>>> white house says president obama will meet with benjamin netanyahu in washington. the visit is expected on march 5th . this comes after an intense war of words. stephanie, obviously this is big news hearing of this trip and knowing the united states and britain trying to pressure israel not to attack iran .
>> reporter: that's right. there have been some word oefrs the last couple of days putting the pressure on israeli leaders. you had the chief of staff saying an attack would destabilize the area. sanctions and diplomatic pressure need be given an opportunity to work. he also said that a nuclear iran could spark an arms race in this part of the world, a very dangerous arms race . that goes a bit towards what's happening in tehran. they are there. they are hoping to meet with nuclear scientists. they are hoping to go to some nuclear facilities and set up future meetings and future schedule for themselves. how much of that is going to be done? there's a lot of skeptics on the progress. it is some diplomatic movement in iran .
>> thank you. stephanie gosk. joining me now is jim. you're your reaction.
>> i think it's a huge development. i think iran will be topic number one where they will discuss the likelihood of an attack or the possibility of an attack. i think the thing that gets loss is that discussion of an attack is a diplomatic chip right now. there's huge doubt that israel is able to carry out an attack. a lot of the words is diplomatic bargaining chips even to this day.
>> you make a great point that within israel there's a debate over sanctions versus an attack. beyond the strategic effort, the conversation is not settled in that nation.
>> there's huge doubt whether a military strike can be successful. just how destabilizing an attempt that the strike would be whether or not israeli jet ks make it to the dozens of sites that need to be taking out or how long those sites would be taken out, the two to three years necessary to consider a strike successful and whether or not the united states would be drawn in to finish the job, which something the united states doesn't want to have anything to do.
>> the other thing is what i call the oil chip. people talking about oil prices .
>> you have to look also the degree to which iran is acting out and is using some of their threats of ending oil sales to certain countries. if you'll notice, it only counts for 1 or 3% of the sales to those countries. iran has not said they are cutting off oil sales to the countries they supply.
>> what should we be watching for as the clock ticks for this big meeting on march 5?
>> the thing to watch for is when we start preparing for a nuclear iran . that's the big question. whether or not anything in the united states , israel or diplomatically can be done to stop.
>> thank you.
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