widen. the wlous is going to be very white house is going to be very aggressive on this. reaching out to key senate democrats who have not said one way or the other where they will come down on the bill. the white house notes they need these senate democrats to remain on their side in this. chris, they have a lot of convincing to do. absolutely. not just at home abroad as well. u.s. major ally in the region israel they say they do not share president obama s assertion that this is a good deal. prime minister netanyahu says the framework agreement threatens his country s very survival. cnn s oren lieberman is live in jerusalem. what s the stronger reaction today? well we expect another statement from benjamin netanyahu shortly if that continues with what we ve heard from him lately it will be some very very strong words against this deal. in fact i think his latest statement was perhaps the strongest rhetoric we heard so far. after the deal came out, netanyahu s government relea
hours he taped an interview with b.e.t., black entertainment television, for show called 106 & park. and josh earnest, the white house spokesman, explained why the president did that. listen. an opportunity to reach an audience that obviously has been following these developments very closely and has pretty strong feelings about it. i think there are a lot of americans who feel strongly about some of these issues, but certainly we would anticipate that the viewers of 106 & park would have some strong feelings. young kind of hip hop show, you wouldn t normally see the president doing an interview there. but they realize this is an audience they need to reach out to. and they also know when i talk to senior officials in the wlous as i did tonight, they ve got to do more than talk, more than interviews and speeches. that there s an opportunity here for action because as you ve been noting the last few nights there have been conservatives as well as liberals particularly in the s
decision. i m on the record saying that three years ago. gentlemen it was. but president bush who signed that agreement in 2008 that promised all of the troops would be removed at the epd of 2011. planning in 2011 leak had very heavily from the pentagon and white house to keep 20 to 30,000 troops after 2011. the wlous then leaked that they really wanted to only keep 3,000. then they said to malaki, not only do we want a status of fourses agreement but you have to get it through your parliament. for the first time since 1945 we have agreements around the world, telling post government how they should proceed in approving that status agreement. that put malaki in an impossible political situation. weren t we trying to have him do it in a democratic way and have him agree? excuse me, erin. can you answer that question? did you use his parliament in a way to have a democratic agreement? after i answer the question,
vice president biden spoke on the phone with iraqi prime minister, nuri al maliki this morning, to express solidarity with iraq. and secretary of state kerry promised the u.s. is taking action. we are deeply concerned about what is happening in iraq and we are not concerned and waiting. reporter: but the assurances from the wlous are not enough for republicans. it s not like we haven t seen, over the last five or six months, these terrorists moving in, taking control of western iraq. now they ve taken control of mosul. they re a hundred miles from baghdad. and what s the president doing? taking a nap. 11 years after president bush took the nation to war in iraq, the chaos in that country and the region that many warned of now seems all too real. joining me now, nbc news foreign correspondent, ayman mohyeldin. isis is a group that was founded late last year after they broke away from al qaeda. now, there are several components to the group itself. one of its largest componen
making sure that these jihadists are not getting a permanent foothold in either iraq or syria, for that matter. vice president biden spoke on the phone with iraqi prime minister, nuri al maliki this morning, to express solidarity with iraq. and secretary of state kerry promised the u.s. is taking action. we are deeply concerned about what is happening in iraq and we are not concerned and waiting. reporter: but the assurances from the wlous are not enough for republicans. it s not like we haven t seen, over the last five or six months, these terrorists moving in, taking control of western iraq. now they ve taken control of mosul. they re a hundred miles from baghdad. and what s the president doing? taking a nap. 11 years after president bush took the nation to war in iraq, the chaos in that country and the region that many warned of now seems all too real. joining me now, nbc news foreign correspondent, ayman muohyeldin.