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Then will a co-equal branch of the united states government be allowed to weigh in. i would think senator kaine would be frustrated by that. >> ill leave it there. senator kaine, senator wicker, thank you for coming on this morning. important topic. i bring in my panel now, matt bai, karen finney, kevin madden, andrea mitchell. the white house was tolerating this idea of congress ghoeting involve not getting involved until march. now they look at the calendar it is march. can we wait until june?...

Negotiate it in june and only then will a co-equal branch of the united states government be allowed to weigh in. i would think senator kaine would be frustrated by that. >> ill leave it there. senator kaine, senator wicker, thank you for coming on this morning. important topic. i bring in my panel now, matt bai, karen finney, kevin madden, andrea mitchell. the white house was tolerating this idea of congress ghoeting involve not getting involved until march. now they look at the calendar it is ...

Caught between the 47 republican senators who many believe went too far in trying to interfere with the negotiating process, and this bipartisan group including corker and kaine, theyre big supporters on the foreign relations committee, who want in. they want in on the unilateral sanctions. theres no reason they cant go to the u.n. and talk about the international sanctions, but the ones that they can deal with and the congress has the right to deal with is immediate. look, it is still not clear...

And negotiations that are at the root of the acrimony right now between the u.s. and israel and in fact its just in a few minutes when secretary of state kerry and his iranian counterpart, foreign minister will have the first meeting. over the last several days youve heard mostly from u.s. officials are attempts to knock down the israeli position saying that in fact this is the best way forward for peace and stability and in fact for israel security. today we did hear from secretary of state joh...

He was serious about that. he was in the beginning of a negotiating process that in rabin stayed in power would have moved us in that direction. even ariel sharon was closer than benjamin netanyahu is. theres a larger gulf between president obama and benjamin netanyahu. plus benjamin netanyahu has been playing some pretty strident politics with the republican party. in 2012 when he invited mitt romney to come speak in israel. so there is a partisan gulf here that you see between a democratic pre...

Effort, support the red cross that was there and provide food to those women and children that were dying because they couldnt get the food. well, the problem with that was when the food was going ashore, muhammad and his people -- if you feed them, theyre going to fight for you. it really transitioned then to somebody needed to take muhammad out of the picture so the people in mogadishu could survive better. that is what we were sent there to do. that mission was totally different than the othe...

It could be setting the stage to get in a nuclear arms race with others in the region. steven gates is the former deputy assistant to vice president cheney for national security affairs, and a distinguished fellow at the hamilton foundation. steven good to see you. >> good to be with you. >> these dealings, they always come with a double edged sword, a more immediate deal, concerns more immediate concerns like nukes, but couldnt iran be seen in a different light like radicals that could be able ...

The underground facility and the nuclear plant. they didnt have to do that before. now we have people in there every single day. weve actually frozen their program in place and have rolled it back to the degree that theyre destroying some of their stockpile. so i can absolutely sit here and look you in the eye, and ive looked prime minister netanyahu in the eye and said, i believe israel and the region are safer today than they were before we made this agreement because the program is stopped an...

Reconciling of political differences any smoother. with the lifting of a ban of political organizations like the anc and the release of political prisoners such as mandela, the government of south africa commits itself to change and a new chorus of the country must be charted. >> they set out in a flimsy little rowboat to cross this ocean, and there was no turning back. >> reporter: the various political factions must go about the difficult task of dismantling the rule of apartheid and incorpora...

Reconciling of political differences any smoother. with the lifting of a ban of political organizations like the anc and the release of political prisoners such as mandela, the government of south africa commits itself to change and a new chorus of the country must be charted. >> they set out in a flimsy little rowboat to cross this ocean, and there was no turning back. >> reporter: the various political factions must go about the difficult task of dismantling the rule of apartheid and incorpora...