historic mistake. the deal would not shut down a single nuclear facility in iran. the deal would legitimize iran s nuclear program. reporter: republicans in congress are raising questions about the administration s talking points on the deal that claim iran will be required to grant access to international inspectors to investigate suspicious sites anywhere in the country. the administration believes that these verifications, examinations, these basically right to inspect is going to be sufficient. i have real concerns about that. reporter: the white house is responding to the skeptics with a full court press from the president and vice president on down, pleading with members of congress to avoid passing legislation as talks with the iranians continue. senate foreign relations chairman, bob corker, has a bill that would require congressional approvalt deal. whale senators mark kirk and bob menendez have a measure that would apply tougher sanctions on
isn t that interesting? that s good. the old days people did have a problem. but i think women are coming on. cecile, we root for you, thanks for coming on. senate foreign relations chairman, bob menendez will join us next talking about ukraine.
i mean, i think we re headed for default. why would i he be wrong in my thinking. your thoughts. well, ed, i certainly hope not. and as a member of not only just the finance committee, but the senate foreign relations chairman, i can tell you, globally, this is rattling marketplaces across the globe. today china put out an editorial. this is an example of why we have to deamericanize the world. you know, mexico s consequences of our neighbor to the south, rattling, based upon what we re doing here. and this is true, you know, across the corners of the globe. and so it s almost unthinkable, except that here 30-some odd hours before default, you have republicans in the house playing with fire. we had i m shocked and stunned at the you know, betrayal of what was going to be a bipartisan deal here in the
today, it wasn t just republican critics on the hill. a democrat bob menendez, a senate foreign relations chairman. joined lindsey graham in writing a letter to the pment. like you we viewed rouhani discontent. we have taken note of overtures by iran. whatever words we made here it is iranian action that matters. we would welcome a credible and available agreement with iran. the president has a chance to address the world on this at the u.n. general assembly. speaks after 10:00 a.m. eastern time, bill. do you expect this to happen. some sort of informal. probably informal. i think it s unlikely the president is going to do a formal one-on-one with a spray of reporters and all of that i think on the slips like he did with vladimir putin a couple weeks ago when they had their differences that was an opening there remember, that helped lead in part to the diplomatic opening with sire syria in the chemical weapons. maybe something on the sideline. bill: it will be an interesting pict
the president shows up. we understand, thanks for the guidance that he may be coming early. we want to make sure we talk about the civil war in syria. which is spreading across the region with the senate foreign relations chairman, bob menendez, live from jerusalem where he s been meeting with israeli leaders who are concerned about what s happening in the region. senator there is some satellite delay. tell me your perspective now that john mccain has gone into sir yarks very dramsyria, very dramatically to meet with general idris. senator mccain has been very vocal about his views on syria. and going into syria, is not unlike when he went into libya at the time. so you know, i think senator mccain, who i was with in jordan before coming to israel, has made it very clear. he believes that we have to change the dynamics in syria in order to both stop the bloodshed