judging the summit, is is it going to include the word denuclearization, and a process to get there. to me, that success or failure with regard to all the rest of the pomp and circumstance we ve been watching the last several hours. hasn t president trump and the trump administration defined successor failure with the terms of the iran deal? by ripping up the iran deal from the american side, doesn t it mean that this deal has to be better than the iran deal with stronger verification provisions? well, i would think so. i mean, i would settle for the iran deal, by the way. i think the iran deal was a fantastic deal and it still exists, remember. just because we pulled out doesn t mean it doesn t exist. i do think there is a real hypocrisy here, that when it comes to the iran deal, we were told, well, obama didn t deal with all these nonnuclear issues. that s the reason we had to pull out. when president trump says he s just going to talk about nuclear issues in his summit in singap
world without nuclear weapons. trying to convince the world that nuclear weapons don t have any utility. you need hundreds of them. never be able to compete with the united states. that s not true. any nation that gets just one bomb because of emp, you know, basically becomes a nuclear superpower that could threaten the existence of the united states. so it didn t fit into the narrative of a world without nuclear weapons. and didn t fit into the narrative about the iran nuclear deal. if iran had just one bomb, okay, you know, that would defeat the whole purpose of the iran nuclear deal. it wouldn t need dozens or hundreds of bombs. and the verification provisions which are so poor would be a mortal threat to the existence of the united states. i and other specialists actually think iran has already got the bomb and probably had one for some years and the capability to do an emp attack. this is something the obama administration didn t want known or didn t want to talk about. mark: when
without nuclear weapons. they were trying to convince the world that nuclear weapons don t have utility. you need hundreds of them, never be able to compete with the united states. that s not true. any nation that gets just one bomb because of emp, basically becomes a nuclear superpower that could threaten the existence of the united states. it didn t fit into the narrative of a world without nuclear weapons. and didn t fit into the narrative about the iran nuclear deal. if iran had one bomb, okay, you know that would defeat the whole purpose of the iran nuclear deal because they wouldn t need dozens or hundreds of bombs, and the verification provisions which are so poor on the iran nuclear deal would be a mortal threat to the existence of the united states. i and other specialists think iran has already got the bomb and probably had one for some years and the capability to do an emp attack. this is something the obama administration didn t want known. didn tant to talk about. mark: wh
without nuclear weapons. they were trying to convince the world that nuclear weapons don t have utility. you need hundreds of them, never be able to compete with the united states. that s not true. any nation that gets just one bomb because of emp, basically becomes a nuclear superpower that could threaten the existence of the united states. it didn t fit into the narrative of a world without nuclear weapons. and didn t fit into the narrative about the iran nuclear deal. if iran had one bomb, okay, you know that would defeat the whole purpose of the iran nuclear deal because they wouldn t need dozens or hundreds of bombs, and the verification provisions which are so poor on the iran nuclear deal would be a mortal threat to the existence of the united states. i and other specialists think iran has already got the bomb and probably had one for some years and the capability to do an emp attack. this is something the obama administration didn t want known. didn t want to talk about. mark:
iran and hezbollah and we will act against their lawlessness. so what is behind this kind of ratcheting up this week? well, i think one other thing that happened this week is secretary of state rex tillerson certified that iran is complying with the 2015 nuclear deal that restricts its nuclear capabilities. it has prevented them from pursuing the nuclear bomb, verification provisions are in place. they certified that this week. there was a deadline. and so i think what is happening here is this is a subtle strategy of reminding the united states partners in the region, we re still concerned about iran s other activities in the region, even though we are we the trump administration are acknowledging that the nuclear deal of 2015 is working to restrict iran s nuclear capabilities. didn t candidate trump say it was a terrible deal? he did. and i think what he s realizing now that he s in office is that