mark: i mark halperin. john: and i'm john heilemann. happy national paella day sports fans. first, we have the talk of the town today mark, here is the question, real quick, right to the heart of it.

what is the implications to the exit of them at -- exit of the minority leader? mark: i am not sure that democrats keep the seat and harry reid did it as well as anyone in the era. john: by hook or crook, he managed to hold on, and he was a very vulnerable incumbent. nevada is a purple state, so we get to see which way it will go. this is super-interesting. chuck schumer has been waiting his whole life for this job. mark: what he said is that he does not want to run, and the fact of the matter is, it frees

up a lot of conservative money because the koch brothers and others would have spent a fortune trying to defeat harry reid, and now they can spend money elsewhere. my impression is that the seat can be contested, so it puts the scene very much in play. john: i think your point of obstructionism that will come up next, but chuck schumer is cast as the same way as rahm emanuel a vicious left-wing republican -- left wing democrat, so i think you might turn out to be more of a reflected dealmaker. i think he opens up the possibility of a different style of leadership than harry reid had. mark: and i think his relationship with mcconnell is going to be better than harry reid is. john: it cannot be worse. mark: i think he will be

inclined to strike deals, and if you are someone who thinks that washington needs to work more across the isle, it is going to be different and better in that respect. john: things in some ways could not be worse and you don't want to put all of the blame on harry reid, but there is a lot there. mark: there is a lot there. and harry reid obstructed as he did, but instead people chalked it up to just a guy doing k.g. things as opposed to -- doing cagey things. reid will leave the senate bruise literally, because they showed him that i injury that he got working out, but he also lost to one of the most powerful people in the senate. today during a radio interview with kpnr of nevada, they

discussed the senator's unique qualities. radio host: keri is unique and he has that curmudgeonly charm -- harry -- president obama: harry is unique and he has that curmudgeonly charm, but i am going to miss him. mark: the republican senatorial committee did a press release that was scathing and it did not really honor harry reid, so what will his political legacy going to be -- what is his political legacy going to be? john: in the context of the 2008 presidential campaign, as you and i reported there was a very important moment when harry reid

calls obama up to capitol hill and says you should run for president. it was a very big moment that gave a sense to obama that there are democratic establishment that everyone assumed was there everyone thought they were going to vote for hillary clinton. mark: do you think it is possible that harry reid's encouragement would have made obama run, but it is possible it would not have had. the thing about harry reid is that he plays by his own rules. he cares about what the democratic caucus thought, but most of the time he does not really care. during the campaign when it came out that mitt romney had not paid his federal taxes he would not have bent to the criticism of going on the senate floor, he did not care. there are a lot of politicians who go and help themselves, but

he does what he is great to do. john: he seems like kind of an archaic guy, if you ever get to see him, he seemed like older than his years and away. you could actually pay in the middle of a presidential campaign baseless accusations and pay no price but consume a lot of media cycle to distract romney and be a real foreign in his side. mark: he was all about using power in his state. yucca mountain would never have been billed as long as harry reid was senator. he did not want nuclear waste shipped anyplace in his state when he was there, and now is that might happen now, and that is a huge loss to their state. that is a big part of the job and a big part of his legacy. john: absolutely, a whole lot of pork. on day two, john walker, don't say he flip-floped walker was

unavailable. mark, we had a couple of covers about this, we talked about this yesterday on the show but what are your questions right now about scott walker's immigration position? mark: i have been hearing from other people who were at that dinner and to me as i thought about it, what should walker be doing? let's take him at his word. he said he is a pose and then he said he is for legal status and now he has changed his mind and now he is not taking question at it. -- taking questions for it. it is not just saying that he opposes the amnesty, he should have to explain himself and not just because of this dinner, but because what you and i discuss all the time, what are you going to do about the 12 million people here illegally? john: one question is, is what is he hiding?

this is the first real controversy he has faced, and he is not stepping up to the plate. to me the real answer would be what will he do? mark: he is against amnesty, what more do you need to know? john: there was some kind of weird tell me to reading -- weird, talmudic reading of what he said, and this is not the old's school version of amnesty. mark: this is amnesty or -- amateur hour and he said he supports some zone of pass for legalization and he said it. talk about amateur hour. it is that staff work if they did not record that, but i suspect that they did, so they have an audiotape, so they

should tell us what he said because there are respectable people on the record who asked him, but also, the most important thing is that scott walker should tell us what we should think about immigration policy and why did he change his mind and who did he talk to? john: that is our unanswered question, what is your position on amnesty and what is your position on immigration? did you make an audio recording on it and if you did, will you release it? mark: it is time for a sports ball update, kentucky wildcats are very, very good. last might -- night they demolished the team against them in the elite eight. could anybody possibly beat kentucky? john: i am of the sun -- i am the son of a man from wisconsin, and they are also a very good team, and they will meet this team in the final four, the

kentucky team that they win, and they will maybe have the most dynamic frontline in college ask of all -- college basketball. they will be a very tough team, and i think they could beat kentucky, they might not, but they could. mark: there strength last night really impressed me. if i had to select one team that could beat them i would select wisconsin. john: duke and wisconsin has the most dynamic offense of players. mark: kentucky last night, the thing that impressed me last night, not just the ones that they won, but they are focused, and they are focused enough to understand that they cannot have an off-line or because the whole thing could evaporate, and they moved the ball and they played well, and like i said, the

intensity of wisconsin gives them a chance but i still think we are going to have to wait to see who is number two. john: it was just a crazy thing. mark: they started slow less night but they came on, and it is a deep enough team that they can manage with the kentucky teams. they had an off night. john: man i love those pictures. coming up, what are the chances of a nuclear deal with iran? and later, what a week we have had with ted cruz, rick perry it was like a runaway train. that is "with older respect" coming up in a little later on -- "with all due respect" coming up a little later on. ♪

mark: just like dan pfeiffer's

inevitable book, there is an approaching nuclear deal with iran. secretary josh earnest give the outlook on the prospect that a deal gets done. secretary josh earnest: it is still at best 50-50, that there is a likelihood that the agreement will be reached by the deadline. mark: for a more on the ground view, we bring in our bloomberg colleague and are foreign policy pour respondent, and we want to break this down into the big three questions, the first one is, what are the chances of and the parameters of a deal being a reached by next week? bloomberg reporter: i don't agree with the white house but this is the same a line that president obama gave at the very beginning of this situation 18 months ago.

i think at this point we are looking at something, maybe 60-40, maybe that are? -- may be better? to have a failure would be so bad. now we know because we have spoken with senior u.s. officials who have told us that today was a difficult day. they did not close all the gaps that they had hoped to, so that is also a message to the iranians to say, look, we have until march 31, but until the end, we are going to have to try to come up with something and say that this is a framework agreement. mark: when do the sanctions off and what are the capabilities of nuclear research that iran is able to keep, are those still the two big issues? indira: it is many things, how do you make sure that him on not doing anything covert, how do you maintain a capability that

they want to have, they sure that they do not have plutonium to make a bomb with plutonium and it is also them explaining the suspicion that they had previously done military nuclear work, so it is many things. it is a whole new kettle of fish. the united states and europe has made very clear that they are not going to list those sanctions, they are only going to suspend them after they have proved that iran is complying with its part of the bargain. john: indira, here is the second ever bake three questions, who are the big players, we get down to crunch time here, who are the key -- inside the room, who is going to get this done? indira: clearly it is john kerry and the iranian foreign minister, and that we brought in earnest munis -- ernest moniz

but basically it is basically the u.s. and iran trying to negotiate the major points of a deal. the other leaders of the international community have said that if they agree, they will get behind the deal, but that is not to say that parties like the french have a lot of concerns. they have been very tough and have been in line with israel and they want to make sure that this deal is not going to be a weak one, so we also have look at french president aland -- french president whole law and -- hollande and they say that they have to make tough choices to make this happen so everybody is putting the pressure on to make this happen before march 31. john: we know john kerry has been extraordinarily involved in all of this, and how much do you feel that he has pressure at this point to bring things home

as a matter of legacy for him? indira: he feels huge pressure it is not just legacy, but this is the most that the obama administration could get as we look it in terms of foreign policy, and look at the congressional pressure at home because if they don't get this by march 31, they will be facing this in two weeks when congress comes back in session, they will be facing new legislation, so they are under a lot of pressure, but they still keep telling us that they are not going to go for any deal that is not a good deal, so he is trying to channel the pressure that he feels and the pressure against the iranians to make what he calls hard decisions. mark: indira, last big question if there is not a deal, what happens next? indira: i think both the united states and iran are going to

have problems. people say that they will tell you they could not have been trusted and they are chipping away at the support of the negotiations and the concessions on the part of the iranians. remember, anything that the iranians agreed to has to be signed off by the supreme leaders. and we know very well what will happen on top of capitol hill. we will see a big push for regulations and we have to put more pressure on iranians and see prime minister net to know who and -- prime minister netanyahu and the israeli congress speaking out as well. mark: are the negotiating all weekend or are they taking the weekend off? john: --indira: no, there are no weekends here, there are no days off here, i have a picture of

secretary kerry getting a break outside of a cafe, and this is the one moment where he could get a breath of fresh air. we also know that john kerry realizes if he cannot get a deal by then, his priority is being here and working it out, so we will see, but they are very much pushing to get a deal by the end of the weekend if they can. john: thanks so much for joining us, we appreciate it. coming up, totally eclipse of the week in review with all due reflect, that's next. ♪

mark: hey john, what is going

on? john: oh, i don't know, just thinking about all of the crazy things happening on the news this week. mark: what about that time that i got regional idiom coaching from rick perry? rick perry: how ya'all doin'? john: the time i spoke to liberty university. mark: the time i spoke with ted cruz. the time i almost killed john. [pinao playing] john: the time we got a cupcake for the affordable care act. mark: the time john kasich named that tune. john kasich: it's that old rolling stones tune, "gimme

shelter." john: the time we made a presidential bracket for an alternative universe. mark: and the time that our ice cream cake melted. john: we hope that your campaign last longer than this confection. john: i love the week in review, and from that week, what was your favorite moment? mark: i talked to rick perry down in texas and i asked him if you were president right now and you were in the room with vladimir putin and what would you say to him, and rather than telling me in the third person he just looked at me as if i were putin and pressing me down. he said he did not think much of putin as a guy riding around on a horse without a shirt. john: i will tell you what i

love, we have talked with some great people on this show, but john kasich was a real high point. we were going through photos with him and going through his political biography, we did name that tune, it was a lot of fun. and an update on the grateful dead story, and he did not get kicked off the stage, he is also buddies with dwight yoakam. mark: the reaction from that interview from a lot of the country is that he is a normal guy and one of his great strength is that he is a normal guy and he comes across as a normal guy and people just love seeing him talk as compared to some of the other people who are running. john: and when you see people who are saying i'm a democrat i'm a liberal, and i like that guy, and he is the guy for the republican side, i would give him consideration he is a guy who is just a regular guy. mark: the other thing in the

process is that he is not desperate to be president, and some people with a he does not have fire in the belly or he is not ambitious, but people are finding him really appealing so don't be surprised to see him back in new hampshire. john: i will tell you something out -- something else about that week in review and that is that i will definitely, definitely not take the train home today. we will be right back with darth vader and chewie. ♪

john: god knows we are all really excited about the new "star wars" movie, including chewbacca julie -- chewie, chew ie garcia, that is.

garcia: you are not the king of the city, you have to console people. john: we are live 24-7 on bloomberg. mark:

pimm: this is a special report on the gender discrimination suit. the jury has found in favor of kleiner perkins against ellen pao. kleiner perkins fending off a gender discrimination suit filed by ellen pao. a former employee. this is of kleiner perkins. alix: you mentioned we're waiting for further verdicts. it was 8-4, that is not a sufficient majority and the discrimination