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now. >> israeli prime minister bejnamin netanyahu before a joint meeting in front of congress. warning such an agreement could place the rogue nation dangerously to obtaining nuclear weapons. this is "outnumbered." i'm harris faulkner. here today andrea tantaros, host of "money" with melissa francis on our sister network, host of "kennedy". we are glad he is here. and he's outnumbered. this is a big news day. you said it yourself. >> really big news day. that was an extraordinary speech from benjamin netanyahu. it was the most -- the fullest description the american people have heard about the threat from iran in six years. and i think bracing for people who haven't been paying
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attention, who have been reading the news. this is something that the united states has not gotten from members of coming, from the president of the united states and it was a really sort of stunning and stern speech. >> we'll get into it. high drama as steven has just said as the leader of the jewish nation challenges president obama's relationship with iran. we expect to get reaction from democrats many among them, big no shows for today's speech. and we should note not a single member of the obama administration attended. but first a man of the moment benjamin netanyahu, and a momentous speech peppered with applause numerous times, standing ovation, speaking out about a possible deal between the white house and iran reminding lawmakers and the world why iran cannot be trusted. >> iran's attacks against the united states have been anything but mock and the targets are all
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too real. they murdered hundreds of american soldiers, marines in beirut and was responsible for killing and maiming thousands, iran now democrat natures four arab capitals. if iran's aggression is left unchecked, more will surely follow. so the time when many hope that iran will join the community of nations, iran is busy gobbling up the nations. [applause] >> we just all stand together to stop iran's march of conquest, and terror. [applause] >> so much information we got from his speech today and while president obama in an interview yesterday appeared confident that a possible deal would prevent iran from joining the nuclear club, so to speak prime minister netanyahu expressed his
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doubts saying no deal is better than a bad deal and throwing cold water on the hope that an agreement could somehow change iran. >> this deal has two major concessions. one leaving iran with a vast nuclear program. and two, lifting the restrictions on that program in about a decade. that's why this deal is so bad. it doesn't block iran's path to the bomb. it paves iran's path to the bomb. so why would anyone make this deal? because they hope that iran will change for the better in the coming years? or they believe that the alternative to this deal is worse? well i disagree. i don't believe that iran's radical regime will change for the better after this deal. this regime has been in power for 36 years. and it's appetite for aggression
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grows with each passing year. this deal would whet iran's appetite for more. >> strong words from the prime minister. andrea the deadline with regard to doing a deal with iran fast approaching later this month. in the beltway how does this play? particularly among democrats? does this move the line to try to push back the deadline so more talk happen snz >> democrats have a lot of explaining to do, i think. i don't think it looked good a lot of them missed the speech. but again the democratic party has been perceived, some members in the party as being a bit anti-israel. they see anti-israel as a occupying power, they're more sympathetic to the palestinians. i don't think this helps the democratic party. i also think this puts the white house in a very precarious position because netanyahu made a very compelling case against letting iran get the bomb and essentially he said that he was, quote, paving the way, president obama, for doing it. and it almost made me feel like he was calling the white house
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naive to trust such an untrustworthy regime. i also thought, harris, it was tricky for the white house to message this. he linked isis to iran and he compared them saying they are both pursuing a crown of militant islam which, look that's a pretty accurate, i think, depiction but it puts the white house in a tough position to make a case and a compelling one on their own for what they're doing because not only have they made a compelling case they haven't made any case. >> what's interesting about what he said and how did he it he called it a game of thrones. he tossed it into the current ven ak lar of tv viewing. >> and i'm glad you point that out. i thought one of the most important things and this administration has an allergy to logic clearly and what the prime minister did aside from -- of course it was a political speech and he had well crafted lines in order to score points but one of the contrasts he drew that i thought was powerful saying about the ayatollah he spewed
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this with the newest technology tweeting in english and that's a powerful point and also when he talks about the ways that iran has become the hedgeman in the middle east and the united states if they allow them to get the bomb with the nuclear proliferation only encourages that. >> let's talk about the president, if we can, steven. president obama said that he would not be at the speech he wouldn't meet with him and we thought maybe he might meet with the prime minister. but then i'm reading that he actually isn't even expected to have watched it. instead he was scheduled to meet with several european counterparts via video conference to talk about the situation in the ukraine. that was announced by the white house earlier today. what are your thoughts about the politics at play with the president of the u.s.? >> in a way, it's a metaphor for the way the president has approached iran. it's much easier not to tune in to the description of a threat from iran like the one that benjamin netanyahu did to and
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that's what president obama has chosen to do since the beginning of his administration. one thing that struck me in netanyahu's remarks is linking the iranian program with the nature of the regime. he said you can't separate the two. it's been the explicit strategy of the obama administration from the beginning in its approach to iran to decouple the word they use to decouple iran's nuclear program the human rights record, support for terror and netanyahu saying that's folly to do that. it is naive and i think he's right. >> i want to bring this up because at one point, later in the speech, the prime minister melissa started talking about this is a bad deal. what would a deal look like that he would even want to be part of or could see happening? and it actually had to do with lifting the sanctions. apparently they're feeling the financial sanctions. he said iran would have to stop the aggression in the middle east, stop supporting terrorism around the world top threatening to a nilate israel.
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>> he said there's no way to lift the sanctions. you can't do that. they talk about the sairngzs in place for so long and they haven't done anything. that's not true. you look at now as it seems like we may lift these sanctions apple is one of the companies that is fighting to get into tehran right now. they deny the reports. but there are papers reporting that they're in there they're scouting a location and ipad and iphone is a very hot black market item in iran right now. they're dying to go in there. what does that change? ly with, all of a sudden, iran is the economic power in the region. that market opens up and investment pours in. they become the de facto for the whole region linking up with iran hezbollah syria. you have two sides opposing each other and it becomes a nuclear arms race.
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>> not to mention all the other -- >> you disagree? >> -- territory that there's backed rebels in. year -- we're looking at yemen too. they're spreading out. >> just about the sanctions, you know, it's one of the tools that the u.n. uses along with the i.e.a. but it's not effective. it chokes and starves the middle and lower classes. they're the ones who are truly affected by the economic sanctions. they tried to do something with russia, obviously and blocked some bill on airs from their money but it also proliferates the black market so the upper classes in iran are able to get the technology and they can still benefit. >> but they don't have the outside investment and when you have multi national companies pouring into iran and investing, it lifts the nation to a whole other level. i totally appreciate your point. >> exactly. a nation to the point where there can be an overthrow of an islamic theocracy.
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in cuba we want this sort of economic diplomacy in a place like cuba. i think it should happen all over the world. i think american companies and freedom will -- >> that's not going to happen before march 4. >> the time to do that was 2009 when we saw the green revolution in iran. if you're going to be on the side of democracy promotion, wasn't that the time for the administration? >> absolutely. and look. nobody would pretend that it was a sure thing with the united states pressure or aid that the regime would have somehow fallen. i think it would have been a tall order at the time but remember, the president took basically a week before he even condemned the kind of violence we saw in the streets. >> and i hear what you're saying. that's the argument from the other side now is the opportunity because we're looking at the grip on the society has weakened. but do we want to take the risk? >> yes. >> but the -- look. there are two reasons. >> risk with the free market. >> there are two reasons their grip has lessened. one are the sanctions and two
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are oil prices gas prices. that's causing tremendous problems. ratchet up the sanctions. >> i want to ask you where this puts the president though, because it seems like netanyahu was talking specifically to the president who recently has been saying, you know, in terms of fighting isis siding with iran might be a good idea. he said look. the enemy of the enemy is your enemy in this case. you cannot trust iran. was that a direct rebuttal to president obama? >> i would say one of the things that i found most striking about this speech is just how directly prime minister netanyahu was challenging president obama. i mean he opened the speech with a mix of praise and said that there are things that people have seen and there are things that people will never see and i'm grateful for that and then he took it to him. on isis there's a lady view in the united states that well you have the sunnis on the one hand and the shia on the other. we're better to let them beat
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each other up and stand back. his argument is that is naive to assume that can happen and you don't want to become iran's de facto friend in the battle. >> can i say one thing about what i think the speech does? this becomes a main talking point in the 2016 presidential race. you know the reaction to this and republicans are going to be falling all over themselves lining up to be best friends with israel but it also puts hillary clinton in an interesting position because she has to respond to this. she has to respond to sanctions. she has to respond to nuclear -- to iran's nuclear program and these are things she's not wanted to do. if she gets in the race next month, she's going to be forced to answer all of them. >> and the election in israel so she won't be able to ignore it. >> you see elizabeth warren who is more progressive. boycotting the speech. she's running toward the white house not from it and i think she's doing it from design. she would likely seek president obama's endorsement if she'll run but remember the last
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election there was a calling of a lot of moderates in the democratic party. this is a progressive, more liberal, democratic party that they have. a lot of them boycotted the speech and they're in charge here so now they have to explain not just going to the speech but their support of a president who, again steve and i keep talking about was essentially called naive today by benjamin netanyahu. >> i want to get back to the bones of the speech steven. at one point, we knew that secretary kerry had warned netanyahu not to give away classified details. at one point the prime minister seemed to k the deal. did we get secrets in that? what did we get? >> he prefaced that section of the speech by saying, this doesn't have to be divulging of sensitive information. you can google this. >> a lot of centrifuge information is out there. >> right. i think he did get into the details of the deal exactly the things that have been reported and what was interesting is two, three weeks ago when we first saw media reports of some
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particulars of the deal the administration went out of its way to knock those down and suggest that they weren't true. and now what you've seen in an interview the president gave yesterday and comments from the podium the last few days the administration is confirming those reports. what netanyahu tried to do today was systematically challenge the parameters of the deal. >> he laid out what was wrong with it made the conversation about we can't accept that sunset clause and if we need to we, israel we go it alone. >> kennedy made an interesting point. we might not have had the speech so elevated had the president pushed so hard, a not to meet to be doing other things. the vice president out of the country. >> in guatemala. >> i mean it put the focal point right there on netanyahu and as you say, he delivered with a lot of detail. we'll continue talking about this. in fact we're waiting reaction from house democrats to israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu's speech despite the fact that dozens decided to skip it. we'll bring you that when it happens.
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and we'll go live to jerusalem for reaction there to a very powerful, more than 30 minutes of words. stay close. >> iran's neighbors know that iran will become even more aggressive and sponsor even more terrorism when it's economy is unshackled and it's been given a clear path to the bomb. and many of these neighbors say they'll respond by racing to get nuclear weapons of their own. so this deal won't change iran for the better. it will only change the middle east for the worse.
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>> this deal won't change iran for the better. it will only change the middle east for the worse. a deal that is supposed to prevent nuclear proliferation would only spark the arms race. >> that was prime minister netanyahu speaking to congress just moments ago about the threat from iran arguing that there should not be a deal that would allow iran to have nukes. for reaction from the middle east, let's go to conner powell live in jerusalem. >> andrea, reaction still coming in from the speech but generally when you talk to people here from what we're seeing on the street and on television in
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terms of reaction is it's being credited as a very strong speech on iran and prime minister netanyahu really did an excellenton of conveying his message to the united states but there are other points you get from television and columnists and people here and one is that they really do fear that the damage done from this speech to both relationship to the white house and the democrats is long lasting and cannot be fixed. there's a huge fear here in israel about a damaged relationship to the united states going forward and what that might mean. when you talk to people here there's a concern in the middle of the israeli election weeks away about the economy here. israel is in a tough neighborhood. most israelis will tell you they have a concern about hezbollah, isis and iran. while netanyahu gets real credit for this speech in terms of his ability to convey the dangers of iran, the big issues here in
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israel from leading up the past few days and here in the last few minutes after the speech really do seem to be the american relationship with israel and also the economy and it's important to know, andrea i spoke to a really important advisers to netanyahu in the last 24 hours and they all said they thought tomorrow the world will wake up and the people who thought that iran needed to be contained will still believe that way and those who thought that the policy, nuclear program needs to be removed and dis dismantled completely will believe that. the speech won't change anything. that's important for netanyahu in the election going forward. >> thank you, conner. you just watched benjamin netanyahu. we covered it here live and continuing with some analysis. i want to go to you. perhaps you may think this wasn't the right venue for netanyahu but what else is benjamin netanyahu supposed to do? i understand he's in a tough
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re-election fight. conner was talking about the stakes on the ground for him how many israelis believe that this is damage and they don't know what this could mean but what else when the existence of your country is in jeopardy, what else was netanyahu supposed to do? >> and i think you got that from his speech. from the urgency of the speech he said we have to do this. we will do this alone if we aren't given an opportunity to do it with the united states. it was very interesting to hear conner talk about the sense on the streets in jerusalem. you know, it's certainly going to be the case the economy will play a major role in the election but i will be surprised if this wasn't the central issue. how can it be a side issue when you're talking about the existence of your country? it is a threat to israel. i don't know whether his speech will change minds in israel. it will change minds here. >> that is a great point. and i think a lot of this had to do with the conversation about israel and the u.s. and the conversation we'll have as you
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pointed out in the next election because you look at how popular benjamin netanyahu was going into this speech a 45% approval rating here in the u.s. among the american people, higher than it's been in a long time. you look at the standing ovation that he got coming into that chamber politicians clamoring to the aisle to be next to him to shake his hand the cheers the powerful speech he gave and the applause that's what it looks like to be a politician surround by folks who love you. a lot of politicians in this next election are going to be tested on do you line up with israel or not? israel does need us they need our money. >> i think it broadened or changed the discussion. he brought ened it. he brought it to something we've been debating here at home which is the threat of militant islam and he said, look. the last thing you want is militant islam to get a nuclear weapon. if you're watching netanyahu
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speak at home and you're not familiar with the complexities of middle east politics, i thought he brought down and married the two threats and went after the threat and broke it down for any viewer watching at home that isn't familiar with it to say, this is why you should care. this is why it matters to you, that the white house isn't taking this seriously. >> didn't you also in your mind, as soon as he was laying that out, go directly to the next question of well what should we do if they don't come back to the table in terms of the end of march? then he answered it. he said look. if they don't walk -- if they walk away, they don't come back they'll be back because they need this deal more than anybody, the sanctions are hurting. and then he went on to say, what happens if you don't do a bad deal? what does a good deal look like? it's not war. he said right now what it looks like is our only two choices laid out. he didn't say the administration but who else is saying it? war versus getting a deal. he said no. those aren't options. our options are get a better deal. they'll come back.
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>> right now, they're talking about this 10-year freeze so all iran has to do is either a wait the 10 years to get the nuclear weapons or they can get the weapon and what are we going to do with it? that's the question. when samantha power said we will not allow them to acquire the bomb period, my first thought is or else what? >> sure, they'll document if you're violating international agreements but they're not going to do anything to stop it. sanctions aren't going to stop iran from trying to get a nuclear weapon. what this did to speak to your point was it raises a lot of questions for the american people. you know it raises a lot of questions for people, you know in israel they're far more versed on the threat of their daily extinction or the daily threat of their extinction. this laid it out so clearly and so concisely that i think a lot of people are going to be asking
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questions of this president and, you know why haven't you given us a similar road map? >> i think you're right. >> if you're so passionate about your feelings with iran if this is the hallmark of your diplomacy, lay that out for us. he tends to get so casual and dismissive. >> netanyahu addressed it directly. president obama talks about iran as if it's a perspective friend. recentlypeat repeatedly, he said he was going to do it. he's reached out his hand those overtures have been rebuffed and yet, the president doesn't change his tune and he talks about iran as reentering as a nation that's poised to reenter the community of nations. and netanyahu actually used that phrase which was an obama phrase said you can't reenter the community of nations when you're acting like a rogue state. >> you know he's talking about 1979, 36 years ago. think how quickly that passed.
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>> why does the president of our nation see such potential in an enemy that netanyahu sees so clearly? i want to ask the president that. where is the -- >> this is how he approached the rogue states from the beginning. >> i wanted to mention, there's a reception for netanyahu that was scheduled to immediately follow his speech near the floor so he's meeting there and being received and then there are meetings that are scheduled this afternoon with mitch mcconnell and minority leader harry reid and so we expect to get some news to be made from that. we'll report it as it happens. just to give you an outlay of what his day is going to look like. >> what does the white house say now? does it change their calculus at all? you just responded to harris and you said this is his world view. i mean i believe it's one of arrogance, that he thinks he can just speak and sort of heal the wounds like he did in cairo or he's the one that can bridge the gap. does it change the white house's
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calculus at all or just speak to the fact they believe that every country is exceptional and so is iran so they have a right to get a bombing? what do they say now? >> you're more likely to have the president blow past the threat as he has in the past and talk about the possibility of iran and last century thinking about hostilities with iran and the nature of this threat. he hasn't wanted to address it. i think he's facing additional pressure to address it in part because we've seen more of these documents that were captured in osama bin laden's compound in 2011 come out and the latest batch of those documents detailed in great detail provided a picture of iran's relationship with al qaeda. that will be something the president will have to speak to as well. >> i think republicans should piggy back on netanyahu and use it as an opportunity to make the link just like netanyahu did. new questions for hillary clinton over the news that she used her private email account for official business the entire
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time she was secretary of state. a big no-no that could become a huge problem. and it raises serious questions about just what kind of white house we could see under clinton. and more on today's historic moment. israeli prime minister netanyahu making his case to congress against allowing iran to go nuclear. the reaction we'll have it from house democrats. many of whom were big no shows at today's speech. >> in this deadly game of thrones there's no place for america, no peace for christians jews or muslims who don't share the medieval creed. no rights for women no freedom for anyone. so when it comes to iran and isis, the enemy of your enemy is your enemy. just isn't enough to ease my constipation i trust dulcolax tablets. i take dulcolax for dependable overnight relief and in the morning i am back to myself
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>> fox news alert as we welcome you back to "outnumbered now." a situation we're watching,
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we're waiting new reaction to the netanyahu speech. i just found from our producer in d.c. that some 60 or so said they were going to boycott. we don't know the exact number because they don't take attendance but we know that the list included al franken of minnesota elizabeth warren of massachusetts on the senatorial side and many house members, including some members in the congressional black caucus congressman ellison among them. let's watch and listen. >> some who attended the event, some who didn't but all of whom have something to say about his appearance. first of all, again these remarks only attributable to me. everyone can speak for him or herself. first i would like to congratulate speaker boehner and prime minister netanyahu on a very impressive bit of political theater. now the prime minister can go home to his campaign and say he lectured congress and the american people on things that apparently we didn't know.
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i think the speech validated all the reasons i said i was opposed to the speech. i expected the prime minister to speculate on and mischaracterize the negotiations and a potential deal. for instance, he continually said that the deal ends in a certain period of time and there are no restrictions, would be no restrictions on iran's nuclear program after the case expired. that's not the case but again, that's part of the strategy that he used. i resented the con descending tone that he used which basically indicated that he didn't think anybody in congress or the country understood the threat that eye nuclear weaponized iran poses to his country to the region and to the world. i think the president has made it very clear we understand that threat. i don't think that there's any
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doubt that everyone in congress and the administration understands that iran has been a bad actor in the region that it's sponsored terrorism, that it has done things that we would like to see changed. we all know that. it's nice of him to remind us. and i also resent the fact that he was telling us how to negotiate when the administration and their representatives have been at this for two years now with the cooperation, participation of five other major nations in the world. this speech was straight out of the dick cheney playbook. it was mongerring at its ultimate. phrases like essentially saying nuclear war is inevitable if this deal were to be a deal accepted, phrases like this would pave the way to iran having a nuclear bomb these are things that i think are, again part of what dick cheney woof
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done and did. this has been prime minister's pattern. he's gone to the u.n. and done the same thing. i understand and as all of us do all of us who desperately support israel and care very deeply about israeli security that israel perceives its threat differently than we might. but i don't think there is any question that the administration and all of us understand that threat and are trying our best to thwart it. the only -- my final comment prime minister netanyahu basically said that the only acceptable deal was the perfect deal or an ideal deal. it's like the child who says i want to go to disneyland every day eat ice cream and drink coca-cola every day and not going to school. that would be a nice life for a child but it's serious business and conducted in a very very
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real world. idealism is fine as william f. buckley once said but the costs become prohibitive and i believe in insisting on the ideal deal in a world where things constantly change and realities change, is something that for which the cost would be proceed prohibitive and those costs would be a lost opportunity to put an end to the iran nuclear program. i would like to introduce david price of north carolina. >> thank you john. good morning. members here individually made our decisions about attending the speech but what we're united in is our determination to learn from this controversy, the controversy that surrounded the speech and to move on to reinforce the u.s.-israel, a secure relationship and protect the world from a nuclear armed iran.
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speaker boehner should never have extended this invitation at this time given the proximity of the speech to the israel national elections and delicate international negotiations which the prime minister clearly wishes to up end are hanging in the balance at this moment. and prime minister netanyahu should not have accepted this invitation which was extended without the usual consultation of bipartisan leadership and the normal notification of and consultation with the president. for these reasons the invitation and the speech set a dangerous precedent wheres about congressional leaders can invite a foreign politician to publicly oppose the policies of the sitting president on the house floor. in doing so we not only tarnish the grand tradition of the joint session. we also run the risk of politicizing relationships, in this case a special relationship dedicated to israel's prosperity but the speech has happened.
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now we have to determine the best way forward. we must give new consideration to what the prime minister has said which isn't dependent on the form in which he said it. we must also subject his charges and claims to intense scrutiny. for example the notion that everything has to be solved in terms of our bi lateral issues before anything can be solved. for example, the description of the deal which makes an agreement seemingly totally out of reach. we must redouble our efforts to protect israel the region and the world from a nuclear armed iran. these are tough negotiations. of course they're tough. but there are no good alternates to bringing a comprehensive, strong and enforceable agreement to fruition. it's extremely important for us and for the international community to stay on that course. through all of this our committment to a safe and secure israel must remain firm and open dialogue is critical to that
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process. all of us i think, stand ready to engage in israeli leaders from across the political spectrum. this speech today wasn't about whether we agreed or disagreed. it was about the circumstances of this invitation and the lasting damage it could do but it's our job now to get past this controversy to focus on the task at hand securing the relation shepard:ship with israel and an enforceable agreement to prevent a nuclear iran. >> the democrats reacting to netanyahu's speech today, some of them attended and some of them did not. we'll pull away from the lectern right now. congressman david price, democrat from north carolina the speech sets a dangerous precedent. melissa, you shouted this is
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democracy. >> the dangerous precedent was that folks from other nations who oppose the sitting president can come and address congress for the american people. oh, no. we can't allow that. we don't want opposing view points to be aired. isn't that the very heart beat of our country? isn't that democracy that you disagree publicly? you hashish u -- hash issues out? >> we're keeping a close eye on this. we can go back at any moment but went to talk about some of the verbal flame throwing just going down. nothing particularly surprising i heard you say, andrea. we knew the democrats were angry, many of them boycotting. i gave loose numbers earlier of maybe those who wouldn't show up but to hear the democrat from kentucky say, he can go home netanyahu. you had a visceral reaction. >> that was surprising. he basically said you can go back to the country and say how
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he lectured congress. this was disrespectful. it was in poor taste. it was arrogant. it was con descending and frankly he was projecting. everything that he accused the prime minister of doing he was doing. and then to accuse this of being political, to drag in dick cheney somehow and talk about fear mongerring? that was the most political line i've heard in weeks come out of a democrat's mouth on capitol hill. harris harris, the white house calls up, they see which attack dogs they can put out there to do a press conference. they put the one that's going to say the strongest rhetoric out there first. that's exactly what they did. i don't think that this did them any favors. but i'm just -- i was actually really surprised at the tone that they took with this. >> and they tried to say thanks for the speech. we already know all of this. the american people, they don't know a lot of this. they don't know about the ties between isis and iran.
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>> we've come back with a fox news alert. we've got a lot of news breaking particularly inside capitol hill right now. we're watching and those are some fiery words once she got her notes straight there. that was jan the democrat in reaction to netanyahu's speech a short time ago. we took it live here on fox news channel. democrats pretty acrimony yus in their remarks today and that's being generous in terms of how it's been. some has been downright verbally flame throwing. the democrat out of illinois just laying it out as she saw it comparing some words that netanyahu had said in the past about any sort of deal with iran to where we are today. compare and contrast and i don't put it too rightly she got lost in her notes and we got lost in
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what she was lost in. there's a lot of emotion on capitol hill now. democrats have come to the hill with a lot to say. you said it felt like the white house might have deployed some folks. >> they've done a lot of damage on their own but this is to date the most i think nasty language that we've heard. susan rice said it's destructive but this was, i think, way too far to put them out there and literally lecture netanyahu and somehow say that we know what we're doing. i don't think people know what you're doing and by the way, look at the approval rating for congress. what is it? in the single digits? netanyahu's approval rating in the united states of america is quadruple that and i would love to go to you to get your reaction on how you think again this plays, not just the speech but this is the tone that democrats are taking with the country of israel making them look pretty hostile. >> that's the keyword. tone. i don't think there's anything wrong if you have a principle difference with the speech that prime minister netanyahu gave to
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articulate the differences but john from kentucky compared netanyahu to a child who wants to go to disney world. >> and drink coke all day long. >> and get everything he wants. >> we don't want to be lectured on the way we negotiate. the white house has not done a great job negotiating. he said the cost to not doing this deal is losing the opportunity to end iran's nuclear program. that is what john said was at stake here. we either agree to this or totally lose the opportunity what? >> and david price said -- >> i'm just going to cut you off for just a second. wire going to come back to this. i do find it fascinating the administration did not have a single person in attendance at the speech but they're quick to have a lot of reaction through these democratic lawmakers who have come out. we'll take a quick break come back and continue the discussion. when it makes news, we'll bring it to you. stay with us.
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more. >> iran is as radical as ever. that same america is called to great safety. this shouldn't be surprising because the ideology of iran's revolutionary regime is deeply
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rooted in militant islam. and that's why this regime will always be an enemy of america. >> you are watching history be made today. this hour, exploding with breaking news. you're just hearing there the speech that was here live on fox news channel a short time ago from the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. why is it historical? a lot of reasons. for one he just laid out a case for why you cannot trust iran and what they're really grounded in. how important is that? what does it make our president look like political ly? >> i think it's very important to lay out the threat and it's one of the most striking things of the six wreerz of the obama administration. we have not yet to this point in the administration heard a single speech from a senior administration official devoted to laying out the threat from iran in the way that we heard, just heard from benjamin netanyahu. and i think we need to have a discussion about the threat from iran just as we needed to have a debate about the threat from iraq before the iraq war, something that president obama said at the time. we need to have a debate if we're choosing not to go to war.
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>> democrats are delighting in a rift with israel. the only place more giddy about that disconnect is iran. your thoughts? >> i think it isn't often that you see history in the making. that is what we saw today that was a powerful speech. it changed the conversation here in the u.s. something to watch. >> this is very tough for the white house now. the ball is in their court and they're going to have to respond and they're in a really, really tough position after the speech today. >> fox news channel as we always do we'll continue to bring you breaking news. democrats still on the capitol hill in reaction to the prime minister's speech today. "happening now" is now.
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>> we start with a fox news alert. democrats reacting to benjamin netanyahu's strong warning about iran to the the u.s. congress. >> and the invitation to the israeli prime minister that left the obama administration out of the loop. >> the remarkable a liiance between israel and the united states is always been above politics and will always remain above politics. >> a defineing moment for america and israel. israel's regime poses a great threat not only to israel, but the peace for the entire world. >> raising the stakes with iran. and the reaction to the prime minister's controversial speech

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