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His speech before congress against white house wishes. what does this mean for the nuclear deal with iran and will it payoff for benjamin netanyahu? team coverage on this big story starts now. welcome back to "early start." im john berman. im christine romans. the second day of march. developing this morning, tension between the obama administration and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu reaching a peak this morning as the israeli leader arrives in washington preparing to speak to the gro...

Not only premature, theyre just wrong. [ applause ] youre here to tell the world that our alliance is stronger than ever. millions like you across this great country is going to get even stronger in the coming years. thank you all of the leadership of aipac. thank you. for your tireless dedicated work to strengthen the partnership between israel and the united states. i want to thank most especially members of congress democrats

Administration. samantha power said were not going to tolerate a nuclear iran. theyre pushing the administration to get them to stand by what it said in the past about no nuclear bomb and then stepping back from that once the administration said something on the record to remind them that this is a long term bipartisan relationship that we share the same goals about with these democracies so hes had to play it touch and go and i think this is a perfect example. the aipac speech before his speech...

New details this morning about the isis fighter known as jihadi john. a terrorist defector who met mohammed emwazi two years ago tells the bbc says the man was a cold loner who wanted to appear in terrorist videos. describing emwazi as odd and strange. lets get the latest from nic robertson in london. >> reporter: good morning, john. odd and strange because he was living in a house in syria with a group of other british jihadists. according to the isis defector jihadi john, mohammed emwazi would...

Blind spot based on what her successor samantha power the current u.s. ambassador to the united states wrote about her. she called her a bystander to genocide it was a 2001 article in the atlantic. samantha power repeated it in a book called "a problem from hell" about genocide. everyone recognizes what susan rice said at the time that political considerations must take precedence over stopping the genocide in ra want da or labeling it a genocide and that is something that cannot happen again in...

New york. >> its really interesting. there was an audience in that room where the prime minister was speaking today. an audience where kate is right now in jerusalem. theres also potentially an audience at the white house. how did the white house perceive this speech today from president netanyahu? how do they perceive this speech thats coming tomorrow? jim acosta is there. you know, president obama not going to aipac. not speaking with president obama. the administration did have a representati...

The israeli u.s. relations is not only premature, theyre just wrong. [ applause ] youre here to tell the world that our alliance is stronger than ever. and because of you and millions like you across this great country is going to get even stronger in the coming years. thank you, bob cohen, michael kassen, howard core and all the leadership of aipac. thank you for your tireless dedicated work to strengthen the partnership between israel and the united states. i want to thank most especially

Your efforts, it will get even stronger in the years to come. thank you, aipac! thank you, america! god bless you all! >> number of poignant remarks there from benjamin netanyahu. he started by saying the reports of the demise of the u.s.-israeli relations with regard to those who speak that way, quote, they are just wrong. he said my purpose here, no disrespect to president barack obama. the purpose is for a potential deal with iran that could threaten the state of israel. at one point, he said...

Busy calling them jv team. i outline, against backdrop of all this? theyre playing fast and loose with their military and were trying to do a nuke deal with them. >> i dont think this is third world war. if nations started to join and support isis. it would be. this is obamas new iraq war. nobel peace prize winners war. think about it. samantha power today stand up and aipac or else what? are they mash stag tagging on card barred? they have drawn red lines before. i see a threat of real third wo...

Here all the best to you. appreciate what youre doing. >> thank you for having me. coming up as we take a turn on "the rundown," live pictures from aipac. ambassador samantha powers still speaking. benjamin netanyahu, we will have more on his visit next. i am meteorologist bill karins. we finished with another storm from the great lakes to mid-atlantic to the northeast. we get a break today. it is a decent forecast. not bad. at least it is sunny out there. the next storm system is on the way...