host: we want to turn our attention to foreign policy and we welcome steve clemons, the washington editor at large for "the atlantic." let's talk about news, the trump administration acknowledging we are in direct conversations with pyongyang. what does that mean? huge step, not something i applaud because they have set the time for talks and conversation is over with some notion the north koreans were somehow going to capitulate on their own. we have seen and escalate on the personal war of words between our leader and the north korean leader and the neighborhood and rest of the world nervous around this. we need to understand, particularly as it begins to feel there was a military action on the way, that there was every effort made to try to communicate the seriousness of this on both sides, so i am thrilled to have direct negotiations. it is a sign that tillerson, touted by many, as secretary of state, even by myself, has been working and able to do things that are still surprising. i think this is a constructive step forward for the administration. host: do you have a sense of the mec

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joining us now, steve clemons editor at large at "the atlantic" and msnbc contributor and elon goldenberg, senior fellow and director of the middle east security program at the center for new american security. gentlemen, good to see you. steve i talked to you shortly after the iran deal. i was in tehran while it was being negotiated and no one in tehran, america or anywhere else where the deal was being talked about was under any impression that iran was suddenly going to become a friend of the west, a friend of america, was going to get out of the business it was in in yemen or with hezbollah or with assad. so the concept, the idea, that iran is violating the spirit of the deal is uninformed, at best. >> that's absolutely right. i mean, this arrangement between the united states and russia, china, europe, germany, with iran, was based on high levels of mistrust. this was not a warm and fuzzy relationship. this was not a naive arrangement. this was something that was based on mistrust and with deep, deep verification. in fact, the head of the iaea said no nation in the world has deeper a

joining us now, steve clemons, editor at large at "the atlantic," and msnbc contributor and ilan goldenberg, senior fellow and director of the middle east security program at the center for new american security. gentlemen, good to see you. steve, i talked to you shortly after the iran deal. i was in tehran while it was being negotiated, and no one in tehran, america or anywhere else where the deal was being talked about was under any impression that iran was suddenly going to become a friend of the west, a friend of america, was going to get out of the business it was in in yemen or with hezbollah or with assad. so the concept, the idea, that iran is violating the spirit of the deal is uninformed, at best. >> that's absolutely right. i mean, this arrangement between the united states and russia, china, europe, germany, with iran, was based on high levels of mistrust. this was not a warm and fuzzy relationship. this was not a naive arrangement. this was something that was based on mistrust and with deep, deep verification. in fact, the head of the iaea said there is no nation in the world t

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