joining me now from washington peter baker. he's the chief whitehouse correspondent of the "new york times." meter, tell --7"qx peter tell me how you see the president's frame of mind with tom friedman's interview as he strives to bring real probably the most important negotiations of his presidency. >> that's exactly right. we sat down and talked with tom friedman on saturday at the whitehouse to pitch his deal and also to think in larger terms of what it could mean for the region. he clearly has this idea that if they can make this work, if they can finalize the deal in june and get it past obstacles like congress,f0c there's a chance that transforms security in the region and perhaps even begins to change around just a little bit. he's not counting on that. he's realistic to understand that iran's a complicated country ease put it. clearly he has ambitions to go beyond simply curbing his nuclear program. >> rose: ambitions include what, do you think. >> well he thinks he's argued in fact that should this work, should sanction

peter baker: we don't do that today.with the former chief of staff, at the end of his day, he called reporters. he tries from time to time to engage, i'm saying that the culture has changed. in the culture is that people are involved in a lot of these decision makings are less available, more separated from us by a paid staff that is paid -- >> i remember reading a piece in "the new yorker," he said he wandered down to the nsc offices -- just wandering around the west wing -- he said, "i wandered down to the nsc offices." just wandering around the west wing. >> unlike congress, right? you can walk around congress and find sources will you talk to you for the most part. the white house, physically, you are not able to go very far. you are restricted to a very tiny space, basically. which is why -- >> vestibule -- peter: that's right. that's why the ones that spend the day there are heroes because it is incredibly cramped claustrophobic. you cannot walk the halls, you cannot say, hey guys, what is going on? it's so much mo

try zip recruiter for free today. >>> and we're back with peter baker and sarah murray.estion that seems to have gotten all the republican white house hopefuls is same-sex marriage. in particular would you go to a wedding or a same-sex marriage event? you were able to ask the ohio governor john kasich about this in south carolina. let's listen to his answer. >> i don't go to a lot of weddings. i go to weddings of people that i'm close to. and in fact i have a friend who's gay who asked me if i would go to his wedding. and i said, let me think about it. and i went home. and i said to my wife you know my friend's getting married, what do you i? do you want to go? she goes oh i'm absolutely going. i called him today and said hey, just let me know what time it is. >> so governor kasich's going to go. we saw scott walker wisconsin governor said he would go to a reception. marco rubio said he would go. how are they threading this needle here? >> i think this is a good sign of who governor kasich is as he's running but also some of these other republicans saying look i can have

i'm join by senator chris murphy, and "new york times" reporter peter baker.nator, do you think those in your caucus, especially that accident or so. do you think they're voting to kill this deal, or just to exercise congressional prerogatives? >> well, i think there's an appropriate hangover still from the iraq war in which congress feels guilty that we didn't oversee the conduct of foreign policy by the president. so congress wants to get back in the meantime game. i don't think the democrats supporting the bill want to kill the deal. i think they are trying to set this new precedent by which congress will weigh in on matters of foreign policy. my quibble is just about timing. i think there may be a time and place to weigh in, about you if our negotiators are telling you if we pass a bill now, we are less likely to see a final agreement that we can vote up or down on, i don't know why we would move forward given that admonition. there may be a time and a place for congress to weigh in on the nuclear agreement, but if our negotiators are telling us we're unde

joining me now from washington is peter baker, the chief white house correspondent of "the new york times." peter, tell me how you see the president's frame of mind reflected in part by tom friedman's interview as he strives to bring real probably the most important negotiations of his presidency. peter: i think that is exactly right. he sat down with tom friedman on saturday at the white house to pitch his deal and also to think in larger terms of what it could mean for the region. he clearly has this idea that if they can make this work, if they could finalize a deal in june and get past obstacles like congress, there is a chance to transform security in the region and perhaps even begins to change iran a little bit. he is not counting on that. he is realistic to understand that iran is a complicated country, as he put it. but, clearly he has ambitions to go beyond simply curbing its nuclear program. charlie: ambitions include what, do you think? peter: he has argued that should the sanctions be lifted, should the economy of iran get better as a result that would empower more moderate f

. >>> we are back with peter baker and sarah.uestion that has seemed to have gotten all the hopefuls the same-sex issue. let's listen to one answer. >> i don't go to a lot of weddings i go to weddings of people i am close to and i have a friend who is gay and asked me if i would go to his wedding, and i said let me think about it and i said to my wife my friend is getting married and do you want to go and she said absolutely and i called him today and said let me know what time it is. >> we saw scott walker saying he would go to the reception. how are they threading this needle here? >> i think it's a good sign of who governor casic is. they don't have to go around and pushing them on and i can still respect and support my friends even though they know how i feel on this issue, and i think jeb bush in the camp too, they are hoping the court will just take care of it for them this summer. >> is that a consistent saying i am uncomfortable with it but i would go myself. >> it's a great question. it reminds me of what republican cand

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peter baker, thank you very much.fend your newspaper. you defend the "times" on like tuesdays and wednesdays, i'll take care of will hursts thursdays and fridays. >> i think howard dean is still nursing the grudge against the media. >> might have been a little personal. i don't know. he's pretty down the middle. still ahead on "morning joe," it took about a year to fix a broken alarm system at former president george h.w. bush's home. the latest in a series of embarrassing incidents for the secret service. >>> plus new details in the death of a man in police custody in baltimore as five of the suspended officers give their statements. success starts with the right connections. introducing miracle-gro liquafeed universal feeder. turn any hose connection into a clever feeding system for a well-fed garden. miracle-gro. life starts here. all these networks keep making different claims. it gets confusing. fastest, the strongest the most in-your-face-est. it sounds like some weird multiple choice test. yea, but do i pick a,

peter baker of the new york times, ladies and gentlemen.applause] one last round of applause for these outstanding journalists. [applause] christi: thank you, major. and now, what is by tradition our only toast of the evening. i first started covering barack obama in 1997. that is when he showed up at the illinois statehouse to take his seat in the illinois senate. my keen political intuition kicked in right away. i was one of the first to see it. if he worked hard and really applied himself, he could go all the way. he could one day be mayor of the city of chicago. [laughter] [applause] keep shooting for the stars. it's a big job. a lot has changed since then. for one thing, he is much harder to get on the phone. [laughter] it is harder to get an interview one-on-one until tonight. [laughter] mr. president, we appreciate your presence here, and we recognize that your information -- your affirmation of the importance of the free and adversarial press. [laughter] [applause] ladies and gentlemen, police -- please join me, raise a glass in a t

correspondent for politico magazine glen thrush and "the new york times" white house correspondent, peter baker. peter, let me start with you first. the president that we have seen for the last two days is a man who seems deeply profoundly affected by the deaths of these two hostages. i wonder we've asked the question about transparency before when it comes to drones. do you think this moment is different for this white house? >> this is the first time that we're aware of in which he has given authority to attack what we think is the enemy and killed american hostages by mistake and it clearly did have an affect on him. i think we saw it again today when he went to the director of national intelligence for the speech he just gave and you referenced. he wanted something more exacting when we talk about issues with war and peace. the stand he set, which is a near certainty that there won't be civilian casualties. it's impossible to meet in modern war. >> i feel like the president has been perhaps defiant about the counterterrorism issues he's had to pursue. we've seen him emboldened on a host of

. >> host: two books that you are currently reading one by peter baker of "the new york times," and leonl, panetta i haven't -- i'm just starting. but with the peter baker book, it's absolutely the definitive, authoritative work on the bush administration. it's totally fair, totally factual, and, you know, it's very unfortunate that bush did not consent to an interview. he mistrusted someone from "the new york times", but he should not have because baker, you know, i think performed a great public service by telling the truth about the administration. both the problems as well as the successes. >> host: reports that the obama administration has been one of the most secretive or off-camera administrations. >> guest: you know, in some ways i admire what they're doing because i thought that the bush people, you know, could have done a better job of manipulating the press. you know i've covered beats as a reporter, and i know what it's all about. or and it's about, you know, trading favors and access and that sort of thing. and colorly the obama people -- clearly, the obama people do give ac

. >> joining me now is visiting scholar jamie rubin and peter baker. jamie, let me start with you first. this list of demands that israel has issued what do you think is the meaningful impact of those? >> last week israel posted a list that said iran had to recognize israel that iran had to stop all its regional problems. the israeli want to use the negotiation to transform iran from an enemy into a peaceful state. that's not going to happen. this list they put out today is a dream list. sure, all of us would like that list to be implemented, but after many many months of working very hard not just the united states, all the countries that are involved have realized there are limits to what you can get out of negotiation. it's not going to be a perfect agreement. but will it make it harder for iran to build a nuclear weapon? yes. will it make it easier for us to detect such an effort if iran made it? yes. will it give iran incentives not to change its mind and go for a nuclear weapon? yes, so it's a good deal. the only mistake i think the who i say --

peter baker is white house correspondent for the "new york times" and last night he won the aldo beckman award for distinguished reporting at the white house correspondents' dinner, congratulations to you peter. he was a friend of mine. a great guy. ruth marcus, columnist for the "washington post" and cbs news political director john dickerson here getting used to getting up every sunday morning even the sunday morning after the white house correspondents' dinner. the truth of the matter is i may still be at the white house i'm not sure where i am this morning it's an amazing evening. town that generally goes to bed at 9:00 people stay out. ruth, just as you were sitting down here you told me something that i never knew, you went to school with evan wolfson who is heading up the right to marry. >> i did. when -- we went to college and law school together. in law school he wrote his paper on the then fanciful outlandish subject of whether there was constitutional right to same sex marriage. this was viewed as so out there, it was hard to find faculty advisor he told me later. now i think

amy: ambassador, i want to ask you about a piece that peter baker, a new york times reporter recently wrote -- "since the 1979 iranian revolution that swept out the washington-supported shah and brought to power an anti-american islamic leadership, the country has been the most sustained destabilizing force in the middle east -- a sponsor of the terrorist groups hezbollah and hamas, a supporter of shiite militias that killed american soldiers in iraq, a patron of syria's government in its bloody civil war, and now a backer of the rebels who pushed out the president of yemen." could you respond to this? >> this is how some americans view iran. but you should know there is the same rating as some iranians about the u.s. they believe the u.s. is the source of instability in the middle east. they believe the u.s. has supported all dictators in the last 60 years. the shah of iran was a corrupted dictator supported by the u.s.. ben ali was a corrupted dictator supported by the u.s. they have a lot of evidence is, even today many u.s. allies are corrupted and dictator and there's no human ri

peter baker's entry was really outstanding in that regard. >> he has this unique ability to inject historyxt into breaking news stories, even as they are unfolding. >> his reporting about iraq was amazing. he called it the graveyard of american ambition. >> he was covering george w. bush's presidency, and so when he wrote about iraq, he could talk about not only what happened in the obama administration, but he could also look back. >> the singular ingredient that separates him is that sense of depth and perspective that is unusual. it seeing the white house and the president and wider aperture. >> he was able to provide readers with insight into why things were happening that made them a clear winner. >> it was 8:00 on a friday night. most of the reporters had gone home. all of a sudden, there was burst of commotion. >> the white house is evacuated. as they came back in, he got the official word that no big deal just a fence jumper. he said, no, this is not normal. >> he got an email from a secret service contact who told him that the fence jumper had made it across the white house lawn a

a book i admired very much with peter baker's book on the relationship between bush and cheney. which describes that tension between them over the issue. the people who took us to war are the very people who are paid to make those decisions. the president, the vice president, his administration, the military. what i was trying to do, and i think i did it, with as much honesty and fervor as i could, was to tell america that kind of information that they were not getting upon which they were making these decisions. if they believed that there were aluminum tubes being used to enrich uranium, i thought, and michael gordon bought, with whom i wrote that story, that that was important for americans to know that. brian: you went over to iraq and were embedded. what did they tell you you could and could not do? and why did they let you go? judith: i had written a letter to secretary rumsfeld, whom i had not met. that said, knowing will believe you if you find wmd in iraq. i was already over in iraq when i got the word that the permission had come through and i would be able to follow t

. >> host: two books that you are currently reading one by peter baker of "the new york times," and leono you think of those two books? >> guest: well, panetta i haven't -- i'm just starting. but with the peter baker book, it's absolutely the definitive, authoritative work on the bush administration. it's totally fair, totally factual, and, you know, it's very unfortunate that bush did not consent to an interview. he mistrusted someone from "the new york times", but he should not have because baker, you know, i think performed a great public service by telling the truth about the administration. both the problems as well as the successes. >> host: reports that the obama administration has been one of the most secretive or off-camera administrations. >> guest: you know, in some ways i admire what they're doing because i thought that the bush people, you know, could have done a better job of manipulating the press. you know i've covered beats as a reporter, and i know what it's all about. or and it's about, you know, trading favors and access and that sort of thing. and colorly the obama p

. >> that's a great transition to peter baker of the new york times who covered three presidents in three different eras. and, in fact in the past year, has written about the obama white house, the clinton candidacy, and the bush family attempt to build a dynasty. so talk to us about the changes you've seen, how does this, covering this administration compare to the others you've covered? >> yeah, it is a great question. it is -- and scott is right. in some ways there is nothing new under the sun. every white house i think comes in to office thinking you know, we just reinvented the wheel here. we're going to do it differently than everybody else has done it before. we're hot stuff because we just won a national campaign. they are hot stuff. they did something rather extraordinary, which is convince a majority or enough -- to give them their votes, to send them into power. so, you know, they come in and they're really certain they're going to do it in some way never done before. and particularly the first year first two years of the administration, you hear a lot of first times and never

the washington times on iran negotiations, bob corker featured in this piece by ashley parker and peter bakerd the "new york -- excuse me "wall street journal" with this headline that israel is weighing in on this framework for a deal with iran. and the wall street journal writes that what israel wants put into this agreement. that is what israel wants, weighing in with what they would like to see come out of any sort of deal. the final details, the administration hopes, will be worked out by june. also another foreign policy news this morning, here is the "new york times." refugees in syria are starting according to the united nations. and the united nations is calling on the united states and other countries to put pressure on the government there to allow peacekeepers in to provide food and medicine. also in the "financial times" this morning with a story and picture next to the headline again easily as saudi's failed to halt rebels. it's a growing humanitarian crisis for residents that find themselves in central districts. a growing crisis in yemen as the fight continues in the country. w

the front page this morning -- peter baker's article "obama calls the iran deal our best that." host: a quote from the president , "this is the best that so far that we have to get an agreement from iran. what we will be doing even as we enter into this deal is sending a clear message to the uranian and to the entire region that if anybody messes with israel america will be there." this is the headline of "the financial times." "pope francis in prayer for kenya victims." he was in a rainy vatican city yesterday. he called for an end to the persecution of christians and to all those who suffer injustice as a result of ongoing conflict and violence. he cited the killing of almost 150 people in kenya last week why islamist militants and called for a piece -- and called for peace in yemen, sudan, and nigeria. he referred to the out like nuclear deal between iran and the international community praying it would be a definitive step to a more secure and fraternal world." our subject for the first couple of 45 minutes or so is about reaction to the religious freedom laws passed last we

olivia: thank you so much, peter cook will be covering that story for a start the day on d.c. meantime, rodger baker of asia-pacific strategy that stratfor. rodger, good morning. is this a pivotal moment between japan and the united states? rodger: it is certainly supposed to symbolize that. this is the united states recognizing japan as the critical ally in the asia-pacific region, and as a country that is not only going to take a stronger defense role in security role in the region but also political economics. olivia: and chisel off they would like a stronger defense role, but that would perhaps mean loosening up on the pacifist constitution. is there any room to allow japan to arm? rodger: the u.s. has been pushing the japanese to change the way it interprets its constitution and the way it acts on it. if you look the military in that timeframe, they have gone a long way from what people think they are to really where they are actually at. so the japanese have added refueling, which had originally been considered only an offensive capability. they have an aircraft carrier. they have integrated t

there are cases in new mexico of bakers and flores refusing to provide their services for a weddings. >> i think that she said peterding veered we will sell you a pizza because we want you to buy it and eat it here. stuart: we just will not cater your wedding. is she allowed to say that? >> in indiana yes. a prohibited basis for refusing to deal. the answer is no. >> we will not cater your wedding. >> if she can say i will not cater your wedding can she say i will not cater your wedding because it is a race wedding? >> the answer is no. you too short you are too fat you are too rich, you are too thin you are too white you are too black. >> i am glad that we changed. >> african on the kids. a horrific place in america. it took the federal government to change it. >> i was once thrown out of a diner in waco, texas. that happened to me. night team 72. >> stuart, you are not gay. [laughter] how many wives? >> let's not go there. your time is up. >> harry reid. >> i am not saying a thing. harry reid vowed that he lied about that robin not paying his taxes. more on this coming up. ♪ >> one year. his father set the preced