To secure a bailout deal. This is al Jazeera America, good morning. Im Randall Pinkston in for stephanie sy. President obama today is beginning his hard sell of a nuclear deal with iran. The agreement cant be implemented until Congress Gets 60 days to review it. During that time the president cannot lift economic sanctions that iran desperately wants eased. Lisa stark is live for us on capitol hill this morning. Vice President Joe Biden was standing with president obama yesterday when the announcement was made obviously a big deal for the Obama Administration. Now hes going to be meeting with democrats, some of whom are skeptical. How is biden going to convince them. Reporter he is meeting with them even as we speak. One member said the meeting is packed. Virtually every member of the caucus 207 strong there to at ten this meeting. He said it is highly technical, they are talking about the very specifics of the deal. He also said that biden told them he was skeptical when these negotia
You are watching Al Jazeera America, and live from new york city im morgan radford. President obama launches his latest battle today over the iran nuclear program, and he is trying to convince congress that the deal is in the interests of the American People. Republican critics, however, say they dont trust iran to abide by those terms. There are a lot of moving parts before this deal can actually be implemented, and one of those is the 60day congressional review which is now underway. Joe biden was on the hill today, what exactly did he say . Reporter well, this was a closed door meeting with the House Democratic caucus. Its 207 members strong, and were told most were there, and it was packed. On the way into the meeting the Vice President explained what he hoped to accomplish. Im here to answer questions and explain what the deal is. Im confident theyll like it when they understand it. Reporter this is the beginning of what is expected to be a whole series of meetings. Were likely to
Also here tonight, the Hillary Clinton email scandal, its deepening. It took long enough but at long last, the fbi has begun investigating the security of mrs. Clintons private email server and its purported classified contents. The fbi investigation comes only days after government watchdogs for the state department and Intelligence Community ask the Justice Department to explore whether classified material was improperly shared and or stored on clintons private account . Well have the full report for you and whether it may mean the end of the clinton president ial candidacy. In cleveland tonight, lots of president ial candidates in attendance. The republican kind. Seek their partys nomination in preparing for their first debate from cleveland tomorrow night on the fox news channel. The first president ial debate of the 2016 election cycle. So tonight, well have everything you need to know ahead of tomorrows debate which will be anchored by megyn kelly, bret baier and chris wallace, 9
Interoperability with our allied brethrens. When it comes to migration especially from the caribbean, do you support the feet dry policy . How have recent diplomatic efforts in cuba likely to affect that . Ill let you draw your conclusions. We have brandnew response cutters. They are great platforms. There was an expectation that a migration policy was going to change around christmas. It didnt but that was the perception back in cuba so we had a spike in migration. We were able to apprehend almost every one of those boats destined for the florida coastline. But then it takes five days to go through a screening process before these folks are brought back to cuba. Within the last two weeks we had two my grants that shot themselves, then were medevacd before we apprehended them so they were medevacd back to the United States. We have others that will selfmutilate to do whatever it takes to get their feet dry in the United States. Meanwhile our crews are trying to safeguard these folks fo
Club a little later, and human caused disasters such as the deep Horizon Oil Spill in the gulf of mexico. Additionally, the coast guard rescues more than 3,000 people each year and searches for boaters who go missing such as the two teenagers who disappeared off the coast of florida recently. As the smallest military force and the only one with Law Enforcement authority, the coast guard has had a role in the defense of the United States for 225 years. In fact yesterday was the coast guards birthday. Today admiral zukunft will discuss the challenges for the coast guard such as congressional budget struggles a welldebated Cyber Security plan, maintaining a zero tolerance for Sexual Assault and a fleet in high need of modernization and sheer numbers to tackle the next 225 years. Please give a warm National Press club welcome to the commandant of the United States coast guard admiral paul zukunft zukunft. [ applause ] jeff, thank you for the flattering introduction, and i had a chance to m