so it is not that he has an aggressive populous and is facing an imminent election. >> ayman, i want to turn quickly, if we can, over to the bombing in beirut. i wonder whether you think retaliation is a certainty here. we know that the iranians have a huge stake in syria and the survival of the assad regime. what do you make of the road forward? >> well, retaliation is certainly inevitable but not necessarily by iran. it could certainly be by any of its proxies. it doesn't have to be inside lebanon. already the entrenchment of the syrian regime backed by iran is going to complicate matters further. that's precisely why the situation in syria that has dragged on for so long has become a regional problem, not simply a domestic problem for the syrian people. now that you're seeing these kinds of bombings and attacks, whether they happen inside turkey or lebanon, the humanitarian crisis that's spilled over, it's likely to see the allies of iran, including hezbollah, which has already come out and said they're going to fight to the bitter end, if you will, that it's a signal that is an i

nbc's ayman mohyeldin has more from london. >> reporter: now that this agreement has been reached in geneva, some are saying the real hard work will begin. >> if this step. >> first step, leads to what is our ultimate goal, which is a comprehensive agreement, that will make the world safer. >> reporter: there are two components to this one compliance and two enforcements. on one hand, you have the iranian government, which has to suspend the enrichment of some of its uranium material. it also has to allow international observers almost on a daily basis to some of those key nuclear research facilities and others across the country. >> we need to start moving in the direction of restoring confidence, a direction that we have managed to move against in the past several years. >> reporter: in the meantime, the iranian government wants to see the $4 billion that it is promised by the international community to be released. these are $4 billion of iranian frozen assets held around the world. that's going to be released to the iranian government. they also want to see an easing of sanctions

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nbc's ayman mohyeldin. joining us now democratic senator from virginia tim kaine chairman of subcommittee on near eastern and southeastern asian affairs. thank you for being here. >> you bet, ari. glad to be with you. >> let me start with reaction to what you and other senate democrats said. you put out a statement fairly measured talking about verification, talking about the path ahead. "politico" among other newspapers says it looks like democrats are breaking with that immediately. that is accurate? how are you looking at this today? >> not at all. the way i look at the announced deal, very much like the richard haass statement. he made it sound so much simpler than i made it. the way i look at the deal, the components, we stretched out the time and made it harder for iran to have nuclear weapons plutonium and increased warning system. we had good intelligence but couple that with intrusive inspections. if they decide to go towards weapons grade plutonium we'll know sooner. stretching out the time and ge

ayman, thanks for that. we'll catch you a little bit later. >>> head to our website for more on this story. we'll ask if iran's break through nuclear deal could herald a long-term reduction in prices. follow us at cnbc world. >>> death toll in one of the world's worst industrial accidents in china has risen to 52 with 11 people still missing. a pipe explosion in china has left 136 injured. president xi jinping is calling for help. >>> british government advisors is accusing rbs for pushing viable businesses into a turn around. it's going to strip their assets and make more profits for the bank. the business secretary has demanded an urgent response and referred the report to city regulators. joining us for more on the sector, ceo from river bank. what do you make of this report? more importantly, what is going to continually happen? the idea being that the banks said we know we can fall into trouble. we'll put you into our special restructuring then they charge fees of 10, 20, 30,000 a month which is guarant

historic breakthrough in relations between iran and the international community, we turn now to nbc's ayman muhadin. i want to start with reaction from the region and how angry are you sensing the israelis are at this deal? >> well, the israeli leadership has not been hiding its feelings at all. in fact, the prime minister you heard in the introduction was saying the world is more dangerous today as a result of this deal. other israeli leaders, senior leaders, including in the defense establishments and elsewhere expressed a tremendous amount of skepticism and criticized the deal. some have gone so far as to say israel reserves the right to keep all options on the table. a veiled threat it could consider a military operation against iranian nuclear facilities. israel as a political leadership has been very critical. there are those within israel, perhaps a good indicator, the israeli economy. today the market in israel rallied behind the news this deal had been struck. that's one positive indicator. but a lot of israeli policy experts and others have come out and said this not a bad deal. t

but the carbon tax isn't just some wonky idea it's real policy irish green party leader ayman ryan explained his country's carbon tax works when he came on the show last week. we put it at the point of entry so as annoyed ship comes into the into the port of cork and the port of dublin our culture comes into shining river we're able to put the tux the point of entry and not the big advantage because you cut out the expense of collecting those kind of trick and through the rest of the economic system so you put it on the auditor coming you know you put it on the cologne code shipment. and then it applies in a myriad of different ways it's not a huge time. as a matter ryan of the irish learned a carbon tax also makes renewable energy sources like wind and solar competitive on par with fossil fuels like coal. it's not a huge time you know it accounts for about one percent of our overall tax revenue but it's a signal that it's one of if you put it in as one of several segments it starts to have that effect to me remarries you don't expect you know in. improving your energy efficiency in your hom

but the carbon tax isn't just some wonky idea it's real policy irish green party leader ayman ryan explained his country's carbon tax works when he came on the show last week. we put a point of entry so i was annoyed ship comes into the into the port of cork and the port of dublin are a culture it comes into shannon river we're able to put a tax with a point of entry and that's a big advantage because you cut out the expense of collecting those on a kind of trick and through the rest of the economic system so you put it on the oil tanker coming you know you put it on the cologne cold shipment. and then it applied in a myriad of different ways it's not a huge time. as a matter ryan of the irish learned a carbon tax also makes renewable energy sources like wind and solar competitive on par with fossil fuels like coal. it's not a huge time you know it accounts for about one percent of our overall tax revenue but it's a signal that it's one of if you put it in as one of several segments it starts to have that effect to me remarries you don't expect you know in. improving your energy efficiency i

we are here with cnbc's a m ayman jabers. >> very tough day for the obama administration. starting with the overall number of people who have signed up for obama care. the white house putting that number out this afternoon. 106,185 total people have signed up, 79,391 of those signed up through the state marketplaces, it was only 26,794 people who were able to sign up through that plagued website, healthcare.gov. what about that november 30th deadline that the white house has put on it self to get hea h healthcare.gov fixed. he was asked whether or not they could hit that deadline, and if you listen to his answer, what he doesn't say here is yes. take a listen. >> are we going to hit november 30th? >> thank you for the question. thank you for your kind words at the beginning as well. so the goal that has been laid out is for the site not to be perfect by the end of november. >> functional so people can log on. the vast majority of americans will be able to use the site. >> that's the goal we're gunning for. we're working very hard to get there. >> so todd park saying there,

nbc's ayman mohyeldin is joining me from london. what's the reaction been so far from the international community? >> reporter: well, for the most part the countries that signed the agreement have been welcoming this news, some expressing a little bit more cautious optimism than others. really, those closest to iran, those that have had some very major political differences in the region, particularly in the persian gulf and middle east, have expressed serious reservations about this deal, particularly israel. israel, which has been at odds with the regime in tehran for some time, has come out and said this is not a historic agreement and has woarned about this deal. more importantly, in the persian gulf countries that, including saudi arabia and others, the united arab emirates came out and officially welcomed the news, saying this was a good step forward. but other sources indicate that there are many differences in the persian gulf, particularly saudi arabia, which is very concerned about this deal at this point. >> do you think

ayman manda from california. i was disappointed bill o'reilly didn't attend the premiere of "the kennedys" in los angeles. >> i was at the one in new york. everyone can see the monday sunday evening, national geographic channel 8:00 eastern time. john from maryland. just finished "killing jesus." i did not like it. you left things out that are in the bible. joe from guam, "killing jesus" cemented my belief as a christian. i read the book twice. hamburg, pennsylvania. killing jesus was wonderfully written. i had to stop reading at time to control my emotions. the book was almost overwhelming. there is intense debate over "killing jesus." tomorrow on bill o'reilly.com 7:00 eastern time we'll have a town meeting on the book. and we'll the take your questions live. everyone is invited. we'll go for 45 minutes. then we'll watch the factor at 8:00. nick from anaheim. thanks for the tip about being positive. i received good service at pep boys and wrote a note to their headquarters. the next day i got a note thanking me

when you are in the military, you have the best px, the postage change, the store, for lehman l --ayman. still today, if you want to go to a real grocery store you go to a military base. because of the wars, extra divide in that sense. civilian armada -- are not allowed to go on the military base as they used to, so they are going to feel that divide. but as far as emotional divide, i feel that military families are more open-minded because you have more access to the world. so, we try to close that divide as often as we can but every time we have a war, we shut down and closed the gates down, a get wider and it is back and forth. my opinion. thank you. host: michael noonan? your thoughts. guest: your caller makes excellent points. generation of veterans experienced nothing like the people who served in vietnam and came back and were kind of really treated poorly by society. even a society that has the troubles with the post-9/11 wars at least thankfully have made that the tension that the people that serve are not responsible is serving there, that there kind of this divide between pol

state john kerry back when he was a senator, chairman of the foreign relations committee, flying to ayman to explore the possibility of interest on the part of iran in talks, so secretary kerry can say he was involved from the beginning, in a long time, almost two years in the making. >> mike rogers just told me a little while ago, he was not officially informed of these secret negotiations. he said the senate intelligence committee chair dianne feinstein wasn't informed, either. they're upset about that. there's a lighter side to thinks talks as well. tell you us. about that. >> reporter: you always wonder what fuels these talks, as they go into the early morning hours. we know that pizza was one of those fuels. u.s. and iranian negotiators bringing in pizza in the final hours when they were trying to get this deal finalized. we also know that secretary kerry shared his chocolates with the negotiating team. it's interesting, wolf, on saturday we got a note from the press pool say that secretary kerry went out to buy chocolates for his wife, so i have to wonder if he raided his chocolate

the ideology which is so profound whatever the agents may be could be triggering events, folks like ayman al-zawahiri or osama bin laden, exporting these loose affiliated members or so members or potential lone wolf attackers. there is a lot that can be done as far as ideology is concerned because we don't really understand why they have this ideology of anti despot, that is one feature, another is the behavior towards the u.s. israel and its allies and thirdly, the moment of global islamic caliphate. this is what they stand for and why there are foot soldiers and their foot soldiers with because, they may not have the kind of terrorist leaders as part of an organizational network of the finance years but they -- ideology is something they import from the outside dance to the extent of this interact with their mental dilapidation or their mental -- other personal or political grievances. difficult to fathom what to do about it. this was mentioned earlier as well. these guys could be criminals who are radicalized, could be just criminals, could be folks who are idiosyncratic, have funny be

designated a top egyptian terrorist named mohamed jamal ca schiff who was reporting directly to ayman al-zawahiri, some of his trainees took part in the benghazi terrorist attack next year. he's a good example of how this network effect works because he was working with al-qaeda in the islamic maghreb, he established training camps in the sinai, eastern libya and was even dispatch l fighters to mali. so that's one of many examples i can give you about how this sort of works as a network regionally. the second thing i want to talk about, obviously, al-qaeda's just part of the picture. there's a broad spectrum of issues here which the other witnesses can better speak to than i can. however, one of the things i'd like to talk about is we continually underestimate, i think, what al-qaeda's clandestine plans are for various regions. we've seen in this iraq, we've seen it in yemen and syria where they've taken over a large portion of territory. aqim having taken over mali and been kicked out by the french showed that it had the capacity to do more than just smuggling and kidnaps, that sort

she is intelligent and wants society to protect itself and the issue is ayman al-zawahiri -- what kyle olson touched on. i teach a course on the subject of what the nsa is doing and i think this will be the issue. society is going to have to learn -- strike that. why is it trying to do it? in good faith it wants to protect us and it has technology of a different kind. the issue really is can society learned in of that our political -- i won't use the word leaders, political colleagues can intelligently decide what to do? my students write papers all the time about telephone, prison, all these programs, they are all constitutional issues, the collection itself doesn't constitute -- individual query's, the nsa itself is making quasi probable cause determinations that gibson to our stuff. if you look at the travel records, all this stuff is publicly available. that is the real issue. you are quite right. america will not want to lose its fourth amendment or first election -- amendment protections. we don't really know what our preferences should be. i had as little tolerance for ed snowde

ayman mohyeldin in cairo. thanks so much. >> this is an epic thanksgiving. it's thanksgivukkah and ison comet as well all coming together at the same time. >> you don't know where to begin celebrating there's so much to celebrate. >>> let's go back out to matt and savannah at their post at the parade with a preview again. >> thanks very much. look who has joined us in this beautiful blue coat. >> thank you very much. >> executive producer of the macy's thanksgiving day parade. happy thanksgiving. >> happy thanksgiving to you too. thanks for being with us once again this year. >> we're happy to be here. let's just, you know, cut right to the chase. >> yeah. >> i see your hair moving a little. >> it is. >> a little breezy here today. what's going to happen with these balloons? >> we don't know. we're going to wait until the new york police department tells us if they're going to fly or not. it seems great. we're optimistic. we're going forward as if everything is okay. i'm feeling good that they're going to be up in the sky. >> it's truly a game time call. >>

when you are in the military, you have the best px, the postage change, the store, for lehman l --ayman. still today, if you want to go to a real grocery store you go to a military base. because of the wars, extra divide in that sense. civilian armada -- are not allowed to go on the military base as they used to, so they are going to feel that divide. but as far as emotional divide, i feel that military families are more open-minded because you have more access to the world. so, we try to close that divide as often as we can but every time we have a war, we shut down and closed the gates down, a get wider and it is back and forth. my opinion. thank you. host: michael noonan? your thoughts. guest: your caller makes excellent points. generation of veterans experienced nothing like the people who served in vietnam and came back and were kind of really treated poorly by society. even a society that has the troubles with the post-9/11 wars at least thankfully have made that the tension that the people that serve are not responsible is serving there, that there kind of this divide between pol