we were just talking about john mccain. i think the thing that's lurking in the back of mcmain's minds is one of his life long friends is henry kissinger. he defended him recently from protesters. i think in the back of john mccain's mind, what if tom cotton pulled this stunt when henry kissinger was driving normalization with china? i think that's where mccain wishes his name was not on that letter. >> kissinger would have put them on the wiretap last, the henry kissinger wiretap list. that's going to have to be it on that. thank you very much. we'll take a break here. coming up, new video introduced in court today showing how one man escaped from the boston marathon bombers, and then how he helped the police close in on the bombers. when healthcare gets simpler. when frustration and paperwork decrease. when grandparents get to live at home instead of in a home. so let's do it. let's simplify healthcare. let's close the gap between people and care. i have a cold with terrible chest congestion. better take something. theraf

for about 45 minutes. >> senator john mccain you know all about him. served in the u.s. navy from 1954-1981. he was elected to the u.s. house of representatives from arizona in 1982. and the senate in 1986. he was the republican presidential candidate in 2008. he is now serving his fifth term in the senate. and myron is our 107th president of the national press club. he is had a 42 years career with the associated press and covered many world leaders. he received a ba in 1961 from ohio state university and an ms with high honors from columbia school where he won a traveling fellowship. when he retired in 2004 myron joined the national chity and worked to expand the international activities and attract more members from the international media international organizations, and diplomatic missions in washington, d.c. also in that year he began his second career as an instructor at george washington universityismuniversity. you can tell myron is going to do a great job from his background with senator mccain and ask important questions and we will talk to you late for the q&

senator cardin: i cannot choose john mccain for 2. grumpy, ted cruz.e think he is grumpy, yes. it is hard to sort of warm up to him. mark: ok, last one. this is a tough when it will require some creativity. sneezy. senator cardin: lindsey graham is one of the nicest guys in the senate, so i might as well call him sneezy. he won't take it personally. he is easy for all of us to get along with. mark: this is what we call in major league baseball an underhand softball. who would you pick as snow white? senator cardin: senator mikulski. everybody sort of looks to her as the person that blazes the trail, that has done everything, and i am being serious. she has really been the role model for everyone to follow, so when there is a tough issue, people look to barbara mikulski. phil: what do people not understand about her? senator cardin: she cares about these issues and is a street fighter, and what they do not know is how seriously she takes these issues. i have had intimate conversations with her about national issues and wildly -- national security issues

it is on john mccain's website. up in boston, it is quite something.ll right, coming up, you're betting on whether there will be a deal with iran we have the art with two experts. and later playing a game about seven works. all of that and much, much, much more, after this. mark: our two guest tonight, joining us from the nuclear talks in switzerland, and our point person, david sanger, with the new york times, and both join us now from luzon. what is the headline to what has happened in the last 24 hours at the talks? guest: deal or no deal. that is the headline. that is the major question or only estimate anyone cares about at this point, and it has been a lot of comings and goings, and we had the russian minister coming in, and he took off, wait for it, to meet with the prime minister of the island nation, and he says they are not coming back unless they are ready to make a deal. and a chance for some kind of agreement, and secretary kerry said they're going to be working into the night to try to bridge the gaps that still exist between the two side

for about 45 minutes. >> senator john mccain you know all about him. served in the u.s. navy from 1954-1981. he was elected to the u.s. house of representatives from arizona in 1982. and the senate in 1986. he was the republican presidential candidate in 2008. he is now serving his fifth term in the senate. and myron is our 107th president of the national press club. he is had a 42 years career with the associated press and covered many world leaders. he received a ba in 1961 from ohio state university and an ms with high honors from columbia school where he won a traveling fellowship. when he retired in 2004 myron joined the national chity and worked to expand the international activities and attract more members from the international media international organizations, and diplomatic missions in washington, d.c. also in that year he began his second career as an instructor at george washington universityismuniversity. you can tell myron is going to do a great job from his background with senator mccain and ask important questions and we will talk to you late for the q&

senator john mccain examines the lives of 13 soldiers who fought in the wore. and congressman steven israel in his book that is described as a political satire ripped from the headlines. and then marco rubio discusses his new become. and later booktv's afterward interview features former massachusetts congressman barnie frank on his book that is an account of his life and political career. this weekend the city tour partnered with cox communication to learn about the history and literary life of tulsa, oklahoma. >> gutherie wrote this land is your land but he is more than that. we are proud to have his work back in oklahoma where we was born and we thing it belongs. he championed for the migrant workers from oklahoma kansas and texas during the dust bowl area. who found themselves in california literally starving. he saw the difference between the haves and the have nots and became their spokesman through his music. he recorded very few songs of his own. we have a listening station with 46 songs that make the recording he did so significant and importance to us

other speakers include senator john mccain and kennedy's son ted kennedy jr. and patrick kennedy. >>> tens of thousands of people who packed levi stadium for wrestlemania are expected to fill bay area airports today to head back home. >>> 76,000 fans turned out yesterday protecting the attendance record at the stadium and officials estimate that the event could pump $100 million into the local economy. leaf stadium officials say wrestlemania was the perfect dry run for super bowl 50 next february. >> we are all prepared with big events here and this could be the biggest so far but we are ready. >> wrestlemania 31 became highest grossing paid review event in history grossing 12.6 million dollars. >> we were seeing a lot of people walking around like this

joining me this morning is senator john mccain of arizona. senator, thanks so much for being with us this morning. the president says he's re-evaluating. he clearly was unhappy with what bibi netanyahu said about the palestinian state during his campaign. let me play for you something the president said to the "huffington post." >> when he said it wouldn't happen during his prime ministership and so that's why we've got to evaluate what other options are available to make sure that we don't see a chaotic situation in the region. >> senator, are we at a dangerous point here in relations between u.s. and israel? >> well i think that's up to the president of the united states. look there was a free and fair democratic election. the only nation in the region that will have such a thing. the president should get over it. get over your temper tantrum, mr. president. it's time that we work together with our israeli friends and try to stem this tide of isis and iranian movement throughout the region which is threatening the very fabric of the region.

not the way john mccain hoped, though. today we finally went to war with iran, emphasis on "with." we reported that shiite ground troops being led by iran's revolutionary guard, in the fight against isis, in the city of tikrit in iraq, those ground troops led by iran were being supported for the first time by u.s. air power. u.s. planes were flying surveillance missions over tikrit in support of that battle against isis in tikrit. well, today nbc news reports it might have been surveillance flights yesterday, but today, it's u.s. planes actually dropping bombs in support of that ground mission. which, again, includes a small number of iraqi military forces, but also mostly shiite militias, led by iran's revolutionary guard. so it's iran's ground troops, iranian-led ground troops on the ground, and u.s. pilots dropping bombs to support them in the air. we really have gone to war with iran. with them. very awkward. and there are two reasons that could be hard to get a bead on things like this. particularly when really radical almost hard to believe things are happening at a very rapi

do you think john mccain, who he clearly believes that., do you think that president obama has let his personal problems with netanyahu get in the way of smart policy? >> well, it's a complicated answer because i think mr. netanyahu allowed his personal animosity toward obama get in the way of his policies. i mean if we look back at 2010 when vice president biden was visiting israel, the announcement of a settlement comes out. and then a public endorsement of mitt romney in 2012 -- >> will it get better why obama ask still in office? >> as long as the two of them are in office, i doubt it will get better. mr. netanyahu has aligned himself with the republicans and inserted himself and israel into the american political scene and american political open rift between republicans an democrats. mr. obama, i have to say in this respect, i do agree with senator mccain. mr. obama perhaps should not have followed suit and made this into a public thing. the whole idea, kate, of the relationship between an american president and an israeli prime mini

it was serious people like john mccain.be regretting this the most. >> absolutely. >> stephanie, the other thing that kind of caught my eye and my ire is he said we should have talked about it more given the blowback. so if there headline been any blowback he would not have been reconsidering it? >> i think they thought it would be fine to commit treason because they saided a snow day, rev, they wanted to make snow angels so they thought this might go passed unnoticed? how many times can we use the word unprecedented? this is just beyond the pale. my dad ran with goldwater in 1964. it's like if they called cruschev, and then using your analogy, i was rushing for a plane to get away from the snowstorm and i didn't read what i, an elected u.s. senator signed writing the enemy kruschev. you know stefly in your heart, you know i'm right. ha ha! that was a good one. >> dana you're not old enough to know that was the slogan. >> i know goldwater. there's been a recent chant "read the bill" now we can say "read the letter." >>> tha

. >> going back to john mccain's candidacy, this question came up during john mccain's candidacy in ascholars started to wonder, given that john mccain was born to two american-born parents abroad. he was not born in the united states, while his father was in the navy. what effect might that have. did the scholars ever figure that out decisively in the mccain case? >> i forget. [ laughter ] >> but i'm pretty sure they decided that it was okay, and i'm pretty sure that ted cruz will not be tripped up. >> it's okay to come in second. in the campaign for president if, you know, were you born outside the united states. we'll see what happens. if ted cruz comes in first, then we'll really dig into this. >> i was going to help sam out there. we've both been up since 6:00. i want to see the birth certificate from ted cruz. i'm sticking that out now. >> it's a canadian birth certificate. but it does confer on him. he's right. he is a natural-born citizen. >> there is an interesting, we've been having a discussion about the base and ted cruz speaking to his base, and if you watch that video yo

let's look now at republican senator john mccain. he was there today. he made the ceremony a big bipartisan event. here's what john mccain said about his former colleague, ted kennedy. >> he loved a good fight. he had a real zest for political argument, and the harder you went at it, the more he enjoyed it, and the harder he laughed about it when you next encountered him. i miss fighting with him, to be honest. it's gotten harder to find people who enjoy a good fight as much as ted did. >> mccain loves a good fight, senator, as you know. one of the stories you always hear about ted kennedy is after hours when the senate was out of session, he'd be hanging around in some room in the capitol with a bunch of southern conservative democrats in the old days, and they were friends. is that still possible in the u.s. senate? >> it's less the way the senate was back then, but it's the only way in which it's going to work. if we're going to break down the gridlock, if we're going to make this country a place where people can dream of a future that is better than

. >> john mccain is famous for having called him a wackobird. i don't know that jeb bush will use that language. >> can he afford to? >> well, i don't know. that's going to be the test for jeb bush. because if you watch that video, ted cruz was not the least big apologetic. when she said thank you for the lecture in a sarcastic way, i'm surprised he didn't say, you're welcome. at harvard law school -- >> he's not a big irony guy. >> no. at harvard law school, he was -- the professors were in awe of his intellect. even if they disagreed with him, which they did vehemently, these people knew that -- this guy was trained under the federalist society second generation republican wave. in other words, not the reagan years but these years. >> a little comic relief here -- thank you, donald trump -- an interview today with a fox affiliate in new york city. donald trump brought up the issue of ted cruz's birthplace. let's listen to the donald. >> well, he's got, you know, a hurdle that nobody else seems to have at this moment. it's a hurdle that somebod

i mean, cruz is a guy that even fellow republican john mccain called a wacko bird. ( laughter ) thanksour service, senator mccain. ( laughter ) but any time a crazy guy enters an election you have a late night show job security for a little while longer. ( laughter ) rent gonna get paid. light's gonna get turned back on. some money. some money. that's why we're-- oh, by the way, that's why we are so excited to announce the start of our 2016 election coverage. ( laughter ) >> larry: that's right. you got it. ( applause ) that's right. ( cheers ) "backlash 2016: the unblackening" begins tonight. it is time for america to say ( bleep ) you to the notion that once you go black you never go back. ( laughter ) so how did mr. cruz announce his mission impossible run for president? >> right around midnight conservative fire brand ted cruz tweeted out this announcement. "i'm running for president." >> larry: i'm sorry, did she say tweeted and around midnight? is ted cruz trying to win hashtag wars? ( laughter ) presidential announcementdon't happen at midnight. booty calls happen at midnight al

senator john mccain tells president obama to get over it. >> get over your temper tantrum mr. president, it's time that we work together with our israeli friends. >> mccain said he's convinced obama is letting his personal problems with netanyahu get in the way of shared policy goals and police are still on the hunt for the man who shot a woman on a texas freeway in an apparent case of road rage. you're live in the cnn newsroom. hello, everyone thank you for joining us. the last u.s. special operations forces are now out of yemen. the evacuation involved about 100 members. last month the u.s. embassy was closed who took over the strategic city but is seen as strategically important because it lies just south of the capitol of -- we're also hearing of an apparent threat by a group claiming affiliation by isis. it called for attacks on american soldiers on u.s. soil. more on that in just a moment. >>> the united nations is also raising concerns over the deteriorating concerns in yemen, coming up in about one hour from now eastern time the security council is holding a meeting to

former senator chris dodd, olympia snowe and john mccain. and we asked them how he managed to do it. >> he dedicated his life to the institution and there by being able become one of the most effective members of the united states senn at. i might add probably greatest antagonist i ever had on the floor of the senate. >> schieffer: yet you were friends. >> we had some of the great bouts, yet i remember one time we had a huge fight that two freshmen had begun we drove them from the floor and afterwards walking off the floor he put his arm around me. we did a good thing didn't we, john? he enjoyed the combat but he didn't personalize the combat. that is really one of the reasons why i think so many, on both sides of the aisle had not just respect but after awhile affection. >> he was a legislative man he used his skills as a negotiator. he appreciated the traditions of the senate and also got to know his colleagues, their preferences and dislikes. understood that adversary today would be ally tomorrow. >> schieffer: he was one of your closest

in light of the e-mail controversy john mccain tells the national journal he avoids e-mail all togetherhave other people and i tell them to e-mail because i'm always worried i might say something. i'm not the most calm and reserved person. i'm afraid i'll e-mail something i wish i hasn't. >> maryland congressman is throwing his hat into the ring to replace barbara mccloskey. kath clean kennedy tound sent said he was thinking about it as well. >> two more are launching the arctic caucus focusing on areas like energy and trade and meanwhile rare signs of bipartisanship in the house yesterday. they passed a bill 316 to 101 authorizing money to am track over four years. with heavy snow expected for d.c. a delegate sent a letter to the capital police asking them to suspend a ban on sledding in the capitol grounds and it could soon be enshrined in law. that's right. the ohio house voted to move forward on a bill that would make hang on sloopie the official rock song. >> michelle obama asked the brauf video host to come up with five exercises that don't seem like exercises for her five me five

john mccain got the nomination. in the last cycle romney was first when it came to money but also nobody quit. why? internet billionaires, that's it. adelson sustained newt gingrich's campaign with personal checks for a month. and that is a new dynamic here and what we see is that you know, marco rubio's got a billionaire in florida. scott walker's got a billionaire in chicago. they're all lining up. they've got the billionaires here and then they'll have their super pac there. and if you get all the tools together you can play. >> how do the democrats respond to this? and does hillary clinton have her own billionaires? >> i'm sure she does. they haven't been named yet. but to be honest, the democrats are mortified at this moment. that may be because they're frozen in place and so they can't really tell what they will accomplish. but they know -- they don't just have adelson and these other billionaires and the cokes. they're talking about spending 9 $900 million by themselves. they've got all kinds of different pla

that resolution is recognizing that john mccain iii is a natural born citizen. senator barack obama was a co-sponsor of that resolution. senator john mccain then, of course, did not exactly return the favor during president obama's re-election campaign when crazies out there, led by donald trump, were questioning the president's own natural born citizenship, which, of course, was very clearly established. >>> up next, the white house says israel was spying on their negotiations with iran. you could sit at your computer and read all about zero-turn mowers. click. scroll. tweet. or you could just sit on a john deere z435 eztrak and feel its power. you'll know it'll get the job done fast. when it's time to pick a mower you've got to get on one. visit your local john deere dealer for a test drive today. sign up to take your turn on a z435 and save 100 dollars on your purchase. nothing runs like a deere. >>> we have not just briefed congress about the progress or lack thereof that's being made, but we also briefed the israelis. and our other partners in the region, a

so barack obama and then john mccain refuses. but then 2008 the then to push them into but then that is it. they used to not care so much but now that it is a good thing. this is the story of king solomon. that is the problem. >> obviously you are a liberal as one of the things that you talk about in 1954 when you were it in mississippi end you said then when you were 24 the you were not there to create a perfect world. that you've believe that i am not here to build a perfect society just ensure that he gets his chance to live his life the own way. but that tactical importance to stave realistic. >> will but i saw with the american movement but in 1964 if you remember the play green pastures and it was called delawd and then they started to mock him. but then most of us i think it has been replayed with lgbt people. those who were initially opposed the marriage is an institution that oppresses woman. so it was the same but we want to have the same. but others said for the tip of the spiffier if they have been excluded that they

john mccain's called you a wacko bird.ut the question is how do you -- when they say you're the most hated man in the senate why is that? why are some people in your party so against ted cruz and angry you did the filibuster? >> you know, sean when the "new york times" says that the washington elites despise me, my only question is i have to disclose that the as -- frankly i can't think of a better ground to run on. washington's broken. and it's both parties that aren't listening to the american people. >> do you think your party let you down when you stood on health care? in other words you said if we stand together we can get this done and they didn't stand with you. >> look, it's not a question of letting me down. it's a question of letting down the people who elected us. republicans all over the country campaigned saying if you elect us we'll fight -- >> if every republican stood you think it would have been successful. >> i think it absolutely would have been successful. now, would we necessarily have succeeded in at

here with us now republican senator from arizona, chairman of the arms services committee, senator john mccainf the man you knew very well. people out in the streets remembering him. a man in your office recently and you offered a warning to him. what was it? >> well i said to him, i said i'm very worried about your safety. i think that these people are going to try 20 do you harm. that vladimir and he said i know. he said, i know, but vie toi have to go back and do this for my country and we now have news that just the last few days he -- he gave an interview where he said that he knew that his life was in danger. you know the sad part all all this, joe is that right now john kerry's meeting with lavrov as if nothing happened. >> there are never repercussions? >> well, said. >> why? >> they're hell-bent on this illusion they can somehow sell vladimir i'll be more flexible when re-elected. the reset button. by the way, they're not the only ones in all due respect. i looked into his eyes and -- remember, i looked into his eyes and saw his soul. george w. bush, and i said i looked into his eyes

this was an interview with john mccain in march of 2013.e said, it's always the whack owe birds that get the media meg phone. there's a belief among the american people that they are the views of the majority of republicans, they are not. he was then asked to clarify who specifically he was talking about. he said rand paul cruz amash, whoever. >> this was not a wacko bird speech. he was concerned about immigration, endorsed a flat tax which a lot of republicans do and ene embraced traditional marriage this was not an out of the mainstream type of speech. he was where the republican is and trying to i think broaden his appearance -- we know he's a hero of the tea party movement, that's how he got into the senate and beat the establishment candidate in the texas primary in 2012. he's trying to broaden his appeal to include some of these christian eevangelical voters also cultivated by mike huckabee and rick santorum. >> chris cillizza watching jeb bush and scott walker who has moved to the right and looked also towards the evangelicals as he

i'm joined by arizona republican senator john mccain. obviously the big moment.e see the secretary of state walking into the room. big moment for ash carter as well. we'll hear from him for the first time on his thoughts how this battle can be won. what do you think will be the main line of questioning? >> the authorization for the use of military force and why the president of the united states should restrict the ability of the commander-in-chief to exercise whatever limit options to succeed. there are other areas it may be the shortest hearing in history if the question is what is the strategy to defeat isis because there is none. general dempsey is just back from iraq observing the iranian-backed shiia force with the head of the iranian revolutionary guard orchestrating the attack on tikrit. this is the same guy who sent in copper-tipped ieds into iraq while we were fighting there and kills hundreds of american soldiers and marines. it's bizarre. so i'm afraid that you will hear very little from them in the way of the strategy to defeat isis. martha: the pres

john mccain had a fairly spirited primary challenge the last time he ran and john mccain has issues on which he's broken with the conservative base including immigration, and viewed skeptically in arizona. >> he knows she can get through without his vote and so he can do it safely. >> yep. >> and speaking of the conservative base it is not just st. patrick's day, it is debt limit day. >> green day, or red. is there a parade for that too? >> we could start one. >> do we have a question? >> yes. >> so the question was, we know the republicans in the past we had a shutdown not too long ago and there was reports that the republicans might do this again because there was damage to their reputation. but whatever damage they incurred with the public because it was temporary because they had a good mid-term election and add to the mix you have gop in-fighting and on the one side the team that wasn'ts the sequestration spending cuts and the other side with mccain and others who want defense spending. given all of that stuff in the mix, how do you see the republican party playing this. >> i thin

she is as hawkish as john mccain, when john mccain talks about hillary clinton in a match up versus rand paul you is see his face flush with excitement they are hawkish peas in a pod. >> she is. kennedy: that is not problematic. >> it but also several wars this that region, she try to to engage in diplomacy, she did a thing called smart power. kennedy: was it effective. she bragged about her part in what rand paul calls hil hillars war? libya. >> rand paul does not know anything about libya, having worked in libya, i can tell you the state department 69 very involved. kennedy: how would you describe the straight of affairs in libya right now. >> they're chaotic. kennedy: do you know why? a big win for her? >> you can't -- you don't want to go to libya but you don't' to to leave libya, so what is the answer, we went in helped 24e78 withem win thewar. kennedy: it worked so well with the iraqi military, we gave them 25 million dollars and they still suck. don't election jeb bush. >> i will ring the cow bell, tell me what you think follow me on twitter. lovely, and always there. coming up, d

you will always remember veterans day with senator john mccain. i know you will stay to sign books. thank you for your service and all you do for the country. [inaudible conversations] good evening either from politics & prose along with my life on behalf of the entire staff thank you for coming the cold and the ice melted is a good time to do turnoff your cellphone when we go to the q&a session please step up to the microphone because we are recording for our purposes and also c-span booktv. before you have your book signed our staff would appreciate it if you could fold up your chairs so now for the feature presentation and makes our job here of little easier on the day "the washington post" style section runs the big favorable feature about the person in the new book and that is what happened today for representative israel. if you have not read the piece yet let me summarize. >> to read the whole thing. [laughter] >> in his first attempt at a novel as a funny washington parody titled the global war the story recounts how the giant counterterrorism apparatus is focused on the pha

at any moment, senator john mccain will hold a news conference and is expected to address the ongoing crisis in yemen. we expect he will be critical of president obama. peter cook has more for us. peter: what we have heard from john mccain over the past 24 hours, he has first been very supportive of the saudi's and their airstrikes in yemen, their decision to launch those airstrikes against the militants, and highly questioning the administration over its strategy not just in yemen but in the broader middle east. accusing the administration of leading from behind and not doing enough to address the situation. not just in yemen but in iraq and the fight against islamic state. senator mccain has been very critical of the administration's strategy. he will be joined eyes senator lindsey graham and other members of the armed services committee. we'll see if they're calling on the united states to provide more than logistical and intelligence support or more direct action which the white house is making clear is not happening in terms of the u.s. military in yemen. we will hear from senato

john mccain smudged his own record some elements of distinction by nominating a person who was clearly unqualified. presidential nominee, an absolute obligation to pick someone to be vice president who can take over. when tho pick someone to be vice president who can take over. when the next president is elected i we will be all 77 years old. no way someone nearing 80 would be in a position to become president. staying beyond. some of the most able, distinguished people become pathetic by staying too long beyond that i said yes. i am a great friend. very intelligent. in the 1st place, and extraordinary force. in a pill presidential race that would allow people to criticize her for her motives. right now they have to argue her on the merits of the legislation. i don't want in a position where they can denigrate. secondly it has been documented and that 2008 campaign hillary clinton on domestic issues when we had this weakening of the reform bill should put out a statement saying we can't allow any weakening. we have to defend it. people said, want to see this. does anybody think that wh

john mccain said it was wrong to withdraw forces in 2010. let me go back further. was the original decision to go to war in 2003 knowing what we know now there were not weapons of mass instruction a proper decision? >> yes because the intelligence we had the time suggested saddam hussein was trying to acquire those. >> but it was wrong. >> but he was shooting at our airplanes. >> he was a bad guy but knowing what we know now, what it had been better if we had not gone in? >> that is a good question. is the world better off without saddam hussein? i believe so. for an american to suggest otherwise that we are better off leaving these dictators in place because it creates stability, the daily get to that point that we long for the days of saddam and other dictators is the way we have lost -- >> looking at libya today, is it better off? >> they will be better off sunday. the mistake we made was not supporting the day after. they rose up. that vacuum has been filled by terrorist organizations. here's what i think makes us better off. never to expect someone to live in

[laughter] mark: john mccain is giving you advice about this. he tells jokes over and over again.dsey: he tells the same was over and over again. they are funny, i do not know after the 100 times we heard them but they are all in the delivery. he told me to come here, it is a battleground. i told 20 minutes of jokes at the summit -- ag summit. [laughter] [indiscernible] mark: there was a time in 2007 when you and senator dean love to watch john edwards to the i feel pretty video. have you ever seen anything funnier than that? lindsey: that is pretty funny. here is a little factoid. john edwards and i were born in the same town in the same hospital in south carolina. he was in the left wing, i was in the right-wing. very few people know that. mark: it is the hope arkansas of south carolina. lindsey: dysfunctional. mark: the best joke was about the clintons. why are they a rich source of humor? lindsey: i think they can take a joke. it is not funny over time if you cannot take it. they can take it, and they can give it. but they have had a thousand episodes of skirting political deb

john mccain was terrific. tom daschle was terrific.hing from you. >> yeah they wanted red sox tickets. >> okay. >> they didn't want anything from me. >> number one, red sox tickets. number two, punch me in the face. >>> joining us now from lausanne switzerland, ann curry, reporting for nbc news. and here onset, chairman and ceo of the holdings company miles nadal. let's start with ann. ann, does it look like any agreement will be reached? >> reporter: i think the chances are overwhelming that there will be an agreement that comes out of here likely today. although there is some doubt about what that agreement might say, especially given that despite all night negotiations in which the negotiators broke actually into teams, mika because it was such a critical night, as they saw it trying to meet the deadline for today, to tackle each one of the subjects that are still at issue. it looks like they have still not been able to resolve some key issues. those key issues seem to be from what we can xlaglean, what can happen to iran's research