. >> rose: we continue with ray takeyh and tamara coffman wittes. >> he wanted to deal with the clause issue and the ballistic missiles. those are not inor inordinately unwise positions. >> rose: tom friedman, ben rhodes, ray takeyh and tamara coffman wittes when we continue. thrs funding is provided by the following. >> and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and information services worldwide. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> rose: we begin with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu's speech to congress today, the runner-up to the visit was highly controversial. speaker of the house jon boehner extended the invitation without consulting the whowssments many perceived the political address as an insult to the white house. >> this h deal has two major concessions. one, leaving iran with a vast nuclear program and, two, lifting the restrictions on that program in about a decade. >> rose: president obama defended the nuclear negotiations following the speech. >> the alternative to the prime minister offers

-israel relations with tamara wittes. also, ray takeyh. thank you for being here. me ask you for a quick analysis of the speech. as a speech and as policy and its ability or inability to shape american policy. >> the speech was very effective as a speech. particularly at the end when netanyahu was saying to his domestic audience and political base. he said, if we need to, we will stand alone, but we are not alone. america stands with us. that is the video clip his party will use. >> i thought it was unusually modest speech. the prime minister is accused of being maximalist. his demands were at a modest level. he wanted to deal with the sunset clause and ballistic missiles. those are not unwise positions. >> are these conditions iran will accept? >> what he highlighted were not criticisms limited to benjamin netanyahu. these are the criticisms of numerous democratic legislators. that is the consensus position in many ways. >> i think those involved in the negotiations would agree, in principle, if they could get those things, that would be great. they just don't thi