The Iran nuclear deal under Trump
We the People
National Constitution Center
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🗓️ 17 May 2018
⏱️ 50 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution |
| 0:17.2 | is a nonpartisan nonprofit chartered by Congress to increase awareness and understanding of the Constitution among the American |
| 0:25.8 | people. |
| 0:26.8 | On May 8th, President Trump announced that the United States would withdraw from the Iran nuclear |
| 0:32.3 | deal. The Iran deal was one of President Obama's |
| 0:35.4 | major foreign policy achievements and today we are going to discuss the complex |
| 0:41.8 | history and legal issues surrounding the Iran deal and joining |
| 0:46.7 | us are two of America's leading experts on national security law as well as leading experts on the Iran deal and we're so thrilled to be able to |
| 0:55.9 | bring them together to educate all of us about this fascinating question. |
| 1:00.0 | Jake Sullivan is Martin our flu visiting lecturer-in-law at Yale Law School. |
| 1:05.4 | He served in the Obama administration as national security advisor to Vice President |
| 1:09.6 | Joe Biden and Director of Policy Planning at the U.S. State Department. |
| 1:15.0 | Jamil Jaffer is adjunct professor of law and director of national security law and policy programs |
| 1:19.9 | at the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University. |
| 1:24.0 | Jamil served as the Chief Counsel and Senior Advisor for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| 1:29.2 | and was centrally involved in national security and foreign policy issues. |
| 1:34.7 | Jamil, Jake, thank you so much for joining. |
| 1:37.2 | Thanks for having us. |
| 1:38.6 | Yeah, thanks for having us. |
| 1:39.8 | Jake, you helped to negotiate the Iran deal. |
| 1:43.6 | You are one of it, the James Madison of the Iran deal. |
| 1:46.6 | If I can be so bold, and if you can tell our audience |
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