when we are awaiting that announcement from president trump on the iran nuclear deal. we are told the president is not going to recertify it and will outline why the 2015 accord is not in our national interest. the president also is not scrapping that deal entirely as we been telling you this hour, but it will be up to congress to decide what is next. they will have about 60 days to do that and i have three option options. they can finally decide to do nothing and live up to the commitment under the deal. there are some things might want to take a look at. they can choose to re-impose sanctions, putting the agreement in question, or they can amend the nuclear deal to put in place some very firm points if moran crosses those points, the sanctions were on medically be reimpose. as the trigger points would be specific to nuclear program itself but also deal with things like iran ballistic mitchell
warhead that could reach japan and korea. it was a matter of time. they personally told me they are very close to perfecting their nuclear arsenal and that they are never, ever going to give up. they are never going to negotiate over nuclear weapons. this was a matter of time and i was expecting this, maybe not today but i was expecting this at some point. jon: if you say they are never going to give up nuclear weapons, does that mean sanctions hold no possibility of effectiveness? i think given limited option options, we should still respond with sanctions, there are three options. the first option is sanctions, and then if it doesn t work, we have deterrents and containments and the second option is the
years down the road, but we believe they can mate a nuke to the nodong missile to cover all of the korean peninsula, and all of japan. okay. well, that is terrifying for that region, and so we won t negotiate, and he won t, and you know, he is treating his new somewhat friendlier neighbor in this way. what is the future of any kind of negotiation? what, you know, we know apparently where some of the weapons are, and apparently incredibly hard to sabotage, and so if there is no negotiation, and the weapons are incredibly hard to sabotage, what are the option options? well, if we decide to not go to negotiation route, and we have seen president trump start some initiative s s in that reg, and we know that the south koreans want to negotiate with the north korean, and the chinese position has been consistently been to have talks, but if we don t go that way, really, the only other possible
president s willing to see the government shut down if congress does not, you know, tries to tie his hands on immigration. john, you ll be surprised to hear that i see it slightly differently. i actually don t believe the majority of members of congress are going to be willing to go along with an effort to shut down the government in protest over the president s actions on immigration. there are two ways to look at that, ten days from now, the authorized funding for the federal government comes to an end. there has to be a decision to move forward, in an omnibus spending package is one of the option options, to fund the government through next september. and another is a short-term patch to fund the government until the new congress is
listen for just a minute a little bit more of what he had to say about all of this. it really is about deliberately first preserving options and then developing option options. if you re asking me will the iraqis at some point go on the offensive to recapture the part of iraq they ve lost; i think that s a broad campaign-quality question probably not by themselves. doesn t mean we it would have provide kinetic support. i m not suggesting this is the direction it s headed but at any military campaign you would want to develop multiple access to squeeze isis. you d like to squeeze them from the south and west, you d like to squeeze them from the north and you d like that squeeze them from baghdad. that s a campaign that has to be developed. but the first step in developing that campaign is to determine whether we have a reliable iraqi parter in that is committed to growing their country into something that all iraqis will