CNN commentator Scott Jennings on the “NewsNight with Abby Phillip” panel said it may take some time for President Trump to achieve a complete and total victory in Iran. On Wednesday, Jennings said victory would be agreement to end the nuclear weapon program forever and a moratorium on enriching uranium.

ABBY PHILLIP, CNN HOST: The president is not sending that message to the American people. Every day he wakes up and he’s like, we’re almost getting a deal. And if you believe that, which I think at this point you should know better, but if you do believe that, then I think you will be surprised when it probably doesn’t happen overnight. It doesn’t happen in 48 hours or 72 hours or 10 days or whatever timeline he has decided to put on it. SCOTT JENNINGS, CNN COMMENTATOR: Yeah, I don’t know when it’s going to end. I don’t know when they’re going to come to their senses. I mean, look, eventually the president’s going to have to decide what the timeline is on his patience. I think he’s showing some restraint right now and some patience with them. I mean, they have kind of violated the ceasefire. They’ve sent these little boats out and they’ve fired on our partners in the Middle East. The president has showed restraint because I think he believes in the diplomatic process that’s going on. I agree with Shermichael. It may take some time. PHILLIP: But he level with the American people about truly how long this could take. And if it does take a lot of time, how long we could be living with a global economy that’s being held hostage by Iran? JENNINGS: I mean, the truth is he probably doesn’t know, A, because we’re dealing with a fractured government and B, we’re dealing with folks here who, let’s be honest, aren’t the best faith operators. And so I think, look, however this ends and whenever it ends, one thing has to be true. Complete and total victory, which comes in the form of saying they will never have a nuclear weapon. Whenever he gets to that point, then it will be. PHILLIP: No, it will never, it does never mean, it does never mean a 10 year time line. ANA NAVARRO: If it’s 10 years or 15 years for you, that’s not complete victory? 20 years? JENNINGS: Well, what I read today was that there would be a moratorium of maybe 15 years and that they, and that the Iranians would also agree to send their 970 pounds of enriched uranium to the United States. And if they would promise to not pursue any weaponization. If those three things happen, that’s victory.

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