles of uranium that the iaea found. iran said we are not doing anything bad here. instead of declaring that it was taste facility they said nothing was taking place. the iaea found samples. the obama administration said not a big deal. and it is a big deal. ed: it is a big deal for sure. ryan, i want to go back to you. sorry about that technical problem. what is your bottom line about this opposition group saying look there is evidence that there is covert work going on
the legislation and appropriation standpoint, wherever we can whatever up sanction and pressure we need to put the leverage back on the table. that s what happened with obama administration cutting the iran nuclear deal in the first place we had the leverage that brought them to the table negotiated on a way flawed unsigned political commitment and left all of the bad activities off the table all together. now we need to put the leverage back on the table to bring them back so we can talk about all the other bad activities. ed: speaking about that leverage. i want to bring in ryan morrow. they have opposition group that claims they have evidence that the iranians have actually been cheating on the deal. are we to believe this opposition group? what s their credibility? well, they have a history of federal reporting on nuclear activities. they revealed two hidden nuclear sights in 2002. this is iranian opposition group that is fighting for secular democracy and not sharia law. ed: oka
that he has china s backing this time. yes. and that is a huge, huge change. you see, for many years the world has passed a variety of different sanctions. and everyone has known that the only reason that they would be successful is if china actually did something about it. today-to-date, they never have. and what you re see something president trump saying all right, i m going to force their hand. why? because we know that the chinese wants stability over all things. if we start making that region a bit unstable that will force the chinese to act and that s why you are seeing them do the things they are doing now like withholding coal shipments and so forth. you will see a lot more action shows the force backed up by things like syria. jon: president trump says he wants to be predictable. he doesn t want to telegraph his next move. ryan, tell us how that plays into the korean mind set here. trump always called himself a counter puncher. now what you are seeing is the arrival of a