Welcome to an HBO podcast from the HBO late night series Real Time with Bill Maugh.

Ernest, how confident are you in the ability of the Iran deal to contain Iran's nuclear threat?

I'm quite confident. And you worked a lot on that, right?

Indeed. And the reason is something that has seldom talked about.

The deal puts in place verification measures that are completely unique

and applied to this deal forever.

Donald Trump said it's maybe the worst deal in history of the world.

Because everything he thinks of is the worst in the history of the world.

So is it...

This is another case where...

But he's comes more.

I love the fact that information would help.

You've got the Secretary of State Rex Hill, saying that so far Iran has been complied with the deal.

It is. On the same day, you've got Trump saying we've got to get rid of it.

It is amazing the way, like I said in the monologue,

they start off with nobody knew and they come back to,

boy, I guess what Obama was doing is actually the best, you know,

there's no great answers out there.

Can I get...

We see what happens when you don't get in early enough and let's say,

not get North Korea stopped before they have a nuclear deal.

The problem, though, is that with North Korea, you don't have as many players that you were able to put together.

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