I very much welcome the tone of the foreign secretarys remarks. This now opens the way for iran to play a constructive role in regional shares and noting that we have a profound common interest in defeating dinesh and the reactions from reality. Will we do not use the opportunity to employ the full british diplomacy to force intelligent, effect incorporation between riyadh and tehran towards a common strategy to defeat daish appeared he is quite right it is to achieve a measure reconciliation between saudi arabia and constructive engagement between those two important regional powers in addressing many challenges facing the region. That will not happen overnight. Hes absolutely right the measured tone of the response we heard from saudi arabia in stark contrast to the last measured response was heard from elsewhere in the region and is promising and i spoke last night we will maintain our engagement doing two things. Encouraging allies in the arab countries around the goals to be willi
After benefiting from charities, after negotiating we were after protecting our National Interests and we were after engaging in a just bargaining process in order to maintain our National Interests. We have always stressed that this is not going to be a winlose negotiation. Its not i mean, its not you see one side becoming a winner victorious, the other side becoming a loser. If its a winlose negotiation its not going to be sustainable agreement. We do not come up with a sustainable agreement. In order to attain a sustainable agreement, they should be a winwin situation for both parties, both sides. We did clarify that as our negotiators have been have started talks and negotiations 23 months ago in order to have an achievement in the course of negotiations, we were in need of domestic and national consensus. It is quite clear that politicians, associations, political factions, they do not share common views, but with respect to to items pertaining to our National Interest and Nationa
My last question i want to ask you guys and youre going up to the hill later this afternoon to testify on a different topic, how do you see the lack of action in terms of congress on authorization of the use of force . Just the stasis and stalemate, whats your evaluation all of you, what does that mean in where the u. S. In these campaigns and campaigns coming up on the 15th your anniversary of the 9 11 next year. How do you sort of see the politics here at home. This may be over cynical but i think its a reflection of the fact that the body politic to include people on the hill ultimately do not regard isis as that serious a problem. Definitely a problem. Something worth effort but not something where theyre getting phone calls every day saying the United States needs to do something about this. I think we have seen over the last ten years for understandable reasons, a real sharp decline in public enthusiasm for American Intervention and thats reflected on the fact that people on the
Cyber espionage. The hack of opm is the latest example. Do the chinese steal our Naval Technology and apply it to their navy, and as a corollary to that, are you aware of any evidence concerning china stealing u. S. Civil Nuclear Technology and diverting it to its nuclear navy . Sir, im not personally aware of any instances of another nation stealing our Nuclear Technology and applying to their navy, including china. That may be happening, im not briefed on any intelligence that would implicate that. I think its wellunderstood that there is Cyber Espionage that occurs. We have concerns from time to time about our cleared defense contractors for example in their Cyber Security. I think Frank Kendall and at l is working hard to tighten that up as best we k. I was reflecting on this earlier we talk about Nuclear Matters. As a sort of graduate of the Navy Nuclear Propulsion program. One of the things that has intrigue said me intrigued me over the years, the element of Human Performance th
Speech. The protection of First Amendment does say that Congress Shall make no law. We are going to leave this but you can find it online at cspan. Org. Tab and youseries can find it there. We go live to the center for the National Interest for discussion on iran and the Nuclear Agreement. Good afternoon, everybody. Thank you so much for turning day inthis springlike washington. Cspan for coming along. And in a few tips on how we are this to handle that morning. It is being filmed live. A, andu have the queue and state your name clearly so the world knows who you are. The subject today is highly relevant. Ran sanctions and the nuclear deal. We heard a lot about iran during the election campaign. Articularly from the president but i think there is some confusion as to what the actual policy is, given that we have a an whichdeal with ir no one seems eager to tear up, even though the president says it is the worst deal ever negotiated. Secondly, we have a major fight isis,he Islamic State