coming up. tone deaf? the head of the gop tells presidential candidate donald trump to tone it down after his bomb bass tick interview with nbc's katie tur. >> i have a great relationship with the mexican people. i have many people working for me. i have many legal immigrants working for me. many of them come from mexico. they love me. i love them. if i get the nomination i'll win the latino vote. and coming down after an emotion emotional debate south carolina lawmakers vote to remove the confederate battle flag from the state house grounds. >> i cannot believe that we do not have the heart in this body to do something meaningful such as take a symbol of hate off these grounds on friday.

>> and a very good thursday to you. i'm kristen welker reporting from washington. negotiations over a nuclear deal with iran are at a critical stage today. my colleague andrea mitchell has been following it all and she has the latest from vienna. we know that secretary kerry has had a series of meetings over the past several hours shours. the big question remains, are they any closer to getting a deal? >> i'm not sure they're really closer. this is day 14 kristen. if the administration wants to gait shorter review from congress, john kerry has to do this deal by midnight tonight washington time. that's 6:00 a.m. friday morning vienna time where we are. there are indications that will not happen. in fact, we're told now that kerry is going to make a statement in about an hour at 1:00 p.m. eastern. he's going to give a status report. i understand it's not a breakdown.

it's not a breakthrough. it's just what has been happening today and in the last 24 hours. all of the players led toy ss led by kerry have been meeting and kerry has been calling russia's foreign minister as well. he's back in moscow. last night president obama held a videoconference with kerry and the team here to give them his red lines and to get an update from them of course. joining me now from capitol hill ask arizona senator john mccain. chairman of the armed services committee. senator, we want to talk about iran, also talk about isis and what you heard at the hearings on tuesday from the pentagon officials. but first, this iran deal here. what are youing looking for? have you been briefed at all? what do you want to hear from john kerry? >> well, we've not been briefed at all. it's obvious that the latest russian -- excuse me the latest iranian demands concerning lifting of sanctions by the u.n. is a new area that they think

they can explore and get concessions. after all, i agree with b.b. netanyahu. we started here and here and we moved and keep on moving in their direction as george shultz and henry kissinger pointed out, we've gone from elimination of iran's nuclear capability to the delaying of it. and many concessions have been made. i guess they're trying to force some more because it's clear who wants the deal more and that's the united states. >> iran does need a deal. they need sanctions relief. their economy is in shambles. how does it boil down to the fact that you think at least that the u.s. is projecting it needs it more than iran needs it? is iran, in your view at least, a better negotiator? >> well i think the fact is it's been made very clear because of the enormous concessions that have already been made as i mentioned from the position of eliminating that to delaying it and other concessions that have been made

that yes, iran wants it but not as badly as the united states does because the president bases all of this on the delusion that an agreement will then cause a new partner ship between the united states and iran in the region. meanwhile, the iranians continue their aggression in at least four countries and will continue that. for example, media reports solomanie is back in iraq directing the shiite militias without our involvement whatsoever. that's a long way from where we were in 2011 andrea. >> well, just to make the counter argument to play devil's advocate here is it not better to have iran stand down on its nuclear program for ten years and then be under mormon

mormon -- more monitoring from the u.n. than if it blows up they can do anything they want on their nuclear program? >> i think you can make that argument if you are sure, one, we are allowed any inspections anywhere, any time which is not the case as i understand the negotiations. if they would also show restraint on their ballistic miss missile and capabilities and of course, cease or curtail their acts of terrorism that they continue to commit throughout the middle east and indeed in some cases in the world. so a bad deal in my view is worse than no deal at all because then with the sanctions lifted and they continue their acts of terrorism they just arranged for a billion dollar loan to bashar assad, to prop up bashar assad.

that would give them billions more to do the same thing, the guy that's killed 230,000 of his own citizens. >> speaking of bashar al-assad you heard testimony from the defense secretary and chairman of the joints chief on tuesday, at the last year at the cost of $500 million they've only trained 60 rebels to fight against isis in syria. that's according to my colleague jim miklaszewski about 4% success rate. is that good enough? >> well, one of the major reasons for it andrea is because they are training these young men and telling them they're going to send them back in to syria to fight isis. and we will not protect them against attacks by bashar al-assad who is already inflicted tremendous casualties on the free syrian army, what's left of it. and so what we're telling them go back in and if bashar assad barrel bombs him, his habit,

then we're not going to do anything about it to protect you. of course you would have to be insane to want to join up under such parameters. >> i want to ask you about donald trump because he told my colleague nbc's katie tur that he's the most popular man in arizona. he's going to arizona this weekend. i want to ask him about him being the most popular man in arizona because of his antiimmigration stance. let me play a little bit of that interview. >> mexico is beating us on trade and they are beating us at the border. but mexico cussmbers doesn't want to take these people so they send them to our stupid politicians and we have sanctuary cities. i've been saying this for a long time and it's a disgrace. if i didn't bring it up you wouldn't even be talking about immigration right now. >> when was the last time you were at the border? >> i've bbeen to the border three or four times over the years and i have many people that live around the air.

i'm going to arizona this weekend where they want to talk to me because arizona is -- some say i'm the most popular peoplerson in arizona because of my stance. >> is this good for the republican party, senator? >> it's not so much the republican party as the country. i believe we have to have a secure border. the legislation we passed called for 90% control of the border. 100% situational awareness. me devoted time to it we could have a secure border and that is an abysmal failure. i think mr. trump when he comes to arizona will find that we arizonians cherish our hispanic heritage and influence. we cherish the music, the culture, the food. we cherish it in our state and we think it's added to the beauty and the enormous attractiveness of our state of

arizona. and we are proud of our hispanic heritage, off our missions from spain that came up to tucson back hundreds of years ago. and so i think mr. trump maybe should realize that we in arizona, we want a secure border and we have to have a secure border but we cherish and love oir his our hispanic citizenry and we are close to them and we are greatly appreciative for what they have done for our state our economy, and everything else about our state. we are far richer for having had them in our state. >> what about his rhetoric? >> well, i just -- i just think that -- that it is offensive to not only hispanic citizenry but other citizenry, but he's entitled to say what he wants to say. but i guarantee you the overwhelming majority, and i've had the honor of representing the people of arizona for many

years, i guarantee you the overwhelming majority would not agree with his attitude towards that he has displayed towards our hispanic citizens. we love them. >> senator john mccain thank you as always. thank you very much sir. >> thank you, andrea. and coming up we'll be talking to democratic senator chris of delaware and got a fairly pessimistic outlook from the president on these talks here. back to you, kristen. >> all right andrea. we will check back in with you. a lot of headlines that came out of your interview with senator john mccain and we will be breaking them down later on in the show. closer to home now, today things are back to normal in markets and on runways across the nation. we've been monitoring activity on the new york stock exchange floor after wednesday's four-hour shutdown that left frustrated traders scrambling. they followed a nationwide

travel mess by computer freeze impacting thousands of passengers. u.s. officials ruled out terrorism in both incidents but today there are questions about how to prevent the problems and which hackers may have learned from the dual disruptions. sean henry is a former assist fant director at the fbi, currently the president of crowd strike services. thank you for joining me. appreciate it. >> thanks kristen. >> let's start right there. you have these two technical glitches. it sort of exposes the vulnerabilities of our infrastructure tech logically at least. can nyse can the airlines get on top of these sorts of glitches and prevent them in the future? what do they need to do? >> yes, the reality is you have glitches like this every single day. when it happens to two big organizations it certainly gets a lot of visibility. like the new york stock exchange. the infrastructure is fragile. there are a lot of moving parts. and i think organizations need

to be working to better protect themselves in a lot of different ways. had this been an actual adversary attack we see adversaries regularly probing, complete inthat structure, the power grid manufacturing company, retail, the financial services sector. it's happening every single day. they have the ability and they have the intent to not only steal data but disrupt or destroy data. what companies need to do is hunt on their network looking for indicators that an adversary is trying to attack their network. in this particular case i have it on very good authority from some good sources that have a position to know that this was technical. but had it been an adversary this would have been a big, big problem. >> that certainly squares with all of our reporting. shawn, you have to imagine that you have adversaries, would be hacker, who were watching what happened yesterday very closely. what might they have learned? what information might they have gained from what happened

yesterday? >> well, one thing i think that they get to see, it gets to be played out on national television is really how significantly we rely on the infrastructure. you know we turn on the faucet we expect water to come out or we turn on a light switch and expect the lights to come on. we expect when we press the button that it's going to work. and that's just not the fact. when they see that the things are shut down that there's some chaos, that there are concerns being expressed, people questioning whether it's terrorism or not, they're watching the respond by first responder, watching how it's impacting the market et cetera. they get to see that yes in fact, if they're able to disrupt the technology it is going to have an impact. that validates for them how valuable and krit kl that infrastructure is. it makes it a much larger target. >> shawn, as you know one of the biggest concerns for federal officials is that technology is making us vulnerable in new ways. i want to let you hear a little bit of what fbi director comey

had to say yesterday and get your reaction on the other side. take a listen. >> isil is reaching out primarily through twitter to about 21,000 now english language tolange to lowers. their messages come to the so-called caliphate and live the life of some sort of glory or something. and if you can't come kill somebody where you are. atsz device almost a devil on their shoulder all day long saying, kill kill kill kill. and if they find someone and they have found many of those someones in the united states who are interested in this we can see twitter, we will see them give them directions to a mobile messages app that is encrypted and tell them contact me here and they disappear. >> so shawn, your reaction to those concerns about those encrypted programs. >> yes. so what the director is saying here is there are a lot of people that are here in the united states. they are sympathetic to the

jihadi cause. they are constantly being barraged with this message from those that are operating abroad to wreak harm against u.s. citizens here in the united states any way upon. unlike al qaeda which has typically looked for the big impact major news story. these new terrorists are looking to impact a little bit at a time. use a knife, use a gun, use a sledgehammer to hurt people. what the director is saying is that by using encrypted technology the fbi, which is necessarily uses interception of communications lawfully flew a warrant, to monitor people who have expressed an interest in waging violent jihad against the united states. those people are going dark. the fbi, the intelligence community has lost the ability to monitor them which has made americans less safe. the final point i'll make kristen, is there is always going to be a balance between privacy and security. there's no doubt. you're never going to have 100% of both. there's got to be some

concessions somewhere. the american public needs to make a decision are they willing to maconke concessions, allow people people believed involved in terrorism in order to make america a safer place. >> one of the big debates we are having right now as a nation. shawn henry, thank you for your insights. we appreciate it. less than 24 ors from now p confederate battle flag will come down at the south carolina state house. so what that will mean for the flag supporters across the south, coming up. but first, this from capitol hill where the house gop has pulled a pro-confederate flag amendment scheduled to be voted on this afternoon. it would have allowed the confederate battle flag to be used in an official capacity in national military cemeteries and parks. something many objected to and something that sparked this show of emotion from congressman jeffries of new york. take a listen. >> mr. speaker, had this confederate battle flag

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the state house grounds. >> and that is just part of the emotional speech given by state representative jenny horne on the south carolina state house floor wednesday night. a few hours later the final votes to remove the confederate battle flag from the state house grounds were taken. overwhelmingly passing the bill that governor haley will sign this afternoon. >> i did the right thing. and doing the right thing is sometimes a hard thing to do. having attended the funeral of senator clemente pinckney i felt like we owed it to his widow and two children to do something meaningful to come out of such a tragedy. >> msnbc national correspondent joy reid joins me now. joy, we understand that governor haley is going to sign the bill at about 4:00 this rch a. set the scene there. what are folks saying and what's the mood? >> reporter: yeah, absolutely kristen. well, the mood very relieved. a lot of people that we've spoken with here in what

essentially is the park that comprises the state capital, expressing relief that this is over with. few hours, it was about a 15-hour debate, filled with essentially an endless filibuster. but now rewith going to see a signing ceremony at 4:00 p.m. on the second floor of the capital building and then we expect the flag to actually be taken down at 10:00 in the morning tomorrow. >> joy, i want to read you something that hillary clinton said in the wake of this. she said quote, removing this symbol of our nation's racist past san important step towards equality and civil rights in america. the flag may soon no longer fly at the state capitol but there is still unfinished business in confronting and acting on the inequalities that still exist in our country. you are political junkie just like i am. secretary clinton has talked about addressing some of the racial tensions in our country. but do you get the sense this will be a part of the 2016 conversation? >> reporter: absolutely kristen. i think it will. what hillary clinton is echoing is what we're hearing from a lot

of african-american leaders both here in the naacp, both in south carolina and north carolina where they're saying look the flag is an important issue but we need to also address the largest systemic issues. south carolina is a state that has not taken the medicaid expansion. a lot of black lawmakers and civil rights leaders saying that's the next step address the actual inequity voting right, voter id of course health care and education. they want to see a conversation about that perceived from this flag debate. they don't want it to end with what's on that flagpole temporarily behind me, kristen. >> joy, we know you have had a very long night. great reporting. really appreciate you joining us this afternoon. >> thank you. baltimore's top cop has been fired. mayor stephanie rollings blake announced wednesday police commissioner anthony bats is being replaced after nearly three years serving one of america's most vilt lent cities. this comes 2 1/2 months after freddie gray died of injuries he sustained while in police custody. that was followed by a surge in

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they are willing to stay as long as it takes, as long as there's progress. that's what they have been saying. this is not a breakdown or a breakthrough as i've been saying but president obama down played the chance of a deal with iran when he met with democratic senator at the white house on tuesday night. the president told them in a meeting that the chances of a deal are less than 50/50. one of those senators senator chris from delaware. tell me what your position is as to whether or not this thing is ever going to come together. >> well, andrea at a reception that the president hosted for the democratic caucus earlier this week he was quite forceful in saying don't listen to the public statements by the supreme leader of iran to get your insights in to what i as president will or will not support. listen to me. president obama asserted to us that he will not advance a deal that gives sanctions relief up front without any conditions

being met by iran. that doesn't have a robust and effective inspections regime and that doesn't prevent or freeze the pathways towards a nuclear weapon. we discussed this in some more detail but essentially the top line message he was giving to us was he will not sign a bad deal and he will expect us to not support a bad deal. for many of us who have had concerns in press reports and based on conversations that have been going on in iran it was quite reassuring. >> well, what about the possibility that they soften some of the u.n.'s aing shuns against conventional weapons sales to and from iran which is one of the sticking points now late in the game? it's a sticking point that frankly is to russia's benefit because russia makes money selling the arms and this is one of the issues that has been bubbling up for a while but it's front and center right now. >> that's right, andrea. i think this is a last-minute

gamut for the iranians to drive a wedge between p5+1. we've been negotiating for so many months now because, as you mentioned, it would be to russia's benefit to be able to sell conventional arms to iran. look andrea like many other senators i have real concerns about what iran will do with funding that they would get from sanctions relief in the event there is an agreement. tens of billions of dollars would be newly available to iran to make mischief in the region. they're already actively supporting the murder rouse regime of bashar al-assad hezbollah, the hoothies in yemen. impose and iran not because of their nuclear weapons program but because of their support for terrorism strikes me as nonsense call approximately my understanding is the american position in the negotiations is that is a nonstarter. i see this really as an iranian effort to try and drive a wedge between what has been a very solid and unified negotiating

team by the united states and its european allies and china and russia. >> senator, can you imagine a scenario where you as a democrat would go against the president if he and john kerry tell you that this a good deal? >> i can imagine a scenario where i would look at the deal and reach my own conclusions that it was not strong enough. that's my job as a senator, is to exercise my own independent judgment. i am a democrat. i have supported the president and the secretary. i served with secretary kerry in the senate. and i am optimistic that they will walk away from a bad deal. but there's plenty of reasons to be concerned. there's certainly been lots of statements by the iranians that p if they were true would cause me to oppose a deal on those terms. but i'm listening to and believing president obama at the moment that they will not be presenting us with a deal that lacks a verification, that provides all sanctions relief up front. an additional concern that i've had is the limits that controls

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unthor the terms of the bill that was passed unanimously by the foreign relations committee on which i serve i fully expect any deal presented to congress including any classified annexes before we take an up or down vote on approval or disapproval of any deal should there be one. >> chris coons, senator, thank you very much. appreciate it. >> thank you. and that's all for us from vienna for a moment. kristen, back to you in washington and on msnbc will have john kerry live when he reports back. >> we will indeed. senator coons laying down his own red lines. we will check back in with you in a little bit. andrea is going to give us a behind the scenes look at what it's like to be one of the many journalists playing the waiting game and she has been there from the beginning in a city like vienna. first, stone general loretta lynch announced today the government will make federal marriage benefits available to same-sex couples. that follows last month's supreme court decision.

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he's entitled to say what he wants to say but i guarantee you the overwhelming majority -- and i've had the honor of representing the people of arizona for many years. i guarantee you the overwhelming majority do not agree with his attitude towards -- that he has displayed towards our hispanic citizens. >> former republican presidential nominee john mccain disagreeing with comments made by surging republican presidential candidate donald trump, a growing figure in the 2016 conversation. joining me now from our daily fix "washington post" national political reporter and huffington post political editor and msnbc contributor sam stein. thanks to both of you for being

here. appreciate it. karen, i want to start with you. you broke this story about a phone call that trump had with rnc chairman priebus in which he said to him, tone it down in terms of his rhetoric. my sources have confirmed that as well. however, trump disputing that in a tweet today. he's writing, quote, totally false reporting on my call with @priebus. he told me ten minutes saying i hit a nerve, doing well. and he told maggie haberman of the "new york times" that he knows better than to electionlecture me. what do you know about that phone call? >> as it so happens donald trump this morning just in fact a few minutes ago got off the phone with my colleague bob costa and there is a story that has just posted on "the washington post" website about that interview which lasted about half an hour. and mr. trump disputes the b length of the phone call and he said that it was largely

congratulatory about his success thus far. but he also did confirm that near the end of that conversation that priebus, the chairman of the republican national committee, did, in fact ask him to sort of speak in more measured tones on the immigration issue. >> and, karen, you also told your colleagues that he's committed to a long campaign, is that right? >> he in fact he did not close the door to the possibility that were he not to get the republican nomination that maybe he would go out and run as a third-party candidate. >> sam, i want to go to you know. i'm going to play something that speaker boehner said and get your reaction on the other side. >> listen i disagree with mr. trump's comments and, frankly, i think when you look at the presidential candidates, they've all pretty well made their position clear.

this has become the biggest political football i've seen in my congressional career. this whole issue of illegal immigration and what to do about it. >> sam there is no doubt that there are republican jitters. just how nervous is the party about trump? >> i mean if you look at the autopsy that priebus put together after the 2012 election, big chunk of it was about broadening the party's appeal to different democratic bases, specifically hispanic americans. if you look at comments john boehner made after the 2012 elections it was about, you know showing an attitude toward the possibility of comprehensive immigration reform. if you look at the how right wing media approached it after the 2012 elections it was all about realizing the necessity for immigration reform. for them to go from that to this point where donald trump is essentially dominating the political conversation for four weeks it stra on comments in which he accused mexican immigrants on being rapists is incredibly wor i haveryisome for the party and baffling the distance

we've traveled from 2012 to this point. if i was priebus i would have a conversation with trump. the problem, of course is that these conversations never stay in a vacuum. they blow up and so you have donald trump taking to tweeter to twitter to refute them. >> as you know other gop candidates are criticized for not having weighed in on this debate more quickly. how much damage does republican party think he's already done in this regard? >> i suppose they could have weighed in more quickly. it does say something that it took sort oferta, the mattress company, to weigh in before the candidates did. on the flip side we have to ask every single republican in the presidential field, and there are many, what they think about every crazy thing that donald trump says. that's a tough predicament for all of them. i do feel bad in a way. if you look at it broadly, i think the damage that he's doing is almost the entirety of the field except for maybe perhaps jeb bush who you know as the front-runner, comes off looking a bit more stately.

he comes off being able to use himself as a foil against trump. everyone wants to be the other candidate next to jeb bush. but if trump is going to be that number two guy he's shadowing out the rest of the field. >> karen, quickly to you. sam's talking about the response and the strategy there. a lot of gop insiders concerned about these upcoming debates. how are these candidates going to respond to handle donald trump during the debates? it seems like he will be in these debates, based on his polling. >> yeah, that is a very good question. and the issue is whether this will reflect on the party at large, just having him on that stage. and there's another real issue here, too. which is that in fact donald trump is giving voice to a real sentiment within the republican party. there is a lot of anger both at the number of people coming across the border and at the idea of liberalizing the immigration laws. >> really important final point. karen tumulty, sam stein, thank

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regulators to cut crucial irrigation water to formers who depend ston deon the sacramento river to keep their crops growing. this as they plan to shut down public showers at state beaches as a way to conserve water. everyone in california has been ordered to cut their water use by 25%. that's why it's so shocking that a public water company is accusing actor tom selleck of tapping into a fire hydrant and taking water he never had a right to. nbc's miguel almaguer has more from thousand oaks california. >> reporter: known to millions as magnum p.i. it took a real life private investigator to accuse one of hollywood's biggest stars of stealing water. this morning tom selleck is in hot water. a lawsuit claims a truck routinely pulled truck from a hydrant and hauleded it eight miles away to his private plush 60-acre ranch. >> we have a number of folk

households within our service area that are ripping out their turf drastically reduced outdoor and indoor water use. it's really ability doing right thing. >> reporter: the suit says over 18 months water was repeatedly siphoned from the hydrant. during one week alone the truck observed making seven trips into and four trips out of the hidden valley area where the selleck property is located. she watched the trug haul away load after load of water. >> it's bad that we are like actually paying our bills, being on top of it and we have people that are just going to take advantage of that. it's not fair. >> reporter: selleck who owns an avocado farm on his ranch -- >> i heard that this year was an off year for avocados. >> it's a drought year. >> reporter: did not respond to our request but has spoken before about trucking in water. >> we need rain because we're on wells. in the summer i've been trucking water. >> reporter: in the middle of california's crippling drought, the water district is demanding

the tv cop obey the law. today selleck is being sued for $21,000. though some say the price paid in the court of public opinion could be even higher. >> the water district wants to recoup costs of hiring their private investigator but the lawsuit doesn't include any charges for the water that's been taken. the sheriff tells nbc news selleck does not face any criminal charges. some very different celebrity news now. on the heels of the wildly successful 2014 global citizens fegs value remember that when you saw right here on msnbc, we are very proud to say it's back on again this year. the free concert in central park is part of the campaign to end extreme poverty by 2030. on september 26th pearl jam, beyonce, ed sheeran, and coldplay will perform on the great lawn of central park in new york city. today on "morning joe" chris martin of coldplay spoke with joe scarborough about why it's in everyone's interest to get

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and heading back to vienna austria, we are expecting secretary of state john kerry to speak in a few minutes as the deadline to reach a deal looms closer. but before we leave you today we would like to turn back to andrea mitchell who has been in vienna for nearly two weeks now covering the iran nuclear talks and she's had some time to respect on her new home away from home. take a look. >> reporter: in vienna it is a slow waltz toward a deal or not. from morning to night john kerry and the negotiators remain

walled off behind the baroque facade of a former palace where gunpowder was stored underground to defend the vienna in 1529. the negotiators are sitting on a former powder cake saud one official. emerging rarely to feed scraps to the throng of reporters pinned in outside. >> how long are you willing to stay if you are making continued progress, sir. >> reporter: wenthen they're not in a steamy press tent waiting and waiting. during a heat wave with temperatures and humidity breaking 100 in a city not known for its air conditioning. a news blackout from the negotiators breeds a chase for any at this time bit. the russian minister said there are eight to nine issues still needing to be honed. so what did he mean? a u.s. official said i have no idea. ask him yourself. it's always entertaining. covering a seven-way negotiation is a challenge. >> if you go back and forth between the iranians, the

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make sure the germs they bring home don't stick around. use clorox disinfecting products. you handle life; clorox handles the germs. hi there. i'm going to be with you. i'm francis rivera? for thomas roberts. we're following news here on msnbc. negotiations over a nuclear deal with iran are at a critical stage today with a deadline for an agreement just one day away. and any minute now secretary of state john kerry is expected to deliver remarks there in vienna austria, live look at the podium where they will be speaking. we will bring you those remarks live. and if he announces a deal it would be a tremendous on historic diplomatic feat. let's get with to andrea mitchell foreign affairs correspondent and host of "andrea mitchell reports" on msnbc and she joins me on the phone from vienna. andrea any indication here they

may blee through yet another deadline tomorrow or any idea what secretary kerry is going to say? >> reporter: yeah in fact that is exactly what's going to happen. i'm in a throng of reporters, hundreds of reporters from around the world gathered outside the door. the french minister just came out and said the last 100 meters are the hardest and that they're going to work through the night. and clearly they are not going to make congressional deadline of midnight back in the u.s. it's already 7:00 p.m. here. after 7:00 p.m. and now they're going to work through the night here. but likely they are willing to stay through the weekend if they have to. so if they're making progress, i think that this is not at -- yet and what do we expect secretary carry say, as long as they are making progress they will continue. they've done 20 months of work here. they have accomplished a lot in terms