Does Iran Nuclear Deal Have Enough Votes?.
KEILAR: President Obama is getting closer to having enough ducks in a row - ducks being senators here - to ensure that the nuclear deal with Iran doesn't die. At last count, the White House is less than a handful of votes shy in the Senate of the deal being veto- proof. The president has been pressuring Democrats to get on board. And later this week, Secretary of State John Kerry will try his hand at persuading the undecideds. CNN's senior White House correspondent Jim Acosta is joining me now live. He's joining us from Anchorage, Alaska. He's traveling with the president there. I want to talk to you about that in just a moment, Jim. But first, you actually had a chance to talk to Secretary Kerry about the Iran deal and this need to gather more support. Tell us about your conversation with him.</s>JIM ACOSTA, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: That's right, Brianna. Secretary of State John Kerry is here in Alaska for a conference of arctic nations that will focus on the issue of climate change. But Kerry told us he'll be returning to his sales job of pitching the Iran nuclear deal later this week with a major speech in Philadelphia on Wednesday. And we asked Kerry about that controversial agreement between the international nuclear inspectors and Iran that will allow the Iranians to handle much of the inspection process at one suspicious military site known as Parsheen (ph). Republicans in Congress have seized on this. And here's what Secretary Kerry had to say.</s>ACOSTA: How do you refute the notion that this is a little bit like Tom Brady inspecting his own footballs?</s>JOHN KERRY, SECRETARY OF STATE: Well, it's nothing - I mean, look, you're going to get a sore point there with me because a lot of us in New England are not very happy with that process. We are satisfied that we will be able to have a process which can get us the answers and maintain its integrity in the process. No matter -</s>ACOSTA: You trust the Iranians in that part of the -</s>KERRY: There's nothing in here that is reliant on trust. There isn't one element of this agreement that relies on trust. It is all a matter of appropriate process, appropriate verification, access. If they are not accountable in the way that we expect them to be with appropriate access, then they would be in material breach of the agreement and subject to any and all of the options available to the United States.</s>ACOSTA: Now, President Obama is on his way to Alaska right now to deliver what the White House believes to be an urgent message on climate change. Kerry will be previewing that in his own remarks later today here in Anchorage. He will be echoing what many Alaskans are already seeing here, Brianna, that glaciers are melting, the state is experiencing record high temperatures. They've had one of their worst wildfire seasons in years, scorching 5 million acres, roughly the size of Massachusetts. And the president will be seeing some of this firsthand later on this week. He'll be the first president to actually visit the arctic later on this week, in a couple of days, here in Alaska. So it's something that the White House is very much looking forward to. Brianna.</s>KEILAR: And there's been an announcement, tell us about this, that has roiled certainly some Ohioans for sure, Jim Acosta.</s>ACOSTA: Absolutely. That's right. To sort of make some waves, make a big splash with the president's trip, they let out of the bag yesterday that the interior department had renamed Mt. McKinley, the tallest mountain in North America, Denali. And they did that in honor of native Alaskans. Now, here in Alaska, this is not a controversy. Both Republican senators wanted to see this happen. It's something that the Alaskan people have been working to see happen for many, many years. But Ohioans in Congress have been blocking it every step of the way because President McKinley hails from Ohio. And so House Speaker John Boehner, not surprisingly, released a statement saying he's disappointed in the decision. But, you know, just to give you some of the history in this, Brianna. You know, a gold prospector named Mt. McKinley Mt. McKinley and for many, many years Alaskans have tried to change it but they've been blocked by Congress every step of the way. So the administration did one of those executive actions in renaming the mountain.</s>KEILAR: Yes. It will be well received there in Alaska. But also I know this is certainly some of this trip has to do with business, but the president is also going to have a little fun. He's going on a TV show. Tell us about that.</s>ACOSTA: That's right. He's going to be appearing on that reality show with Bear Grylls, where they run out into the wild and do all sorts of crazy things. I don't think the president is going to get two crazy out here in Alaska. I suppose the Secret Service will be keeping the grizzlies away. But during this glacier tour that the president is going to be embarking on tomorrow, apparently he's going to be doing some taping with Bear Grylls for a special that will air later on this year. It's really going to focus on this issue of climate change. And that is the - that is the big thrust of this trip. This week, Brianna, as you know, the president really wants to focus in on this issue. They consider Alaska to be sort of the canary in the climate coal mine because of all the varying affecting that are really taking place every day here in Alaska as a result of climate change and the president will be seeing that firsthand with Bear Grylls to get sort of a unique perspective on the subject and hopefully they'll survive their time in the wild. The Secret Service hopefully will be close by with all the grizzlies and whatnot roaming around.</s>KEILAR: I'm sure they will be. All right, Jim Acosta, what a trip to be on. Here's there in Anchorage for us ahead of the president making his way there. Thank you. And up next, tracking undocumented immigrants like FedEx packages? Building a wall between the U.S. and Canada? Those are just some of the immigration solutions and considerations that are coming from the 2016 Republican candidates. We'll take a closer look.