and you are watching aljazeera america live from new york. i m jonathan betz, and we deal with the heated debate on capitol hill as president obama defends the deal. harsh criticism from both parties, many who don t believe that iran will hold up their end of the bargain. libby casey did the senators get the answers they were looking for? reporter: jonathan, they certainly did get answers some of which they general winnley seemed to be after. they had real questions about the details of this iran deal. and that was laid out to great pain today. some in congress, and especially republics will be satisfied by anything the obama administration has to say. [ applause ] it was the first opportunity for the chief u.s. negotiator to publicly defend his iran deal before congress. the alternative to the deal that we have reached is not what we have seen some ads on tv suggesting disingenerously. it is a better deal some sort of unicorn arraignment involving iran s complete cap
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