very shortly president obama and russia s vladimir putin will meet for the first time in just about two years. it comes just a short time after they toasted. here they were at lunch today at the united nations general assembly. president putin also met with iranian president hasan rowhani during this show rowhani spoke about the criticism from the public end of the iran nuclear deal. translator: some of it was quite laughable. it was very strange. the things that they spoke of. some of them wouldn t even know where tehran is in relation to iran. some didn t know where iran was geographically. not distinguishing one is the capital of the other. so what they spoke of was quite far away from the truth. so the people of iran were looking at it as a form of
developments after that historic nuclear agreement with iran. the biggest breakthrough in u.s./iranian relations in decades. history may not be enough to protect it once the leaders try to sell it back home. on thursday president obama wept on the offense speaking directly to lawmakers who could decide to tear it apart. it is a good deal. a deal that meets our core objective objectives. this framework would cut off every pathway that iran could take to develop a nuclear weapon. when you hear the inevitable critics of the deal sound off ask them a simple question do you really think that this verifiable deal, if fully implemented, backed by the world s major powers is a worse option than the risk of another war in the middle east? we ll get a chance to see how the president of iran sells the deal to his country. he s expected to speak about an hour from now. the deal breaks down like this iran agrees to cut its iranian stockpiles and number of centrifuges, limits futur
republican congresswoman diane black, thank you for your time with me. you re very welcome. thank you, alex. the spending bill is hardly the only issue on president obama s agenda this week. in fact, tomorrow he ll be meeting with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu where you can be sure there will be a frank and candid discussion about the president s phone call with iranian leader hasan rowhani. joining me now, nbc news white house correspondent kristen welker. a good sunday to you. what s the plan for this big meeting tomorrow? well, alex, good afternoon to you. the president s goal tomorrow will be to reassure prime minister netanyahu that israel s security is still the united states key priority, that the united states is still making regional security in the middle east a key priority of course, netanyahu will be skeptical, has expressed skepticism. i can tell you according to officials here, there have been discussions behind the scenes at high levels already. the
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and germany, they were able, the iranians were able to finish a uranium facility. so they are so contemptuous. they spin us and the uranium. that s what this is about. the idea that all of a sudden they had a change of heart, obama actually said in the speech today that the reason he is optimistic about the outcome of the talks is because the ayatollah declared, he issued a fatwa against nuclear weapons. do you believe that? he said rowhani pledged that iran will never make a nuclear bomb. rowhani has been saying all week at the u.n. that iran is not working on a bomb and has never worked on a bomb, that everyone knows is a double lie. yet obama takes the third