times. are you warned against president trump walking away from this deal. how much damage was done by the united states walking away? well, certainly to our credibility, as a general proposition. but specifically, chris, the maximum pressure campaign, and it was maximum pressure over the course of the last four years, has only accelerated iran s nuclear program. it s brought them closer to developing enough material to produce one weapon. that s not a say a deliverable nuclear weapon, but enough material to make a weapon should they choose to weaponize. so division among our allies, and i think in many respects, it s now created a set of hoops and hurdles that are much more difficult and problematic. i worry about the word quickly. i think nick is right. this is optics that are generated by the europeans, but they re optics untethered from
need to tell us now, we need to address it this weekend. they were making very clear, next week is the week they want to move. can they get the vote by tuesday? if we ve learned anything over the course of the last 35 days, they won t put anything on the floor if they don t have the votes. maybe they vote on tuesday, maybe they don t. i think the most important thing when you talk to officials and democrats on capitol hill is to keep the pressure on as they try to get to the finish line. and this goes back on thursday night when they punted once again, they did make progress. while they didn t get the vote and missed the deadline and the president didn t land in rome with something in his pocket. the reality is she backed the $1.7 trillion framework, a lot of the key elements of the framework, they seemed to except that a lot of pieces that democrats wanted in the proposal weren t going to be in there. now they need to flesh out the details and finish up a couple fights. speaker pelosi
quickly restore the iran nuclear deal, despite talks stalling out over the summer. the u.s. withdrew from the agreement in 2018, but there s still so much more on president biden s plate as the summit continues tomorrow. let s go to rome right now. cnn s chris cuomo continues coverage from there. hello again, chris. reporter: how are you? it is an evolving scene here. let s bring in cnn senior white house correspondent phil massingly, diplomatic editor nick mattison and david miller. let s first not ignore what s happening back in the united states. this idea that, well, hope this happens, phil, that is not the kind of situation it is. if they have a vote of any kind after all the missteps that doesn t happen, i mean, that s almost going to be disastrous