July 14 - An Analysis of the P5+1 Deal with Iran; Selling the Iran Deal on Capital Hill; Could the 'Nones' Outvote the Religious Right in 2016?

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Part 1	We begin with today’s announcement of a deal between the P5+1 and Iran to curb its nuclear program and bring it under international inspection as a precondition for lifting sanctions. Dr. Paul Pillar, the Director of Graduate Studies at the Center for Peace and Security Studies at Georgetown University joins us. He was the former National Intelligence Officer for the Near East and South Asia and we analyze the deal and discuss the chorus of opposition from those who have not read the agreement, from Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu to the Republican presidential candidates, to the House Speaker and the Senate Majority Leader who are determined to kill the deal irrespective of its merits.
Part 2	Then we speak with Jon Rainwater, the Executive Director of Peace Action West, about his efforts to lobby a skeptical Congress in support of the just-signed agreement that the Congress has 60 days to review. We discuss whether, when and if the members of Congress have studies the agreement, they will be less hostile to it, or that at the end of the day it comes down to Obama’s threat to veto the likely rejection of the deal by Congress and if there will be enough votes to sustain the veto.
Part 3	Then finally we examine the role of religion in the 2016 elections with Diane Winston, who holds the Knight Chair in Media and Religion at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism who is also the publisher of Religion Dispatches. We discuss whether the current pandering to the Religious Right by the Republican presidential candidates will hurt or help them in the general election and her article at VICE News “Millennials and the 'nones': Why 40 Years of Religion in U.S. Elections May Change in 2016”.