And other countries are taking advantage of that. What do you think about the scope of our presence at some of these Rule Setting Meetings . What are your plans for the future . Senator, we need to be there. We need to be active. We need to be capable. We need to be value added. We need to come prepared to engage and work for americas interests in these multilateral discussions. I think you described wto in this article. Sounds like we share that sentiment. I couldnt tell you why we werent there. I dont know if it was an absence of people or the absence of focus. I view those as important to get the International Rule of law thats in accord with our view and not the chinese view in that particular instance. You have concerns and i will do my best to make sure were there and were capable. Appreciate it, that answer. I want to get a little bit of clarification with respect to an answer that you gave Senator Menendez at the outset coming back to that meeting with the president on march 22
breaching the terms. benjamin netanyahu called on the international community to prepare snap sanctions. a series of sanctions set up to impose on the iranian regime if they do make good on these new threats. shep. shepard: live in jerusalem. the former egyptian president, mohamed morsi, has died. he reportedly collapsed in a court room today. but now, one side is calling it murder. he was 76 years old. for years, he was a senior member of the most powerful group, the muslim brotherhood. in 2012, he became egypt s first democratically elected president. a year later, the military knocked him out of office and launched a crackdown on the muslim brotherhood and others. he is been locked up in facing multiple trials. now that is beginning. we have not seen the video from today had, but a defense lawyer says he was addressing court from inside a glass cage, where he is held during the appearances.
whether the europeans are going to be in sync with us. if they re not and we push back sanctions are they going to ultimately come along with us or are they going to reciprocate and say we re going to put sanctions and tell our companies not to do it? if we don t snap sanctions back? this is the critical question that i m look to understand what you will advocate for. it s not that you come as a candidate here who hasn t had dealings in this issue. as the cia director, you have had dealings with this issue. wi that s what i m trying to glean here. i have at the deep urging of the sitty avoided being policy discussions. some have critiques me for entering those discussions toomp. with your permission, it s hard to hypothesize about what the conditions will be in may and how close we ll be.
the iran canadians. what would th iranians. it is what it is. now i m wondering and i think the vice president has indicated as well as the former vice president, the new president will come tear this up. it s a new point because the other countries have gone along. well, we have to start over for sure. it s a mute point in that we re not going to be able to snap sanctions back on. that s a ridiculous idea. we are going to be able to go back and convince the security counsel or try to convince the security counsel that the iranians are not complying. we have seen since 2006 multiple pages, husbands ndreds of pages where they refused to tell the