nathan diament, your view. of the speech and the way it was put together and the issue of iran and the arms debate right now. >> right. well, look, the way the speech was put together is clearly regrettable. should have been done much more carefully and in consultation ideally with the white house. the sad thing is we have a serious issue on the table now which is iran's drive to become a nuclear weapons, and the political circus around the speech, how it was set up, debate about the speech, is it about the israeli elections, so on and so forth. what's happening, we're getting distracted from the negotiations going on and whether we're in fact going to stop iran from obtaining a nuclear weapons capacity. >> isn't that what the administration is trying to do? >> some think the administration is more than happy to have the distraction because if they had to answer questions -- >> isn't their ambition to stop iran from getting a nuclear weapon? >> yes, however, the administration has clearly shifted the goal posts

nathan diament. and erel margulet. >>> coming up president obama versus bibi netanyahu. we'll get to the human politics of netanyahu and the speech tomorrow versus the president. the prime minister is coming to congress tomorrow sounding like churchill. you can bet he's going to quote churchill. the president is calling him a distraction. no worse than that. i think he thinks it's worse. think the president is getting softer on this kind of thing politically and re torically. i don't think he looks this guy. who's winning this thing? >>> plus here's one thing we learned about jeb bush and chris christie from this weekend's cpac conference. the dog doesn't like the dog food. bush and christie don't stand a chance with this crowd. scott walker, he may be the republican to watch right noup. he's the sleeper. >>> how will john boehner get out of the straitjacket he's in right now? he can't fund the department of homeland security thanks to the red hots. >>> let me finish with a big question. will the red hots walk out of the republican party or take it over? take it over. th