right, and hope and change you would hear from the american president, as well. and he is the candidate, he has used that repeatedly in this campaign since he was elected. hooman, i want to give you the skeptical version of this, they will say oh, this is these crafty persians, this is what they do. they send their leaders to be nice to us, and then they will back hezbollah and assad, and make nuclear weapons. how seriously should we take this change in direction? well, in my opinion, we take it very seriously because it is really only the hope we have. are persians crafty? sure. speaking as a persian, yes, we can be crafty, but in a good way sometimes, too. but no, i think we should take it seriously. i think it is genuine, i think the people are genuine, and i think the people that rowhani, the people he chose to be in his administration, want change. now you can be a skeptic, as president obama said himself, he would like to test this new-found negotiation deal. there is not
hooman, i want to give you the skeptical version of this, they will say oh, this is these crafty persians, this is what they do. they send their leaders to be nice to us, and then they will back hezbollah and assad, and make nuclear weapons. how seriously should we take this change in direction? well, in my opinion, we take it very seriously because it is really only the hope we have. are persians crafty? sure. speaking as a persian, yes, we can be crafty, but in a good way sometimes, too. but no, i think we should take it seriously. i think it is genuine, i think the people are genuine, and i think the people that rowhani, the people he chose to be in his administration, want change. now you can be a skeptic, as president obama said himself, he would like to test this new-found negotiation deal. there is nothing wrong with testing this. i don t know what a skeptic
president obama said himself, he would like to test this new-found negotiation deal. there is nothing wrong with testing this. i don t know what a skeptic would suggest to do otherwise, what else will we do other than at least test it? rowhani has said, and said tonight, the time is very limited in terms of how much time they believe there is to make a deal. and that is probably because of the political risk he is taking. there is a very strong hard-line element here in iran. and they re not liking what they re hearing they re hard liners on both sides. and neither side, perhaps, would like to see a deal. and because of that, i think that the time is limited. i think he is right that the time is limited. i don t think he has the latitude beyond a certain number of months, perhaps, to think about it. reporter: but the interesting point is, the supreme leader has said, as you allowed to run in the interview, chris, that there
a political issue. you vote against tax cuts. it doesn t matter in principle. but occasionmfully truth yes, it does. republicans are against raising taxes. you will have 150 house republicans vote for it. something like that. if it s high enough. over $500,000. with the incremental raising of the threshold you will get republican votes. sure you will. the won with plan b of bane bay he couldn t boehner he couldn t get enough republicans. he had 150 republicans out of 240 and he couldn t get to 218 or what they needed. to pass it. president obama has an odd negotiating style. if you get near negotiation