overall they re saying they want to stay in the deal but want to renegotiate the flawed terms of the deal. is that fair? absolutely. tillerson, mcmaster and nikki haley all basically said the same thing which is that we, the administration, we don t like this deal but we re sticking with it. what we re going to try and do is add terms, add conditions to the deal through legislation, through the u.s. congress. we aren t throwing the deal away. we want to work with the parameters it sets and tillerson and mcmaster said by the way, we might actually create a whole new additional deal and work off that as well. sandra: secretary of state rex tillerson saying we will stay put but he wants the pact to reflect u.s. goals in the region. is that possible? what does that look like, gillian? i don t know what it looks like. but the key here i think for
re-certifying it. what he is actually doing is kicking it over to congress for them to deal with it. for them to make a decision about whether we stay in this deal or not. they now have 60 days to do this. i say it s a middle ground because really all he did was give a not all he did but what he did is give a fiery speech about how much he doesn t like the deal and then handed the decision off. so i don t know that you can necessarily call that bold or historic. sandra: he did and in fact we ve already seen some response come from iranians. we have talked a lot about this. how is iran going to respond to these recent moves by this administration? the iranian foreign minister on face the nation over the weekend talked about the consequences of backing out of this deal. watch. nobody will trust any u.s. administration to engage in any
for some reason they have dragged their feet on this and so when secretary of state tillerson or the president sends out a message an north korea, they really have two recipients in mind. i don t you can t read the minds of either one of those. you can just keep doing the best you can and i think that s exactly what is happening right now, the best we can. eric: u.s. ambassador nikki haley referred to that saying north korea basically has been 25 years of botched agreements, she says. that s an example of what we should do with iran. what we ve had with north korea is kick the can down the road foreign policy for the last eight years. started by mrs. clinton as secretary of state. president obama did not want to handle the tough thing. in fact, kick the can down the road was the policy of iran. that s what this deal with iran is in essence kick the can down the road and let the world
would undermine the basis of everything. think about how it portends for a north korea deal or negligent. they won t be able to abide by any of the terms we set. sandra: we ll see what congress does the fix the flaws the president is asking for. gillian, thank you. eric: thanks, sandra. meanwhile firefighters battling the most deadly wildfires in california state history. they say they are finally making some progress. sonoma county sheriff s office. leave your homes. sir, you have to go. go, go, go, go, go! eric: the dramatic skeen in santa rosa as police were evacuating them as the fire threatens thousands. so far 40 people have been killed since the first round of fires record to life last week. the devastation and destruction
the u.s. isn t to abandon the deal, just make it better. when the international community gives iran a pass for all of these things, the ballistic missile testing. , support of terrorism, you re looking at something too big to fail. this isn t about the iranian people, this is the regime in iran that ever since it came to power has been intent on killing and harming americans. it is a weak deal that is being weakly monitored. so the president has made clear he will not permit this deal to provide cover for what we know is a horrible regime to develop a nuclear weapon. sandra: gillian turner, former national security staffer as well as fox news contributor and frequent outnumbered guest. good to see you this morning. a busy weekend on the sunday shows. we saw the administration on a lot of fronts. particularly defending the president s move here.