i m brooke baldwin. thank you so much for being with me today. our big story, let s call it the super bowl of foreign diplomacy. a meeting of world leaders in new york. but a speech by president obama with a message of peace has the world abuzz and leaves one very big question hanging. that is this. is the deep freeze between iran and the u.s. thawing? in the near term, america s diplomatic efforts will focus on two particular issues. iran s pursuit of nuclear weapons and the arab-israeli conflict. while these issues are not the cause of all the region s problems, they have been a major source of instability for far too long and resolving them can help serve as a foundation for a broader peace. the united states and iran has
this thing could happen behind closed doors? if it doesn t happen on camera, did it really happen? it doesn t happen. if it doesn t happen on camera, it doesn t really happen, brooke. i think that everyone is obviously placing a lot of importance on this handshake between the two men, but you ve already seen this kind of improved climate between the u.s. and iran. president rouhani has been making a lot of noise in the last couple days. had an interesting op-ed in the washington post. certainly president obama s speech. they may shake hands. they may not. if they do, it will be on camera. everyone would want to see a moment like that. i think president obama would like to do it. i m not sure whether the iranian president is ready for something like that. clearly he has the backing of the supreme leader to go ahead and test the waters for a new relationship with the united states. but the hardline press in iran is very anti-handshake, if you
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with his predecessor, this speech will be quite different. reporter: absolutely. judging by his twitter feed, completely different indeed. it was an afternoon in which many began to see the window for a meeting between obama and rouhani shrinking. president obama leaving this area shortly. of course, many thought he was unlikely to make that informal meeting before rouhani s speech, just in case the iranian president came out with any messages that may potentially embarrass the white house. we re also looking now to exactly see what message we get from tehran about this meeting to happen. the white house having been clear they made suggestion they d be open to an informal exchange, no negotiations, no bilateral meeting. it didn t seem like the iranians were able to get their own house in order. many saying perhaps there s a way of getting diplomacy started again and there is a potential for a meeting to happen down the line if iran puts forward the concrete steps that the white