i'm abby hunts shuntsman. the president is going to bat on the iranian nuclear deal because many in congress feel they've been thrown a curveball. the president's taking on the role as salesman in chief acknowledging con essentials but insisting that the deal to congress is the best way to ensure that iran does not get a nuclear deal. it gives u.n. weapons inspectors broad okayaccess for 25 years. >> with this deal we gain unprecedented around the clock monitoring of iran's key nuclear facilities. without deal, those inspections go away. with this deal if iran violates its commitments, there will be real consequences. nuclear related sanctions that have helped to cripple the iranian economy will snap back into place. this nuclear deal meets the national security interests of the united states and our allies. it prevents the most serious

threat, iran obtaining a nuclear weapon. it is why the alternative, no limits on iran's nuclear program, no inspections and iran closer to a nuclear weapon the risk of regional nuclear arms race and the greater risk of war all that would endanger our security. that's the choice that we face. >> there are celebrations on the streets of teheran today but that same excitement is not being shared on capitol hill. republicans pass a vote of disapproval while dems vow to come through 110 pages of the deal known as a joint comprehensive plan of action. the clock starts on 60 days of debate. president obama signed that mandate earlier this year and now there's a lot of talk about the legacy on all of this. peter bake today in "the new york times" asked how will history remember obama? we start the hour at the white house with nbc's peter alexander. peter, i don't think we have seen the president before so

willing to answer questions from the press, from iran all the way to bill cosby. >> reporter: yeah, no. i think that's exactly right. what was unprecedented in many ways to us covering the president day-to-day basis is not only going beyond the list of questioners of reporters and asking himself questions and so badly wanted to make the case before the american public right now. you played the clips. defending this new deal right now suggesting that it is the best way to avert war and ultimately a nuclear arms race in the middle east. already we are seeing the pushback of capitol hill the office of senator mitch mcconnell, republican writing us a moment saying quoting the president's saying it's not contingent of iran changing behavior and the president acknowledged the likelihood the win fall of money hundreds of billions of dollars with lifting of the sanctions to therefore

help other groups like hezbollah and hamas, groups threaten not just israel but the itsunited states, as well. that's a key gap the critics of the new deal focus on right now. the suggestion of a better alternative. the leverage should have been used more forcefully and the president as you heard over the course of the last hour said he challenges those critics to debate the nuclear physicist. his secretary of energy ernie monis says it's the best deal putting the u.s. in a better position going forward. >> thank you. we head now to teheran with nbc's ali aruzi. ali? >> reporter: people in iran were singing and dancing on the streets because they thought that the lifting of sanctions is going to spell the end of economic hardship and it's going

to bring iran in from the cold let iran join the international -- obama we love you. but the man of the hour is foreign minister zarif who attained rock star status amongst the crowds outside. holding pictures of him and kissing it. as you have mentioned president obama has a tough sell in congress and republicans in it states but no tough -- here in the senior establishment in iran accepted this as a good deal supreme leader has thrown his weight behind the deal and nobody's going to contradict him on that. the president rouhani who's been -- sorting out the nuclear issue and bringing in iran in from the cold probably the most popular president -- back to you, abby. >> nbc's ali arouzi for that report. for more on iranian policy

bring in blaze mitchtal at the bipartisan policy center and for the politics of all of this dana mill bank at "the washington post." we'll get to the politics in a minute dana but first, blaze, as the details are coming out and a chance to read the 110 pages, what strikes you as the most problematic in this deal? >> well i think it's not really what's happening in the deal per se but what happens after provisions in the deal start lapsing. and i think the first surprise is that some serious provisions lapse not ten or 15 years from now like the president said but eight years from now when iran is allowed to start producing next generation centrifuges and then the limb takeses fall away until about 15 years from now iran to enrich uranium however it wants and that's a problematic aspect for many lawmakers. >> dana, to the politics of this. take a look of video of people celebrating earlier in iran.

>> we did it. we have finally did it. we defeated five of the biggest powers in the world. and we were only one. >> dana clearly they're happy about this in teheran. how much harder do videos like that make it for president obama to sell the deal here at home which he is having to do? >> well i have to say i was just back from the east room with the news conference and there was none of that kind of reaction there. nobody at all was kissing a picture of the president or anything like that. he actually was asked about that in the news conference and he said correctly that, you know that's what the foreign powers will do to spin it that way. of course, you have a government like they have in teheran, you can foment whatever you want on the street. i don't think they're taking that seriously. taking the criticism at home seriously. you could see that they have really gotten under the president's skin and he was particularly feisty and particularly forceful. i think the criticism taken on

particularly the sort of rotten tone of hyper bollic and apock lippic and he said he wanted more questions and then asked himself additional questions. >> which we have never seen before. >> no, no no. it was unbelievable. it was like the reporters had never had such an experience. and suddenly everybody is raising questions. >> didn't know what to do with themselves. >> blaze, it is always easy, right, if you're a critic, easy to poke holes in a deal like this and even the president acknowledges limitations to what the deal will accomplish and not solving every problem with regard to iran. take a listen to the president making a case of what he hopes the deal will accomplish. >> no one suggests that this deal resolves all the threats that iran poses to the neighbors or the world. it solves one particular problem which is making sure they don't have a bomb. my hope is that building on this

deal we can continue to have conversations with iran that incentivize them to behave differently in the region. >> so blaze, acknowledging the limitations. central question here is, are the alternatives to the deal better for the country? >> well i don't think the right question is about alternatives. it is question aof consequences. does the deal provide the united states and the allies with the security we feel they need? if the answer is no we should talk about alternatives to the deal. and quite frankly, you know the alternatives are i can't go negotiate with teheran, none of the lawmakers reading the deal with negotiate with teheran and so there is no alternative other than what president obama has offered. >> yeah. blaze, you don't sound totally bullish on the deal. dana someone else not bullish

is israeli prime minister netanyahu tried to influence and make the voice felt and he has an interest in what's happening with iran. take a listen to what he told nbc's lester holt earlier about the deal. >> we think this is not mere lay threat to us. we think it's a threat to you, as well. iran killed more americans than anyone other than al qaeda. they get hundreds of millions of dollars to fuel their terror machine. >> how powerful is netanyahu with the u.s. congress and foreign policy? and in some ways is this vote shape out to be a referendum on that potential influence he might have? >> well i think so. remember when the prime minister came here and got a rapturous reception better than any president giving a state of the union. >> right. >> i think he sort of made himself clear on this. opposed to the thing to start. came out a couple of hours before the details came out yesterday opposing it. so we all know where netanyahu's coming from here on this. so i don't know if he's

necessarily a factor. but it is very clear that it's sort of just a referendum on obama. probably will be largely a party line vote. and i think the president sensing that sort of amping up the rhetoric today. and i thought it was interesting although he was particularly strong and feisty he was basically making an argument saying these are the limitations. these are the weaknesses. this is the best we can do. that was his answer essentially to netanyahu. that there is no such thing as a better deal because this is where the limit is. >> so blaze, you have been going through the deal point by point and writing your thoughts about it. you write that leapt out at me you say iran is allowed to enrich uranium and make other countries possibly want to demand that same right. do you expect that the deal will lead to other middle eastern nations demanding the right to develop their own nuclear bombs? >> two things. first of all we are already helping uae build a nuclear

energy program for nuclear reactors to provide electricity to their people and told them so that you can't build a nuclear bomb you can't enrich rue rain yum. they said okay. we signed this deal with iran saying, well, you wanted to build a nuclear bomb but you can continue enriching uranium. countries will jump up. beyond that point when iran gets past the 15-year limit of this deal and they start getting closer to a nuclear weapon the saudis said they'll look into a nuclear weapon and other countries in the region probably do the same. there's a proliferation risk that comes, maybe not immediately with this deal but in the near future. >> blaze, dana, thank you both. we appreciate it. >> thanks a lot. >> thank you. next to the hill we go for reaction to the president's news deal. who's watching the cameras? caught on tape can this video help authorities find the killer

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all right. we have breaking news just into "the cycle." donald trump just released details on the finances and as he would put it they're huge. katy tur, what do you got? >> not many numbers right now. what he says is they have filed with the fec. we don't have that entire pdf

document but what they're calling highlights touting how well think he is and worth in excess of $10 billion. he said last month $9 billion and somehow come up with another billion dollars in that time. >> good week. >> they also tick off a number of the over $50 million boxes on this form. they say that this form was not made for a man of his wealth. that's why they have had to tick all of those numbers. as for debt not releasing the numbers and say it's relatively low and made $362 million last year and that nbc over the years paid him more than that for "the prentiss" and yot able to come back and do it. mostly right now, guys it is himing his own horn saying how

well think he is. they have 30 days to release the pdf. they can't confirm or deny they have it at this point. we should expect to see something in the next day or two. >> all right. leading trump-ologist, katy tur, thank you. before lawmakers begin their official 60-day review vice president biden is making the sell. is anyone buying it? >> i predicted that in their desperation that the president and john kerry would make a bad deal. it looks very much like he made -- they made a worse deal than even we had feared. >> congress will have a role. we'll look at every detail. we'll look at the future. we'll look at the criteria. and we will have a say. >> he's going to work hard to get the 34 votes that i know he knows he needs in order to sustain it, so it will be a real challenge for him because i think it falls short in a lot of

ways. >> if, in fact it is as bad as i think it is we'll do everything we can to stop it. >> luke russert is there counting the votes for us. not just republicans to worry about. when's going on? >>. >> reporter: it's my ti-83, my friend. i'm hip here in the generation of us. >> wow. >> the generation of me i should say. you hit the nail on the head. we expect republicans to be lockstep against this iran deal. you might have a few of the more libertarians ones behind it. other than that this is going to come out on the democrats and most important bodies of the united states senate. there the president cannot afford to lose more than 12 democrats. that's the sort of magic number if you will for them and the republican side to get that veto proof majority they need from both chambers and more in the house. so the question will be will the president through intense lobbying efforts of the intensive efforts of joe biden, john kerry keep democratic

defections low? joe biden met with house democrats and some are concerned about this deal. joe biden pushing a progressive line and which was, look you might not like everything in this deal this is the deal to avoid war. not doing this deal we're more likely than not have to put blood and treasure in the middle east. you have to think athey're on board and think of the hawkish democrats, those with tight ties to israel and those are the ones that the president and john kerry and joe biden will have to lobby. right now, at the white house, around 1:30 p.m. or earlier, the president met with some senate democrats trying to push his view about why the deal is so important. expect it to be the beginning of the lobbying effort but i'll say this, guys. if you look at the interviews that netanyahu gave today and you hear some of the rhetoric that netanyahu has been saying such as is that iran got the yellow cake and will eat it

too. iran will take all the sanctions relief money and put it into terrorism operations. that is something that a lot of i feel republican members will say at their town halls over the summer and democrats will get a lot of heated question at their town halls over the summer on those types of talking points and will have to hold firm through what will be a very vigorous debate going forward in the summer months back home in the districts and back here in september and it will be the question is can they keep the numbers low enough to be able to offset the veto proof majorities? we'll see. >> thank you. and with more on the uphill battle the president faces in congress, we are joined by the former chair of the dnc and founder of democracy for america and the only person at the table who won a presidential state primary. i looked it up. how are you? thank you for being here. >> very impressive, sir. >> thank you, thank you. >> let's break it down. luke talked about about the lobbying effort going on here.

is there a chance that the congress shoots down the president's deal? >> there is. it's complicated. first of all, most of the people talking about this haven't read the agreement. i started. it's 159d pages and the manchester guardian. i don't trust the american papers to write about in it a thoughtful balanced way. so, i think it will probably pass because i think he will get number of democrats and one house or the other to stop the -- something will certainly pass. the disapproval resolution. is this a good deal? i don't think anybody knows yit ss yet. we have' to see the penalties for vie ligss and we know about the 15 years. the thing, one of the thing that is concerns me is 2,500 political prisoners in iraq. they're iranians. iranian government is responsible for starving to death or trying to starve them to death. we promised those people to save them. they have done nothing about it. so the united states state

department and so busy negotiating with iran what about the other promises we have made? who's thrown under the bus to get the deal done? what i don't like about the deal. >> i don't think the president knows if it's a good deal longer term or not. he took on a number of questions here. where i thought he was the strongest is exhausted all diplomatic options here. this is now about war or about coming together. i think that's -- >> i totally disagree with that. again, i'm not against this and not for it yet. but to say that the war is going to be the result of not passing this is i think is an exaggeration. we don't know. war could be the result of passing it. if they develop the bomb 15 years from now, then we have to do something about it. so this is much too complicated for us to sit here and say it's a good or bad thing. it's clearly not good thing. is it the least bad of all the options? it may be. >> what about the money? >> agree. >> going to the hands of

terrorists. that's about outcome. >> that could be the reintroduction of troops in the middle east. this is very comeplicateeplyicatecomplicated. most of the politicians, boehner most honest. when i decide i think i'm against this. everybody else is just i'm against this. they don't know when's in it. they don't know what's in it and haven't thought about the consequences. >> it seemed they predecided they were against it. chuck schumer is the bell weather senator reading and weighing and not sure which way to go and whichever decides, is it an easy fight overr not? >> one of the most smartest guys in the senate and will probably read it word for word. he has a very pro-israel constituency in the home state. i think chuck schumer will have a lot to say about what happens because people respect and trust his judgment. >> this debate is going to spill over into the 2016 --

>> that i think is very interesting. that i think helps the democrats. and here's why. the problem with the republicans is george w. bush. the last time we heard rhetoric of the kind they're using was their president sending 250,000 troops to iraq. i mean this is going to be very bad for jeb bush. the american people the polls show the american people are skeptical about the iranians as they should be and they show that they do not want to send troops to the middle east. if the republicans, people like tom cotton are great as far as i'm concerned because they're using this flame thrower of rhetoric and if that becomes the brand of the republican party, nobody will want a republican president. >> do you think that secretary clinton will embrace the deal? sounds like you keeping the options open. >> doing the smart thing. you have to read it before you know if you can embrace it or not. sit down with really smart people about foreign policy. i'm not talking about the iran's specialist in the state department.

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dramatic new video has surfaced of el chapo guzman's brazen escape from prison. we see him first in the cell and then vanishes down an elaborate mile-long tunnel and rides a motorcycle to freedom. el chapo is a free man for now and authorities are essentially handcuffed in their search to find him. nbc's mark potter has a unique perspective on the search right outside of mexico city. >> reporter: hi, toure. the tunnel authorities say el

chapo guzman used to escape connects to a house about a mile in that direction a house in a farming district. that's where we got to go inside the tunnel drap last. we dropped done into the opening and we can see very clearly it was very well constructed. they had a lot of time to do it and we were most impressed by that. and this is a situation set up that allowed chapo guzman not to have to walk out of prison. he got to walk out of prison. this video released by the mexican government shows chapo guzman in the cell saturday. just before 9:00 p.m. he can be seen pacing, going in and out of the shower stall where the tunnel entrance is. finally, he bends down. goes out of the camera's view and disappears. tuesday mess kahne authorities recorded video and then went into the tunnel itself where an old motorcycle with a cart can be seen on a set of tracks. mexican officials tell nbc news

he laid on the comfort and pulled through carrying the drug lord to this partially constructed house about a mile away. following the e stap the chicago crime commission named him public enemy number one. >> a powerful drug leader like chopo guzman often times there is hell to pay. >> reporter: guzman's sinaloa drug cartel dominates in the u.s. the ten kathie lees reach from western mexico to more than a thousand u.s. cities. now chapo could be overseeing day-to-day operations. many blame the sinaloa cartel much of the heroin epidemic in the united states right now and getting worse. and it's another reason that he is considered most wanted now once again on both sides of the u.s. and mexican border.

toure, back to you. >> all right. mark potter,thanks for that report. speaking of crime and punishment, the president is in the midst of a mayor push to make significant changes to our criminal justice system which currently in lyly incarcerates more people than any developed nation in the world. the president called for the reduction or elimination of minimum mandatory sentences for nonviolent crimes and changes of laws that keep felons of being employed after being released and spoke about racial disparities and our system deals with blacks and whites. >> are we letting princeipals and parents deal with one set of kids and call the police on other soeft kids? that's not the right thing to did. >>let's bring in john gould from american university. professor, to hear a president

speak in stark and clear terms in the criminal justice system is extremely powerful. >> absolutely. the difficulty here is that on one hand we all want a justice system that keeps us safe that convict it is guilty. on the other hand as the president points out, we have questions about the severity of the criminal justice system and its affect on people of color. so i admire the president and others for engaging this issue. the real question is are we going to see any of this conversation move from words and into action? >> one of the issues that he touched on was making improvements in solitary confinement. folks in prison put basically, well, all by themselves without interacting with them and some of the time released out in public straight from there. john, we looked online for a sense of how many people are put in solitary confinement. hard to get a sense of what is going on herement talk to us about that and what changes might mean. >> so solitary confinement is a

very, very severe punishment. it means that someone is essentially by himself in a very small cell for 23 hours a day, oftentimes let out for half an hour or an hour at a time. everyone looking at the american prison system from a neutral perspective says this is an incredibly severe punishment. what do you do about it? there are certainly some inmates who justifyied putting themselves in that situation and also questions about whether this is used too often. so if the question is what do you do about it one thing to do is to look at who is facing this punishment and whether they can be put back in a general prison population. >> john, taking a step back for the politics of the situation, it's striking as i'm sure you know. the less democratic president before president obama ofblg bill clinton positioned himself adds a tough on crime politician

and worked with the other party for changes to the system that tried to tighten law enforcement but now here we are not a long period of time later and a bipartisan consensus in the other direction. how did we get to this moment? >> it's one of the most remarkable things in american politics. this is a conversation developing over last several years. you have groups on the left like the sentencing project and ironically the heritage foundation, which have been really talking about whether our system is too harsh, particularly on nonviolent felons. i was also struck by the fact that president clinton i can't remember if it was just yesterday or today making a statement he signed the legislation that signed into law is too strict. we are at the remarkable spot in american politics where those on the left and those on the right may actually be agreeing on an issue and there may be a chance to move the ball forward here.

>> wow. john gould, thank you very much. next every nasty thought you have ever had about wall street, well turns out you're right. meet the bad boy banker telling all about his time in the wall street trenches. you might want to take a shower afterward.

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account, he has a new book out of "straight to hell" recountingstreet frat boy filled with lots of excesses and win at all cost banking schemes and looking for an apology you have to look somewhere else and joining is john lefevre. >> thank you for having me. >> high jinx felons and excesses and appears to be true based on your book. what type of person is attracted to this industry? >> well i think for me it was when i read "liar's poker" in high school. whether it's books or film we have tended to glamourize the wall street lifestyle for 20 30 years. so -- >> does your book glamorize the lifesnil. >> i write it out the cliches of epiphany or redemption and let people make their own decisions.

it is not aspirational as i view it. >> doesn't seem to be to me abby. >> are you afraid the book makes everyone hate you? . no i mean, i don't know if you mentioned everyone by name -- >> i changed a lot of names but it is revealing, for sure. it's ruffled -- >> a lot of former friends, i'm sure. >> you know look you know the bad boy behavior debauchery is one thing and off your time. 'm not that concerned about that but potential felonious behavior that banks are doing on business time that's concerning. you write there was actually an off the record meeting held at a hotel in hong kong attended by senior agent syndicate managers from the firms trying to stem the tide of banks undercutting each other on underwriting fees and long overdue. we needed to find a better way.

there wasn't enough business to go around. all bankers agreed to set fees at minimum levels. is there a lot of felonious business practices like this going on on the street? >> from my experience, yes. i try to get across the vantage point. i worked with bankers and traders, buy side clients and sell side clients. and then i worked with every bank on wall street. so for me it was, you know a culture of pervasive dooef cents. >> here in the states we all have talked about this kind of culture on wall street that many ways led to the housing market collapse a lot of misconduct regarding mortgage-backed securities and many efforts to try to reform the process and the system. we have talked about dodd frank,

what would you do to try to make it better for the average consumers and investors out there? >> there's inherent conflicts of interest. certainly what i experienced which i think are nearly impossible to change and relates to how bankers, certainly in the way i allocated deals, how we worked with people on the buy side in terms of favor trading, in terms of giving inside sensitive, non-public information and really impossible the kind of change those things. the culture can change and takes a really long time. >> so let's talk about the process a little bit. this book emerged from an amazing series of tweets that emerged. a phenomenon on the twitter. and then it becomes a book. how did you get from doing this amazin feed to a book? >> so the twitter feed started as a joke with friends in a bar. and the idea was simply to illuminate wall street culture. never literally as elevators and never really about goldman sachs

but the culture and evolved over time to not just be specifically about bankers and deals but also to reflect what i view as banker douche frat bro culture and part of the evolution led me to the direction of the book and so it was last year when the publishers came knocking on the door. >> i mean, one thing that's really interesting here is you're self aware of that frat dude douche culture as you put it and participated in it. how do you feel about your time on wall street? >> the late nights? >> i have no regrets and i enjoyed, you know, every moment of my career. looking back there were some things that i probably can now that i can reflect on them from a -- a different vantage point. having stepped out of that alternate reality. i can look back and say, wow, some of those things are outrageous and wrong and crazy and enjoyed the experience. >> i guess you have to read the book.

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what are your plans tomorrow night? how about eating some delicious food and drinking some cool cocktails on a roof top in the summer all for a great cause? >> yes. >> well if you're in new york you can do that at the second annual foodie ball. organized by ace programs for the homeless. money raised goes to help those in need get training and find work and a big sponsor is blue apron. and blue apron is one of a number of food delivery services popping up with the goal of saving people time and teaching them how to cook. so how is this one different? well founder and ceo matt salzburg joins the table now. i had a good time checking out your office. give people a sense of what this is, what is blue apron and why is this different from so many

other places trying to do something snim. >> fundamentally we make home cooking access to everybody. we deliver recipes and ingredients and deliver them all over the country to cook at home. >> didn't start that way. you started out of your apartment. talk to us about how this came about because this is not what you were doing just a few years ago. >> no, yeah. i started off as a venture capitalist actually before starting blue apron and the idea really came to us as something we wishled we had in our life. it is not complicated an enthe way we do it is different to do to work with frmirms all over the country. but, you know, the fundamental idea, even your grandmother can get. everyone has an aspiration of being a great home chef, cook at home with a great meal for their family. we were busy and we wanted to cook more often.

interested in it and found it hard. >> you are not the chef. >> you guys all about working with small farms as you mentioned. why do you prefer small farms and opening the working with small farms? and when i open the blue box potentially am i dealing with food from local farms or do you transport the local food all over the country. >> we cover the country in three main regions, east central and west coast region. and work with different farms relative for every region for farms. and by the way we don't just deliver produce. it is literally everything you need for the meal. there might be soy sauce or greens or a specialty produce, fish, meet you name it. and we work with local farms because one it is more sustainable to have a closer connection to the food that you are with nearby where you are delivering it too. and two, to be honest we love working with people like that. they like working with us. and it gives us the flexibility

to coordinate with those suppliers to create specialty ingredients that are grown just for us that you couldn't find anywhere zblels how is it you are delivering food less than what i could get on the grocery store? they are not fix ated on local farmers. >> we're cutting out the middle men. and it allows us to take waste out of the supply chain in the model. we're delivering everything you need in the right amount. a typical consumer when they go to the grocery store throws out about a third of the ingredients they buy because they can't buy in the right amounts. and then with consumers they are telling us every week ahead of time through data analysis and web tools how much they are likely to be buying from us and it allows us to not take on any perishable inventory waste, unlike a grocery store which has to buy food, put it on the shelves and hope someone shows up to buy it. so we don't have that waste as well. and since fundamentally we're designing recipes we can work

with suppliers to plan production in a seasonal way throughout the year and effective way to utilize their resources efficiently as well. >> you buy cumin at the store this big thing and use a teaspoon and the rest sit there is. >> sit there is for ever. >> and i have to tell you. there are a lot of fans of the blue apron in this building. and i tried it myself and also had a great experience. what are some your favorite recipes? and how do you come one. >> we do ten completely original recipes every week and we don't wring them back unless a at least a week later. >> i loved that one and i can't get it back. >> we hear that and of course we give out the recipes for free on the website and through the new mobile app which came out today which is exciting. but we try to bring new content in always and we try to be seasonal. so some of my favorite recipes, we had a thai chicken burger

early on which i loved. recently we did a pork chop with a pan sauce that you have to make on your own at home. and people really like that. >> what did you have for dinner last night? >> good question. >> i assume the a blue apron meal. >> my wife and i cook blue apron almost every single week. i think it was the pork chop dish we did last night. it's really become an important part of my personal routine with her. and one thing we hear all the time is how much we're changing people's home lives by allowing them to cook with their loved ones. >> did you say it has saved marriages. >> we hear that a lot. they tell us they have a saved their marriages. >> you need the desert. got to add something sweet at the end of the meal. >> maybe someday. >> crystal mentioned before this is a popular item in the

building. we asked people questions they wanted to throw at you. so you are on the hot seat. the easy bart of the interview is over now. >> oh okay. >> so in comes in a pair of meals. what if you are single? why can't you just get something for somebody that is single? zble >> we have two plans. couples plans and single. >> single people actually do cook our couples plan and have leftovers for the next day. we're not explicitly targeted at single people. maybe we will be in the future but quite frankly cooking is just more fun with other people. >> another people you can't eat because you don't have a person who loves you. >> i think having leftovers is a great thing. the next day you are ready to go. you don't have to worry about. >> there is no one to eat this meal with me. >> what about people though that say i've had the longest day, the last thing i want to do is spend 30 minutes cooking when i can just dial in. >> it takes time to get pizza

delivered also. our meals are designed to prepare prepare pair in about that that time. >> are there kids meals? >> we have a family plan which is meant to be family style and for a palate that kids like as well. >> no testers? >> we have some in the back. >> thank you so much. we appreciate it. and if that didn't satisfy your appetite we've got my whole abby's adventure on the website. you can even see me get my hands a little dirty in the kitchen when i learned to cook one of the family plans recipes. let's just say i am no five star chef quite yet.

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