. >>> good day to you, i'm peter alexander in for andrea mitchell. she'll join us momentarily from israel. it is election day there, a national holiday and israelis are deciding two very different visions for their future. prime minister benk anyone netanyahu is in the fight of his political life. in the last minute appeal he has promised to end israel's commitment to negotiate a separate palestinian state, a reversal of decades of policy agreed to with the u.s. netanyahu is challenged by a center left coalition promising a better economy as well as a resumption of peace talks with the palestinians andrea is in tel aviv with the latest. still a couple of hours of voting left. >> exactly. we have a few hours of voting left. the final polls which came on friday show that this is really really close. this is a parliamentary election. so you've got basically get 61 seats in the 120 member parliament majority of the seats. if it's any closer than five or six seats, there's going to be a lot of wheeling and dealing. netanyahu has been challenged much, much

andrea mitchell is in jerusalem a day after yesterday's election and a resounding victory for prime minister benjamin netanyahu. andrea, let's get right to it. some people are describing this as a scorched-earth strategy by prime minister netanyahu. give us your analysis. how did he pull off this victory, which some people said was going to be hard to do? >> well s a lot of people predicted that it would not happen. as of friday night, he was mind behind in the polls. they're not permitted to publish any polls after friday night before the tuesday election. the last few days everyone thought he was behind his strong opposition challenge. he basically pulled out all stops. there was a sundays night rally. on monday he said he no longer supported a palestinian state. the two-state solution which has been the negotiating stance and the commitment for the u.s. and israeli relationships now going back decades. he also on election day said very strongly to his supporters that the arab-israelis were coming out in droves. so that was very tough, kristen. very tough and a lot of criticism that at thi

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if he fails at least fails, while daring greatly sfx: background city noise ♪ >>> right now on andrea mitchelln netanyahu president obama puts in a call to the israeli prime minister. is this the white house and are they buying bibi's backtrack from the fre election comments. >> have haven't changed my policy. i don't want a one state solution, i want a peaceful two state solution but circumstances have to change. >> spring snowed over with tens and millions of americans ready to hang up their winter coats, mother nature has other plans. >> reporter: and we hope this is the last time we have to do this, clean snow off the car for the season. >> the british invasion we're going to take you inside the ro

tonight andrea mitchell gets the first interview with benjamin netanyahu. and stunning reversal on a palestinian state and the swift reaction from the white house. >>> campus outrage. word tonight of an criminal investigation into the bloody arrest of an honors student. the chaotic scene caught on camera, but what led up to it? >>> tale of the tapes. did the secret service erase potential video evidence involving its latest scandal? >>> and on the money. where all the faces are men. tonight the growing campaign to get a woman on the 20. who do you think it should be? "nightly news" begins now. >>> from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news." reporting tonight, lester holt. >>> good evening. days after his stunning 11th hour campaign declaration that there would not be a palestinian state on his watch, israel's benjamin netanyahu did an equally stunning turn-about today. it came in a one on one interview with our andrea mitchell that itself is making headlines around the world tonight and drawing a strong response from the white

. >> andrea mitchell in jerusalem, thank you for the time tonight. appreciate it. >> you bet. >>> as i mentioned, prime minister netanyahu's last-minute appeal to his supporters yesterday warning that arab voters are going to the polls in droves, "netanyahu of course wasn't dog-whistling here. he screamed the arabs are coming." joined by michael sheer. michael, let me start with you. in terms of the implications for the way netanyahu won this for domestic politics in the united states when it comes to israel,

it came in a one on one interview with our andrea mitchell. that is making headlines tonight and drawing a strong response from the white house. fresh off his election victory, netanyahu tried to explain to andrea a series of statements he ma that caught the world off guard, seemingly to dash hopes for a palestinian peace agreement. >> reporter: it was benjamin netanyahu's last minute campaign promise when he thought that he might lose. promising to reverse decades of policy. stunned by a furious white house reaction today he tried to walk it back. >> i haven't changed my strategy. i want a sustainable two-state solution but for that circumstances have to change. >> reporter: but you're reelected on the mandate, certainly israeli voters believe you were reelected on a mandate against a two-state solution. that is the way the white house is interpreting it. it's strongly considering blocking a vote for statehood for palestinians. >> that would become a terrorist state. so we need recognition of a jewish state and real security in order to have

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>>> right now on andrea mitchell reports, walking back. hours after andrea's interview with benjamin netanyahu president obama puts in a call to the israeli prime minister. is this the white house and are they buying bibi's backtrack from the fre election comments. >> have haven't changed my policy. i don't want a one state solution, i want a peaceful two state solution but circumstances have to change. >> spring snowed over with tens and millions of americans ready to hang up their winter coats, mother nature has other plans. >> reporter: and we hope this is the last time we have to do this, clean snow off the car for the season. >> the british invasion we're going to take you inside the royals' tour of d.c. with one of their american hosts and of course the afterparty. ♪ >>> how is that for a little royal dance party? good day, i'm peter alexander in washington. strained relations between israel and u.s. may have gotten worse. nearly two full days after the election, president obama finally called prime minister netanyahu yesterday to con

andrea mitchell is in jerusalem and just came back from netanyahu's office for his first election televisioness, what are the major headlines from your interview? >> reporter: well first of all, i think he was clearly stung by the u.s. reaction white house reaction to his election day and election eve comments that he would no longer would support a palestinian state and comments on election day about arab voters that led to criticism that it wasdy divisive and racist. he agreed to do this yesterday and sat down with me for his first american and israeli interview, the first tv interview he's done since the election. and he tried to rebut that. he walked back his comments about the palestinian state, especially in light of the u.s. threat now, the white house threat to go along with a u.n. statehood vote something that the united states has always blocked in the past on behalf of israel israel. here's how it went. >> prime minister, congratulations on your victory. >> thank you. >> but --

andrea mitchell was the first journalist anywhere in the world to sit down with bibi today.e a look. >> on iran the draft agreement reportedly would permit iran to have 6,000 centrifuges and that it would last for ten years or more. why isn't that better for israel to freeze their program and to have inspections? >> i think there are other options as well. i think that you can get a better deal. i think the one that i would have is to reduce iran's nuclear capabilities so you increase the breakout time. if i had to vote on that negotiating team, i would say zero centrifuges. i don't have a vote there. >> you really do accept some -- >> i told you, i'd say that's something that, you know, a smaller number would be something that israel and its arab neighbors wouldn't love but they could live with. and the second thing is i think the most important thing is that the lifting of restrictions on iran's nuclear program would depend on iran's change of behavior. >> all right. joining us now to talk about it is dana milbank, political columnist for "the washington post." thank you f

andrea mitchell is in jerusalem a day after yesterday's election and a resounding victory for prime ministerndrea, let's get right to it. some people are describing this as a scorched-earth strategy by prime minister netanyahu. give us your analysis. how did he pull off this victory, which some people said was going to be hard to do? >> well s a lot of people predicted that it would not

. >> good day, everyone i'm andrea mitchell in washington. we're continuing to cover breaking news from germany where we learn today new information, the co-pilot andrea lubitz was hiding a secret illness. investigators who searched his apartment and family home recovered two torn up sick notes from doctors including one from the day of the crash which was never submitted to germanwings. this as recovery efforts continue of course in france with families of the victims have gathered. they were asked to give dna samples to help identify remains remains, joining me by phone is katy tur and nbc's claudio joins us from the french alps. >> reporter: we don't know exactly much about what the illness is only to say they found evidence of an illness. now, german media is reporting a mental illness, nbc news not able to confirm that. we also know the prosecutor's office during the search of the family home and apartment in dusseldorf found doctor's notes that come with a carbon copy and original copy. they found both of those copies which means the car

andrea mitchell in switzerland tonight. andrea, thank you. >>> tomorrow on "meet the press," chuck todd will have more in the middle east including the latest on the iran talks and the latest crisis in yemen including an interview with the saudi ambassador to the united states. >>> when "nbc nightly news" continues on this saturday, detecting concussions. a test that is easy, accurate and doesn't require a doctor. >>> and later, a monument to the golden age of movies. returning a palace to its former splendor. >>> we're back tonight with one of the biggest concerns for young athletes and their parents, concussions. but now a simple two-minute test done on the sidelines after a head injury is proven to be one of the most reliable ways yet to identify a concussion from peewees to the pros. when players collide, the impact can be just as severe as the 25-mile-an-hour car crash. leaving an athlete dazed and dizzy, or worse. university of delaware running back jaylen randolph suffered a concussion on this hit last october. >> i w

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i want to play what senator john mccain said to andrea mitchell yesterday. >> the question that i think is going to rise over time how can we be confident that once she carries out what she tweeted, that is she wants all the e-mails known, how are we going to know that? how are we going to have verification of that. >> how will we have verification of that lanny? >> you have verification by her being believed that she's going to turn over everything, third parties, including subpoenas, senator mccain, congressman doudy, anyone in state department will have 100% access to any e-mail preserved, fact one. fact two is that nobody has disagreed with me as a lawyer that what she did was lawful. lawful. all the what ifs, suppose that alex is reporting all speculation, we don't know whether, that's not fact that's speculation. i always say it is my mantra can we all wait for the facts to come in? here is what we know are facts. one, what she did was lawful as long as they were preserved, the law changed in 2014 about private e-mails. fact two, what she did was open. she sent these e-mails to th

. >>> good day, aim andrea mitchell in washington. john kerry is back at the negotiating table with the iranians in switzerland meeting with mohammad zarif, hoping the letter signed by 47 republican senators didn't throw a wrench into tense negotiations. >> i do know the effect and intent of the author was to basically say, don't do this deal. by the way, that's to say that before there is -- even is a deal. i mean it's like giving people a grade on a test before the test is even written let alone given, i'm not going to apologize for an unconstitutional and unthought-out action by someone in the united states senate for 60-some takes, that's inappropriate. >>> take that tom cotton. joining me now is christopher hill dean of studies at the university of denver sean former ambassador to iraq and other countries. he led the six-party negotiations over the north korea nuclear issue. good to see you, ambassador. let's talk about the letter and what impact that might have on the iranians as they go the final weeks they think at least of th

good day, i'm andrea mitchell in washington. germanwings flight 4u9525 joining us now is tom costello, our aviation expert. and reporting from paris for nbc news is ann curry. tom, what do we know about what happened and why that plane went from 38,000 feet to cruise altitude all the way down to 8,000 feet? >> let me give you a couple of headlines if i could. i've been trying to work the story for the last few minutes off air, i got in touch with flight radar 24 which does a tremendous job tracking aircraft around the world. they say it has no indication this plane ever did transmit a coded distress signal. there was some confusion about that this morning. it now appears that that distress message came from french air traffic controllers when they realized the plane had it appears gone off radar and possibly crashed into a mountain.

. ♪ >>> in gayday everyone, i'm andrea mitchell in washington.ed cruz political thorn in the side of his own republican colleagues is first in. choosing an iconic christian university attendance for students was required. >> today roughly half of born again christians voted. they are staying home. imagine instead millions of people of faith all across america coming out to the polls and voting our values. >> joining me now for our daily fix, msnbc political correspondent kasie hunt and chris cillizza and founder of "washington post" fix blog and susan page. welcome all. kasie, that was an electric appearance at liberty university as we reported. the kids had to go students had to be there. but liberty university founded by the late reverend falwell was a very important place and that signifies a lot. >> reporter: it does it shows how he's going to focus on the conservative grass roots. they had something of a wayning influence in recent years but cruz' s speech came across almost like he was a pastor in a megachurch wearing a microphone that sat

our chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell is in washington where the prime minister will make his controversial address to congress tomorrow. andrea, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, savannah. prime minister netanyahu told supporters today he is not trying to be disrespectful to president obama. even as he prepares to lobby congress tomorrow against the president's negotiations with iran. embattled at home and facing re-election in only two weeks, benjamin netanyahu tried to play down his war of words with the white house but said he cannot remain silent about a u.s. nuclear deal with iran. that he says would let iran get a nuclear weapon. >> i have a moral obligation to speak up in the face of these dangers while there's still time to avert them. >> reporter: speaking to a powerful support group, america's pro-israel lobby, the combative israeli leader previewed what he will tell congress tomorrow. >> american leaders worry about the security of their country. israeli leaders worry about the survival of their country. >> reporter: the administration's pointed res

lester. >> andrea mitchell in jerusalem, thank you. >>> yet another fraternity is accused tonight ofringing shame to its campus. the national headquarters of kappa delta rho has already suspended its penn state chapter after disturbing pictures of young women students were posted on secret facebook pages. now police are asking for more victims to come forward. nbc's gabe gutierrez has more. >> reporter: penn state university is calling what police say happened behind these walls appalling. >> i'm very committed to making sure that we know exactly who is responsible. delta rho is now suspended for a year after pictures of nude and sometimes unconscious female students were discovered on two private facebook pages. and police say were secretly set up by the fraternity. >> they're embarrassing and illegal photos. and that's unacceptable. >> reporter: the search warrant reveals the first facebook page was titled "covert business transactions" and was shut down when police say one of the women accidentally spotted a topless picture of herself on a computer at the fraternity. a former frat

i'm andrea mitchell in washington. supreme court arguments have just concluded on a legal challenge that goes to the heart of the president's affordable care act. at issue is whether states that rely on the federal health care exchange can provide subsidies to make it more affordable. if the court rules against the white house, 8 million people could lose their coverage and premiums for millions more would skyrocket, making the plan basically unsustainable. joining me now from the supreme court is nbc justice correspondent pete williams. pete, there is everything at stake here for both sides. >> that's right. and three years ago, andrea when obamacare was under a legal challenge here on the constitutional basis right after it was born chief justice john roberts asked some very critical questions of the government, which led us to believe he was going to vote to strike it down and you'll recall he was the fifth vote to uphold it. here's what chief justice roberts said today. almost nothing. he may be a key vote again, a

>> andrea mitchell on capitol hill, thanks. chris jansing is at the white house where president obama was quick to fire back. chris, what did he have to say? >> good evening, lester. with even some democratic supporters of the president calling this speech powerful and persuasive president obama did indeed fire back point by point for 11 minutes from the oval office. he suggested the speech was theater and politics and criticized netanyahu for offering no viable alternative. >> the alternative that the prime minister offers is no deal in which case iran will immediately begin once again pursuing its nuclear program, accelerate its nuclear program, without us having any insight into what they're doing. >> reporter: he also argued the ongoing talks have actually kept iran from getting a nuclear weapon. he was responding after reading the speech. here's where he was during it. in the situation room, for a meeting added to his schedule just this morning. one senior white house official told me that, given the rankor between the two

andrea mitchell, nbc news, washington. >>> still ahead, an nbc news exclusive. for the first time we hear from a woman who dated robert durst shortly before he's accused of murdering his friend. why she alerted police years ago, the letter she turned over to investigators. >>> and later, movie magic. the cast of "pretty woman" all together after 25 years as julia roberts reveals something we didn't know all these years later. >>> vermont police said today they are, quote, very interested in a possible link between real estate heir robert durst and another cold case. the 1971 disappearance of a young woman last seen near a store durst owned in vermont. now a woman who once dated durst has come forward to nbc with details about the time they spent together. our stephanie gosk has her story. >> reporter: while robert durst sits in a louisiana jail, a woman who once dated him has a story to tell. linda walker zevallos said she met robert durst in 2007 on a flight from new york to dallas. for the next six months she said they spoke often. he was the one who called he

they've been investigating for three years. >> andrea mitchell, thank you. >>> heated moments in theation's capital when officials from the obama administration came face-to-face with republicans who signed a letter warning iran that any nuclear deal that it could strike with the u.s. may not be worth the paper it's printed on. more from nbc's peter alexander. >> reporter: with the white house and congressional republicans clashing over a nuclear deal with iran, today a direct confrontation on capitol hill. secretary of state john kerry blasting the letter sent by senate republicans to iran's leaders this week. >> in my reaction to the letter was utter disbelief. >> reporter: that letter warns one of america's enemies that any nuclear deal reached with the president and u.s. allies could be undone if it isn't approved by congress. kerry called it irresponsible and misleading. >> it purports to tell the world if you want to have any confidence in your dealings with america, they have to negotiate with 535 members of congress. that is both untrue and profoundly a bad suggestion to make

we begin with our chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell in tel aviv. >> reporter: it was a dramatic finish to a frantic three-month campaign, capped by benjamin netanyahu's desperate last-minute appeal to his hardline base. in a rare election day appearance, the prime minister said, go out in masses to the ballots. pleading with his supporters to offset what he called extremist israeli arab candidates. late polls showed him losing ground. netanyahu swerved farther right, pledging to prevent the creation of a palestinian state. reversing decades of promises by israeli leaders to american presidents, from carter to obama. and what netanyahu told me only last october. >> we need to have a vision of peace of two nation states who recognize one another. israel is a nation state of the jewish people, and palestine is the nation state of the palestinian people. >> reporter: of course, there was that american campaign stop. his controversial speech to congress. netanyahu was right to worry. tonight many voters told me they wanted a better economy and were ready for change. >> he

peter. >> certainly is crunch time andrea mitchell in switzerland tonight. andrea thank you. >>> tomorrow on "meet the press," chuck todd will have more in the middle east including the latest on the iran talks and the latest in yemen including interview with the saudi ambassador to the united states. >>> when "nbc nightly news" continues on this saturday detecting concussions. a test that is easy accurate and doesn't require a doctor. >>> and later, a monument to the golden age of movies. returning a palace to i have a cold with terrible chest congestion. i better take something. theraflu severe cold doesn't treat chest congestion. really? new alka-seltzer plus day powder rushes relief to your worst cold symptoms plus chest congestion. [breath of relief] oh, what a relief it is. "ride away" (by roy orbisoway... ♪ ♪ i'm going my way... ♪ ♪i leave a story untold... ♪ he just keeps sending more pictures... if you're a free-range chicken you roam free. it's what you do. if you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance you switch to geico. it's what y

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nbc's andrea mitchell explains why. >> reporter: hillary clinton finally responded. in 140 characters. a tweet just before midnight saying, i want the public to see my e-mail. i asked state to release them. they said they will review them for release as soon as possible. 55,000 pages of e-mail she turned over to the state department last year. but officials say it could take months to decide what involves national security and what can be made public. in saudi arabia, john kerry, who uses government e-mail, sounded impatient about the fuss. >> let me check on that when i actually have time to pay attention to such an important issue when i get home. >> reporter: clinton's tweet still left a lot unanswered. how many more e-mails are there? why should she decide what goes to the government? and why did she create a private e-mail system registered to her chappaqua home in the first place? a possible clue this comment in 2001. >> why would i ever want to do e had been mail? >> no, no. >> reporter: but her desire for secrecy has sparked subpoenas from the republican-led

tomorrow, lester. >> all right, andrea mitchell in lausanne. andrea, thanks. ann curry is also part of our team there with the latest on a tough situation facing iranian negotiators having to convince hardliners in that country to go along with any deal. >> reporter: lester, good evening. on this critical night in these talks with the iranian negotiators say they really need to say yes to a deal is the ability to sell it back home. as the u.s., iran has conservatives who don't trust the other side. and they are ready to pounce if they believe negotiators give up too much. so the biggest price of the iranians is to be able to announce some relief from crippling sanctions and most importantly u.n. sanctions, as they see it some immediate relief from u.n. sanctions would mean that for the first time in more than 30 years iran would no longer be an outlier in the international community, lester. >> ann curry, thanks. >>> a lot more news still ahead tonight including this one you may be talking about over the dinner table tonight or wherever you're watching. surpri

our andrea mitchell joined in the questioning today and has a lot more for us. >> reporter: it was a media frenzy unlike anything ever seen at the u.n. a likely presidential candidate trying to quiet a firestorm by finally explaining why she used a private e-mail system while secretary of state. >> i opted for convenience to use my personal e-mail account which was allowed by the state department because i thought it would be easier to carry just one device for my work and for my personal e-mails instead of two. >> reporter: after two weeks of stonewalling, hillary clinton acknowledged the fallout. >> looking back, it would have been better for me to use two separate phones and two e-mail accounts. i thought using one device would be simpler, and obviously it hasn't worked out that way. >> reporter: she said she has turned over all work-related e-mails, 55,000 pages to the state department but deleted personal e-mails. >> the server contains personal communications from my husband and me, and i believe i have met all of my responsibilities, and the server will remain private. >> repo

there are reports she'll try to do that in a press conference later this week. >> andrea mitchell, good to have you here tonight. thank you. >>> with a deadline fast approaching with a nuclear deal with iran, senate republicans did what they might call an end around. they wrote a letter directly to iranian leaders warning that any potential deal may not stick. now the white house is accusing the gop of interfering. nbc's peter alexander tells us more. >> reporter: in the oval office this afternoon president obama ridiculed senate republicans for reaching out to one of america's enemies. >> i think it's somewhat ironic to see some members of congress wanting to make common cause with the hardliners in iran. >> reporter: today, this letter signed by 47 republican senators was sent to leaders of the islamic republic of iran, but its message was directed at the white house. the letter patronizing iranian leaders for not understanding the u.s. constitution. and warns that any nuclear deal reached with the president and u.s. allies could be up done if it isn't approved by congress. the next p

those questions in there if it kills her and if she has to stand on a box to do is nbc's own andrea mitchell who was there today with secretary clinton at the u.n. andrea, it's great to see you. you were on a box, weren't you? >> i was on a box. >> how tall is this box? >> a lot taller than i am. i had to get high enough so the camera could see me and so that she could see me. >> well, she addressed you by name when she called on you. you got the first very aggressive question secretary clinton today.osecretary clinton today.f secretary clinton today. you have spent a lot of time with her at state and in her previous career. is what you saw today at the u.n., am i right in saying that's a very atypical experience for press and the u.n. and what goes on there? >> i have never seen anything like that. i've covered the u.n. for decades. it is a very sedate place. an ambassador comes out, a handful of reporters, you know, ask questions, politely. it was madness today. this was a circus, and it was interestingly a combination of the political press corps and some diplomatic press corps, the state

. >> andrea mitchell is joining me now from jerusalem. that question, then, of whether there is going to be a price to be paid by netanyahu, he's been re-elected, but he did it by making those comments about arab voters. he did it by renouncing the two-state solution. is there going to be a cost for him going forward the way he won this election? >> well, certainly it's a cost of his relationship with this administration. the bet is that he's going to be around a lot longer than barack obama, at least a couple of years, if not a full four-year term. he's been elected for a strong mandate with these hard line policies. the domestic price, a lot of israelis are very concerned about the lack of peace talks with the palestinians, the fact that if they believe that going forward they are going to be a democracy, they either have to give the palestinians and arab-israelis already have the vote but they have to include more and more people because of the demographics in their country and if there isn't a two-state solution, what are they going t

tonight andrea mitchell gets the first interview with benjamin netanyahu. and a swift reaction from the white house. >>> campus outrage. word tonight of an investigation into a bloody arrest of an honor student. what led up to it? >>> tale of the tape. did the secret service erase potential video evidence involving its latest scandal? >>> and on the money, where all the faces are men. the growing campaign to get a woman on the 20. who do you think it should be? nightly news begins now. ♪ ♪ >>> from nbc news world headquarters in new york this is nbc nightly news. reporting tonight, lester holt. >>> good evening. days after his stunning 11th hour campaign declaration that there would not be a palestinian state in his watch, netanyahu had an interview with andrea mitchell that is drawing a strong response from the white house. fresh off his election victory, netanyahu tried to explain last minute comments he made. from jerusalem, andrea tells us what he's saying now. >> reporter: it was benjamin netanyahu's last minute campaign promises when he thought he mig

that's where we find msnbc news correspondent host andrea mitchell reports. drea i understand you have new information for us this morning. >> reporter: well, i just talked to willie some of the closest advisers to the prime minister. this victory was so decisive and so different from eastern what we saw hours ago during his victory decoration. even then the votes haven't been counted and the latest exit polls indicated it was a tie and there was going to have to be quite a struggle and a lot of horse trading to create a new government. but now as the actual raw vote has been counted, it's very clear, he has at least 30 seats. with his natural partners in the right wing and especially the religious parties, he will clearly not have to moderate his positions in creating a new government. so it is not going to be at all difficult for him to create this government for a fourth term. in talking to his advisers not in the political party but in the government they say that well, what he meant in the last couple of days about the palestinian state was conditioned. i