The first thing I should say, though you've now been welcomed is to congratulate you on the

birth of your first child who was born last Monday.

And I gather mother and child are both doing well.

Senator, you've been a farmer, a lawyer, a professional manager with McKinsey's, and a soldier

with two tours of duty under your belt in Iraq and Afghanistan. Well as a new first-time

father you will find out in the next two years just what stress means.

Now you don't really need any further introduction to this audience or from me but I will just add one thing to the list of occupations to say this.

You seem to me to be the exact opposite of a professional politician because a professional politician is someone who's never held a real job in the real world.

And you have held about a, far as I can see, about a dozen real jobs in the US forces on Wall Street and elsewhere.

Now our views probably overlap quite a lot so this isn't really certainly not not an accuser or hostile interview, but a conversation in which you can not only I think express your views, but we also want to know how those views emerge in part from your experiences?

But before we get to that, I think we have to ask you some questions about the matter of the hour

in which you've played a part, which is Iran and the proposed deal over its acquisition.

Well I think you've already been endorsed by the gathering but...

Let me begin by saying this your

letter to Iran signed by 46 other senators laid out it seemed to me correctly the constitutional position of the US on treaties.

I'm a Brit so we don't do constitutions but it did look to me as though you had made a very strong argument there. But in sending the letter to the

Iranians, some, could it not be argued and some constitutional scholars, some on NRO and from a conservative standpoint have suggested

that this was an improper intrusion on the president's constitutional right

to conduct foreign policy.

Shouldn't they, shouldn't the Senate wait, they argued or shouldn't senators wait,

until the agreement has been reached and then insist on having it say.

What's your reply to that?

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