bank of iran? how does that impact everything that we talked about from -- i'll leave that to you. how does that impact everything we talked about. the adventurism, ballistic missile technology? >> it's a potential game changer. truly. when we look at right before the jcpoa, one of the tragedies of the nuclear deal was the increasing amount of leverage the united states had over iran and it was increasing rapidly. the iranians wanted to talk. they wanted a deal. they wanted sanctions relief fast. the combination of the central bank sanctions which include the oil reductions along with going after insurance and reinsurance and the tankers of iran down th exchange reserves overseas, they were having a balance of payment crisis, and all their banks had been disconnected including the central bank in the swift disconnection in europe, those two together got their attention very fast, very fast, and combined with the existence of a credible military threat, especially at the time from israel, they were

iran lied. big time. after signing the nuclear deal in 2015, iran intensified its efforts to hide its secret nuclear weapons. in 2015, iran moved its nuclear file to a secretly contained area in iran. this is where they kept the atomic archives. right here. few iranians knew where it was, very few. and also a few israelis. now, from the outside, this was an innocent-looking compound. it looks like a didlapidated warehouse. on the inside, it contains nuclear weapons in massive files. they're a little bigger than this. a few weeks ago, in a great intelligence achievement, israel obtained half a ton of the material inside these walls. and here's what we got. 55,000 pages, another 55,000 files on 183 cds. everything you're about to see is an exact copy of the original uranium material. you may want to know where are the originals? well, i can say they're now in a very safe place. here's what the files included. incriminating documents, incriminating charts, incriminating presentations, incriminating blueprint

iran lied. big time. after signing the deal, iran intensified efforts to hide its secret nuclear files. in 2017, iran moved its nuclear weapons files to a highly secret location in southern tehran. orabad district. this is where they kept the archives. right here. few iranians knew where it was. very few. and also a few israelis. from the outside, this was an innocent looking compound. it looks like a dilapidated warehouse. but from the inside, it contained iran's secret archives locked in massive files. actually, they are bigger than this. a few weeks ago, in a great intelligence achievement, israel obtained half a ton of the material inside these vaults. here is what we got -- 55,000 pages. another 55,000 files on 183 cd's. everything you are about to see is an exact copy of the iranian material. you may want to see the originals. they are in a very safe place. here is what we found -- incriminating charts, incriminating presentations, incriminating blueprints, incriminating photos, incriminating videos

who's on iran we disagree on the j.c. but i believe we can come up with something that can deal with the fundamental issue of the j.c. a which is the nuclear issue but also deal with these other three issues that are included. trump again suggested gulf nations need to make a larger financial investment in syria's future stability as security following the defeat of eisel the countries that. are there that you all know very well are immensely wealthy they're going to have to pay for this but the meeting appeared to do little to ease fears of a looming trade war with no sign trump had agreed to exempt the european union from tariffs on steel and aluminum imports set to take effect on may first we have a very first issue on trade which is overcapacity is still in a limb in him it doesn't come from europe and not even from friends can really help it al jazeera at the white house with the u.s. and france trying to resolve their differences there is no disagreement over iran's next news as we mentioned earlier its foreign mini

news on iran we disagree on the j.c. but i believe we can come up with something that can deal with the fundamental issue of the j.c. which is the nuclear issue but also deal with these other three issues that are included. trump again suggested gulf nations need to make a larger financial investment in syria's future stability as security following the defeat of eisel the countries that are there that you all know very well are immensely wealthy they're going to have to pay for this but the meeting appeared to do little to ease fears of a looming trade war with no sign trump had agreed to exempt the european union from tariffs and steel. live a little bit of imports set to take effect on may first we have the very first issue on trade which is overcapacity is still in a limb in him it doesn't come from europe and not even from friends can really help it al-jazeera at the white house with the u.s. and france trying to resolve their differences there is no disagreement over iran's next news as we mentioned earlier its for

iran was required by the i.a.e.a. to come clean by the nuclear deal to come clean to the international atomic energy agency about its nuclear program this was an explicit condition for implementing the nuclear deal iran has to come clean so in december two thousand and fifteen the i.a.e.a. published its final assessment of what it called the military aspects of iran's nuclear program this is the report this was iran's chance to fully come clean to the i.a.e.a. they could tell the truth they could say that we had this program the secret program it's over and we showed that it doesn't exist we destroyed the material here's what iran actually told the. it said. iran denied the existence of a coordinated program aimed at the development of a nuclear explosive device and specifically denied that this specifically denied the existence of the amount planned. the material proves otherwise that iran authorized initiated and funded project ahmad a coordinated program aimed at the development of a nuclear explosive device here's

if we are going to counter iran's abuses, iran's terrorism, iran's threats to our troops and our national security interests, we must work with our partners around the globe. we will stand together against repression and the violation of human rights. we will stand together against religious persecution. we will stand together for the rule of law and democratic values, and taking hostages and violating the most fundamental values that cut to the core of our dignity as human beings is unacceptable to this congress and to members of the international community. i urge all of my colleagues to stand up to iran's rogue regime, to stand up for human rights and for the people of iran, to stand with the levinsons and the other families whose loved ones are missing from their lives, and to fight for their return home by supporting this bill. please support h.r. 4744, and together we will stand for basic human rights. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york reserves. the gentleman from california. mr. royce: i yield three minutes to the gentlelady from florida, ileana ros

who's on iran we disagree on the j.c. but i believe we can come up with something that can deal with the fundamental issue of the j.c. which is the nuclear issue but also deal with these other three issues that aren't included. trump again suggested gulf nations need to make a larger financial investment in syria's future stability and security following the defeat of eisel the countries that. are there that you all know very well are immensely wealthy they're going to have to pay for this but the meeting appeared to do little to ease fears of a looming trade war with no sign trump had agreed to exempt the european union from tariffs on steel and aluminum imports set to take effect on may first we have the very first issue on trade which is overcapacity is still in a limb in him it doesn't come from europe and not even from friends can really help it al-jazeera at the white house with the u.s. and france trying to resolve their differences there is no disagreement over iran's next news as we mentioned earlier its foreign

iran lied. big time. after signing the nuclear deal in 2015, iran intensified its efforts to hide the secret nuclear files. in 2017, iran moved its nuclear weapon's filed to a highly secret district in southern teheran. this is where they kept the atomic archives right here. few iranians knew where it was. very few. and also few israelis. now from the outside, this was an innocent lookingly compound and looks like a dilapidated warehouse. but from the inside it contained the iranian atomic archives and look bigger than this. and in a great intelligence achievement a few weeks ago, israel obtained half a ton of the material inside of these vault and this is what we got. 55000 pages, another 55000 files on 183 cd's. everything you are about to see, is an exact copy of the original iranian material. you may want to know where are the originals? they are now in a very safe place. this is what the files included. incriminating documents, incriminating charts. incriminating presentation and blue printing. incri

and saudi arabia say such missiles come from iran who are commanded to cut and we also think that iran should be dealt with by imposing further sanctions for its violations of international laws relating to ballistic missiles. iranian missiles are a chief concern of israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu his focus on the risk of their being fired from iranian bases in syria and by hezbollah from lebanon with his talk of a u.s. pullout from the iran deal and new sanctions against tehran pompei as language was almost interchangeable with netanyahu we remain deeply concerned about iran's dangerous escalation of threats to israel in the region and iran's ambition to dominate the middle east the remains of people thought that iran's aggression would be moderated as a result of signing to do the opposite has happened and iran is trying to gobble up one country after the other both men welcome the u.s. embassy move from tel aviv to jerusalem for the fourteenth of may the day the israeli state was declared seventy years ago on maintained that final boundaries within jerusalem were up for n

i've ask you if the president is talking tough on iran he doesn't appear to be acting tough on iran and syria. in the very real and dangerous they threatened to seriously destabilize and specifically i will try to make this as clear as possible. are they reliant on russia to influence iran. let's start with that question. speemac let me affirm our efforts and support in all of the americans who have been detained and held hostage missing in iran it will continue. we take these concerns very seriously we are in touch with all of the families and we will do all that we can to deal with is very difficult and very painful issue. with respect to iran and syria we identify the threat and the challenge not just israel but the region as a whole. and we've identified those concerns not only in our exceptional dialogue with israel and the and the have a few questions the first one is do they rely on russia in the region. we've certainly made clear that we see no reason in them and ably what iran is doing in syria or elsewhere in the region. if they are unwilling to provide us syrian regime. we wi

camps and iran. hezbollah possesses approximately 150,000 missiles. hezbollah provides the construction facilities near israel to produce more of these munitions. in that context, the former secretary of state described hezbollah as part of the political process in lebanon. i think we would be fools to disregard that but i just wonder if there's any concern from state that this tends to legitimize a violent theological extremist group who stated goal is to destroy israel? >> in no way do we intend to legitimize hezbollah. in no way do we distinguish between hezbollah's terrorist activities, its so-called military wing, from its so-called political wing. that's a distinction many in the world make. it is one we reject completely and have done historically. the same. >> i want to make sure that there's a bright line. >> there is. >> and i appreciate that. let me ask you this and maybe this for you, dr. mitchell. i'm sorry if i got that wrong. the eu seems to resist designating hezbollah in its entirety

iran even under the jcpoa. they have these goals in sight. , with the ballistic missile the program and what they have been able to develop and calibrate and make them walking awayu see from any of that? no, not really. i think it is interesting that you can use the ballistic missile program as one of the tests of iranian intention. you would not spend so much -- on tophis program of the missile. the fact that we were told that make dealing will with this ballistic missile in the context of the deal, we are now seeing that it did not come into fruition and there is nothing easy about negotiating the ballistic missile program because the deal does not change their attentions why they want to have a nuclear weapon. weaponmeans to deliver a is a critical component in the iranian strategy utilizing outlined,missiles as the evidence is well aware of ,he importance of this program and it was one of the conditions that the president wanted to see fixed in the context of congressional law, negotiations with iran, and t

first, iran. you said once again in front of the press what your position was during the campaign, as well as the president of the united states. not a mystery. we did not have the same starting positions, stances, and neither you nor i have a habit of changing stances are going with the wind. that being said, i can say that we have had a very frank discussion on back, just the two of us. you consider that the iranian deal, the one negotiated in 2015 with iran, is a bad deal. for a number of months, i have been saying this was not sufficient deal but it enabled it until 2025 to have some control over their nuclear activities. wish for now to work on a new deal with iran. need, and i believe that on that, our discussions allowed us to shed light on the convergence is that we need to cover four topics. to block nuclear activity of iran until 2025. this was feasible thanks to the agreements. the second is to make sure there is no iranian nuclear activity. the third, to be able to put an end to the ba

and that is the iran deal. isn't it fair to say that if what you're trying to get north korea to sign is something probably not even close to the iran deal, because the iran deal doesn't allow iran to have any nuclear energy program that could lead to a nuclear weapons program. it would seem bizarre when you're trying to get north korea to do some watered down version of the iran deal, to tear up the iran deal. >> i don't think so, i think if trump stays in the iran deal which he won't do. then kim jong-un says i can get a deal like that that does not cause me to abandon anything, it just means i pause for a while. and i think like the president does, it's a very bad deal. if the president gets out of the deal, the message to kim jong-un is, i'm not going to do what the president views as a weak deal like that, you are truly going to have to denuclearize, which means abandon nuclear weapons forever. remember that the iran deal, the jcpoa, is just a ten-year deal, parts of it are a 5-year deal. and two of those

is very disturbed about iran. talked about that they got we got countries in the middle east i think maybe the difference with this investigation is they feel more comfortable with regional allies such as israel if you delete it. in terms of the long term strategy that israel would have on this situation can they continue to keep attacking syria while syria is so fractured or as i've sort of suggested before can we expect a response from the syrian regime. syrian regime i have a hard time responding how it could be very difficult i think we have to watch and see if iran responds in what way. now israel has room to maneuver inside of syrian territory for them and we'll leave it there andrew tabler thanks so much for your insight joining us from washington d.c. thank you x. well earlier syrian state media also reported a deal between the syrian government and opposition fighters now under the proposed deal rebels will evacuate the area south of the capital damascus the syrian government had lost an offensive in the

and seventeen iran moved its nuclear weapons files to a highly secret location into iran this is the shore about district in southern turkey on. this is where they kept the atomic archives right here few radians knew where it was very few and also a few israelis now from the outside this was an innocent looking compound it looks like a dilapidated warehouse but from the inside it contained iran secret atomic archives locked in massive files actually the little bigger than this. a few weeks ago in a great intelligence achievement israel obtained half a ton of the material inside these vaults and here's what we got. to five thousand pages. another fifty five thousand files and one hundred eighty three c.d.'s everything you're about to see is an exact copy of the original iranian material you may want to know where the originals well i can say they're now in a very safe place here's what the files included incriminating documents incriminating charts incriminating presentations incriminating blueprints incriminating photos incriminating videos and more we've shared this material with th

will remain in the iran nuke deal. here's the operate that. >> president trump: we will be talking about a lot of different subjects. but the iran deal will be one of them. people know my views on the iran deal, it was a terrible deal. should never, ever have been made. we could have made a good deal but that is a herible deal. we paid $150 billion, $1.8 mill billion in cash, actual cash, barrels of cash. insane, ridiculous, never should have been made. but we will be talking about it. >> white house correspondent john roberts is live at the white house where more is about to get under way with the two orlando leaders. >> good afternoon. they're running substantially behind. we thought we man midway through the press conference at this point scheduled for 11:45 eastern time, it's been delayed, some 45 minutes to an hour because the meetings the president is having with president macron are going long. when the president opened up that pool spray as we call it in the cabinet room, he said they talked at length in the ov

and saudi arabia say such missiles come from iran or combine that ticket and we also think that iran should be dealt with by imposing further sanctions further violations of international laws relating to ballistic missiles. iranian missiles are a chief concern of israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu his focus on the risk of their being fired from iranian bases in syria and by hezbollah from lebanon with his talk of a u.s. pullout from the iran deal and new sanctions against tehran pompei as language was almost interchangeable with netanyahu we remain deeply concerned about iran's dangerous escalation of threats to israel in the region and iran's ambition to dominate the middle east the remains of people thought that iran's aggression would be moderated as a result of signing the do the opposite has happened and iran is trying to gobble up one country after the other both men welcome the u.s. embassy move from tel aviv to jerusalem for the fourteenth of may the day the israeli state was declared seventy years ago maintain that final boundaries within jerusalem were up for negot

iran. -- has sought to assure us that it sees this cooperation as a necessary steppingstone towards process -- progress and the geneva process. the ease with which -- to facilitate the operation olive branch, arrangements to which america was not privy, was greatly concerning. theas agreed to purchase russian missile system which could potentially lead to sanctions and adversely impact turkey's participation in the f-35 program. it is in the american national interest to see turkey remain aligned with the west. our policy has been to combine close engagement with clear messaging, that the united states will actively defend our interests. we haveontext of syria, engaged in high-level interagency discussions, to -- and avoid inadvertent collisions between our forces. these conversations are ongoing. moving forward, our aim is to enlist turkey as a more active ally. the defeat of isis and stabilization of syria, as well as a long-term factor in thwarting the expansion of russia and iran. let u

with respect to iran in syria. we certainly identify and threatened to challenge, not just israel but to the reason as a whole. we have identified those concerns not only an hour dialogue with israel and the israeli security -- >> i apologize, i do not wish to had a fewut i just questions. the first one is, does the united states rely on russia to influence iran and the reason -- region? >> we have made clear to moscow that we have seen no region -- reason, even by action or inaction, what russia is doing in syria is a threat. >> if russia is unable to provide assurance that the syrian regime, or other iranian forces will cease violence in these areas, what is the next option for the united states? what do we do then? >> with respect to russia i will defer to my colleague. athave a variety of means our disposal which are under constant and active consideration to try to bring about the kinds of mitigation of harm and risk that we are all seeking in syria. those decisions lie in many cases with the president himself

iran the recent pressure started about a year ago when trump got into office in iran threaten to drop the dollar the mainstream media will likely run increasing number of reports pushing for a bleed a rating yet another country such as this from p.b.s. over on the still of top state sponsor of terrorism one must assume this list of terrorist ponces does not include the country that mase arms that significantly enhanced isis's military capabilities or the country that averages over one hundred forty bombs dropped per day under donald trump but those bombs don't cause terror those are the happy bombs there they are they just drop one thousand nine hundred ninety five richard simmons down on people that. this is very jazzy and fun it's going time. but if this is all about dropping the dollar then why was french president macpro not running around d.c. this week trying to get trump to stay in the iran nuclear deal yet france was leading the charge to attack libya and bring down gadhafi and you really are second otherly they really are. i'll tell you why iran dropped the dollar for the. eu

he was talking about iran there. that's pretty good because we know his mission while macron was here was to keep the united states staying in the iran deal. those prospects seemed very dim in the last hour, but there the president seemed very open to that suggestion. they said they wanted a better deal. just yesterday sarah sanders was saying she believes the president is the best negotiator to have at a table for something like that. but the question is where they're going to end up where they leave. now they're at the business part, kate. >> i feel like i just need to end this by saying, but wait, there's more. we're looking inside the white house where the president and president macron will be holding a joint press conference any minute now. stay tuned. we'll be back with more after this. have laser drilled holes. they release medicine fast, for fast pain relief. tylenol® almost $800 when we switched our auto and home insurance. with liberty, we could afford a real babysitter instead of your brother. hey! oh, t

threat to pull out of the iran nuclear deal iran destabilizes this entire region that supports proxy militias and terrorist groups. it is an arms dealer to the who the rebels. and iran conducts cyber hacking campaigns. that supports the murderous assad regime as well as arrival in riyadh followed a barrage of eight ballistic missiles fired into saudi territory by hooty fighters in yemen the u.s. and saudi arabia say such missiles come from iran. we also think that iran should be dealt with by imposing further sanctions for its violations of international laws relating to ballistic missiles iranian missiles are a chief concern of israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu his focus on the risk of being fired from iranian bases in syria and by hezbollah from lebanon with his talk of a u.s. pullout from the iran deal and new sanctions against tehran pompei as language was almost into changeable with netanyahu we remain deeply concerned about iran's dangerous escalation of threats to israel in the region and iran's ambition to dominate the middle east the remains of people thought the yu

iran won't like that. i'll threaten the deal because they need this deal to be relieved from sanctions and international pressure so they will work with us on the other things? >> yeah. that's not the way iranian politics are working. that's not the way things are working in eye rap. there are very hard line hard liners, even worse than the government itself, that said from the beginning it doesn't want this deal. if it gets an excuse, the pressure to get out and to push forward will be intense. instead of actually calming down their activities around the region it is likely to exacerbate it. all of that pushes us towards conflict. the only thing we got right is the nuclear agreement. so why tear that up? >> who is watching this process? north korea, if there is an expectation that the trump administration can go where others have gone before but fail and get some kind of deal with them, how they respect the united states and allies on iran deal matters. here's what the president said about kim jong-un yes

iran quibbled with that. what iran's nuke deal is looking at an assessment. welcome. i'm neil cavuto. we're all over these developments here. a fast-moving world that is united now on confusion about who you trust and when. john roberts to the white house. the president is responding. jennifer griffin is at the pentagon on what the israelis found out and if there's anything new here. we begin with john. >> the president has said that iran is cheating on the jcpoa. critics say where is the evidence. rex tillerson said that he thought iran was in compliance with the jcpoa. now we get this treasure trove of evidence highlighted by the israeli prime minister that suggested all during this time iran has had a secret nuclear weapons and and stored all of the facts and figures in a bunker which israel discovered and confiscated materials from. so the president not going into a great amount of detail and what netanyahu said but in his words speaks for himself. israel is of the same mind as the prime minister. let's see what the president did say about it this afternoon. >> th

the iran deal is not sufficient to see that iran's ambitions are curbed and contained it is most important to recognize that iran through its ballistic missile program is trying to exert geo political influence in syria and lebanon. the solihull group last verifiable agreement that guarantees that iran will not acquire nuclear weapons to denounce it without proposing anything else would be a serious mistake not respecting it would be irresponsible longly france thank you . and we should acknowledge the current agreement doesn't allow us to address all of us choose among the things not covered by the iran nuclear deal is iran's activity regional. politics professor saeed mohammad marandi thinks any backtracking on the iran deal will diminish merkel and macaws credibility in the eyes of terror and it did more damage to themselves and anyone else because iranians are looking at the actions and the statements of these european leaders and when they see that they flip flop so easily and they try to piece the us president. so readily then in future i don't think that the iranians will ever take

iran's role has grown. the price -- the higher the price they pay, the greater the pressure to have something to show for it. and particularly because the price that the islamic republic is paying is growing. cover wars all of my life and make a point of going to the cemetery to count the number of dead, and i've done that in both tehran and at the hezbollah cemeteries in lebanon. and there are over eight generals who died within the first come of years of iran's deployment. they provided the ground forces in a way the russians have provided the air power. the cost became so high the revenueser in guard, they brought in the conventional -- the revolutionary badder and -- guard and the brought in conventional forces. in lebanon, at least 2,000 and some now say closer to 3,000 hezbollah have died. over 10,000 injured. that's large for a population that small. and give given the protests in iran over the price it's important for the regime say we have secured our place in the region. now, i don't think at the

who's on iran we disagree on the j.c. but i believe we can come up with something that can deal with the fundamental issue of the j.c. which is the nuclear issue but also deal with these other three issues that aren't included. trump again suggested gulf nations need to make a larger financial investment in syria's future stability and security following the defeat of eisel the countries that. are there that you all know very well are immensely wealthy they're going to have to pay for this but the meeting appeared to do little to ease fears of a looming trade war with no sign trump had agreed to exempt the european union from tariffs on steel of aluminum imports set to take effect on may first we have the very first issue on trade which is overcapacity is still in a limb in him it doesn't come from europe and not even from friends can really help it al-jazeera at the white house with the u.s. and france trying to resolve their differences there is no disagreement over iran's next news as we mentioned earlier its foreign m

iran said to the i.a.e.a. . no work has been conducted with multipoint an issue this is multi-point initiation you've got to forgive this jargon the scientific terminology is something that is necessary to understand the production of nuclear weapons but here's what they say no work has been conducted with m.p.i. technology and hemispherical geometry but again the archives shows that this is a complete fabrication iran conducted extensive work with n.p.r. technology in hemispherical geometry is an example hundreds of more documents prove that iran said. to the agency that it did not conducted metallurgical work specifically designed for a nuclear device but the files again show that this is a lie iran conducted extensive metallurgical work specifically designed for a nuclear device it was an original winning photo plenty more in the in the archive so what i've shown you tonight. is just a fraction of the total material that we have but even from this sample. you can draw four main conclusions first iran lied abo

iran was a victim of chemical weapons during the iran iraq war. they have been sensitive about the use of chemical weapons. they have condemned it. but having said that their line on the attack in syria is similar to the one of russia flt they don't believe it. they think it's set up by the west as an excuse to hit syria. and come down hard on iran and russia. they think this is all being manufactured by the west. so they're not buying it. this is a west just to destabilize the region even more. they're saying these attacks -- these strikes were conducted so a proper investigation couldn't be carried out in syria. this is the evidence this was their own doing. and they want to mess up the ground where an alleged attack was placed so no proper research and materials could be taken. they're not buying the line that assad used chemical weapons. and they never have. this is all a western ploy to bring down assad and taint anybody that supports him. >> we know the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons to was set to begin the on the groun

north korea and iran. the president seems eager to stage craft an agreement with kim jong-un in the demiltarized zone separating north korea and south korea, a possible sequel to last week's talks between the two countries. >> there is something i like about it because you're there. you're actually where if things work out, there is a great celebration to be had on the site not in a third party country. so we are looking at the possibility of doing it in that location. >> reporter: the president sounded ready to place his trust in the north korean leader. >> he's talking about getting rid of the site and talking about no research and no launching of ballistic missiles and no nuclear testing and he has lived up to that for a long period of time. longer period of time than anybody has seen. >> reporter: but mr. trump is prepared to rip up a nuclear agreement with iran brokered during the obama administration with other world powers. the president is putting his faith in netanyahu who accused them of cheating

iran lied. big time. , i ranigning the deal intensified efforts to hide it see clear -- secret nuclear files. iran moved its nuclear weapons files to a highly secret location. kept thehere they archives. right here. if you knew where it was. very few. a few israelis. from the outside this was an innocent looking compound. it looks like a dilapidated warehouse. containedide it archives locked in massive files. ago in a great intelligence achievement israel obtained half a ton of the material inside these vaults. here is what we got. pages. files on 183 cds. seeything you are about to is an exact copy of the iranian material. incriminating presentations. incriminating blueprints. -- criminalize it incriminating photos. incriminating videos, and more. we have shared this with the united states. united states can vouch for its authenticity. we will also share it with other countries and the international .tomic energy we have known for years i ran a secret nuclear weapons program. it was aove compre

these were some of the 55,000 pages of material he says iran holds — in what he called iran's atomic archive — you can see it here in the powerpoint and he said the project of the —— with the explicit goal remains nuclear weapons and remains even since the 2015 deal with global powers on iran's nuclear programmes. more of the slides we saw, he says iran is continually expanding its range of its nuclear capable na celles. range of its nuclear capable nacelles. here are some of the presentation, towards the end, where benjamin netanyahu draw some conclusions. iran lied about never having a weapons programme. 100,000 secret files prove that they live. second, even after the deal, iran continue to preserve and expand its nuclear weapons know—how for future use. why would a terrorist regime hide and particularly catalogued it secret nuclear files if not to use them at a later date? third, iran lied again in 2015 when it didn't come clean to the iaea as required by the nuclear deal. and, finally, the iran deal, the nuclear deal, is based on lies. it is based on a rainy and lies and

iran. we will talk about the latest. then we look at the increasing number of women who have suffered a miscarriage and are then forced by their catholic health care provider to bury the fetal remains. >> i want you to know that my daughter was re-traumatized. she was already devastated by the miscarriage, in that had to be re-traumatized by this coercion of how the provider shows, not how my daughter shows, but how the provider chose to dispose of the fetal remains. amy: plus, we will go to tucson to speak with immigrant rights and reproductive justice activist alejandra pablos who has just been released from 40 days in ice detention. >> we're going to ask the governor to do the right thing and to pardon me and let me stay here without fear. i'm tired of feeling scared. i'm tired of being persecuted for just defending my life. amy: all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. a federal judge has ruled the trump adminis

and with iran and also quite interestingly not only russia and china who were part of the existing iran there should be part of this but also turkey as a regional power and donald trump was once again talking about how bad the existing deal is and we'll see what happens and we don't know what's going to happen but it didn't sound like donald trump has been swayed by mccraw in the talks no mr crow by by don't jump into a just as you said that it was interesting that especially when we left the press conference mr trump tied up syria with the iran deal saying the rich regional powers will he said will not only pay but put soldiers on the ground. yeah. very often when mr trump makes these statements it's very difficult to see what he actually means so which countries are these saudi arabia maybe which is the big regional arrival of iran i'm not so sure if putting saudi soldiers on the ground that might at some point face of directly with iranian militia or soldiers is such a good idea because that could be the first step towards a major war in the region there. which other countries he was

a legitimized iran and it flooded iran with cash. those are some of the objections of president trump had in one of the major problems that i have had and many critics of the iran deal have had is we never got to the bottom of the military dimension of the military program and that's what the prime minister is pointing to. they have been lying and you cannot trust the regime that has been lying about the dimensions of its nuclear program to begin with. david: there are two sides to this debate. please the french and the german trying to convince us to stay in the deal and today we saw our israeli allies tried to convince us to get out of the deal. how do we balance those two allies with their various approaches to this? >> the reason that israel care so much as israel is the one with the giant target on his back. it's one of our closest if not our closest allies and they are the ones that are being targeted by iran. david: we should also mention they are targeting iranians working in syria. it's not only the nukes if the iranian agen

in tehran eric iran is syria's most important regional ally how's it reacting very . well we have the supreme leader ayatollah hominidae describing trump may as criminals and what they have done as a crime over the past week they've said that the allegations of the chemical weapons attack was part of a conspiracy a plot to create precisely the pretext that this kind of attack and they condemn them very strongly come in a also pointing out the hypocrisy of western actions when it supporting saudi aggression in yemen and elsewhere in the region. and also bringing up the chemical weapons attacks that iran itself suffered during the one nine hundred eighty s. that this is the same who in those days they say was supported by the west and so chemical weapons are a very emotive subject for iran and this puts the minute in an awkward position ok we've also been hearing from tehran that there will be regional consequences that will hurt more than the americans is this all about israel a common. show yeah iran is in a very strong position across the region and has proxy forces

it was about -- rather than iran. now regarding iran. i've always been coherent and you can go back to what i said at the u.n. general assembly in september. i always say that there was the jsks cpoa but we needed to -- jcpoa but we needed to add three pillars. the ballistic and the regional influence. i do not know what president trump will decide regarding the jcpoa. it's his responsibility. the jcpoa is the first pillar of this framework i described. so i'm not saying that we're moving from one deal to another. i'm saying it is one aspect of the problem. i've never been critical of the jcpoa as president trump has because i believe we can usefully add to it. but no matter the decision that trump will take, i would like us to work on a new deal with four pillars, including what is already covered by the jcpoa, that is the ongoing -- i mean, the current nuclear activity, the other activities, the ballistic activities and the regional influence. so this is constant. but over the past few weeks and today, we've been tibling to very much t

he knows iran does not want to be transparent. i applaud his actions moving forward. >> dana: listen to what he said about what would happen if iran restarted its nuclear program. >> you can mark it down. they restart their nuclear program, they will have bigger problems than they have ever had before. >> dana: those kind of comments give some people heart burn, right? goes back to the fire an fury with north korea. your thoughts on that? >> he is letting them know that they better not try to restart this program. where are they getting their uranium? why are they trying to move forward? are they surpassing those enrichment levels? he's just saying don't go there. >> dana: i want to talk about your senate race. >> sure. >> dana: you've been a congress woman for several terms. you decided to take the plunge, run state wide. >> that's right. >> dana: there was a poll. i know there was some question about this poll. former governor of tennessee, the democrat, he was up 45/35 in a poll. does that have mostly to do with name i.d.? he h

but it was more to do with the planet than with iran i confirmed there is no plan for iran if you followed. the driver that. said. the un had ordered the general assembly last september. to be completed by five additional pillars ballistix regional influence instability i don't know the position the president will take on the g c p a and it's his responsibility to g.c. is the first pillar of this agreement that i've just as. i've just talked about i haven't said that one doesn't go from one agreement and another is one aspect of the aspects of republic have not been as critical as present i believe we can add to it. whatever the decision by president tran of the future and if it was it decided to come out of it i wish that as of now we can have i knew agreement over the four pillars what is today treated by the g.c.c. the current nuclear activity and after twenty twenty five the region situation and the ballistic activity there is no change at all. there is consistency but we're able over the last few weeks and most specifically to the end of a discussion which is vital only situation in t

this week and the iran deal. i wonder what you thought angela merkel needed to get out of this meeting when it came to iran and was she able to go home with anything? >> doesn't sound like too much. sounds like the president is open to hearing what the european powers have to say. but listen, we still need three things in order to stay in this deal. the most important of which is, we need to be able to put a longer period to this deal. we don't need sun seats here in the next 5, 12 years, that's the strategic patience path way. the europeans need to unite with us and try to improve the deal so we might stay in. >> dana: let me also ask you about -- read to you from "the wall street journal" this morning, saying on the eve of a trump/kim jong-un summit, a rewrite would reinforce mr. trump's demand that north korea must dismantle its nuclear ambitions. michael, i just assume that if germany and others in europe have to make a choice between doing business with iran or business with the united states, there's just n

the iran foreign minister says it hurts our credibility and leadership and iran say what they will do with retaliation and our own president saying if they threaten the united states, they will see a response like few other countries have ever seen before. your last word. >> the iranian regime is playing with fire. they aren't dealing with the weak nato u.s. the number one goal for the united states must be to prevent iran from becoming a nuclear weapons power. the iran nuclear agreement unfortunately does not guarantee that. the united states must lead on the world stage and rally the free world to confront what is it an extremely dangerous and brutal regime. >> harris: nile gardiner from the heritage foundation. an important time. thank you for that dollar figure of $5 billion between the trade with germany and iran. that sets us up. we've been waiting the joint news conference between president trump and chancellor merkel, a historic meeting between the leaders of north and south korea, ahead of president trump's planned summit with kim jong un. whether the president should get cre

we remain deeply concerned about iran's dangerous place and the rest is rule of the region and iran's a vision to dominate the middle east the way. united states is with israel in the fight. here around deal as it stands to be years of delicate negotiations trump must decide whether to renew the deal or renew sanctions by may twelfth. all right for more let's go to summer sokol a correspondent in jerusalem now mike pump a.o. says that the u.s. is going to quit this iran nuclear deal if it's not fixed what exact problems does he have with this deal. you know as there are a few issues here at stake one issue that both the israelis and americans have been talking about a lot is the a ring in missile program and they're talking about the only long range missiles but also medium air range missiles they say that these kinds of missiles they can they can strike israel and they can carry. their weapons of mass destruction and the deal is fraught because these missile program is not inside the nuclear deal so that is one issue the other issue is a concerning tiger supervision and they're askin

and saudi arabia say such missiles come from iran or combine that ticket and we also think that iran should be dealt with by imposing further sanctions further violations of international laws relating to ballistic missiles. iranian missiles are a chief concern of israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu his focus on the risk of being fired from iranian bases in syria and by hezbollah from lebanon with his talk of a u.s. pullout from the iran deal and new sanctions against tehran pompei as language was almost interchangeable with netanyahu we remain deeply concerned about iran's dangerous escalation of threats to israel in the region and iran's ambition to dominate the middle east the remains of people thought the iran's aggression would be moderated as a result of signing the do the opposite has happened and iran is trying to gobble up one country after the other both men welcome the u.s. embassy move from tel aviv to jerusalem juggled for the fourteenth of may the day the israeli state was declared seventy years ago on maintain that final boundaries within jerusalem were up for n

their problem with iran really wasn't the nuclear program it was iran's independent foreign policy just recently pompei o when he was the head of the cia before he became the head of the state department he admitted that before that j c p o a the iranians were not moving towards a nuclear weapon he was using this argument to say that if the united states exits the agreement iran won't go and try to create a nuclear weapon so this was an admission by the head of the cia that the whole narrative that the americans and their allies have been promoting for over a decade was all dishonest and that iran was telling the truth all along and now the reason why these countries are. trying to. limit iran with regards to its regional role or with regard to its. missile defense capability is more to do again with iran's political independence the iranians know for example that in the case of syria if they had not supported the syrian government or the iraqi government along with the russians and hezbollah that these two countries would have collapsed and that we would have black flags over the citie

france is not naive when it comes to iran. we have also a lot of respect for the rein in people, which through their history, its history has always shown its trends. we do not want to repeat the mistakes of the past. each time we tried to unilaterally replace sovereignty fo for the people, we brought some more terror. for our allies, we want stability. i believe the discussions we've had make it possible to open the way, to pave the way on a new agreement, an agreement on which we will work and beyond our european partners, we would like to involve the regional areas, of course, russia and turkey. it is within this framework fighting it together, we can find a solution to the syria situation. in syria, we are together, engaged within the national coalition against the terrorists. we will continue to the end in this framework until victory. that being said, in the long run, we need to win peace and make sure syria does not fall into any germany in the region. to that effect, the approach, which is agreed, means we can work on

iran. despite all their domestic problems, they continue to be a biggest sponsor of world terror activity. they spent $2 billion every year for all this crazy support for terror. you know, in lebanon, hezbollah, hamas and jihad islamic in gaza strip, houthi tribes in yemen, shia mailitia in iraq, they spet $2 billion every year for this. it's crazy with all their own domestic problems. they invest up until now in syria since this war about $13 billion. we think that it's biggest problem that the iffanatic leadership is not reasonable. we don't have any problem with iranian people. hundreds of years we enjoyed very close relations. we have a problem with their leadership. ideology. we hope also one day we see today in korea peninsula to establish good relations with iranian people. we will see political change. we will see leadership. certainly, we don't have any dispute with iran, but they remain political and destroy the straight of israel because of fanatic ideology. >> this leads to my n

deal but iran says a u.s. withdrawal will kill it tehran has threatened to respond by pulling out of another agreement the nuclear nonproliferation agreement on weapons. i'm wednesday iran's president question trumps ability to even comprehend the terms of any agreement shlomo karsh iffy about the hot seat you don't have any background in politics you don't have any background in law you don't have any background on international treaties or going to tradesmen a merchant someone who builds towers for a living make judgments about international affairs and well he's currently signaling he's open to the u.s. for maining in the deal negotiated with iran and five other world powers given his impulsive nature there's still time for trump to change his mind and follow through with threats to leave the iran deal kimberly health at al-jazeera at the white house. well president visit has featured plenty of backslapping handshakes and kissing but what are the french people make of this close relationship with donald tru

we can't let iran go unchecked. we can't let it continue its missile research. we can't let it continue his mischief in yemen. we can't let it continue his mischief in syria. basically, the ayatollah, not the iranian people, wants to control the middle east. he saddled up with president putin. i think what they're doing in syria is wrong. we could settle the massacre in syria tomorrow. >> how? >> just by sitting down at a table with assad, with russia, with iran, with the united states, with president macron and saying, look, we have all these people killed, we have so many people displaced, how do we settle this? i'm not sure that that would include -- it could include, it shouldn't include but i try to be realistic about these things about assad continuing. he's not the only leader in syria that could restore syria. in fact, he's probably the least likely to do it, but we need some peace in syria. that doesn't mean peace at any cost, but i'm just not sure that iran wants peace. i think they like the idea of this trying to establish themselves. hezbollah is alr