Ben Rhodes: White House Lied to Sell Iran Nuke Deal

Ben Rhodes, the White House’s deputy national security adviser admitted that the Obama administration lied to sell the Iran deal to the public, and is shockingly blunt describing how he played the media.
The way in which most Americans have heard the story of the Iran deal presented — that the Obama administration began seriously engaging with Iranian officials in 2013 in order to take advantage of a new political reality in Iran, which came about because of elections that brought moderates to power in that country —was largely manufactured for the purpose for selling the deal. Even where the particulars of that story are true, the implications that readers and viewers are encouraged to take away from those particulars are often misleading or false. Obama’s closest advisers always understood him to be eager to do a deal with Iran as far back as 2012, and even since the beginning of his presidency.
Towards the end, Samuels talks to former secretary of defense Leon Panetta, who doesn’t think Obama is serious about stopping Iran from developing a nuclear weapon.