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Prime minister is in the battle of his life might be in a couple weeks reaching the same fate. what do you think? >> yeah, macarthur was fired i believe april 11th he came back here spoke before joint session of congress on april 19th. it was a nail in the coffin for harry truman if you want to talk politics because his approval ratings dropped to 22%. >> that's true. >> the next january lost in new hampshire and withdrew finally to run for re-election. i think this is more than politics. again, you talk about nuclear weapons, there's more at stake here. >> doug, always good to see you, my fri...

>> the stakes were so high as you point out. and i was on the hill all day yesterday, and got a moment in the photo opportunity with netanyahu, and you had all of these senators republicans, sort of loosely watching and democrats standing very sternly, waiting in mitch mcconnell's office for this moment with him. and the stakes high politically, it was an attack on the president's signature foreign policy goal which is a nuclear agreement with iran. so that was the politics here and it's two weeks from the israeli election and people watching at home on a five minute delay ordered by the israe...

Here. associate editor of the washington post and msnbc eugene robinson. willie willie willie willie giest as well. >> yesterday it was a short hour, willie. everybody just for one hour everybody in washington forgot it as the favorite leader netanyahu came -- >> i don't have a problem with him. i think he made a mockery of us -- >> right willie? >> just for one hour. >> go ahead. >> i was just going to say, it was totally striking i thought. whatever you thought about the content of the speech that happened walking down through the aisle, go up to the podium and deliver what amounted to a sta...

I wasn't there, but you could feel the attention from ten blocks away. i thought it was a forceful very effective speech. i thought he started off however saying, you know, i'm sorry some people think this was about politics, it's not. it was all about politics. >> blatantly. >> politics back there, and i think he helped himself, but may have hurt israel in the long run. >> do you think it was all about politics? none of it was a warning? >> i think it was both. >> representing iran bad for america? >> i think he clearly believes that, but it was given two weeks before he's up for reelection. ...

To hear nancy pelosi say those things about those speech was stunning. >> sad. and one other quick point by the end of the day, democrats were furious in the senate because mitch mcconnell had proposed without any amendment abilities, a congressional review of any iran deal prior to -- without prior agreements. and that was infuriating. they were goingle to floor and -- going to the floor and yelling bloody murder. >> everyone should get their take on this. we want to show president obama's reaction to the speech. as well as i believe, we have speaker pelosi. here first, the president. >> we'r...