Chuck Todd

There's been a lot of talk about Trump tearing it up, his failure or unwillingness to secure a deal and obviously now bombing Iran.

Of the 40 of us, Jennifer Wexton, Ben McAdams, and Anthony Brindisi had held prior elected office.

How strong was the deal that Obama got and how big a mistake was it for Trump to tear it up?

Sure, there is nuance here.

Yeah.

Thanks.

The other 37 had never held any elected office before coming in.

Well, Mark, first thing you need to know is the only person that was advocating for tearing up the nuclear deal in the Trump's first administration was Donald Trump.

Well, and that's the, I guess, that's why I'm long-term optimistic.

You know, me and Dean Phillips had been CEOs.

I know we're going to make these changes.

Mike Pompeo, as much as he was not in favor, there were a whole bunch of people in Trump's orbit that were never in favor of doing the agreement in the first place.

Lauren Underwood was the nurse.

I just wonder, do we have to have, do we have to run into more roadblocks?

Alyssa and Abigail were spies.

Do we have to have more people die?

I go back to this, you know, we didn't, you know, we had to see...

Tom Malinowski and Andy Kim were in the State Department.

Johanna Hayes was a teacher.

But once the agreement was in, a whole bunch of folks, including Mike Pompeo were, you know, and and Jim Mattis and many in positions of influence and power at the time at state CIA and the defense were like, don't get out of it.