guest: i had trouble following some of the question, but i heard the reference to eugene robinson and the peace earlier in the week. i have read most of the commentary that is out there. where fraternities and sororities -- they have very high expectations for their members. that's what sets them apart from clubs. they set of values for their members and those do -- those members strive to live their daily lives through those values in that it in the organization -- embedded in those organizations. when they fail, their actions have consequences. their actions were soundly rejected. their fellow members of the greek community, by the broader student body, by the broader campus, it is obviously brought up an important discussion. it is important to realize that fraternities and sororities have a great deal of diversity on most campuses and in most chapters. it is an outstanding opportunity for students to grow as leaders and to learn about folks from other walks of life to live together and work together in a way that will benefit them in a number of facets going on in life. host: do y

"washington post" columnist, eugene robinson, an msnbc political analyst. general, let me start with you. in the same question i asked senator manchin there. kerry with the iranians in switzerland trying to hammer out this deal. what role does that letter that was sent last week, that open letter to the iranian regime by the 47 republican senators, what role is that playing? how is it affecting those conversations and those negotiations in switzerland? >> steve, thank you. and good to be with you, mr. robinson. that letter was patronizing, poorly written and i think a gross breach of discipline. it serves no other purpose than to undercut the primary negotiators en route to a negotiated agreement we hope and it was destructive to that process. we've been at this for 18 months. let's demonstrate some strategic patience and some discipline here and wait to see what we've got coming out of it. >> rand paul was among the senators who signed on to cotton's letter. this weekend. paul gave a novel rationale for the support. he said he was just trying to help presi

the genius panel, eugene robinson, kathleen parker. and connie schultz. as i mentioned, all three are pulitzer prize winners. is this a typical fight, bibi gets re-elected on the 17th of march, that's it. big casino. he's won. he's won his argument. he's won the argument having come here. he's won his argument about the fault lines in this iranian peace deal. >> well, first of all i don't think we know he's going to win it all. in fact, this could really backfire on him. what i think we're watching right now are two men, the prime minister of israel, and the speaker of the house who let their political ambitions trump the best interests of their countries. this should not be happening right now. i don't think there's any guarantee that the prime minister is going to win having done this. and i think -- >> what could obama have done to avoid this tussle? he didn't know about it. it was scheduled without him. >> that's exactly right. everything's changed. the lowest voter turnout since 1944 in the midterm elections. it looks like the republican leadership f

columnist from "the washington post," eugene robinson senior washington correspondent for politico anna palmer. eugene i will start with you. josh earnest said the president didn't watch netanyahu's address at aipac yesterday, will not be watching today. if the plan was to influence negotiations taking place as we speak, is this a failure for prime minister netanyahu? >> well it kind of depends, to tell you the truth. frankly, i think there's limited impact he can have on what happens in the negotiations going foormd in the negotiations, that's happening elsewhere. he can change or potentially change the climate in washington and the way those events that are happening in the negotiations are perceived here. but i don't think he can materially impact the u.s. negotiating position as far as we know it certainly not the iranian negotiating position as far as we know it. it will be interesting to see how much of what he knows he reveals in his speech. >> and anna you are there as well. bring you in noted by the first read team domestic politics versus what we are seeing here how is this pl

joining me now is frank brewny and eugene robinson and blake zef.th penalty abhorrent. i find firing squads abhorrent. at least they are a reminder that when people are put to death, they are put to death. >> there's no humane way to kill people. either you kill people or you don't. that's the question. i think you can argue the death penalty both ways. i happen to be against it. i understand some arguments for it in heinous cases. you can go either way, but you can't pretend to yourself that there is a humane way to put people to death. a way that doesn't hurt. how do you know? how can you possibly know what hurts hurts? >> you can't interview people who have been through it. >> inmates were crying out and expressing pain in the botched executions, which is one of the reasons there is i guess we can call this reform around the issue. blake? >> yes. >> given we are top five executing countries, we're number five. saudi arabia is number four. china is number one with over 1,000 executions a year but the figures are a state secret. that's not good com

eugene robinson writes -- the controversy is a reminder of one inescapable fact, she comes with baggagelking steamer trunks. how could anyone serve four years as secretary of state with no official e-mail account, instead conducting business from a private address with its own domain and server. the answer is -- deliberately. that's tough. >> yes, tough. >> these are not right-wingers. to back to the question you asked nick earlier, and to this whole point about the clintons, i've long argued that all of us here on the set, watching television view the clintons through a funhouse mirror. whatever they say, whatever they do is colored, distorted, warped by our views of them. so she could have come out there today and given a completely reasonable, rational explanation for everything that 457d -- but they want the server. >> and we still would be having the conversation. >> it's about hard information. shy wasn't going to turn it over. >> having said all that, even though we're looking at them through this funhouse server. >>> will this stop -- are is this going to die? >> i this i it mig

also, eugene robinson and frank bruney and krystal ball. susan, what more do we know about this apparent drunk driving incident by two secret service agents actually on the grounds of the white house? >> well, i think "the washington post" story did very good job of detailing what i think is unfortunate that it's not all that surprising. i did a story last year that chronicled the use of the disciplinary action that was taken that the secret service takes against its agents and i found that the fbi and even the tsa has a higher standard when it comes to alcohol related incidents. and they have an automatic 30-day suspension, whereas when i looked at the incidents of the secret service over the past five years, they have a very uneven record of punishing their agents and officers for alcohol related events. >> susan, do they have a written policy on it? >> they have what every agency in the federal government has, what is called the table of discipline, or table of punishment. but they would not provide me that table so i could do some compa

richard haass and eugene robinson still with us. and founder of you're asia group and editor at large for "time" magazine, ian bremer and from washington ari fleischer. and senior foreign affairs correspondent for politico michael crowley. a really good group this hour. where do we begin? >> a lot of people online are talking about our conversation last hour. it's interesting. it seemed that i had to debate the actual journalist that broke this story to ask what the difference -- to ask what the difference was between hillary clinton and past secretary of states. let's read the story, then willie and i have been looking through his own article. >> i want to rehear part of that interview and make sure we got that right. it seems like we actually had to argue his own story. >> we had to pull facts from him. anyway, very interesting. one of the most fascinating interviews we've had here in a while. >> hillary clinton exclusively used private e-mail during her time as secretary of state. according to a new report from the "new york time

joining me now to discuss, susan crabtree white house correspondent, eugene robinson and black zeth former obama presidential campaign aide. gene, let me start with you. what we did was add the facts that the president was referencing, but in his argument, the facts speak for themselves. >> yeah. one can understand the president taking something of a victory lap right now. the economy, by any measure, is doing much much better. and a whole lot better than the president's critics and opponents predicted. so it's time to crawl a little bit and that's what he's doing. >> blake, you worked on campaigns for the president and for hillary clinton in 2008. is this something of a happy campaign nostalgia moment for someone who worked on one of these, to think about these debates? >> it's really fascinating. you walk this clip of this barack obama and you have to laugh a little bit. where was this barack obama in 2012 and 2014? democrats were encouraging him to sing his own praises. you remember that terrible debate against mitt romney in 2012. you remember in 2014 that the democratic party was runn

michael crowley is senior foreign correspondent with politico and eugene robinson is a pulitzer prize winning columnist from the "washington post" and msnbc analyst. the senators wrote, "president obama will leave office in january 2017 while most of us will remain in office well beyond then. perhaps decades. we will consider any agreement regarding your nuclear weapons program that is not approved by the congress as nothing more than an executive agreement. the next president could revoke revoke such an executive agreement with the stroke of a pen and future congresses could modify the terms of the agreement at any time." according to "bloomberg" the letter was organized by senator tom cotton of arkansas. he defended the letter today on cnn. >> we're simply saying that iran cannot have a nuclear weapon and iran's leaders whom according to many iran experts don't understand america's constitutional system need to know that a deal not approved by congress won't be accepted by congress now or in the future. >> well democrats obviously said they were outraged by this. let's watch. >> i c

cokie roberts, chris jansing, eugene robinson are the still here.pondent at "the washington post," ann gearin', formally served as the ap chief diplomatic correspondent. we'll be talking to you about yemen and hillary clinton. we begin though in the french alps where the families of passengers on germanwings flight 9525 are now coming to grips with what happened. we now know that the crash which killed all 150 people onboard was a deliberate act and questions are now focused on not what happened but why. why did andreas lubitz 27-year-old co-pilot with no criminal record or known terrorist ties do what we did? loved ones arrived near the crash site thursday just hours after hearing the horrifying news about how their relatives were killed. the search for victims and debris now in its fourth day. crews are looking for jewelry, clothing anything that could help identify people. the information we learned yesterday first on "morning joe" about the plane's final minutes is still hard to believe. the dusseldorf bound plane was cruising at its cruising al

eugene robinson and david ignatius is still with us. you're not a sheep. there was republican on republican violence. >> yes there was. >> i saw it. it was disturbing joe. >> you may have to sort it out. >> it was upsetting. >> i need to go to therapy now. >> all right. we have a lot to get to and we'll talk politics in a moment. great table for that. but first, it is deadline day in the negotiations over iran's nuclear program. there are now less than 11 hours left for diplomats from the u.s. and five other nations to reach an agreement with iran. and secretary of state john kerry is warning there are still, quote, tricky issues to be resolved. nbc's chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell as the latest. >> reporter: the skies of the are as. in a luxurious 19th century palace. legend says once inhabit i'd by lord byron and coco chanel. the challenge, to stop iran from converting nuclear technology into a nuclear weapon. and if iran cheats to give the world at least a year's warning before iran could build a bomb. one idea have iran send its at

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associate editor of the washington post and msnbc eugene robinson. willie willie willie willie giest as well. >> yesterday it was a short hour, willie. everybody just for one hour everybody in washington forgot it as the favorite leader netanyahu came -- >> i don't have a problem with him. i think he made a mockery of us -- >> right willie? >> just for one hour. >> go ahead. >> i was just going to say, it was totally striking i thought. whatever you thought about the content of the speech that happened walking down through the aisle, go up to the podium and deliver what amounted to a state of the union address pounding the podium but going after our president of the united states. it was a remarkable moment in the congress. >> yes, it was. >> it really was remarkable. >> in the elevator bob woodward summed it up it was kind of strange to see netanyahu making a war speech in front of our congress. so thank you so much the republicans. thank you. >> he's not the first. and democrats showed up too. >> you know what if you don't think that was remarkable

morning lon on "morning joe"," with us pulitzer prize winning columnist and political analyst eugene robinsonyou all onboard this morning. set the scene for everybody now 24 hours later. recovery crews in the frenching a psalps are resumeing their soerch. calling it a picture of horror. the this scattered debris is all that appears to remain of germanwings flight 9525 officials say the plane was pulverized and that the biggest parts left are the size of a small car. investigators did find a black box and say it's damaged, but should still be able to provide clues. 150 people were onboard and officials at the crash site say there are no signs of life. most of the victims were from europe including 16 german high school students. two babies were also onboard. the plane left barcelona at 10:00 a.m. local time yesterday morning, climbed to a cruising altitude of 38,000 feet within a half hour. minutes later the plane began an unexplained descent. officials say it fell thousands of feet per minute for roughly eight minutes. the pilots did not send a distress signal which was initially reported in

guest: i had trouble following some of the question, but i heard the reference to eugene robinson and the peace earlier in the week. i have read most of the commentary that is out there. where fraternities and sororities -- they have very high expectations for their members. that's what sets them apart from clubs. they set of values for their members and those do -- those members strive to live their daily lives through those values in that it in the organization -- embedded in those organizations. when they fail, their actions have consequences. their actions were soundly rejected. their fellow members of the greek community, by the broader student body, by the broader campus, it is obviously brought up an important discussion. it is important to realize that fraternities and sororities have a great deal of diversity on most campuses and in most chapters. it is an outstanding opportunity for students to grow as leaders and to learn about folks from other walks of life to live together and work together in a way that will benefit them in a number of facets going on in life. host: do y

mike parnell knackle, donny deutsch and eugene robinson with us. a lot to get to today.ht to get to, including that article. should we talk about that article? >> no, not going to talk about that article. i don't know why a woman would speak that way, or a man. then don't actually. i don't know why she thought she could -- he would be fired, from any job he ever had. >> exactly. >> shouldn't we get into it a little more depth? >> i don't think so >> this morning, the front page of the daily news is calling 47 gop senators traitors because they sent a warning letter to tehran about a possible nuclear deal. the paper, which has called the president feckless for negotiating with iran still condemns the senators for pea trying the u.s. constitutional system. the letter in question was written by freshman senator tom cotton of arkansas who says he opposes the talks with iran. the letter states that any possible deal requires congressional approval. if lawmakers are on not board, it would be an executive agreement, adding the next president could revoke such an executive agree