eric: and doctor walsh expert the mit securities studies program. jim, when the bee stings it is in trouble. iran is lashing out but could this potentially boomerang on tehran no matter what reason they are trying to attack the ships and take them basically hostage. well, i think i would divide into different baskets, eric. i think there provocative in different ways. it has some disablement of tankers and that did not seem to rise beyond a certain level. forcibly taking when it seems like tit-for-tat. i do expect that to spread. if it continues to happen absolutely. you know, if it was transporting everyone else s ships then someone will you know shoot at some point. some sailors going to make a mistake and you ll have an incident that escalates. then there is a other pocket which is every two months we had it back in this month, it will be an announcement from iran about changes it will make
wasn t very specific about what that change was. but also at one point, indicating that if kim jong-un did denuclearize, his people would be safe, happy and rich at one point, describing the people of north korea as hard working, great people. our chief white house correspondent hallie jackson was listening. she joins me now. and so does jim walsh. jim is a research associate specializing in international security at m.i.t. securities studies program. he spent time in north korea. that was a long q & a with the president. we should note he was asked about rosenstein, the deputy attorney general. he side-stepped that question. and quickly moved back to the other topics that he was clearly prepared to tackle with reporters in the room today. although, craig, he did get in a little bit to this idea he s been demanding this investigation into the investigation.
korea. 20 years ago with a north korea agreement. and we did not get the verification in that agreement. and as a consequence of north korea s action. they have icbm program and nuclear weapons and this is the worry that the prime minister spoke to us about today. if we don t get the verification in this agreement and the points that the a ean is making about what is necessary to really stop not only the nuclear program but to have this thing expire in ten years and treated like the netherlands when they have a full- blown nuclear program? who picked ten years. that s what the iranians are pushing in the negotiation. but in the last session of congress, i and my ranking member of my committee elliott daniel had legislation to give the a yatollah a choice.
away from the table and this often happens in the persian bizafrment call their bluchlt they will be back because they need the deal a lot more than you do. (applause) israeli prime minister netanyahu telling congress in no uncertain terms that the nuclear deal on the table with iran is a bad deal and saying that the administration efforts to curb the program will fall short. jim walch is a international expert. and mi t securities studies program. and daniel putka here in the american enterprise institute. welcome to you. jim to you first. the prime minister laid out in clear detail his views of iran and its nuclear ambitions and the other way the nations
ly said and was wrong after the duration of 10-15 years that there will be no restrictions on iran s nuclear program. that is not right at all. the white house said the inspection regimes regardless of the deal would endure beyond that and they are subject to the nuclear nonproliferation agreement. and it is not true the restrictions end o hthe program. he pointed out that israel lives in a rough neighborhood. take a look at the list of its neighbors and countries. libya, and iraq and yemen and iran, which of those countries, congressman can you say things are better than six years ago when the president took office? right now, israel and the region is safer with regard to a nuclear program in iran because they degraded the