taking up negotiations right up to the deadline. we re a few days ahead of it and we have a deal before the deadline. not three days after the deadline. do you see this as a as a result of the october shutdown? this is a step in the right direction. i think members remember the political pain that came after the 16-day shutdown. and especially republicans. those a are responsible for governing in the house don t feel like re-creating that. another shutdown loomed if this deal didn t come through. the far right and the far left are unhappy. that s usual lay good sign. the fact boehner and obama back it, that s a positive sign. there will be a lot of sniping and cross fire. that s one of the reasons why paul ryan spent much of the press conference trying to make the case that he wasn t a conservative sellout. for marco rubio, the republican of florida rejecting the deal saying we need a government with less debt and an economy with more good paying
hold on. ben one heard what maria said. the secretary of state he does. could have made settled this sooner rather than later. that s what some speculate. well, i think that this is obviously political in nature. that s the worst part about this agreement is we literally just rewarded iran for having bad behavior. they ve continued on this track to build a nuclear weapon. and so, after we put in sanctions and they continue to move forward, we have now said okay, we will reward you with billions of dollars that you can get your hand on. we are also in this nuclear deal which i read earlier, we will give them humanitarian aid. the biggest issue with that is there is three americans right now in iran in prison that we know of. one is a pastor, criston pastor. and the president of the united states of america in this deal didn t even get the americans back that have been in prison in iran but we are sending
there you have senator john mccain, several times in the past had averted this nuclear option, negotiating there with the senate majority leader, reid. in this case it looks as though a deal didn t happen. dana bash is of course still covering this on capitol hill. we ll get to jeffrey toobin in a moment. let s listen to john mccain here. the last two weeks i ve reached out to them. i spent an hour in harry reid s office. i reached until my arm aches okay. reporter: they are saying. they re governed by the newer members of the democratic senators who have never been in a minority who are primarily driving this issue and they succeeded and they will pay a very, very heavy price for it. reporter: is this an election year issue, do you think?
street and what was going on in washington. we re not going to show you we re panicked because we don t believe you guys are going to take us over the cliff. if this is now the norm, why didn t the markets sort of panic earlier and show washington that they meant it? well, the markets didn t panic. it turns out they were right. looks like we re going to get to a deal, right? one of the reasons a deal didn t get done is they weren t sending particularly strong signals of panic. but it does look like politici n politicians keep telling us, trust us, we ll get it done. i was dumb enough to fall for it this time, and i got worried. it all happens at the last hour. somehow things have come together. yet, you think the damage is serious and real in the long run because this has now been established as a pattern of behavior. what does that mean? in terms of treasury bonds, in terms of chinese owning $1.3 trillion of our debt, does that make the international actors question whether they s
there is no way that the prime minister can be that past saturday mike morrell, acting director of the cia until earlier this year doesn t necessarily share your confidence and optimism. he tells foreign policy magazine i think this is the syrians playing for time. i do not believe that they would seriously consider giving up their chemical weapons. so obviously leading the cia until six months ago and you disagree with him? i disagree. syria signed or asked to sign the chemical weapons convention and syria is in a box. it can t use chemical weapons at this point. i don t think any way possible. by saturday russia has to explain as far as i know why this deal didn t going through. if we re not in the box, they re in the box and will be the target of an attack. i don t see this. i also see, i think john kerry should be nominated for saint hood, and i think he is following rahm emanuel s playbook, no crisis should go to