peaceful nuclear program. they certainly don t need a heavy water reactor in order to have a peaceful nuclear program. self-evidently true that president obama dialled back his negotiating posture over the course of the negotiations in order to concede further and further to the iranians? not at all. our bottom lines have never changed. we need to cut off the pathway for iran to get to a nuclear weapon and get iran from currently two to three months of breakout time to six times that under this agreement. that is what we have done. if you listen to the french foreign minister it s a different story. the french have been much more stringent on a lot of these positions. it is interesting when you listen to the clip from obama from a couple of years ago the tougher line he was taking there. it is clear that the administration has had to move
they certainly don t need a heavy water reactor in order to have a peaceful nuclear program. self-evidently true that president obama dialled back his negotiating posture over the course of the negotiations in order to concede further and further to the iranians? not at all. our bottom lines have never changed. we need to cut off the pathway for iran to get to a nuclear weapon and get iran from currently two to three months of breakout time to six times that under this agreement. that is what we have done. if you listen to the french foreign minister it s a different story. the french have been much more stringent on a lot of these positions. it is interesting when you listen to the clip from obama from a couple of years ago the tougher taking there. it is clear that the administration has had to move on key points in order to get a
they certainly don t need a heavy water reactor in order to have a peaceful nuclear program. self-evidently true that president obama dialled back his negotiating posture over the course of the negotiations in order to concede further and further to the iranians? not at all. our bottom lines have never changed. we need to cut off the pathway for iran to get to a nuclear weapon and get iran from currently two to three months of breakout time to six times that under this agreement. that is what we have done. if you listen to the french foreign minister it s a different story. the french have been much more stringent on a lot of these positions. it is interesting when you listen to the clip from obama from a couple of years ago the tougher line he was taking there. it is clear that the administration has had to move on key points in order to get a
to reduce the current levels, not suspend it. $7 billion of relief from sanctions over a six-month time frame. here we have a rogue nation, a rogue nation, is wreaking havoc, using a portion of our sanctions, proceeds that we re alleviating right now to kill people in syria and you know that they re using a portion of this to funnel it to hezbollah, to kill people in syria. i guess i don t understand why you already agree on the front end to them not having the gold standard, if you will, as it relates to enrichment? reporter: leading democrat, senator bob menendez of new jersey who sits on the banking committee that convened today and chairs the foreign relations committee agreed the deal grants the iran the right to enrich and said the obama s administration negotiating posture here leaves him, quote, nervous. to the point where menendez warned that the senate may seek through a resolution to bind the administration s hand in the setting of the final terms for
israel totally failed in stopping the iranian nuclear project. my claim is the best time to deal with it was under president bush. the best way to deal with it was a very harsh assertive diplomacy approach. i hope it s not too late but it s the very last moment. therefore after a decade of failure, we must be honest about it and not go to wishful thinking and make believe solutions. you think the current negotiating posture, six-month deal that will leave them with centrifuges and breakout capacity and with the implicit right to enrich uranium. lets talk about israel s posture. the prime minister so aggressive and israel s lobbying on the hill has been so aggressive on this and has so angered the administration that many people believe that, in fact, netanyahu and israel now are going to take a much harder line on the israeli-palestinian negotiations