And our focus should be how do we stop iran from getting a Nuclear Weapon. In the meantime negotiators are going full speed ahead. Ultimately whats been remarkable is the International Unity weve been able to maintain. And saying to iran you have to show the world that you are not pursuing a Nuclear Weapon. Now, the president went on to say theres less than a 50 chance that the Nuclear Talks will produce an agreement. He wants to delay irans capability to quickly produce a nuclear bomb for ten years, as for netenyahus host john boehner, his office says the demand for tickets to this mornings speech is like nothing theyve ever seen before. But dozens of democrats will be skipping the speech and Vice President joe biden will not there be. In his place, utahs republican senator orrin hatch that will add to the partisan look of the speech later this morning. Its interesting, the demand is greater than ever but theres more supply than usual because of those that arent going. So Sensitive In
Kind of deal. So the pressure is really on. But were talking about a very vague statement, even if one comes out today, because its very clear there is still unresolved issues. It seems as if at the best theyre agreeing to keep talking. Chris . Elise, please keep us informed of any movement in the talks. There is no question that president obama has a lot riding on the iran situation. The question is now, what if this plan to negotiate doesnt work . Lets bring in cnn senior White House Correspondent jim acosta with more. The white house is adamant that president obama is not going to accept a bad deal with iran. Last night the president held a Video Conference call with his National Security team and with secretary of state john kerry, and Energy Secretary earnest monese leading the u. S. Side of the talks in switzerland. At this point u. S. Officials cannot say whether theyll reach a breakthrough at the negotiations the one thing that press secretary made clear to reporters yesterday
We have cnns anna coren in hong kong and we have tom fuentes. How seriously is the white house treating these threats, michelle . Reporter we know theyre treating it seriously as they have any threats concerning ambassadors over the last few months with the other incidents weve seen most recently the attack of the u. S. Ambassador to south korea earlier this month, but on this case i mean its interesting because these Death Threats happened by phone from an englishspeaking man to the embassy in tokyo happened last month allegedly. Were only now hearing about this starting in the asian press. So the white house is not confirming these threats. Neither is the National Security council. Neither is the u. S. Embassy although we are expecting to hear something soon from the u. S. State department. These threats by this man allegedly were threatening the life of Carolyn Kennedy as well as a u. S. Consul general also in japan although based in okinawa. We dont expect the threats to affect the
Germanwings flight 9525. Lets go to cologne, germany. Fred, what have you learned about the pilot . Reporter yeah good morning, guys. This comes from a relative of patrick zondeheimer. He confirmed to a cnn crew that met him there that indeed his relative Patrick Sondenheimer was the captain of the flight the man who attempted to get back into the cockpit after he was locked out by andreas lieu bits. He was described as a man with a lot of experience about 6,000 flying hours in total. Been with the company for ten years and we know his name is Patrick Sondenheimer. He is the man who attempted to get back into the cockpit. Fred youre from cologne, germany. You know a lot of the officials. There have been some new revelations coming to light that the copilot who Authorities Say crashed the plane had an illness. There has been speculation about whether it was a mental illness. What are the companies saying germanwings and lufthansa. Germanwings is saying they had these sick leave notes th
Dozens of current and former u. S. And israeli diplomats that they have talked to many others. No surprise officebviously that the United States and israel would spy on each other. The real surprise is that israel would try to use this information against the white house to further its position. And it was discovered as you say by u. S. Intelligence agencies spying on what israeli was doing. And hearing language in conversations there. Which made them realize that the information that they had and were discussing could only have come from a knowledge of what was going on inside those talks. So eavesdropping at the highest level. Chris in. So nic, we have the intrigue of the politics surrounding the talks, lets get into the talks themselves. The issue of centrifuges. Thats central. What do we understand . Well one of the points that arises in the wall street journal article is they used a number of 6,500 centrifuges, a part of the deal. That iran might be able to use the ir4 centrifuge.