established a credible threat for the united states to walk away from the deal, and that has given him enormous leverage, not just over iran but over europeans and i think over everyone who is interested in shifting this to a policy that can prevent iran from developing nuclear weapons. a lot of the senators who supported the deal, they pointed to a lot of the problems with the deal. this is their chance to fix it. and president trump is giving them that chance. israel supports that effort. we hope that both in congress and the european allies will work together to fix a very, very bad deal. mr. ambassador, mark halperin here. lay out your optimistic scenario if president trump continues to per sue t pursue the policy you want him to. iran is not going to agree to anything. they were given the deal of the century. it s a deal that enables them to have nuclear weapons. this deal puts them on cruise
a lot of good things that he has done, but at the end of the day too much water has gone under the bridge. it will be extremely difficult for him to fix with whatever resources he is going to be gin. fix a system that is essentially not only broken, but in my view, in my judgment, is actually incapable of delivering what we want it to deliver. that s a strong statement. does that go to who the specific political appointee is at the head of the v.a., or does it go to a system that is much more deeply rooted than that? deeply rooted than that. it doesn t matter who rnz the department veterans affairs. it doesn t matter how much money you throw at it. during sequestration, we threw more money at the department of veterans affairs because we didn t want to shortchange veterans. it doesn t matter how much money you give them. the structure of the organization is incapable of delivering what we really want and what we really need, and that is timely first class medical care for all of ou
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president obama on the number one issue facing the country today? that and much more ahead. first our top of the hour look at what you need to know right now. first that breaking news i just mentioned. cnn confirms that jonathan silver, the head of the energy department s controversial loan guarantee program is resigning tonight. dan, what do we know about the particular official and why is he leaving? reporter: well, that official who headed up that controversial program which committed some $38 billion to 40 clean energy projects across the country, he is leaving, cnn has learned, in order to become a fellow over at the think tank third way. but the timing of all of this certainly raising some questions, no doubt, in an effort to blunt some of those questions secretary chu put out a statement saying silver came to him in early july, pointed out he wanted to transition back to the private sector after september 30th and so the secretary explaining that that s what is beh
verdict that is letting anthony go free this weekend. i want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. one of the world s biggest media empires in crisis now. rupert murdoch publicly apologizing for serious wrongdoing and is now the front tabloid, the news of the world. the new ad in british newspapers coming days before he and his son are scheduled to face members of parliament. our correspondent brian todd and allan chernoff are standing by. first to london and our senior correspondent don rivers is standing by. are people in london, dan, still as shocked as they were over these past few days? reporter: i think so, yeah. i mean, this has been a seismic week in british politics. a week that will be written about for decades to come, i think. just having all of the main political parties that are normally squabbling at each other s throats suddenly united, but they re united because of their conte