were under pressure at the end of the obama presidency, so they pushed this through and they left some issues undone such as the question of iran s long range ballistic missiles and tighter inspections, not to mention the sunset provision. i think there s a sense that this needs be dealt with again and if you can preserve the europeans commercial relationship with the iranians which has skyrocketed in the past 18 months and the iranians have incentive to continue that economic relationship, it s entirely possible that we re going to get a revised iranian nuclear deal. paul: when you say it doesn t have the force of law, barack obama never submitted it to the senate for a treaty vote because he knew it would be defeated. it doesn t have the force of american law. let s talk about trade. what does macron and merkel want from trump? they want to be exemption from the tariff. trump is saying maybe we can
of the obama presidency, so they pushed this through and they left some issues undone such as the question of iran s long range ballistic missiles and tighter inspections, not to mention the sunset provision. i think there s a sense that this needs be dealt with again and if you can preserve the europeans commercial relationship with the iranians which has skyrocketed in the past 18 months and the iranians have incentive to continue that economic relationship, it s entirely possible that we re going to get a revised iranian nuclear deal. paul: when you say it doesn t have the force of law, barack obama never submitted it to the senate for a treaty vote because he knew it would be defeated. it doesn t have the force of american law. let s talk about trade. what does macron and merkel want from trump? they want to be exemption from the tariff. trump is saying maybe we can
of the obama presidency, so they pushed this through and they left some issues undone such as the question of iran s long range ballistic missiles and tighter inspections, not to mention the sunset provision. i think there s a sense that this needs be dealt with again and if you can preserve the europeans commercial relationship with the iranians which has skyrocketed in the past 18 months and the iranians have incentive to continue that economic relationship, it s entirely possible that we re going to get a revised iranian nuclear deal. paul: when you say it doesn t have the force of law, barack obama never submitted it to the senate for a treaty vote because he knew it would be defeated. it doesn t have the force of american law. let s talk about trade. what does macron and merkel want from trump? they want to be exemption from the tariff. trump is saying maybe we can work things out but we need
endless gridlock. we ve shown in the wake of the november elections that we have the capacity not only to make progress, but to make progress together. and i m not naive, i know there will be tough fights in the months ahead. but my hope heading into the new year is that we can continue to heed the message of the american people and hold to a spirit of common purpose in 2011 and beyond. we re back with richard wolf, ezra klein, jane hamsher and richard stone. what tells us the most about what we re going to see next year? is it the 9/11 responders vote, where democrats were able to over time get enough momentum by just staying with, staying with it? was it the start the treaty vote, where mitch mcconnell really got just steam rolled? it looked like the republicans were going to be able to hold
endless gridlock. we ve shown in the wake of the november elections that we have the capacity not only to make progress, but to make progress together. and i m not naive, i know there will be tough fights in the months ahead. but my hope heading into the new year is that we can continue to heed the message of the american people and hold to a spirit of common purpose in 2011 and beyond. we re back with richard wolf, ezra klein, jane hamsher and richard stone. what tells us the most about what we re going to see next year? is it the 9/11 responders vote, where democrats were able to over time get enough momentum by just staying with, staying with it? was it the start the treaty vote, where mitch mcconnell really got just steam rolled? it looked like the republicans were going to be able to hold