role is in our democracy, pushing transparency and holding people accountable. when it comes to becauseabusing the power of government aaron schock won't be the first. have a great day. a manhunt is under way following the deadly terror attack in tunisia. the head of the secret service is grilled on capitol hill and president obama floats the idea of mandatory voting. but first, as benjamin netanyahu moves to form a government in israel, the u.s. may be stepping closer to a nuclear deal with iran. it's thursday, march 19th and this is now. >> america has no greater ally than israel. >> a draft nuclear deal with iran is now being circulated. the state department disputing the associated press report. >> we're hearing a lot of mixed messages. >> there is no draft document

being circulated. >> you don't want the formal sponsor of global terrorism armed with atomic weapons. that's bad for everyone. >> the president has signaled he doesn't want to work with netanyahu. >> the u.s.-israeli relationship is really too big to fail. >> like it or not, bb is king. >> i'm luke russert in for alex wag in wagner. deal or no deal? that's the question being asked of u.s. officials, following reports that a draft nuclear deal had been reached between the united states and iran. this morning the united states press report reported this cap deal would stop at 6,000 for a decade or more. a deal u.s. officials denied throughout the day. >> my understanding is there is no draft. that is erroneous and indeed our spokesperson clarified that for you. >> i can tell you definitively there is no draft document that's being circulated.

>> the sensitive nuclear negotiations currently taking place between john kerry and his uranian counterpart in switzerland, comes as benjamin netanyahu has won another term in office. in an exclusive interview with nbc's andrea mitchell today, his first since the election netanyahu laid out his terms for a nuclear deal. >> i think we can get a better deal. if i had to vote on that negotiating deal i would say zero. the most important thing is that the lifting of restrictions on iran's nuclear program would dip. and iran's change of behavior that it would stop the aggression against just about every country in the region and stop calling and threatening the annihilation of israel. i remain committed to that. i think that's the right policy. >> when andrea asked whether president obama had called him yet, post election.

netanyahu insisted the relationship between the u.s. and israel was, well, as strong as ever. >> has he called you yet? >> secretary kerry called me yesterday. i'm sure i'll be speaking to president obama soon. we'll work together. we have to. we have our differences on iran. by coming to the u.s. i didn't mean any disrespect or any attempt at partisanship. america has no greater ally than israel. israel has no greater ally than the united states. >> the best of friends. joining me now is senior foreign affairs correspondent for politico, mr. michael crowley. and distinguished scholar at the woodrow wilson center aaron miller. thank you so much for being on the the show gentlemen. >> pleasure. >> netanyahu in his final days going for the race aaron, he seemed to say that he was no longer in favor of a palestinian state. seems to have backtracked a little on that considering the u.s., there was a possibility of talks the u.s. would not be as

supportive of israel. if in fact he stayed on that position. i want to play what he said recently. >> i haven't changed my policy. i never retracted my speech six years ago. calling for a demilleitarized state. i don't want a one-state solution. but for that circumstances has to change. >> so aaron, did he just flip-flop, flip-flop again? what is the real deal here in you think netanyahu can be supportive of a palestinian state? or did he go so far to capitulate, is that really not a possibility for him now? zbr. >> far more fundamental is the reality that he has always been conditional. it's not one of his top priorities. it's not how he sees himself. it's not how he wants to spend his time.

and what he did in campaigning, and astute from a political point of view, and it's gotten into heaps of trouble from the obama administering. he presented a real view. he stripped away the illusion which the obama administration also maintains, i might add. that somehow during the course of the next 20 months john kerry is going to broker a two-state solution between an israeli prime minister who is not committed to one, a pal palestinian president presiding over a movement that's split and looks like noah's ark. in which there are two of everything. two views of what constitutes where palestine is and what it is, and an administration headed by a president, who frankly, unlike his secretary of state, i think understands what the real deal is. and isn't going to spend a lot of time invested in this particular issue. obama already won on the sweep stakes. ful he will have demonstrated

that he's not only stood up to his own -- well republican dominated congress. but he's also to a degree -- >> and his own party. and his own party to some degree. michael, i want to go to you. in terms of the whole conversation about the palestinian state, was there a real threat of the united states in fact not being as ardent of an ally of israel? didn't netanyahu have to walk this back? the the secret was back that there's no way they could standby this position as they did right before the election. >> well, i don't think it was the case that the u.s. was about to start lobbying hard for lots of u.n. resolutions that were condemning israel. i think it might have been the case that we were going to kind of make netanyahu sweat a little more so to speak. maybe let things move a little

further than they had. or let some softer version of things we vetoed in the past go along. by the way, it's not just about what we do at the u.n. for instance, the european union could impose sanctions on israel because of settlements. and that's a debate very lively in europe, and that the obama administration has generally taken israel's side. but that's a case where we could make expend a little less capital. he got too far out rhetorically. at the same time there's a little bit of shock on the administration. i think they always knew that his heart isn't in the two-state solution. he totally revealed himself. as aaron pointed out, they always knew where he stands. >> michael, staying here in the united states, one thing that i was fascinated by is the degree to opposition within president

obama's own party, regarding this possible iran deal. there is legislation moving forward in congress that would essentially call for a congressional review of any possible deal. getting close to a veto-proof majority. that's how many democrats want their fingerprints on this at the end of the day. what sort of ground is the administration operating on right now? it seems to be shaky. you have your own party saying we're going to let you do what we have to do. but we're not going to give you everything right away. >> it's extremely shaky, and a lot depends on what those democrats do. the republicans are sort of the dramatic interesting story. they have the open letter to tehran, but the thing that really matters and the white house is watching closely, is what are those right now kind of 10 to 12 democrats, bob menendez is one of them. will they side with the republicans and essentially supporting congressional action that the white house says and the iranians says will blow up a deal. and we're up to a key deadline. and the senate democrats said

they don't show us something by march 24th and a lot of them say it's going to be on paper. it goes back to the whole issue of the draft resolution. that's part of something significant. after march 24th they say we're ready to start voting for things in the the senate. so we are coming up on a big day. the administration says march 31st. gave us until march 31st. >> either way they're going to need until the the summer to fine tune it. i don't know if they have that amount of time. it's been amazing what harry reid has been able to do to hold them back from the administration so far. aaron, i want to close out with you. in terms of what we have seen leaked out about this deal you have the a.p. report that was obviously knocked down by the state department, but within it you sart of see iran limited to 6,000 center fuses. iran gets immediate relief from sanctions. forcing them to cut the amount of hardware used to may an atomic bomb by 40% over the decade. would this the be an impossible deal, and how significant is this? is this something the president could sell or would congress be

outraged? >> you know, i think you're going to have republicans committed, it seems to me from now until the end of the administration, to a position of tremendous suspicion and opposition of any deal. there are no good deals with iran. there are only deals that minimize or maximize varying degrees of risk. congress will not lift sanctions during the course of his tenure. i think if in fact the president can negotiate an agreement, which leads to a smaller, slower, more easily monitored. he probably probably will be able to marshal the kind of support required to get -- well he'll have to use his own authority to suspend sanctions. but i think he probably will pass the "washington post" test. that instead of a situation

which iran accelerates, that you have at least created an imperfect alternative. one is defensible. let's be clear, there's no way any agreement, comprehensive or not, will relay suspensions. that iran ultimately over time wants to great an industrial grade infrastructure and have the option to weaponize. >> we'll see if it passes the test. michael crowley, aaron david miller, thank you so much being on the show. we appreciate it. take care. >> pleasure. pleasure. >> all right, one day after officials in tunisia said neither of the gunmen in yesterday's museum attack were linked to known terrorist groups. an a ud owe group came out this in which isis claimed responsibility for the attack that led 23 people dead. including 24 tourists. in the wake of the attacks, security forces arrested four people they said were directly linked to the operation. tunisian troops will be deployed as a defensive precaution.

outside the bardo museum, tunisians gathered as a show of unity in the fight against terrorism. joining me now is the coauthor of "find fix and finish: inside the count terrorism campaigns that killed bin laden and devastated al qaeda" is aki aki peritz. aki, thank you for being on the the show. >> thanks for having me luke. >> tunisia seems to have been regarding the arab spring sort of this one country where they've been able to progress and it's been sort of the gold standard, if you will of countries that were involved in the arab spring. but now there's a lot of worry they could be falling back. you obviously have them exporting more fighters to isis than any other country per capita. what is the future of tunisia, and what role does the united states play in the future? >> well, that's really interesting. you talk about one of the best.

you call them the golden child. the only child that made it through the fire and brimstone of 2011 that hasn't fallen into all-out civil war like we see in syria. in the terms of what what tunisia can really do, they have all these full-blown islamist groups. so for example, a couple of days ago before the shootings. they said up to 7,000 tunisian nationals are fighting for syria. so the fact that you have this relatively decent fragile democracy in north africa being threatened by the very very large group of their own nationals is really cause of concern. and there's are tons of very very soft targets throughout the country. museums, cafes, hotels you name it. you can't protect them all. and so it only takes a fairly small cell to cause massive havoc as we saw yesterday. >> as somebody who is very much involved with intelligence in the region it strikes me that

on the 12-year anniversary of the launch of the iraq war, is that we almost seem to know less about the region than we knew then. it's so difficult to put human resources on the ground and so many of these places that could be considered reliable. we were talking earlier that syria, it's almost impossible to get discernible intelligence from that specific country at this moment. what is the future of the united states intelligence gathering in these countries, in the region? can it actually get to the point where it is serviceable? because it seems that while countries certainly fear u.s. retaliation, they know the u.s. will not launch another full-scale war. how much can we really learn, and how much are we able to get? >> well the united states intelligence committee and also the defense community, they have a lot of relationships tw the various governments. most countries are actually not in sort of an anti-american syria situation. or even in yemen. the organizations in tunisia, algeria, other places.

we have a robust intelligence relationship with the local services. so you have these individuals and you have organizations trying their best to make sense of what's going on. remember the entire region has been up ended in the last two or three years. and with various terrorist groups emerging from almost nowhere. you have the civil war in syria becoming a jihadi magnet. so we really don't know. the we're riding a roller coaster, and we don't know where it's going to end. yeah, and it's a scary roller coaster to say the least. former cia analyst, aki, thank you for being on the show we appreciate it. >> thanks a lot. >> coming up hard to believe it here in the east but so far 2015 is breaking records for eat. plus, should there be an individual mandate for voting, and after the break, as security concerns grow around the world, real questions about the secret service here at home. all of that is up next on now.

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secret service director joseph clancy just wrapped up testimony in the senate testimony that sought to debunk reports that hissing as crashed a car into a white house barricade earlier this month. >> there was no crash. the video shows a vehicle entering the the white house complex at a speed of approximately one to two miles per hour. and pushing aside a plastic barrel. there was no damage to the vehicle. >> but according to lawmakers, the surveillance video doesn't show a clear picture of what happened. and some of the footage may not

exist anymore. that's because surveillance tapes around the white house are generally kept for 72 hours. as a don't spokesperson acknowledges footage is only maintained in the foot of a security incident. but kransy the director didn't learn about the incident until five days after it happened. >> typically i would be notified of any misconduct of any criminal activity i would be notified immediately. i constantly get rofrteports on activity around the white house. this one puzzles me. it will not happen again. >> the secret service chief did not deny reports they were drinking but cautioned a rush to judgment. >> while i am extremely concerned about the allegations of misconduct and the potential for alcohol involvement, i must reserve judgment on these matters until the oig investigation is completed.

>> joining me now to talk about this, washington bureau chief for "time" magazine michael sherif. clancy was an insider pick. he was someone who had a previously long standing relationship with the secret service. when the secret service had all these problems over the past few years, a bipartisan group of lawmakers say it's time if r this organization to have real disruption, to be changed up. an outsider would be the best. president obama ignored that. he said i like him. the first lady likes him. he's a good guy. it seems he has been hit over the head one after another in these hearings. maybe that outsider would have been a better call. >> it was the president's choice here. the president knew joseph clancy because he led his personal protective detail. that means everywhere the president went for years, joe clancy was walking through the door before he did. i don't think any of these have called into question clancy's integrity or his willingness to do his job.

there's an argument to be made that the insider has an advantage. he wasn't there during the biggest scandals of the last if few years. he's now in front of the senate saying it depends on the definition of crash is. and that's not a great position for them to be in. the reality of the secret service for him is that organization is under enormous micro microscope right now. any little thing. >> and it seems like the secret service, like so many other things. you have this loss of faith in these previously hallowed institutions. it was the elite of the elite. nobody thought it could be penetrated. when you try to pinpoint the problems, there are so many. it's understaffing. it almost seems it would take a real head strong leader and someone to implement change for it to happen. how much support does congress have to give? do they need more money? do they need better training? >> there's two categories of

issues they're dealing with. one is the personnel problems. you have agencies doing things they shouldn't have been doing. overseas getting drunk. if this plays out, there's no reason an agent offduty should be behind the wheel of a car after drinking. then there's training and technical issues. the fact that the tapes are racing themselves. the fact that they don't have technology to deal with drones near the white house. the fact that the fence was not high enough, we now know. clancy is going to have to both shape up his troops and make sure his culture of protecting his own and having as much fun as we can in the off hours goes away. but also go to congress and say, look, we have actual lodgistgistical technical deficiencies here. >> it seems like you would want

the best of the best. up the pay. up the status. up everything. one thing clancy wants tooed is get this mock replica of the white house. a lot of snide comments are being made. what is so telling is when the individual hopped the fence, went into the white house, there was confusion amongst secret service agents about which door was locked which wasn't. which floor they were on. and that just shows you how lackluster the training has been that you have agents that don't know the basic layout. that's military training 101. >> you have uniform agents that guard the white house. they have the white shirtses. they carry guns. they look like police officers. then you have the personal protective detail. the guys in suit tws the ear paces. and then you have the teams that lurk around the white house. and they are ready for a fire

fight at any given moment. i think that showed not just that they didn't have the timing downright. i mean they were supposed to be able to release the dog and tackle the guy before he gets to the door but also the different units weren't communicating well with each other. they didn't all have the training they need. but the fact that clancy is saying we have to iffics -- there are serious problems here. i think, you know you have to rip the blister off. >> it's clear the morale and training need a close scrubbing. "time" magazine the best investment you'll ever make. subscribe now. thanks so much for coming on the show. coming up another violent incident prompts questions about police enforcement. the latest at the uva questions now.

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you racists! >> the officers say 20-year-old johnson, a member of uva's honor committee was detained after being refused entry the the the bar. being detained on two counts. public swearing or intoxication. the virginia department saying in a statement, a determination was made by the agents to further detain the individual bagsed on their observations and further questioning. in the course of an arrest being made. the arrested individual sustained injuries. >> thank god martese is able to stand oohere today. >> overnight a thousand students demanded justice for johnston. in a protest mostly peacefully with a few incidents. >> get out of the street! >> johnson who received ten stitches following his arrest spoke at the event. >> we deserve to respect each other, especially at times like

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presidential announcement. casting herself as a healer who can cast a growing partisan divide in the nation's capital. >> if you don't build relationships with people, and all you do is show up to argue, or show up to you know point fingers, you can't get anything done. and there's been too much of that in the last years. the people who claim proudly never to compromise should not be in the congress of the united states. >> but the the democratic front-runner's call for unity came as her e-mails continue to provoke bitter disagreement back in d.c. >> on benghazi as i said on tuesday, secretary clinton must hand over her e-mail server. we need the secretary to do the right thing here so we can get to the facts. >> i have a concern that this isn't really about e-mails. it's about a partisan investigation. i think we're just going to see the ongoing attempt to

investigate hillary clinton. whatever the subject. whether it's her e-mails or it's her hair or whatever it happens to be. >> whoa. joining me now is special correspondent for the daily beast, michael demasky. democratic strategist for the campaign, doug dornell and karrie dan. welcome all of you. thank you for being on the show. i'll start with you. to me this is the week that goes down as hillary clinton has started running against the gop congress. and the gop congress has gone back at her. john boehner can throw red meat at his base. hillary clinton doesn't have to zero in. she can go after the very unpopular republican congress. it rehashes the '90s all over again. >> that's right. we saw she had a tweet storm earlier this week where she addressed point by point parts

that she didn't like. she didn't say anything new in the paid speech and now she's going into more of a campaign mode in the next few weeks. you're right. she doesn't have to center on one particular republican candidate right now. she can attack republicans at large. they are easy to attack and they're not very popular, along with the democrats as congress. >> and they're also as well organized as the presidential campaigns. i will go to you, doug and michael. is this a good strategy by hillary clinton? it seems to me to make sense. because what she can do is when the benghazi committee starts coming after her regarding these e-mails, they want to have her it have before the committee, she can sort of say, look they've been trying to muddy up my tires for a long time. this is the same partisan d.c. gotcha games. this is nothing new. this is the same old, same old. this is almost a blessing to some degree this is happening so early on. she can have a lot of time to fight back.

it makes her look above it all to some degree. >> she benefits from a congress with an approval rating of 18%. the backdrop of what's going on with the budget. they're having a hard time passing a budget. the problems with the dhs functioning. people don't think washington is functioning. it's run by republicans. it's a good foil for her to have. republicans use her to motivate the base to raise money. but for her, she can use the republican congress and tie it to the republican candidates, and say, look these guys aren't fit to lead. >> right. and it certainly for a candidate like jeb bush, who is trying to become more centrist, it's problematic. all right, moving on. in a new interview with katie couric, mitt romney talks about his greatest regret of the 2012 campaign. >> the real part that i wish we had done differently and i had done differently is make a greater effort at communicating to minority voters in the country the policies i think are right to help minority families. and that's probably without question the biggest mistake that i made in the campaign. >> so mitt romney right there

saying he should have had better outreach to the minority voters. what role does mitt romney have in the campaign now, michael? and honestly the way the gop has been going the voting acts, voting rights act, has that moved very quickly? you didn't have a republican leader at the selma march until mccarthy came in at the last minute. if you look at most of the people who have been insured by president obama's health care law, the highest percentage have been latinos when it comes to minorities. so what exactly will the gop do to take romney's words to heart? >> nothing. i mean you know look if somehow rand paul is the nominee. rand paul has the prison reform sentencing reform card that he can play. he has a couple of things like that. of course, he also said in 2010 he would have opposed the civil rights act. that will remain a problem, if he gets to the seriousness of this stage. but owe know the republican party cannot, mitt romney could not in 2012 and the republican party cannot in 2016 talk seriously about minority outreach while they're passing

all these voter anti-fraud laws. and so, it's just not -- voters aren't that stupid. they see what they're doing on the ground. and these two things don't make sense. >> and let me just jump in here. remember that mitt romney ran an entire campaign in terms of immigration on making life so bad for -- he believed that hispanics should self deport themselves. now a republican congress has waged a huge light on the executive actions of immigration, which are very popular with latinos. i think mitt romney probably should have heeded his own words. i'm not sure if he's going to get through his fight with evander holyfield. >> which he said he will be shirtless for. >> that's minority outreach. >> all right, next up in a stop in cleveland yesterday. president obama for the first time broached the idea of mandatory voting. take a listen. >> now, i don't think i've said this publicly but i'm going to

go ahead and say it now, in australia and other country there's mandatory voting. it would be transformative if everybody voted. that would counter act money more than anything thing. it would completely change the political map in this country. >> carrie dann the 2014 midterm saw only 76.4% participation rate. if you look at what would have happened if in fact you had 100% compulsory voting it's very good for democrats, hence, that's why president obama liked it. if you breaked it down if you had the same percentage of race came out in 2012 same thing for gender. if you had the gender percentage come out, and everyone had to vote, you look at that. democrats almost sweep. according to that data from the "washington post." interesting commentary from president obama. a little political science professor. probably never happen in our lifetime. but certainly something that

sparks a lot of discussion. >> the president is both a constitutional law scholar and somebody who fought with congress a lot. we're looking at a congress that's having trouble passing a bill right now to human trafficking. so clearly, you know getting a huge kind of thing like this done is not going to happen. and obviously for republicans, this is not something that is helpful to them. the people who come out to vote reliably reliably, especially in midterms are senior voters white men, and those are the people who come out on their own. obviously the president, you know, he's got that little political science book, as you said. and this is something that he kind of threw out there somewhat casually. it ended up getting picked up. a lot of republicans took aim at this saying here is the president trying to get more mandates. more things we have to do. >> real quickly, both you guys. it's fascinating to me because it seems like we're coming up at a point when you talk habit the difficulties being put forward in voting. you see oregon who says we're going to do everything through mail. we don't have to deal with this anymore. it has to come at some point to a heed. there's too many things

happening now that makes participation in a democracy feasible. do you think we're going to see a sort of movement to try to make it easier to vote? >> well these states shouldn't be putting up obstacles to voting to make them harder. so congress should fix the voting rights act. they should you know there's people -- there is talk of potentially national holiday for voting. that's a way to improve turnout of election day on saturday. expanding early vote period. vote by mail. i mean there are all these things that you can do to not necessarily have mandatory voting, but will make it easier for people to vote on. >> these things aren't a question of law. they're a question of culture and tradition. australia has the law, but they also have a culture of understanding that mandatory voting is a thing that people do. we don't have that here. i don't think, to answer your question luke i don't think we're going to see anything in 10 or 15 years. it's so engrained and up to each state. >> and they have a fine.

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we will never be royals as the song goes, but not so for prince charles and his wife camilla. they are wrapping up a whirlwind visit to washington today, that has so far included a trip to george washington's home at mt. vernon as well as the lincoln and martin luther king mearms and the shakespeare theater company. this afternoon the president and vice president hosted them in the white house. but are charles and camilla getting the the royal treatment of other high profile highnesses from the american public? joining me now is nbc news royal contributor, robert thompson. thank you so muching for be on the show. >> my pleasure. >> so no fancy dinner. there's a little fanfare here.

it doesn't seem like the american public is enthralled by this visit. why is that? is that because we love prince william and kate middleton and harry? i saw harry come to capitol hill. there must have been 3,000 women trying to get to the rotunda to have a look at him. they don't care about charles and camilla. >> i was at the school this afternoon. there was a big fanfare. they were having a good time. it's not a pap laropularity contest, as far as the royals are concerned. prince charles is at the end of the throne. with the head of state, it would have been more of a fanfare. prince charles is here to collect conservation award, which is he is going to be collecting, and i think he's going a great job. he seems to be enjoying himself with cam laila, too. >> his grandmother lived to be over 100. his mom is in her mid to late 80s. we could see her on the thrown another 10 to 15 years.

he might not become king until he's in his late 70s or early 80s. what does that mean for the monarchy? >> well nobody knows how long her majesty will live. in september, she becomes the longest reigning monarch of all times. prince charles could one day become the prince region but we don't know. at the moment the the queen is fit and well and she's carrying on. zblf >> all right. we'll get you out of here this with this one. they said they don't care about washington. they care about louisville. camilla loves horses. they love to be around the thoroughbreds. how important are the horses, the ponies, for this visit? >> they're going to enjoy going to kentucky. no doubt about that. i think washington has been hugely important. they had the audience with the president, which went very well indeed. and they were very happy there. also picking up this award and

making his speech on conservation hugely important for prince charles. >> it is. so is thoroughbreds and bourbon. when you have the money they have, you can get a new one. thank you so much for being on the show. we appreciate it. coming up, a climate change push from the white house as temperatures keep hitting record highs. that is next on "now." the volkswagen jetta is really fun-to-drive. go for it. okay. wow... woohoo! i'm dreaming... pinch me. no, not while you're driving. and, right now, you can get a one-thousand-dollar volkswagen credit bonus on jetta models. seriously, pinch me. it's not a dream. ow! it's the volkswagen stop dreaming, start driving event. stop dreaming, and test-drive one today. hurry in and you can get 0% apr plus a $1000 volkswagen credit bonus on 2015 jetta and passat models. it tastes better when you grow it. it tastes even better when you share it. it's not hard, it's doable. it's growable. get going with gro-ables.

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recorded on the planet. let that settle in. if that copsmes as a surprise, there was one region with lower than average temperature, and of course, that was the the eastern half of the united states and canada. noaa says the drought in the west is only expected to continue likely resulting in wildfire season, but don't expect a drought on the east coast. noaa predicts flooding in both the central and eastern u.s. thanks to record snow this winter. and that snow, it isn't letting up yet. joining me now is weather channel meteorologist alex wallace. and alex march 20th, i'm going to get snow in d.c. what the heck is going on? >> it's the winter that won't end? even as spring begins. and this is insane. we're already seeing precipitation showing up right now. parts of virginia and the carolinas. the form of rain. that precipitation will be headed north into the colder air, and you'll notice by tonight. places like d.c. baltimore, rain and snow.

that continues into tomorrow. north of that, as you get north of the mason dixon line that will be north of new york city. some of it towards the boston area as well. so yeah it's more snow to deal with here. and we could see decent snow accumulations. for most areas, a general three to five inches. but there will be pockets in pennsylvania and through new york. particularly long island where we could see five to eight everyones of snow here, as we head through our friday and early part of the weekend. so winter is not done just yet, even though we officially ring in spring tomorrow luke, at 6:45 p.m. eastern time. >> oh my god. it's the last present from the winter gods. alex, thank you so much. the poor people in boston. opening of baseball is a few weeks away. thank you so much for being on the show. we appreciate it. that's that's it for this edition of "now" with alex wagner, up next is the ed show. take care. good evening, americans, and

welcome to "the ed show" live from pensacola, florida. let's get to work. tonight -- >> why should president obama trust you when you came to congress to lobby against his negotiations with iran? >> i didn't mean any disrespect. >> plus -- >> it would be transformative if everybody voted. >> not voting is also a legitimate choice that some people make. >> it would completely change the political math in this country. >> that is their choice. >> and later -- >> it's not a partisan problem. the drought is a real problem. there will be more extreme weather events. >> and -- >> they dispatched us with a half truths you know. >> what we must not do is to sign up to get another bad free trade agreement. >> good to have you with us tonight, folks. thanks for watching. we start this evening with new developments on the iranian deal. secretary of state john kerry