because of the pressure and the air strikes, the group still exist, but the threat is less immediate than a year ago. just to change subjects briefly for one second there are these reports that the head of iran s elite qods force, qassen soleimani traveled to russia. i am told it is truffle he did travel to russia it is in violation. he s still under u.n. sanctions, add ambassador powers said today if he were to travel there would have to be some sort of exemption given, but that exemption was not given. administration officials will say, well, that shows you, had we not done a deal with iran how close iran is with countries like like to russia. to russia rather and how
it? of course that s if the deal becomes a deal. fareed we were talking earlier in the block, you heard the news from jim acosta about senator schumer s opposition. do you think that schumer s opposition will mean not only the deal will go down but there might be enough votes to override president obama s veto? i think it s possible in the senate. in the house it s a different issue. i think he probably has a firewall in the house which would allow the deal to go through, because overriding in the house would be tough. look in the senate for some like charles schumer faces a difficult decision. it s obviously there is the substantive issues involved but look at the politics. if he supports this deal he gets a phone call from the president saying thank you, but he will have enraged a very powerful group of constituents the stop iran coalition. these are people he often fund raises from and that asymmetry that is that the