Protected. Criticism is also coming here at home from some. Here is former defense secretary robert gates. My own view would have been it would have been better to stay in the agreement at least for another six months and essentially lay down an ultimatum to our allies. And say either you join us and very heavy penalties against the iranians for the Ballistic Missile programs and you join us in resisting iranian meddling in the middle east. Either you help us with those things or in fact i will walk away from this agreement. I think we could have pushed the europeans a lot harder. Eric Garrett Tenney has more live from washington on this continuing debate. Hi, garrett. Hey, eric. One of the big challenges european leaders face in keeping the Nuclear Deal Alive is sanctions by the u. S. Once again targeting iran and any Foreign Companies doing business there. Thats created a bit of a mess for corporations, particularly those based in europe which invested billions of dollars in iran aft
Businessman to discuss how they could help his father win the 2016 election. As the times notes, its first indication countries other than russia may have offered assistance to the Trump Campaign. The times reports, quote, investigators have questioned numerous witnesses about what foreign help may have been pledged or accepted and about whether any such assistance was coordinated with russia. The meeting in question which took place in trower in august 3rd of 2016 was arranged by erik prince, a private security contractor and informal trump adviser. Prince introduced donald trump jr. And aide stephen missiler to george nader, adviser to the saudi arabia. Nader is now cooperating with investigators. Wow. Also in the meeting was an Israeli Social media specialist joel zimmel who proposed his services to help the trump campai campaign. This air legal conducted by the russians in the 2016 president ial election. As the times reports, the plan involved using thousands of fake social media
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Britain and in a number of phone calls urged the president to stay in. Boris johnson the British Foreign secretary was here yesterday meeting with the Vice President saying that britain fully supports the jcpoa and they wish that the president would. At this point, our understanding is the president will very shortly announce he is getting out of the Iran Nuclear Deal. Dana john roberts. Thank you. Bring in kevin mccarthy. There was never a lot of bipartisan support for the deal on capitol hill. President obama declined to put it forward for a vote because they said they wouldnt have had the votes so they took action unilaterally. Now the president of the United States, the current president , donald trump is going to apparently reverse the decision. Your thoughts today . My thought, remember, this is not a treaty. This is part of the problem with the agreement. Even if you look back on those we respect, you go to condoleeza rice, the former secretary of state, she said she would never
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