weapon in a certain amount of time out there. and they ve got they re enriching uranium beyond what we had in 2015 which was 4 or 5%. they re at 60% enrichment of uranium. you get to 90%, you re at weapons grade enrichment. that s where they re heading to. they re going to talk and push it a little bit. we re going to find within a year there s a breakout and there s nothing we can do about it, now you ve got a destabilized middle east with nuclear we pons. that s what president trump weapons. that s what president trump was concerned about. the team they have is the team they had with obama. two of the parties that are working the deal are the russians and chinese. they re no friends of ours. i think this is just there s a lot of talk. it s not going to go anywhere wand we re headed towards a breakout. jason: the israelis are friends of ours. look at this quote from a senior israeli official. israel s very concerned that the u.s. is setting the stage for what they call a less
weapon in a certain amount of time out there. and they ve got they re enriching uranium beyond what we had in 2015 which was 4 or 5%. they re at 60% enrichment of uranium. you get to 90%, you re at weapons grade enrichment. that s where they re heading to. they re going to talk and push it a little bit. we re going to find within a year there s a breakout and there s nothing we can do about it, now you ve got a destabilized middle east with nuclear we pons. that s what president trump weapons. that s what president trump was concerned about. the team they have is the team they had with obama. two of the parties that are working the deal are the russians and chinese. they re no friends of ours. i think this is just there s a lot of talk. it s not going to go anywhere wand we re headed towards a breakout. jason: the israelis are friends of ours. look at this quote from a senior israeli official. israel s very concerned that the u.s. is setting the stage for what they call a less
tolerate iran having a nuclear weapon. also i think the iranians will make an incremental increase, not a major increase, and then go to the europeans and say we will go back underneath the restrictions where we were if you provide is economic assistance. that is the play that they are trying to make. bill: it kind of shows the europeans how bad of a deal that was, right? they basically had a one year cap before iran could have weapons grade enrichment in order to have a bomb. because the deal said stop at 3.5%. once you start down the path, then you increase the percentage to double digits. the pathway to 90 is very quick. that s the danger. the iranians certainly know th that. working all over the weekend and last week over the fourth, i m sure, on implements.
research reactor iran has in tehran. in terms of weapons grade enrichment, the difference between 20% enriched or conventional reactor grade, 3 to 5%, is a matter of weeks. the fact is iran has been engaged not only in replization activities but ballistic missile testing for years. every day that goes by they are getting closer. the interim deal would simply buy them more time to continue the work they have been doing. there is leverage they would like those sanctions reduced. they have been hit by those? they have been hurt economically. i don t think there s any question about that. there s simply no evidence that the sanctions have actually affected the nuclear weapons program. interesting. the director of national intelligence, the obama administration s director james clapper testified to that effect earlier this year. the director general of international atomic energy agency in his reports has essentially said the same thing. the sanctions are hurting the iranian middle
house? outfront tonight, maegan carberry, former communications director of rock the vote. alice stewart is a republican strategist. and michelle goldberg is a senior writer for newsweek and the daily beast. let s start with you. what s your sense of how much of this is coincidence with president obama being president and how much of it he s able to take credit for? i m sure he can take credit for a lot of it. but what s really important is that voters don t hang on every single number that comes out. it s going to be a sense of what they feel, as we get closer to the election. and the fact is that president obama is not just running an economic race against mitt romney. he is running against himself in 2008, which was such a national moment, and he s really got to show people, you know, how we re where we go from here. how do we pick up from that moment. but, alice, not just romney s campaign, but the republican campaign for so long has been about a failed economic