roger cohen is here. stay with us. >> rose: my friend roger cohen is here, he's a columnist for the "new york times." he focuses on international affairs and diplomacy. his most recent column is iran and american jews. the jewish community in the united states and the divisions it has caused. i am pleased to have him back at this table. welcome. >> thank you charlie. >> rose: remind me one more time the title of the book about your dad and your own history. >> it's called the ghost from human streets ghosts of memory in the jewish family. >> rose: it's incredible. >> thank you charlie. >> rose: if you haven't had a chance to read it and understand from where roger comes. the give me the sense of this debate which is ongoing with lots of pressure and lots of people trying to impact the debate. people from beyond the united states. clearly we know that prime minister netanyahu feels strongly about this and i take him at his word he believes this is not good as a threat to israel. you're seeing all kinds of

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roger cohen's most recent column for the "new york times" is called "iran and american jews." >> thisivisive issue in the american jewish community for a long time. and you have, even within families, fiery disagreements as to whether this deal is overall good for israel, good for the united states, good for the middle east, or it's not. and on the one hand, you have apac lobbying heavily against the deal. on the other, you have the upstart j street with a much smaller budget, a more liberal organization that thinks on balance this deal is good. in diplomacy you never get perfection. iran has mastered the nuclear fuel cycle. the question is what do you do about it? i think secretary kerry and the president have tried to come up with a deal reigns in this capacity and that in my opinion will be a good deal for israel. >> rose: why does the prime minister not see it that way and a significant parent of the israeli community, as well as the american jewish community? >> look, the islamic republic has said violent things about israel over many years. it is important to take seriously that

joining me now is roger cohen, a columnist and former foreign correspondent for "the new york times." minutes this morning. i wonder first, in terms of the politics of this deal, we have jerry nadler coming onboard and supporting it. do you expect right now that this will survive this congressional review process and the deal will stand? >> yeah, hi, steve. it is a hugely divisive issue, but i do think in the end the president has the votes to be able to withstand any attempted override of his veto. i think the congress is going to vote resolutions, rejecting the deal. the president will veto it. and then it would require 25% defection among democrats. for him to be able to resist the override. for a momentous deal like this, it's not an ideal way for the country to adopt it, and that's reflects what a contentious divisive issue this is. >> you wrote this week about the opposition that the campaign against this deal looked at some of the traditional jewish pro-israel groups that are opposing this, benjamin netanyahu, and you wrote that rather than listen to netanyahu, american jews sh

executionstop of the , and then roger cohen wrote a piece in the new york times on saturday that talks about what has been happening in western civilization and i called yesterday, i have to say my own thing, he says his, but the idea that people who are folks that live next door are interested in isis, it is because some of them have lost meaning in their lives and they are searching for it desperately. we needed to destroy isis and radicals on the battlefield, but these ideas go on. the west needs to be clear what we are about, what meaning in life means, that there is happiness that comes from that, from justice and healing, and the path to paradise is do that. not the path of rape and murder. i want people to hear this. things because people need to hear it, whether i win or lose, i want good out of this. i would like to do some good. so i don't change things, i'm not stuck anywhere. i don't have a teleprompter or talking point, i study issues. said, he is undisciplined, but do you think i have been? i have a ball. i am doing good. in the end, if i do not win, i will feel like i ha