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prime minister netanyahu or for that matter some of the republican leadership that's already spoken none of them have presented to me a better alternative. my hope is that everyone in congress evaluates this agreement based on the facts. not on politics. the details of this deal matter very much. i hope we don't lose sight of the larger picture. if we don't choose wisely i believe future generations will judge us harshly for letting this moment slip away. >> hours ago president obama took to the mic to offer an exhaustive and energetic defense of his landmark nuke loor deal with iran. taking questions for over o an hour the president outlined the stakes. >> we've got an historic chance to pursue a safer and more secure world, an opportunity that may not come again in our lifetimes. and as president and as commander in chief i am determined to seize that

opportunity. either the issue of iran obtaining a nuclear weapon is resolved diplomatly lylyically through a negotiation or it is resolved but force, through war. those are the options. >> when pressed about why the u.s. did not push for more concessions including changes to iran's aggressive behavior in the mideast as part of that deal, the president offered this. >> this deal is not contingent on iran changing its behavior. it is not contingent on iran suddenly operating like a liberal democracy. it solves one particular problem, which is making sure they don't have a bomb. >> as for critics of the deal in congress president obama urged them to read the deal and offer an alternative. i am not betting on the republican party rallying behind this agreement.

i challenge those who are objecting to this agreement number one to read the agreement before they comment on it. number two, to explain specifically where it is that they think this agreement does not prevent iran from getting a nuclear weapon. and why they are right and why the rest of the world is wrong. and then present an alternative. >> joining me now is host of msnbc's the last word and white house correspondent, and washington bureau chief for time magazine. we rarely see a president so eager to play defense on a very very big piece of legislation. >> can i change rarely to never? >> yeah. >> i am ancient enough to have watched the first televised presidential press conferences with president kennedy. not since have we seen this much confidence in a white house presidential press conference.

this was president obama's most confident press conference by far. the first one anyone watching these has ever seen the president get to the list of the end of everyone asking questions and throw out to the entire room, can you think of any criticism i have not answered please remind me. and the got a couple. and then went back to it. and then not sulfide with the question -- satisfied said let me check my notes and he had full and complete answers for every criticism. >> yeah let's actually play that sound of when the president -- one of the several times during that press conference when he said are there any more questions out there? have i forgotten anything? >> i made some notes about the other arguments that i've heard here. >> [ inaudible ]. >> okay. yeah that is a good one. >> so carol, you were in the room. >> i was. >> talk about the spirit with

which the president gave this press conference and how tenacious he was at the mic today. >> well i've covered him for since he became into office. even covered his transition and i have never seen him want to do a press conference to the extent that he wanted to do this one. and usually, you know, that he gets to the list and there is a line there and other reporters under it and he'll kind of leave before he gets to the disposable reporters on his list. and he wanted o take a lot more questions. he's very confident, defiant. he sees this as his moment to get out there and sell this deal. he really believes in it. it is his crowning foreign policy achievement of his entire time in office. and he didn't want to leave the stage today. when his press secretary was nervously smiling as he did that. but there is a lot of criticism about this deal. there is a lot of pieces to pick apart. and he wanted to go through each and every one of them and rebut them. so that is what he did. >> michael, this in many ways

harkens back to the obama of 2007. specifically on the issue of iran and engagement. and i must play a piece of sound from the msnbc debate of 2007 in new hampshire for the president tackling the issue of the iranian regime. here is what he said. >> i make an absolute commitment that we will do everything we need to do to prevent iran from developing nuclear weapons. one of the things we have to try though is to talk directly to iran. something that we have not been doing. >> so michael, it seems like he thinks this is a good deal as it is. but it also i feel like is an affirmation of his ideology that he has believed for the last 8 years, at least. >> right. and it is this idea that the u.s. does not lead the world like it did before in terms of invading countries when they step out of line. but it does lead the world in bringing together diplomatic

coalitions that can create a situation which an agreement like this is possible. the sanctions that were crippling iran that brought them to the table is something the obama administration can take a lot of credit for and now he has the advantage of being able to come out so forcefully and on offense. because he only really needs a third of one house of congress. and what he is decided will be will be. and it will be up to history to find out whether the deal works out as he's promising it will. >> we always knew there was going to be a partisan fight. and it is going to be one because of -- >> let's not say that without knowing that by the way is 21st century phenomenon. this would not have been under bill clinton, as recently as then. >> but some part of this gets to the very difference between conservatives perhaps and liberals. especially in the 21st century which is the idea of american exceptionalism or american omnipotence. when critics focus obsessively

on the gap between a perfect deal and the current -- >> you could bring the obama campaign for this deal down to a bumper sticker. it would be something is better than nothing. and the opposition bumper sticker would be nothing better than something. and i remember i think i might have been four the first time i was taught something is better than nothing. and i didn't have have a comeback to it then. these people think there is a come back to something is better than nothing. >> carol, for his conservative critics both in the world of the media and in congress and voters presumably, the president kept hammering home okay what is the alternative? and you get the sense that the white house feels like that is the ultimate argument in all of this. go to war with iran question mark. >> it is. and that's been their argument off and on for the duration of these talks, for years.

however he's now in a situation where he's really crystallized it and is really putting forward that as the only choice. the problem among proponents is their argument is hey you could have gotten a better deal. and look at all these other things you didn't discuss while you had them at the table. and that get as an even murkier argument. some issues even democrats have issues with. vice president biden was on the hill today and they were taking issue with the arms embargo. and missile technology to iran. and even though that is going happen in five years and eight years, they are upset about that. so you have a president who is really crystallizing this argument that he's been making more broadly or less directly for the last two years, saying today very frankly that it is either diplomacy or war. >> he was also candid about the limits of the deal. we played the sound earlier. but this is not contingent on

iran changing its behavior and operating like a democracy. it solves one particular problem which is them making a bomb. and i thought of a vox analysis which i think is to the point. that the president has almost a money ball approach to affairs. focus on wracking up points at the lowest possible cost. to obama that is how you win and seemed to be borne out in at least the way he was talking about the deal. >> and the argument against it is on two fronts. one it may not work. at some point even after the ten year windowine may ineran may still end one a nuclear weapon. and this is clearly going to make iran a stronger regional power. and iran is in the business of doing a lot of stuff right now that we're not really happy. from funding hezbollah and the meddling in yemen and bashar

al-assad in syria. the concern that even if the iranians stick by this nuclear deal, the cost of having a stronger richer more robust iran meddling in the region makes this a bad deal. >> lawrence i want to focus on the macro before we end the segment. which is just the president's last four weeks. we have the iran deal normalizing relations with cuba the supreme court decision on gay marriage. upholding of affordable care act. the trade deal which looks like it is on the right track. the president granting clemency to 46 folks in jail. singing amazing grace at the funeral for clementa pinckney. and the decision to allow trans gender service members. talk about the fourth quarter, the lame duck presidency. this does not feel that way. >> and this is by far the most

of his presidential achievements. and i don't score supreme court decisions as presidential achievements that is a very indirect credit you get there. but this really is. this was senator obama's idea when he set off to run for president. this was john kerry's assigned job when he became secretary of state. this is entirely driven by the president, by the president's own thinking from start to finish. and the finish point that we've reached is a reality point. and every single criticism i have heard of this finish point is a fantasy point. there is a fantasy built into every criticism. the primary fantasy to you could get a better deal says i can get a better deal. if we throw your deal aside, i john mccain or whoever. i will go and geesht better deal. of course no one else has standing to do it. china won't do it. not one of these critics who says this is a bad deal has had any communication with china or

russia or france or the kingd alom or the other partners in the deal who reached this agreement. and these people think there is a magic way they can get vladomir putin to stay on the sanctions regime. the sanctions as the president said very emphatically today. the sanctions disappear if you kill this deal. and all the critics are saying let's just kill the deal and let the sanctions continue. that is a statement of fantasy. >> it is going to be an interesting next several weeks. lawrence o'donnell. always good to see you. carol and michael. thank you for your time. and of course you can always catch lawrence weekdays at 10:00 p.m. eastern. >> almost always. four nights a week. >> tonight you can do it. >> what are you doing tonight at

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is donald trump a democratic plant? one republican lawmaker says he's highly suspicious. the idea that trump's campaign could be a liberal conspiracy comes by florida congressman

carlos cobello who tweeted strump a phantom candidate. and tweeted trump has a close friendship with bill and hillary clinton. they were at his last wedding. he has contributed to the foundation. and contributed to the hillary clinton's senate campaigns. all is shot down this morning saying he's hillary clinton's worst nightmare. >> i contribute to everywhere. >> if trump is a manchurian candidate he is turning out to be quite a successful one. a new poll puts him in first place. and a new washington post poll finds trump's popularity surging. nearly 6 in 10 57% of republicans now hold a favorable view of the donald. that is an unbelievable speedy

reversal from his 65% unfavorable rating two months ago. and while some accuse trump of tarnishing the republican brand others hope his success is contagious. ted cruz is heading up capitol hill for a meeting with the donald today. >> i'm a big fan. i think donald trump is bringing a bold brash voice to this race. one of the reasons you are seeing so many 2016 candidates go out of the ware they to smack donald trump. they don't like a politician that speaks directly about the challenges of illegal immigration. >> joining me now -- chairman steele, can you see ted cruz wrapping his fists around donald trump's coat tails? because i could in that statement. >> i could. i think ted is being very smart and strategic at recognizing where the momentum is right now.

i know that he doesn't have any personal animus towards trump so there is a positive personal relationship to begin with. and i think in large measure he's right in the sense that donald trump is tapping into a vein and pulse out there that is energized. so you want to be in a position is a so that when that energy falls off and dissipates you want to be the guy to maybe pick up some of that. >> i think jeremy, the success of trump and his wild fire status is puzzling to some. crystal crystal suggests his enthusiasm is effectively those wanting to hold up the middle finger at the republican base. and likens to that of a bad boy you date. not with a person you are going

marry but you are out with a person because it is fun and different and you are tired of the squares. >> i think there is certainly nothing unique about his candidatesy in the sense that he's caught on as you say like wild fire with a certain segment of the republican electorate. these people were energized in 2008 by say ra palin. they were energized back in 2012 by donald trump once again. herman cain and michelle bachman. let's not forget as we're trying to assess his strength. if you go back four years the three people at the top of the polls were rick perry, michelle bachman and sarah palin. this has a long way to go before it shakes out and when it does finally i think donald trump is no longer going to be at the top. >> and most are assuming donald trump is not in this for the long run. but the fact is on august 6th there is a republican debate and

donald trump is going to be on that stage. and as such he is going to wield more power than others in the race. >> i think to jeremy's point the difference between the individuals he mentioned before and donald trump is they got their momentum after a certain fashion within the campaign itself, whether it was debate or something like that. this is a lot of momentum going into a debate in which he has the potential unlike those candidates to define the conversation. it is going to be one thing on the stage. it is going to be another thing to be on the stage and have to follow-up a question after donald trump. it is a very different dynamic for a lot of these folks, particularly when he's continuing to strike that vein. if he dissipates to jeremy's point and falls off the top of the leader board by august 6th, that is a different scenario. then it is a winner -- you know, whoever has the opportunity on the field at that point. but right now he's driving the message and driving the conversation going into this debate. and that is going to be a real challenge for not just the

candidated but the party as well. >> and i'm wondering if he's driving the model for behavior among some folks who want bombast to be on their c.v. and you could say ted cruz was obviously going to be one ofaccolades. but i wonder if people like perry or christie learn from trump's posture and adopt a more aggressive posture. >> i there always has been a certain element of the republican base that feels like their country is being ripped away from. and that is what donald trump speaks to. when you listen to his remarks, go back to what e said in arizona when he was with sheriff joe and deriding illegal immigration and how unsafe we are because so many illegal immigrant, that taps into this vain that a lot of the antiobama people kind of rallied around in 2008 and 2012 that there is something just un-american about

what is happening in this country right now. that's always been there. i do think though that this time around with 16 17 18 -- however many republican candidates are going to be in the field, each person is going to have a boomlet but that is going to be short lived and ultimately i don't know that we'll be having this conversation six weeks from now about donald trump's strength. >> i'll take a bet on that. >> i will do. >> chairman steele to the boomlet question. i want to talk about scott walker a little pit. scott walker made comments about the boy scouts allowing gay troop leaders and he said effectively he preferred the ban to be in place because it protected children. which is a different argument and an older argument than we've been hearing from some folks who have been against gay marriage for example. and i guess i wonder, you know how concerning to you is that statement given the general

consensus or the thinking that the republican party would like to have some of these social issues including marriage equality and gay rights off the table in time for national race. >> that is a good point alex. and i think in large measure the party is really kind of moved beyond that conversation and that certainly the country has. there is no doubt about that particularly given its embrace of gay marriage and other issues that are important to members of the gay community. i think that kind of old way of expressing, you know, someone who is gay having to deal with children is just -- not only is it factually wrong and incorrect but just not a proper place any longer in the conversation. i think if that is the rhetoric he's going to take into a general election strategy, that will be problematic. as far as the primary is concerned. i'd almost expect there would be some push back even within the primary by some candidates on that rhetoric. we'll see. it will be a test for the party

to see how much it is ready to move forward and embrace a different way of discussing these issues that affect the gay and lesbian community going for. >> another test for the party going forward is determining whether donald trump actually as his campaign said today is worth in excess of $10 billion. but that is a conversation for another time possibly jeremy peters, six weeks from now. thanks for your time. coming up. jury deliberations began today in the aurora, colorado shooting trial. the key question was james holmes sane when he fatally shot 12 and wounded 70 ores. that is next. unbelievable! toenail fungus? seriously? smash it with jublia! jublia is a prescription medicine proven to treat toenail fungus. use jublia as instructed by your doctor. look at the footwork! most common side effects include ingrown toenail, application site redness, itching, swelling burning or stinging, blisters, and pain. smash it!

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antiabortion activists released this heavily headed video of what they say is an undercover meeting of planned parenthood's discuss ing discussing illegal activities. some are graphic in nature. >> i'm not going to question that part. i'm going to question below and question above. and -- >> the video meetly lyimmediately drew the ire of presidential candidates. and the central charge by the group responsible is that monetary sums being discussed in the video are illegal. federal law prohibits the commercial sale of human fetal tissue. in a statement planned parenthood called it an outright --. in some instances actual costs

such as cost to transport tissue to research centers are reimbursed, which is standard across the medical field. joining me now -- there is first just sort of i think shock that people feel when they hear that fetal organs are being extracted and used for research. i guess i don't begrudge anybody that feels sort of distressed at that concept, right? as you learn more about the importance of fetal tissue in medical research this undercover whatever it is seems in some ways less incendiary. the 1954 nobel prize for medicine was awarded to scientist who is developed something called the polio vaccine using cultures from fetal kidny deals.

this is. >> i understand people would find the video jarring. you have the -- woman chomping down a fancy restaurant and drinking wine. one thing that the group that did this spent about at least two years infiltrating organizations did put the transcript online. and the transcript makes it clear that t that only are we talk about the medical research purposes and diabetes and parkinson's, we're also talking about something done with the full voluntary consent with the patient. because the patient consents because they are interested in the medical research. and very very clear that this is not a profit engine for the planned parenthood affiliates. i think it is very easy to sit there and say this is so disgusting. this is so gross. medical procedures are messy.

abortion involves many feelings. >> it is a messy awful procedure. >> it is. but i understand people have different moral feelings and it seems callous to have people talk about this but the reality is patient who is say i'm choosing to undergo this procedure. someone has talked to me about my options and i have decided to donate the medical tissue. the sums of money we're talking about are about taking up space inside the office about the transportation it costs. that is very clear in here. we're not obviously not going to hear that. that is not going to be in the video but it is all in their own text. >> in the full video, explicitly says this is not something with any revenue stream that affiliates are looking at. this is a way to offer patients the services they want and do good for the medical community. surprisingly that did not make it into the final cut. >> i think pro life groups are going to be fine. they got what they wanted here

chaz the vivid demonstration of the discomfort the ickiness. >> the awfulness. >> awful procedure. and it is very tough for women to go through it. and it is not something that you wish upon people. >> and the class dimension just comes through transparentally there that she is talking about crushing fetal tissue using those physical words at the same time, you know, there is a chomp of the salad and then the red wine elevated. i couldn't have asked for better optics. and for a long time there's been this class dimension to the abortion debate generally where planned parenthood and groups like it say look we're really working for women who don't have a lot of options and access. and pro life groups have tried to depict them as wine tract sort of classic, you know, rich liberals and this plays into that really -- >> just bad politics. >> says very clearly they are operating on a raisezor thin margin

and. >> she is culturally affluent but the reality is planned parenthood does work for these working class women. and the people who are getting these, and donating their tissue are doing because they can make something positive something productive out of it. like a family member who don'ts parts after they die. and what's really horrific is forcing women to go through pregnancy. >> this is women who are forced to. >> this is the best option for them. for some women it mate not be horrible. that is just the best thing i can choose approximate a terrible circumstance. >> i think your point is well taken about the lurid nature of

that about this video and the procedure. and amanda basically says i think she distills the relevance of the video in writing the legal accusations are just the fluff. this is their typical method being as lurid and grotesque as possible to titillate its largely conservative audience. >> there is a way in the old conservative argument about stem cells. they were trying to get at that basic human discomfort with medical research on the body but they couldn't quite get there. this is a perfect issue for them. with the fetus you elevate the moral outrage for some and place wit the planned parenthood. >> they want people to think graphically about abortion. >> and i want to move on to something else complicated though in a totally different way. in today's press conference president obama was asked if

bill cosby should be stripped of his presidential medal of freedom among multiple allegationes of rape. >> there is no precedent for revoking ae ing aing a medal. we don't have that mechanism. i tend to make it a policy not to comment on the specifics. i'll say this if you give a woman, or a man for that matter without his or her knowledge a drug and then have sex with that person without consent that is rape. and i think this country, any civilized country should have no tolerance for rape. >> so christina, i thought it seemed pretty evident where the president's heart was on this if not the powers sort of the executive branch. how did you hear the comments? >> i thought it was very clear he wanted to make the claim that

this is rape. i kept thinking he's so glad he didn't give the medal of honor to cosby. but i think that ultimately he makes a clear stance on that. i'm surprised there's been any pushback because it seems very clear what he's saying. >> and a civilized country shouldn't tolerate it. if you go back to the transcript that we just got about the legal deposition from 2005 in which cosby is asked when you got the quaaludes was it in your mind that you were going to use these quaaludes for young woman you were going to have sex with. >> yeah. and sort after similarity. you really see this is what -- when we talk about in euphemisms about date rape or thing like that, oh now i see that's what that looks like. my god 1245 horrific. and obama has a cave man lawyer presentation that.

i don't know much about but i do know when you -- >> i think he chooses his words carefully. he was being a law professor in some aways. he was trying not to libel himself. but i think if you connect point a and point b it's the scenario very much the bill cosby is accused of. for a long time oh it's not rape and she was just drunk. and legally, morally that is still rape. and a lot of people need to hear that message. >> to have it come interest the president it is an important thing to hear from the commander in chief. >> right. we didn't have presidents weighing in on these kind of issues earlier. it's interesting he's there to talk about iran and the conversation moves into something that ends up being this kind of cultural in some ways celebrity event. but he makes it something that really matters in the larger scope of things. and it's about consent and non consent. >> it was a teachable moment. >> and he took advantage.

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the southwest or according to conspiracy theorists a government takeover by death squads to target all free thinking people. over the next months elite forces and special ops will conduct operations. it is designed to train troops in unconventional warfare but others see it as much more. conspiracy website the all news pipeline claimed that closed walmart stores will be used as headquarters for invading troops from china. 800-whistle blower were museum succinct. this is about mass extinction. joining us now, we'll get to actual operations later but in texas there seems to be a very very healthy strainparanoia and seems to have ratcheted things up considerably. >> very healthy.

i just hope you appreciate the danger i'm putting myself in. >> we thank you harold. >> texas is full of interesting people. a lot of people would say i'm one of them. and yeah we love our conspiracy theories down here. and there's always a few members of the tinfoil hat club around here but what made it worse a few weeks ago is when governor greg abbot in what i would call the first mistake of his governorship gave voice to these poem when he gave them a little credibility and then in response to this paranoia he was going to ask the texas state guard to keep an eye on these people which i think is a big mistakes. giving the people more credibility than they deserve. >> didn't tamp down the fear. when you read about the exercises in deference to people who find this a little creepy jade helm participates may conduct suspicious activities.

may be wearing civilian attire. carrying weapons with blank ammo. they say it is modelled after the french resistance to nazi occupation after world war ii. there is something creepy about that. but secondly what is is the government planning for that we should know about? >> what could the french resistance plausibly serve as the model against? haven't we signed nuclear agreement with iran. the screeners at the airports taking care of all of our worries. the government is so vast and the military arm is so complicated. when you see it up close sometimes you go what is happening here? >> seven states over the course of three months which is a very long exercise. harold, i wonder as a texas resident how you have seen the attitudes of those theories

mushroom. there is some thinking that with this current president it has exacerbated things. with obama being in there the way he's already stomped over the constitution pushing presidential authority to the max it would be the stroke of a pen for him to do away with that. this man is totally anti u.s. >> this is giving voice to all those people. right wing conspiracy theorists. and they don't like obama. but they debate likeidn't like clinton or carter either. but there is a special dislike in their hearts for barack obama. and i guess since he's the commander in chief they imagine somehow that he is involved in the details of a military exercise. which is probably routine. look, i'm not in the military. but do these people imagine that the people who keep us safe worldwide somehow get trained by

playing checkers in the old folks home? no they have to be out there in the texas heat doing whatever it is they do. it is hands on. it is probably nothing that we would ever want to see because these guys are asked to do the impossible. and when they do it we are very grateful. so i don't think -- i think it is unpatriotic to be suspicious of the troops that we are very grateful that keep us safe. >> yeah. it is worth noting these exercises are taking place on private property and u.s. military bases. ben, to the elaborate nature of these theory, one positives that walmart closes are because they are being retrofitted for processing centers for americans. that blue bell ice cream trucks are going to be refrigerated morgues. is there a way to draw out those

skeptics of the federal government and say it is actually not as bad as you think it is? >> i think what we're dealing with here is texas. this is permanent. this is the way it's going to be. >> that's it? >> yeah. >> there is no use in trying. >> all right. thank you both for your time and thoughts. coming up it is a photo op nine years in the making. we'll tell you after the break. prep trauma unit 5. what've we got? bp 64/40 sterilize sites. multiple foreign objects in the body. tweezers. (buzz!) (buzz!) if you're the guy from the operation game, you get operated on. it's what you do. (buzz!) if you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance you switch to geico. it's what you do.

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