in fact i would think this would be undebated by congress in that respect.lthough i understand there are principles where people say we don't want any limitations at all. but this certainly fits within the capacity to get a major vote out of congress and may i say to everybody, that's something else you have to think about here. when i testified in december and two weeks ago, i -- i think i made it clear that our interests are best served if there is a very powerful vote in support of this. we don't have a message of america's commitment and of our willingness to stay at it and get the job done if this is, you know, a marginal vote in -- in the congress. >> uh-huh. thank you. we do welcome this opportunity. we also welcome the opportunity to weigh in on any final iran deal and look forward to that. senator johnson. >> words matter and i know we're hear discussing specific language, but this is puzzling. secretary kerry you said this authorization needs to be extremely limited but show the commitment of the united states. i don't see how you reconcile those t

our intelligence cooperation and intelligence sharing efforts do continue on undebated and that is essentialjust want to clarify. i'm serious here. on our top story of the morning. one of the three. the white house is aware of the name of the pilots but not prepared to release those names. is that correct? >> what i'm saying is that the administration and our particularly through the state department have been in close touch with the investigators who are reviewing all of the relevant information. >> including the names of the pilots. >> i suspect that the -- >> and nationalities. >> they have been able to collect that information but i don't have any information about what we have but we are going to continue to be in close touch with the investigators. >> josh earnest, thank you. good to have you on the set. >>> i head this morning, live to keir simmons in france as the investigation continues in the crash of germanwings flight 9525 and its third day now. and former pilot anthony roman helps us try to answer how a pilot could possibly have been left alone in the cockpit. nbc's tom costello