than 300,000 students and their families in the windy city. john: fox news coverage, dr. mark segal in moments. sandra: garrett, any indication at this point how likely the vote is to pass? well, sandra, the most recent data point is a vote the union took at a virtual town hall sunday night, 80% of its members said they did not want to work in-person under the current conditions. the union wants chicago to have all of its schools, all more than 330,000 students move online for the next two weeks to limit any potential exposure to covid after the holiday break and want more testing, better masks and clear plan when the schools will be closed in the case of an outbreak. but at least so far, city officials are not backing down and say schools will stay open,
acceptable. in the years since they ve gained so much knowledge that the original agreement has to be strengthened, not accepted at face value. but are you now prepared to accept almost anything iran offers? of course not, andrea. president biden, secretary blinken have been very clear we reenter the gcpoa in its fullness if iran maintains compliance of it. should we be able to get back to the joint comprehensive plan of action, it not only constrains iran now, but constrains iran into the future. it also insures the international atomic agency is inspecting. could you ever get back to the year for breakout time that was the original deal? and why did two key emembers of
the next steps. but is that even possible? where do things really stand in vienna right now? in fact, is there anything left to salvage? now joining me to discuss this and more is rob malley, the biden administration special envoy for iran, he was also lead negotiator in the 2015 iran nuclear deal, also known as the joint comprehensive plan of action or jcpoa. robert, thank you so much for joining us, i appreciate your time greatly. the news this week, i have to say, makes the deal look like it is hanging by a thread, if it is not already dead. u.s. officials saying iran s nuclear program was already gone too far for the deals original framework to even matter. what should we be making of the headlines this week? so first, i would say great to be on your show, ayman. so, i think that no u.s. official i know has said there s no point into cutting back into the deal, given this information. on the contrary. what we have heard so far, all the advances iran has made has bolster the case
another reminder of why this is so important, it ran with a nuclear weapon or the capacity to produce one on short notice would become even more aggressive and would believe it could act with a false sense of impunity. the united states believes that if we return to full implementation of the comprehensive plan of action is the best way to put iran s nuclear programme back in the box that it was in but has escaped from since the united states withdrew from that agreement. but whether there is a joint agreement or not, our commitment to the joint principal of iran never acquiring a nuclear weapon is unwavering, and one way or another we will continue to coordinate closely with our israeli partners on the way forward. this cooperation is essential because beyond its nuclear efforts, iran continues to engage in a whole series of destabilising activities across the region and beyond, indeed those activities have multiplied since our withdrawal from thejcpoa,
minister has said he doesn t want to jeopardise his role as a mediator by renouncing russia s actions. he has talked instead about support for the ukrainian people. this will be a chance for the secretary of state to catch up on israel s mediation efforts and to try to get greater unity between america possum allies when there is this summer later summit later between these four arab countries. on iran, we know very much that israel firmly opposed the revival of talks to try to revive the iran nuclear deal. there is a lot of anxiety about that across this region, and so actually what is quite interesting about the fact that washington was coming here hoping to push for greater normalisation in the region between israel and arab partners, actually you are getting israel and some of those arab partners now lining up. they have got a common interest when