if you can t get a better deal, is the president better to pull out. as a candidate, the president said he was going to scrap the deal. but the president has recertified that iran is complying with the deal as another deadline comes up as some are saying the president will consider the decision. the white house s view of the deal, it only deals with iran and the nuclear program and doesn t deal with the support for terror, bashar al-assad. yesterday he said at the u.n., the iranian respond today by saying the following. ignorant, absurd and hateful rhetoric filled with ridiculously baseless allegations. absurd hateful rhetoric.
same, buying another 14 years that these deals keep getting recertified. ian, i want to ask you about a couple other things. the paris climate deal, there was talk this weekend the administration might be willing to renegotiate or stay in it. they say, no, no, no change in our policy. do you think there s any possibility for a change in the policy? not at this point, no. i think they already took the political hits. we already know that there are, i think, nine states that have said that they re going to continue to commit to paris climate goals. over 300 cities have said it and a whole bunch of corporations. i don t think that around the world governments are really concerned that the united states being out means that this whole thing is going to fall apart but trump gets to say this is one of the things that i had promised during the campaign and i m going through on my commitment. i think there are people within his administration that are deeply unhappy about that, some are le
which is recertified for the coming year in terms of keeping them to their limits on their nuclear programs. so, it is an important development. one we have not heard any comment yet from the white house. they have a new communications team. so that might be part of it. fair enough. nbc s kelly o donnell at the white house. thanks a lot. new developments in the russia probe as the investigation continues to heat up. according to the washington post, u.s. spy agencies intercepted conversations of russia s former ambassador to washington, serg kislyak. kislyak told his superiors in moscow that he discussed campaign related matters including policy issues important to moscow with jeff sessions during the 2016 election. but sessions told congress a different story during his confirmation hearing, saying that such talks never happened. let me state this clearly, colleagues. i have never met with or had any conversation with any russians
even know it. i don t want to sit here and be a war monger. i certainly believe in diplomacy. i believe in diplomacy backed up by a credit work of force. i believe it is important for all our tools to work together. but whether it is happening in north korea or not happening in north korea, what we are doing in terms of the gulf states aep all of the infighting going on there and the fight with iran which is ongoing. and as we saw, even though the president recertified the iran deal, at the same time he said, bad deal, bad people have to take care of their bad things, we may find ourselves inadvertently marching down to war to protect those interests. ambassador wendy is herman. i have one other question i would like to ask you. can you stay for just another moment? sure. there was information between putin and trump not disclosed by the white house. sure.
than the denial. coming out yesterday, we definitely are taking a look at that as well. as you know, congressman, the united states as required announced yesterday that iran is in compliance with the nuclear deal that was agreed to in the obama administration. that deal was recertified. we are learning that president trump threw a wrench in that plan, kind of at the 11th hour yesterday, putting that announcement on hold because he wanted to consider his options. we are told there were voices inside the white house making the argument that iran wasn t in compliance without offering concrete examples. he was clearly talked out of that. what is your reaction in. here we go again, kate. if the facts don t meet what it is, your particular objective, you change the facts to adapt to the circumstance. look, there is no scenario under which this world is better off if iran develops nuclear power and a nuclear weapon. the fact of the matter is, this