threatening to break what exists between themselves and europe, what s left of that deal. would that be a great loss in your opinion? well, i think the iran nuclear deal was fatally flawed. the united states got rolled, president obama got rolled. it was fatally flawed. president trump has put a reasonable demand on the iranians. if they want to stay in the deal we need to lift the sunset provision. fixed what is flawed with the verification agreement and deal with iran s other bad activities. the iran nuclear deal with sanction relief of up to $150 billion is not in america s best interest. so for the iranians, they either have a future where there is a deal or not. the onus is on them. if they choose to walk their economy will suffer. the regime won t be able to stay in power not because of outside influence, what will
particular group of people. but now we do. now we do, we get along with north korea. that is the point the president made saying they did develop a relationship during their five to six hours of meetings yesterday. of course big issue, denuclon, goi to take a lot of effort. ncegoing to take a lot of time. the president saying in a press conference that he got one estimate that it could take as long as 15 years to fully dismantle north korea s nuclear program. the president of course would like to get it done a whole lot faster than that. harris: john roberts, thank you very much. as we talk about this, i m wondering if you couldn t take about an estimate ofould verification. how will ts be different than what we saw with the iran deal which didn t have those promises and guarantees? lee: the verification agreement with iran was is ideal as a member of congress. i still haven t red the
great victory. he s agreed to north korean terms. they made very modest adjustments in their policy and rhetoric. i agree with you. it may be a good thing to do. and when previous presidents tried to do it, at least democratic presidents, the right said, why are you going to talk to he s imagine if obama had wanted to have a summit he was criticized about that. exactly. but i think, again, let s hope it works. let s hope i think if trump meets him, the one thing to keep in mind, the bar is very high. right. because donald trump has just torn up the most intrusive verification agreement on nuclear energy anyone has ever constructed. so, he s presumably going to only agree to a deal with north korea that is better than the iran deal. right. that means network has to destroy all its nuclear weapons. it has to shutdown any plutonium plants. it has to get rid of 99% of its uranium and has to put cameras
i think it would be fantastic. i think if trump goes and meets him, the one thing to keep in mind, the bar is very high. right. because donald trump has just torn up the most intrusive verification agreement on nuclear energy anyone has ever constructed. so, he s presumably going to only agree to a deal with north korea that is better than the iran deal. right. that means north korea has to destroy all its nuclear weapons. it has to shutdown any plutonium plants. it has to get rid of 99% of its uranium and has to put cameras and inspectors for between 15 and 25 years into every stage of the nuclear supply chain. that s the iran deal, and trump said that wasn t enough. that s the baseline. if you re not going to get a better deal than that with north korea, i don t see how trump can sign onto it. and how do you what is a win? what s victory? so, let s talk about the three hostages which, again, it s fantastic for them that they
business going on there in iran. democrats take the other side of this. nancy pelosi, case in point here. this is what she said just this week. president trump s dangerous action leaves american isolated in regard to iran. it erodes our international credibility during a critical moment with north korea. and it recklessly puts the catastrophic threat of a nuclear armed iran back on the table. bill: this is the argument now. you re making the case you don t have access to the military sites. i get that. how can you have a verifiable deal if you don t have complete transparency all over the country? it s a big ask, ok. now with no deal, the inspectors come out, you have no coverage there. how much does that concern you? well, we agreed to not allowing our inspectors there. no united states inspectors so the iaea has this responsibility. and what we have learned, even though those secret side deals with the verification agreement was made between the iaea and