chris cillizza is back with us. chris, we've got news on the sports front. >> amazing, andrea.ead coach at catholic university in field hockey. we need way more women involved in coaching positions in sports news at the arizona cardinals have hired as an intern but we think could lead to a position, the first female coach i -- maybe you were surprised by this. i was surprised that it's taken this long. >> and she's a former football player herself. >> right. >> and this is the first woman to be on a coaching staff in the nfl. >> and it comes, andrea by the way, this summer becky hammond, former wnba player was the head coach of the san antonio spurs summer league team and the summer league team won the championship. we need more women in coaching positions. come on sports. >> indeed. thank you. >> thank you. >> chris cillizza for bringing that to us. that does it for us for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." thanks for being with us. remember, follow us online on facebook and on twitter @mitchellreports. "msnbc live" is up next. benny's the oldest dog in the shelter. he

and chris cillizza from "the washington post." the politics of this iran deal -- the minute something happens -- and i think we all assume there is going to be a deal, whether in the next week or next month -- we'll see. what kind of political earthquake is there going to be in congress once there is something to present? >> i think there will be a lot of huffing and puffing. i think there will be a lot of ads run. i don't think given the general contours of what we know about this deal, unless you had significant democratic defections that you would see congress block the deal. remember, the way the legislation is set up, you need two-thirds majority in both houses which is a pretty high bar to clear. so far, it seems like the indications especially from house democrats is that they're not going anywhere. >> interesting you bring up these democrats. chris cillizza, jim webb, he sort of announced in an unusual way by a press release, but he had critical things to say about the iran deal in his announcement written speech. "today i

joining me now, chris cillizza and susan page. is, let's first talk about the speaker, speaker boehner and republican congressman mark meadows. is the speaker in any danger? >> i don't think so andrea. look you don't, when you're speaker of the house, want to have a vote or a potential vote of no confidence in which there will be people who vote against him. not terribly surprising mark meadows did this. this is someone who did not vote for john boehner, one of the republicans who did not vote for john boehner as speaker, he voted for daniel webster from florida. john boehner got the most people to vote against him from his party since the civil war. we know there's 25ish republicans who have not been happy with john boehner and will not be happy with john boehner. are there a lot more than that if it comes to a vote? i'm skeptical they would put their names down on something they would not expect to succeed. >> what about the rebuke to ted cruz? mitch mcconnell showed his savvy and his support. you've got orrin hatch, you've got l

chris cillizza, jim webb, he sort of announced in an unusual way by a press release but he had critical things to say about the deal in his announced written speech. "today i would not be the president to sign an executive order establishing a long-term relationship with iran if it accepts iran's acquisition of nuclear weapons." hillary clinton was asked about iran yesterday, and she said, "even if there is a deal," essentially, iran's aggressiveness will continue and they'll continue to be a state sponsor of terrorism. there is democratic skepticism on the deal. >> there is and i think especially for hillary clinton she doesn't necessarily -- we saw this with trade. she doesn't want to sign off on anything that she isn't in the room for or isn't sort of aware of all the details on. that said, i think everyone is just trying to buy themselves the ability to say, look. i was skeptical but i went along because president obama is my president. i think that's what's happening here. i do think i'm with carolyn, yes, there will be some folks who will not vote for this but i just don't think i

a bloomberg focus group with john join meg now for our daily fix, chris cillizza and founder of the "washington post" fix blog julie paste, white house correspondent for the associated press, and nbc's katy tur live in scotland. katy,first to you. there you are at turnberry and donald trump, one of us? very interesting to see the way new hampshire -- average new hampshire voters were reacting. >> certainly. that's what you were hearing generally from voters i spoke with either in new hampshire or iowa or south carolina or arizona or texas. they enjoy that he speaks his mind. they think that he's telling the truth to them or at least his version of the truth. i think voters out there are getting a little tired of political double speak and trump comes out and he says exactly what's on his mind. here in turnberry, did the same thing. supposed to only take questions about the golf course and golf in general and instead of taking political questions, even touching into foreign relations, if you will he said that he would be a very good diplomat despite what people may think. he believes h

. >> joining me now for our daily fix, chris cillizza and jean cummings political editor for "the wall street journal." welcome to you both. chris, i'll start off with you. trump/cruz, is that the ticket in 2016 my friend? >> oh man. i would pay a pay-per-view fee to see that meeting. >> what's cruz trying to do here? what's the play? >> look ted cruz is being, i think, quite smart politically speaking in not being the guy bashing donald trump. why? because he doesn't think donald trump is going to go the distance here. he believes that eventually the donald trump boom will sort of fade but what he wants is the people attracted to donald trump's messages brash, bold were the words cruz used to port right over to ted cruz. what he doesn't want to do is alienate those folks. he wants them to eventually once trump either drops out of the race doesn't ultimately run or fades, for those people to jump on him as the guy who can carry the message they like but can also sort of be a top tier or second tier candidate. >> and, jean to be the trump whisperer is not that bad of a extras gee becaus

after "the washington post," one of the dumber and least respected of the political pundits is chris cillizzahe washington post." and then sort of to everyone on the occasion of 9/11 i'd like to extend my best wishes to all, even the haters and losers on this special date, september 11. and it just goes on to chuck todd. >> and this a guy running to be president of the united states. >> that's my point. >> the deeper issue here. >> these may have been media folks, et cetera. now you're talking about the secretary of defense, chuck hagel, calling him an obviously moron and talking about a columnist george will, a moron. he doesn't have a broad lexicon it would seem. and speaking about people, mark cuban, again, a respected business person like him. mark cuban swings like a little girl with no power or talent. cher is an average talent who is out of touch with reality like rosie o'donnell, a total loser. this is what i don't understand. from a brand perspective how can you say things like a middle schooler and still have credibility to run for president? >> you can't. the issue he's having now

. >> ann gearan chris cillizza thank you. >>> attorney general loretta lynch sat down with me this weekend to talk about isis, inspired terror threats and the recent shootings in louisiana, chattanooga, and charleston. i asked her about the recent comment. >> the recent shootings in charleston have shown us that sadly what we thought was in our rearview mirror is still here living among us. this was a young man who is alleged as established a website that put forth derogatory comments about african-americans, sought to create racial discord, sought out african-americans to kill them. and even worse, wanted to go to a church to find african-americans to kill them. all to create racial discord, to right some sort of perceived wrongs that had been committed on whiteblacks against whites. the anti-klan acts. so what we see is this type of crime, this type of racially motivated violence, frankly, fueled by hatred is the original domestic terrorism designed to intimidate and to strike fear into the hearts of people. >> what is happening to our society? we've had ferguson we've had what happened