home. mohammed joins us to talk about that. these are two big countries that all of a sudden decide they want to talk. that's got to be some kind of progress. >> the sanction, having an impact on the domestic economy. >> when you look at iran the fact that in order to come to the table to talk they want sanctions lifted off of tehran i would argue that is not going to happen. is there another way donald trump can get them to the table? >> we have to realign with the trump administration is doing. in the old days there were two conventional wisdom is. one, get your allies on board before you impose sanctions. the us has enrolled iran and china and succeeded so far. the second convention was used to the rule-based system.