James Lankford: “The memorandum of understanding was simply to make a deal.”

“If we can get Iran to stop their terrorism work, it saves us billions of dollars in the long term on it. So there's a lot of work going on right now. The memorandum of understanding was simply to make a deal. Everybody talked about what's not in it. There's not much in it because it's just an agreement. We're going to sit down and talk and in the blockade, in the shooting.” (01:58–02:02)

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