with prime minister netanyahu's commentary than i am with congress taking actions that might undermine the talks before they are completed. >> good day, i'm andrea mitchell on capitol hill where israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu just competed a controversial speech hammering home his passionate opposition to any potential nuclear deal within the white house and iran that leaves them the ability to enrich uranium. the atmosphere inside the chamber was electric. defied white house criticism from some of the leading military leaders who say the public challenge to the white house policy could make an iran deal even more likely. kelly o'donnell was in the house chamber during the speech and joins me now. kelly, what was the atmosphere? we saw right away that he gave a shout-out to harry reid the democratic leader who had been injured in a fall and that was an automatic standing ovation from the democratic side

including some of his critics. >> exactly, i'm still inside the house chamber where several hundred guests who were attending as guests of congressman are also still here and quite a number of people still on the house floor though the tv lights have been dimmed at this point. the atmosphere was one where you saw about by my count, 15 standing ovations that involved both democrats and republicans. only one time was there a very strong republican dominated standing ovation and that's when benjamin netanyahu talked about rejecting the deal. i also noticed and i'm going off facial expressions and gestures nancy pelosi appeared very agitated and uncomfortable for a long stretch of the speech. she did participate in some of the applause but seemed distressed by what she was hearing. that will be interesting to follow up to see what particularly made her appear so uncomfortable. we watched as netanyahu tried to

send a message to congress of thanks when he talked about this capitol dome helping to support the iron dome of israel the many times that congress has been a friend to israel. and also talking about president obama and the things he has done for israel that are not publicly known due to their security nature. and netanyahu saying he knows and will never forget those. clearly trying to tone down the pre-speech politics by acknowledging especially democrats in the room in a personal way. >> kelly o'donnell in the house chamber for what was a history making movement. joining me now, jeffrey goldberg for the atlantic. we've been watching netanyahu for many years, through all of his inkrcarnations. >> very right wing. >> exactly. >> he is american raised and raised in suburban philadelphia cheltenham high school he knows

what a state of the union looks like and now a target of a serious investigation of ethics issues leading up to this election two weeks from now is elly, the icon of the holocaust. >> the staging was unbelievable. it has an air of unbelievability to this because this seemed like the republican response to the state of the union in some ways. a foreign policy response to an obama -- >> on the grand scale. >> you don't get a republican response like that to a state of the union. the interesting thing for me the topic was -- the text was iran but subtext was obama. the target of this speech was president obama, john kerry, their negotiators and basically his message was, do not trust obama to get a good deal. he is too naive. despite all of the rhetoric kelly pointed out obama has done this for israel and that for israel, but you cannot trust

them to do this the iranians are outfoxing them and even referred to the persian bazaar element to this. the references for the american jewish community and world jewish community back home is that this is the eve of the festival that celebrates queen queenester and the defeat of the persian king. >> he sees history replaying itself right before his eyes and so he's casting this in grand terms. by the way, very effective terminology to a country united states, that is largely christian and understands the stories of the bible. he ended with moses. if you can bring in moses to your argument, you're having a pretty good day. >> two weeks before his own election at home more on that in a second. jeff goldberg, stay with us.

we're bringing in from capitol hill louis gutierrez, a member of congress, a democrat who is one of more than 40 democrats notably absent from the speech. congressman, thank you very much for being with us. what did you not attend? >> andrea because i didn't want to be part of a political prop to weeks before an election. i think the president if anything we come away from what did he say today that he couldn't have said in two weeks at which point he may very well be re-elected prime minister and come back with that mandate. then we could have sat down as friends and allies and the strategic alliance we have with israel without the bipartisan shift. i get why my republican friends stand up. they stand up for anybody that criticizes barack obama. barack obama says yes, they say no. and he says white, they say black. we know that.

they are against everything barack obama. that's always united. i want there to be a more fundamental unity with israel a strategic unity. we're there best friends and they are our best friends and friends don't have public spats like this. friends work with each other and respect each other. >> congressman, what about his point that north korea cheated the u.s. and the international atomic energy inspectors were blocked from north korea and iran has cheated in the past. what to the substance of his argument about why trust iran with a 10-year freeze when they could break out within a year as the president himself acknowledged? >> they said the same thing to nixon. they said the same thing to ragen. and we need to verify. here's what i believe. i believe we need to give the negotiations in which the united states is a world leader and bringing together a coalition, including germany and members of the permanent security council of the u.n. we're a coalition

builder in working with and negotiating with iran. look the germans aren't -- the german authorities aren't stupid. the french the english, and our intelligence services are all working together. much of what prime minister netanyahu knows is because of the close inner working of the intelligence services of the united states and israeli intelligence services and nothing should be done to undermine that close working relationship which fosters democracy and fosters the strength of those who want to stop terrorism around the world. here's what i'd like to do. i'd like to give the negotiations an opportunity so that we can see the final plan. we don't know all of the plan. but here's -- you know andrea i guess i'm a little lucky, one of the members of the intelligence committee so last year i said to myself given the kind of information i have and the kind of certainty that our

intelligence services feel in terms of being able to monitor the deal you can always strike militarily against iran but to have a negotiated settlement is a one type proposition. if they falter we will not falter. the president was pretty clear, right and so was susan rice and everybody yesterday. we're not going to accept a bad deal. we're not going to accept a deal that puts at risk the certainlity, that's now who we are as a nation. >> luis gutierrez, thank you very much, who did not attend the speech. we go over to the senator from maine, the independent senator angus king. senator king thank you very much, why did you attend the speech? >> well what i do around here is listen and learn. i thought it was important to be there to hear what the prime

minister had to say. i had some reservations about the invitation and the way the whole thing is handled and the fact he's two weeks from his major election in israel but overall i thought it was important to be there, to be able to hear and see firsthand what his comments were. i thought he made a really strong presentation. it was i think very well constructed speech. he started out by praising the president and going beyond sort of proforma praise and talking about the things the president had done for israel that weren't well known. then he moved into his criticism of the deal. i think my only criticism of the speech is he was criticizing a deal that's not done yet they are talking about it at this very moment in geneva. he was giving us a warning but it may have been more appropriate about a month from now. >> to that point, the president in an interview laid out the

terms leaked from the negotiations but which he confirmed himself in an interview that it is a 10-year freeze that they would expect a one-year breakout and that would be enough time he believes for either military action or rallying forces around the world for more sanctions against iran. what about netanyahu's argument that first of all, it wouldn't be one year it would be less than that that iran is more capable, secondly that eyes won't be on and iran has cheated before and this is a bad deal that threatens the survival of israel and potentially the larger regions around the world. >> as i said number one, i think we need to see what the final deal looks like. there may well be changes between now and two weeks from now. the investigation is going on at this very moment. i think in terms of the breakout time, this whole deal rises or falls on the level of verification ronald reagan said

trust to verify. in this case i would say don't trust and verify like hell. this has to be really looked at daily closely and thoroughly as part of this -- as part of this arrangement let's see what they come up with. i thought the weakest part was the part that wasn't there, what do we do if everybody walks away? what happens next. and i hope and believe that the next step would be further sanctions. there's a very important point being lost in all of this and that is that somehow this is america and iran. there are five other countries, major countries involved in this situation. and it's their enforcement of the sanctions that is really biting iran. we haven't been buying iranian oil for 30 years. it's china and the other countries that are involved that are enforcing these sanctions that are making them effective,

they've got to be part of this discussion too because if we say we want stronger sanctions and japan and india and russia and china say we're tired of this regime, then the pressure is off iran whatever we and israel decide. >> angus, king thank you for joining us on a very important day on capitol hill. in a moment, dianne feinstein, the top democrat joins us. you're watching "andrea mitchell reports" only on msnbc. and her sensitive stomach didn't make things easier. it was hard to know why... the move...her food...? so we tried purina cat chow gentle... ...because it's specially formulated for easy digestion. she's loved it ever since. and as for her and ben... ...she's coming around. purina cat chow gentle. one hundred percent complete and balanced for everyday feeding of adult cats.

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a deal that's supposed to prevent nuclear proliferation would instead spark a nuclear arms race in the most dangerous part of the planet. this deal won't be a farewell to arms it would be a farewell to arms control. and the middle east would soon be criss-crossed by nuclear

tripwires, where small skirmishes can turn into big wars and turn into a nuclear tinderbox. >> the netanyahu speech joining me the executive vice president at brookings and jeffrey goldberg, national correspondent for the atlantic here with me as well. ambassador, thanks for being with us. what is your judgment of netanyahu's substantive argument against iran? you have negotiated all of these points before for many years. >> he makes a very good argument andrea i think he delivered it very well but he made a judgment at the end which was his bottom line he said this is a very bad deal and we're better off without it. and there are two problems with that. we don't know what the actual deal is it hasn't been completed yet. so to prejudge is in this way is

at a minimum premature. to say we're better off without it, it's incumbent on him, the prime minister to talk about what would be the alternative. what he didn't say in his speech is that yes, if this deal is done iran will be a year away from a nuclear weapon but today they are three months away from a nuclear weapon. if there's no deal then there's nothing to stop them from continuing the centrifuges and building up their nuclear stockpile of material to make a bomb and then what are we going to do? he didn't address any of those questions. >> that's to the point, jeff goldberg, that john kerry has been making during this interim agreement which was initiated last january and extended twice, he claims iran has not been cheating. >> right, i mean there is no proof that iran has been cheating and the president is quite upset with netanyahu for a

very specific thing, there would be massive cheating and the sanctions would collapse and they haven't. obama is using that as proof that netanyahu doesn't know everything and can't predict the future. that feeds into the narrative the white house is it putting out, that netanyahu is often wrong and not offering an alternative vision that doesn't involve military action against iran. >> ambassador indyk, you've dealt with iranians in past roles. at this stage is he right though not to trust iran which has cheated in the past hidden nuclear programs? he points to morningnorth korea, to the fact that the united states didn't know what north korea was building underground? >> i never had the mel an kolly pleasure of dealing with the iranians -- >> dealt with the policy. >> but their activities and he's absolutely right in what he

describes. i wonts argue with anything he said about the iranians their action across the region and sponsorship of terrorism and cheating and lying, all of that is true. what are we going to do about it? the purpose of the sanctions was to drive them to the table so we could negotiate meaningful curbs on their nuclear program. we can reach a judgment whether it's meaningful or not once we see what the deal is but the idea that we're going to kill the deal before it's actually made is something that i don't think it would be responsible for the president to go along with. >> i want to ask you both about the timing but first to switzerland and this was a comment made by the iranian foreign minister about netanyahu's speech. >> he's trying to but i don't think trying to create tension and conflict helps anybody. >> this was of course before

netanyahu spoke and this was going into the latest session with john kerry and other negotiators. let's get to the timing and charges of politics. why wouldn't have netanyahu have given the speech after his election given the fact that what he's trying to do is get congress to oppose the deal to either impose more sanctions or do something to undermine the negotiations, why couldn't have he waited a couple of weeks? >> he couldn't wait a couple of weeks and the reason why he cooked this invitation up was because he needs to show to the israeli public that they shouldn't worry about his toxic relationship with the president of the united states because congress has got his back. and that's what the israeli public if they were watching as i suspect they were was broadcast live we'll see today that he gave a great speech and got huge applause and congress has got his back.

for prime minister going into an election who is seen to have mishandled his relationship with the president of the united states it was for him back in 1988 today he's got a different narrative going into this election which is why he wanted to do it now. >> one interesting footnote to that is that under israeli election law, a judge was watching the speech. it was delayed five minutes on a five minute delay in broadcast in hebrew at least to israel so that an election judge could determine whether he had said something that was blatantly political against his opposition jeff goldberg and that part would have been cut out. >> there was nothing that was blatantly political except the entire thing was political. it was a campaign stop 6,000 miles from the nearest israeli voter. the most important campaign stop in this race. and yes, there are multiple reasons why he wanted to deliver a speech in washington to

confront obama, to highlight the iranian record but mainly at this moment it is because he is in a fierce competition for votes on the right. there's a chance that the center left party could actually come to power. he needs to consolidate the right wing behind him and to come to congress and stand up for the jewish people and invoke moses and elly in one speech is very powerful and this will probably be very effective. >> jeff goldberg and ambassador martin indyk, thank you very much. dianne feinstein after the break and her reaction to netanyahu's speech as well as the prime minister's top spokesman. >> his excellency, benjamin netanyahu. a 401(k) is the most sound way to go. let's talk asset allocation. sure. you seem knowledgeable professional. would you trust me as your financial advisor? i would.

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throwns, there's no place for america or israel when it comes to iran and isis the enemy of your enemy is your enemy. [ applause ] the difference is that isis is armed with butcher knives and capture weapons and youtube and iran could soon be armed with intercontinental ballistic missiles and nuclear bombs. >> dianne feinstein was at the prime minister's address and is the ranking member on the senate intelligence committee. senator, thanks very much for being with us. tell me there was controversy a number of your colleagues eight or more did not attend. why did you decide to attend? >> i think the relationship with israel certainly merits that i go and listen so i decided to do that. no question it was a very powerful speech. and i thought very smartly done. it was able to get all of the passions going very strongly.

where it was weak is how to actually solve the problem and prevent iran from achieving a nuclear weapon. and right now this is the only game in town. and the prime minister didn't come up with any solutions. i agree very much with what jeffrey goldberg and martin indyk had to say about it. i had hoped he would say what was a better deal and hoped he would say, we don't like a ten-year agreement but a 15-20 year agreement might be much better. but he didn't do any of that. he made a profound passionate speech against any agreement. but this isn't just the united states in this. this is all of the big powers what if the big powers agree and

the united states doesn't. what if there is no agreement? what willis israel do? he didn't say any of those things. it was clearly designed without knowing the bottom line of what is and i don't believe anyone knows the bottom line of exactly what the agreement is going to comprise, without knowing any of this he made the conclusion that it was a bad deal virtually no matter what. and i'm not there yet. i think we need to see what is achieved. i think we need to hear the attitude of iran. he is right about iran changing its behavior. the question comes can a good solid agreement accomplish a major change of behavior with iran. he would say no. so let's wait and see what the

agreement is and make up our own mind. the prime minister has made it clear that he believes this is a bad deal and other options though are better options. is there a military option is there? is there an option to go back for more sanctions given how hard it was to get the rest of the world to agree to sanctions in the first place? >> that's exactly right. if russia china, u.k. and germany and france would agree to go ahead with this -- remember, this was begun by the european commission -- if they were to agree to go with it and they will say, we will reduce sanctions. that would leave the united states totally out. supposing there's enough that the prime minister said that could break up a deal what replaces it? the only replacement i can think of is a military replacement. and that would be tragic because it would escalate and there

would be major loss of life. and it very well might not accomplish the purpose. >> do you worry though that the president and john kerry with all of their other foreign policy challenges are rushing too quickly or too eager for this deal? >> no i don't think they are. this has gone on for a long time. if it wasn't right and they thought they could make it right, i'm sure they would ask for an extension. right now it's march 24th and you see, this is another thing, the timing of it is such that it's a very sensitive time. so it can explode a possible deal or maybe it's helpful. i don't know. but the words were strong. it was carefully considered. the prime minister pulled on every heart string but certainly any person who is jewish has in them understanding the history,

understanding what's at stake and what annihilation and terror is like. everyone feels that way. can this work? he said it can't. i say i don't no i haven't heard the final terms and i know as much as anyone in the senate being in intelligence and going to the classified briefings. i don't know what the final numbers are. now, maybe the prime minister does i don't quite know how because i think there's some things that haven't been finally decided. so we'll have to see. >> senator, he has said he owes it to the jewish people and certainly to the people of israel to fight this agreement, which he says is a bad deal. does he speak for you? >> no he doesn't speak for me in that regard. he didn't -- if he were trying to bring me to his case why didn't he say what could be done

instead? why couldn't he give us a number of years that he would consider a good deal to be not ten years -- was it 15 years, 20 years? what is it? he didn't like the break-out period. it's my understanding that whatever the breakout period is it's very carefully calculated based on the nuclear assets that would be permitted to function. now, if they want to change that balance, why didn't he speak about what would be an acceptable balance? he called it a bad deal. but he didn't say what would be a good deal and he didn't say what would be an alternative. is he saying war would be a better deal? is he saying israel attacking iran would be a better deal? is that israel could guarantee that it would put iran's nuclear

possibilities out of the question? no, he didn't say that. he didn't say what would be expected of the major ally of israel which is clearly the united states of america should do either. so it got all of the juices and passions going. but when you look back at it and you say, well what are they recommending? what do they think would solve the problem? there was no answer. >> senator dianne feinstein, thank you very much for being with us today. >> thank you. >> appreciate it. joining me now the prime minister spokesperson directly from the chamber. thanks very much mark for being with us. >> my pleasure. >> what is the answer to the senator's question what would be a good deal? what would the prime minister propose? >> i think he said so in his speech clearly, instead of allowing the iranians to keep an enormous nuclear infrastructure

intact and just to observe that infrastructure infrastructure, inspect it, we have to talk about dismantling that nuclear infrastructure. that's where we think we should go and we think a good deal is a deal that makes that happen. >> is it the number of centrifuges or amount of enrichment that is permitted in this deal? you don't agree that this is a one-year breakout period you believe israel believes it is a shorter breakout period. what amount of nuclear capability could iran keep and still find the support of israel for any nuclear agreement? >> you'll recall andrea that the prime minister used a line in his speech where he said give us a deal that we might not like but a deal we can live with. in other words, a deal that isn't a pathway to a nuclear bomb for iran and unfortunately

a pathway, as he talked about it in the speech the possibility that other countries in the region will feel threatened by iran iran's arab neighbors and other countries, and go for their own nuclear programs. then you'll have multilateral nuclear proliferation in the most dangerous, unstable part of the world. that's not good for anybody who wants to see a peaceful world. it's important to get a better deal than the one that's now being considered. >> is the alternative military action? >> the prime minister said clearly and i urge people to read the transcript and look at his words. he didn't say the alternative is war. he said the alternative is a better deal. we have to hold out that the iranian regime is vulnerable to pressure economic pressure the price of oil coming down has hurt iranians as it helped us all and it's time to maintain the pressure and keep up the pressure on iran and hold that for a good deal that actually

closes down the iranian path for a bomb. we don't just want to kick this can down the road and have an iranian nuclear bomb explode ten years from now, similar to what you had with north korea. >> mark why did he give the speech now? why not wait until after the election so there wouldn't be these charges and white house concern about whether he was using this as a political platform? >> it would be nice to try to do that but the operative date is march 24th. march 24th is the target date for this deal with iran. we didn't want to be in a situation where we have to come afterwards and cry about a bad deal. we're trying to put our case on the table and we think our message is compelling. this isn't just an israeli interest. this is an american interest and all free peoples, we've got to stop iran from getting a nuclear weapon. if we waited we could have seen a bad deal already signed and

you know what would be the point. >> mark i want to ask you about something i was just handed which is a statement just issued by nancy pelosi the democratic leader whom i think you would acknowledge has for decades been a strong supporter and friend of israel's. she said that as one who values the u.s./israel relationship and loves israel i was near tears throughout the prime minister's speech saddened by the insult to the intelligence of the united states saddened by the knowledge of the threat posed by iran and broader commitment to preventing nuclear proliferation. that's by nancy pelosi one of your stronger allies in congress. >> i want to say the following. i urge everyone to read the transcript of the speech. he said this issue should not be a partisan issue. this should unite us and not divide us. the iranian regime with nuclear weapons is a danger to us all. the iranians today are building

intercontinental ballistic missiles the pentagon says so. they are not building those missiles for israel because they've got missiles that can target tel aviv and jerusalem. they are building those to reach targets well beyond the horizon, targets like north america, targets like the united states of america. now, no one in the history of the world has built an icbm for a conventional warhead. the iranian missile -- iranian nuclear program, these threaten us all. i urge people let's put the politics aside. let's look at the substance. i believe that if people do that they'll see that what my prime minister said today in congress is the argument is compelling. >> mark thank you so much and safe travels home. >> thank you very much andrea. >> thanks for being with us. >> after the break, more big political news today, hillary clinton's use of private e-mails goes public.

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of postpolitics.com and weapon weapon "washington post" columnist ruth marcus. first of all, colin powell used private e-mails and frequently telling friends he was trying to drag the state department's information system into the information age. he used his own e-mails and did not take records with him. and indicated to nbc news that the e-mail records would be as clinton had said hers would be with the recipients of the e-mails in the official colleagues. what about about this story? how much smoke and fire? >> i think it's not great andrea because i think it plays into what our existing narratives that many people either believe or suspect about the clintons they operate under their own set of rules are very political in the way they do things. they are surrounded at times by

enablers, people who don't say -- this might not be the best idea. i take your colin powell thing point, but he is not the de facto nominee for one of the parties in 2016. >> ruth what about how this affects clinton. a number of stories coming out in the run-up to a soft launch in april or more of a launch in april of the actual campaign. >> i don't think it's a good effect for her and i have to say that in terms of the analysis of what the legal requirements were back then i think that the critics of clinton have the better argument. i think it's fairly clear that the norm was this you were supposed to use your government e-mail account and to the extent that you used a personal e-mail account and not your government account, you are obligated to make sure that the government had those records archived. and i think the argument but my

e-mails were to state department colleagues so it was captured for history that way, just doesn't cut it. that means there's a lot of e-mails to foreign counterparts and things like that that were not archived. and finally, in terms of the colin powell he was -- we forget how quickly things change he was back in the stone age of e-mail dragging the department into the future. by the time secretary clinton was there, e-mail was the way we communicated and really was her responsibility to do a better job of this. i think the preexisting narrative part just adds to -- i don't know whether it's smoke or fire but adds to it. >> chris, of course this came to light because benghazi select committee asked for copies of her e-mail and the state department didn't have them? >> that's right. the thing i was most stunned by dree andrea, the fact that no one

thought to look into this and no one in the state department staff or broader clinton world said look i understand you want to use private e-mail and there's precedent for that. but let's set this official government account up she did not have according to "new york times," an official federal e-mail account. just to sort of set up and send the per funk tri stuff, you have to see the idea that the clinton folks look through the e-mails at the state department and decided the ones that would be appropriate to send. who decides what's appropriate and why are the clinton people doing it? there are a lot of questions they should have seen in advance. >> chris cillizza and ruth marcus, before i go i want to read a statement from nick for hillary clinton, like secretaries of state before her she used her own e-mail account when engaging with department officials and every expectation they would be retained.

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tables in his favor? then john boehner blinks the drama as the house speaker moves to end the dhs stalemate at the risk of enraging his caucus nks. hillary clinton under fire for using personal e-mail while conducting official business as secretary of state and seriously that happened the portrait of bill clinton with a not so hidden nod to monica lewinsky and the dress. we'll talk to the artist live this hour. we begin with today's top story, prime minister netanyahu getting standing os on capitol hill where he began his highly anticipated speech by raising israel's relationship with the u.s. >> some perceive my being here as political, that was never my intention. i know that no matter on which side of the aisle you sit, you stand with israel. >> you could hear it there, it was during