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To say, there could have been a better deem. were now hearing that echoed with sammy hoyer on a trip sponsored by apac. this is something they do every couple of years. the timing of this one was really critical. they spent time with benjamin netanyahu. other key leadership lobbying them very hard as they have been all along against this deem and toof sonny hoyer back to the united states echoing what chuck schumer had to say which is that there could have been a better deal is exactly what the ...

Averting war. the thought of possibly the next administration or something going to war over iran because they didnt take this deal i think they would just assume take this deal and be done with it and that would play better against their constituencies. thats whats going to be interesting to see. whether or not the progressive push back to avert war overtakes the challenge that apac presents. >> luke russert thank you for that. i want you to hang with me in a second. well continue this discussi...

They have deployed about 300 lobbyists on capitol hill. theyre spending close to $20 million directly or indirectly through other groups as well to try to lobby corning. how impactful do you think this lobbying effort is going to be. is it a lost cause from their perspective? >> i think its the $20 million question, ive been going through some of these house districts to see which democratic members may be vulnerable to this onslaught of attacks or pressure from apac. heres the thing the way the...

The iran deal addressing both israeli and saudi concern. secretary kerry will be on the hill answering questions from skeptical lawmakers. the state department announced today a 60 day review period kicks in on monday. and apac and other pro israeli groups are launching a multimillion dollar campaign to convince lawmakers to reject the deal. they focused on chuck schumer likely next leader of senate democrats. citizens for a nuclear free iran began running this multimillion dollar national tv ad...

Presidential veto and actually try to put some teeth into any type of congressional action? >> that is the key question and thats why its important to keep this debate in a bipartisan manner and thats what we will be doing in our foreign affairs committee hearing as well as when secretary kerry comes before us in congress this week. apac the premier pro u.s.-israel group has come out against this deal. thats very important. i think the democratic members need to look at this not as a legacy for ...

He says the president will veto legislation demanding that. listen. >> committed to giving congress an up or down vote, whether its through this bill or some other means? they get an up or down vote on iraq. >> it moves through the legislative process as this agreement is being negotiated and signed off on that it would have the potential of undermining those negotiations, and thats why the president has indicated hes strongly owe poised to it, and would veto it. >> whats particularly interestin...

That in the middle east today, dealing with iran and an islamic state, my enemy of my enemy is my enany. obama cant figure that out. i am convinced, sean, absolutely convinced that obama, and kerry and company have accepted that iran will get a bomb. they just dont want it to happen on obamas watch. they want a decent interval of denial. and meanwhile as you heard our presidents pathetic spiteful rebuttal, petty -- >> just petty. >> -- yeah, obama is a spiteful failure as president. and weve jus...

Rebuttal, petty -- >> just petty. >> -- yeah, obama is a spiteful failure as president. and weve just got to get through the next two years. but israel means business. netanyahu, unlike president obama, means what he says. and the key thing for me was actually yesterday at apac he laid out carefully several examples of instances where the united states wanted israel not to do something, but israel did it and israel was right. he is setting the groundwork for a desperate military strike if necess...

We can all con seed that hes going to give a serious speech. i bet this one will be backed with more policy and more serious concerns than the one that was at apac today. republicans and democrats alike agree, this is a bad deal we are hurtling toward that is going to lead to a nuclear iran. thats the problem its not just no for no reason. >> i dont think its a bad deal you dont even know the deal. >> i got it. we will continue on this. plenty of more as the factor moves along this evening. th...

How will we not know? it will be very clear. this is the number of centrifuges you have. this is the stockpile you can maintain, what is there not to know? unless they are doing something in secret. you can argue if theyre doing something in secret that no one has discovered, not the cia. no intelligence agency in the world has been able to discover, and theyre not a hermit kingdom, no one has discovered their secretly building a bomb, if theyre doing it anyway, what does it matter if we cant di...