it s rr embold oenned them in some ways. they went off and were responsible for the attack on saudi oil facilities recently. the administration will continue this. that is the belief whether the iranians will change i think is a different question. there are arguments in terms of whether the sanctions are already maxed out, if you will. there is no more efficacy related. we are about to see more results based on the statements made by the president in terms of increasing sanctions. i want to move to you, ian. as we are looking at foreign affairs, the u.n. general assembly, iran in the middle of the conversation. obviously brought up by leaders in the west. not all, necessarily. no. well, i think there is concern about the extent to which the sanctions program will provoke more attacks from iran, how much iran is engaging.
denuclearization. this is obviously a worthy goal. you care about your kids. your grand kids. you want a safer world. this is a good day for you. at least we have hope. primarily achieved. how did we get here main strategic regions. peace through trent. it box every time i. he sent carriers to the describing to the region. tightened up screws on sanctions program have crip tell north korea s horrible economy. make no mistake in north korea today their dire kim jong un s kingdom deals with hunger and poverty that is a threat to his power. by the way on a scale we are not seeing anywhere else in the world. as kim jong un comes here, they can take a look at just how beautiful south singapore is and say maybe we can do this in my country. because north korean economy is so distressed, even kim jong un, report reportedly
to the deliver a nuclear warhead to south korea, to japan. they probably have a rudiment tritt capability to deliver one to the united states. it s not proven. they haven t had enough tests. so what you have here is a possibility two leaders coz declare victory. kim jong-un could declare that he has completed his program, and achieved his nuclear capability and therefore, he s willing to talk. you could have president donald trump declare that his sanctions program, his pressure program has worked and therefore, he is willing to talk. that would be a tremendous development. that s what you need for successful talks. both sides have to be able to declare victory. hopefully at the end of the process, but it s a good sign they might be able to declare victory going into it. as evelyn pointed out, this is going to be a long tricky procedure, lots of things could go wrong with the talks. if we re going to get what we expect, we have achieved two major achievements, one a
2014. joining us is david cones, as secretary of treasury, you were involved in the ukraine sanctions. you were in charge, in fact. why should treasury now give a waiver to exxonmobile to start doing business. they shouldn t, the sanctions were put in place because of the russian military intervention. the very idea, like all of our sanctions program, is to change the behavior of the target of the sanctions. we should provide sanctions relief and make no mistake, giving this waiver to exxonmobile, we should crank that sanctions relief only when
that s what the united states is saying now, is that we view the nearly dozen ballistic missile tests and the latest as being in violation. shepard: president trump made it clear, he wasn t a fan of this deal. that he if he were put in power, he and his people would watch this closely. in the absence you may not like the deal. but in the absence of the deal now, 2016, february 1, we have nothing. and that s what the administration is going to have to fill, that potential void if there is some kind of cabergation of the deal. in is a precursor to that. might be a precursor to more sanctions. shepard: you desire more sanctions. if you don t have china, russia, you don t have much of a sanctions program. he will need the international cooperation. he has it for what he sees as