i m talking with david steinberger about a companion book to knowing your value which is my second book which is great for women. we re looking for a knowing your value millennial edition. so hopefully, i ll be back next year. ladies and gentlemen, mika bear zip sky. good evening. how s everyone tonight? the beautiful. i m mika brzezinski, cohost of morning joe, and i m deeply honored to be here tonight. i m also very excited to say this to you uninterrupted. welcome to the 64th national book awards. i got through it. it s the oscars of the book world, or as fran leibowitz once called them, the oscars without money. but we ll take em. [laughter] so i have a very close connection to this evening s awards. just last month we had the honor of having david steinberger, the chairman of the national book foundation, on our show, on morning joe, to announce the national book foundation finalists. as a three-time author myself, i know firsthand what an incredible undertaking
vastly expanded nuclear enrichment program in their country even if it is under tight safeguards. your point is very well taken, senator. as i said, nothing is agreed to until everything is agreed to the practical needs are an element of comprehensive agreement, but so are our concerns about their ability to have nuclear weapons, which is primary that they not obtain a nuclear weapon. and so whatever the final agreement is, that is the assurance that its utmost that t important. but again if they build ten new nuclear power plant that would be a vast program they would havtheywould have to havee complications of monitoring such a program would be exponentially greater and i just think that we have to keep that in mind going forward because that is how they would actually crack the inspections regime in the years ahead even if we got the comprehensive agreement. and finally, since the november agreement have you seen the signs of the uptick for the proxies and allies aroun
confess that iran was engaged in nuclear weapons related activities, given all of this. so i think negotiators are going to have to be very resourceful in finding a way to resolve this. i think the key will be to frame the issue in such a way that iran doesn t have to admit past guilt, but provide sufficient information to satisfy us that some activities engaged in the past do not have implications for covert programs in the future. that s going to be hard, that it s going to be essential. and the final issue i will mention is duration but if you look at the joint plan of action, it only says at the end that the conference of agreement will be of long-term duration. the parties could reach agreement on a precise number of years. it becomes very important because another element of the joint plan of action is that once this comprehensive agreement expires, then iran will be treated in the same way as any nonnuclear weapon states party to the npt. and what that means is that pe
u.s. ambassador s talk about negotiations surrounding iran pause nuclear program. followed by jeh johnson s first major speech since his confirmation last december. an update on the israeli palestine negotiations from the middle east institute. watch our program on first lady laura bush saturday at 7:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. and watch our recent interview with mrs. bush at 8:30 p.m. and live monday night, our series continues. is an evolutionary process. you grow into this role and my sense is that you never get comfortable if you are always pushing for change and growth. not just in yourself, but the issues that you care about. there is never a point in time or you feel like, there, i am now here. i can do this the same way all the time. monday night at 9 p.m. eastern. also on c-span radio and c-span.org. and six world powers will continue their talks about a long-term deal to curb the country s nuclear program february 18 indiana. burns and robert einhorn, two former u.
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