Has Easing Of Sanctions Already Begun With Iran?
JAKE TAPPER, CNN HOST: They reported today that by looking at treasury notices, since Rouhani was elected in June, the U.S. government has all but stopped the financial blacklisting of entities and people that help Iran evade international sanctions. It looks as though there's already been some carrot even without any stick or any action earning those carrots.</s>RICHARD HAASS, PRESIDENT, COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS: That would be a pretty modest carrot. It's kind of like the small ones you buy in the grocery store, not the big ones, and the argument would be that would be a kind of confidence building measure, really limited one. If for example these agreements, these negotiations rather came to naught, the United States could move ahead on that sort of a front with considerable dispatch. In any negotiation, you often try to create an environment where you increase the odds and that to me wouldn't be anything say that's irrevocable.</s>TAPPER: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu just met with Secretary of State John Kerry. He is very public about not being happy with what's shaping up to be the deal. Take a listen.</s>BENJAMIN NETANYAHU, ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER: I understand the Iranians are walking around very satisfied in Geneva as well they should be because they got everything and paid nothing. The international community got a bad deal. This is a very bad deal.</s>TAPPER: Are we hurting our relationship with Israel and other allies by working with Iran?</s>HAASS: Clearly, the Israelis and the Saudis are incredibly nervous. This doesn't take place in a vacuum. It takes place in the context of what was seen as American lack of reliability or consistency in Syria. It takes place against the backdrop of American political dysfunction here at home. But clearly, the Israelis are nervous and they are also worried, Jake, about being boxed in, that while such a process is going on, their ability to act independently militarily is really all but taken off the table.</s>TAPPER: So you think that the Netanyahu, his very public anger, is 100 percent legitimate and that's not for show in any way?</s>HAASS: Well, again, I think it's meant to toughen the U.S. position as you move towards the last hours potentially of negotiation. It's also meant to some extent to stimulate not just political support at home in Israel, but perhaps in the U.S. to get people in Congress and elsewhere to scrutinize any sanctions relief that is provided to the Iranians and you've got to look at an interim agreement and basically say do we get enough out of it in terms of what we potentially put into it. That's the only framework that everybody has to use.</s>TAPPER: All right, Richard Haass, thank you so much for your time.</s>HAASS: Thanks for having me.</s>TAPPER: Coming up on THE LEAD, it was meant to capture the incredible comeback of an aging sports star until the documentary project was turned on its head when Lance Armstrong finally admitted having used performance-enhancing drugs. Next, I talk to the film maker behind quote, "The Armstrong Lie." Plus, they just named David Copperfield the most powerful man in the world three years running, but not even he could cast a spell to save the onion from the changing times. Stay with us.