Operation is underway in northern iran. After a Helicopter Crash involving iranian president ebrahim raisi. The aircraft went down early this morning after the president and other officials attended a ceremony for the opening of a new near the border with azure by john. At this time, raisis condition is unknown and rescuers are having difficulty reaching the crash shite because of the heavy fog and the bad weather russia, a close ally to iran, has announced it will send to advanced aircrafts and 50 additional Mountain Rescuers to help with those search efforts. Thats according to Iranian State news, seen as nic robertson, ies tracking the story closely, he is joining us now with the latest nick. It seems like were entering about our 13 now. Since this chopper went down, what more do you know . Yeah. And a couple of hours since we had conflicting information from the Islamic Revolutionary guard corps in East Azerbaijan province there in the very northwest of iran. They said that they re
Iranian president Hassan Rouhani has been complaining about his "limited powers". But if saying so he means control over foreign policy, that is something the Supreme Leader will never give up.
but everybody assumes this debate is really going to be about donald trump. much more of it will be about the iran nuclear deal and president obama. steve, does this put congressional lawmakers like cruz and rubio in more of a bind because they re going to have to vote on this or no? i think they already decided, of course, to vote against the deal. i think it puts them in a bind in the sense that at some point, they re responding to distractions. what obama said about critics of the dialeal finding common cause with iran hardliners. that s not responding to the nuts and bolts of the arrangement. the president took on his critics very very strongly and item by item yesterday. at some point, and we re not there yet, there will be a side-by-side in the major media that looks at what are they saying about the deal and what is president obama doing when he responds to them? we re not at a point where substance matters, but when substance does matter some of these critics are going to b