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his speech listened to. this was meant to be a signal of some kind of, you know, opening to the fact that a new reform president had been elected but it didn t go so far as being able to shake clinton s hand. we know he wanted to do that or at least exchange some words. this time it s different. both presidents have admitted publicly that they have exchanged letters. both presidents have admitted and talked publicly about looking at a new possibility, a new flexibility and wanting to resolve the nuclear issue particularly and obviously, others. it seems like president obama may, according to what the white house has been saying, be more flexible on this issue. we ll wait to see if the iranians actually do it. i think what fareed has said and what we have been reporting is that the drama of ayatollah khoumeni, who holds all the cards, him saying publicly that he authorizes rouhani to
it has to be tested, but you know, how do you test it? so i would say at least john kerry should begin some kind of process of human contact. remember, we have not had any contact with iran in any meaningful sense since 1979. christiane, very quickly, i know you will be interviewing rouhani in the coming days. what do you think, where do you stand on this? well, look, i think exactly as it s been floated in public, neither side is saying that they have agreed on this. historically, actually, it s the u.s. side which has wanted to run into or shake hands with an iranian president and the iranians have not been able to do that because they haven t, until now, had the backing of the supreme leader. i remember back in the 90s when ayatollah sorry, the first reform president was elected and if you remember, schedules were juggled for the united states so president clinton could sit in the general assembly hall and listen to the speech, and have
we don t know how he s going to do that. we don t know if there will be a meeting with rouhani or not. we cannot predict what will happen with the syrians but that s one front. on the other front, he s got this big problem as brianna points out, at home. there s a lot of scar tissue here in washington when it comes to the debt ceiling and keeping the government funded and there s a lot of bad feelings to the point where they can t even agree when to meet. if this can get kicked down the road to a certain degree, maybe that would be a win for the president. but again, it would come up again presumably when it comes time to consider raising the debt ceiling and someone said to me, a senior house republican said to me this could go on until christmas. hate to say it. what a nightmare that would be. on, he s got the national security issues, whether syria, iran, kenya, so many other problems, all these domestic
shabaab was going to do. al shabaab itself warned that kenya s intervention in somalia which was in 2011 would draw a response, and you kind of wonder, you know, if the mall wasn t more protected, why wasn t it. so it s very, very troubling and these are the kinds of soft targets that we ve seen erupt in modern day terrorism over the last ten years or so since 9/11. on the other subject that s big here at the u.n. this week, fareed, the possible meeting between president obama and the new iranian president, rouhani. i know there are pros and cons and we re hearing from u.s. officials, no final decision has been made. where do you think this decision should be? i certainly think that the secretary of state should meet with president rouhani, if that s possible. i know that s not quite at the same level but often that does happen. whether the president should meet with him i think would depend on whether or not they
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