Mediaite reports that CBS News’ Major Garrett got under President Obama's skin during a White House press conference today when he asked about the Americans still being held by Iran.

GARRETT: As you well know, there are four Americans in Iran, three held on trumped-up charges according to your administration and one, whereabouts unknown. Can you tell the country, sir, why you are content with all the fanfare around this deal to leave the conscience of this nation, the strength of this nation unaccounted for in relation to these four Americans?

Garrett went on to ask about the impression that Obama had left the Joint Chiefs of Staff "out to dry" in one particular aspect of the Iran negotiations. Obama bristled:

OBAMA: I’ve got to give you credit, Major, for how you craft those questions. The notion that I’m content as I celebrate with American citizens languishing in Iranian jails? Major, that’s nonsense, and you should know better. I've met with the families of some of those folks, and nobody is content. And our diplomats and our teams are working diligently to try to get them out.

Now, if the question is why we did not tie the negotiations to their release, think about the logic that that creates. Suddenly Iran realizes, "You know what? Maybe we can get additional concessions out of the Americans by holding these individuals."

Additional concessions? What would an additional concession be: simply giving them our own nuclear weapons?

OBAMA: And, by the way, if we had walked away from the nuclear deal, we’d still be pushing them just as hard to get these folks out. That’s why those issues are not connected, but we are working every single day to try to get them out and won’t stop until they are out and rejoined with their families.