so we've had conversations with president macron and the finance minister and we absolutely understand they would need wavers from the u.s. to do that and that is not something we're contemplating at the moment. >> secretary pompeo and i have been executing the president's maximum pressure campaign. president trump has said that he would sit down with rouhani with no conditions. that's not planned at the moment. >> speaking to sources here at the white house, however, and asking the very same question about this $15 billion credit bailout for iran, i was referred essentially to the president's remarks yesterday in which he continued to sort of say it's -- some of this and some of that, but not ruling out the idea that iran wants a deal in exchange for denuclearization. back to you. >> okay. all right, joe johns. let's see where that goes. thank you for that reporting. we have a lot ahead.