McDonough: ‘We Feel Really Good’ About the Iran and Climate Change Deals

‘I think what the next president is going to find when they come in here is that that climate deal united the world for the first time on one of the major challenges we face’

STEPHANOPOULOS: "They’ve also promised to undo what the president has done on climate change, on immigration, on guns. How worried are you that the progress that you just cited is ephemeral?"
MCDONOUGH: "Well, look, we — my job is to worry, George, so I worry every day about a lot of different things. But I think what the next president is going to find when they come in here is that that climate deal united the world for the first time on one of the major challenges we face. On the Iran deal, Iran now does not have a nuclear weapon and has no — if we get all these steps now in the next several weeks ironed, that they have to carry out to get to what we call implementation day, all their paths to a nuclear bomb will be blocked. So we feel really good about these deals, and we think the president’s going to come in here and pick them up where we leave them."

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