the very existence of his country and that is what is driving this decision to come here and address congress. and foreign dignitaries have done this before. this is not unprecedented in any way and we have to remember, like the questioner said, the enemy is iran not israel. and those people making a show of boycotting the speech are giving comfort to the enemy in a sense. congresswoman harman, you are a big long-term supporter of israel and do you have any problem with the inviting and accepting of the speech. giving comfort to the enemy is strong and i don t agree with that at all. and i think democrats in congress love israel too. but our relationship with israel depends on a strong bipartisan relationship. having said that if i were a member of congress now i would attend the speech but i think the timing and the process of setting up the speech was poor. and that netanyahu would have been advantaged if he had decided in the last month or so
a degree of partisanship which is not only unfortunate, it is destructive of the fabric of the relationship. susan rice using some of the toughest language yet to criticize house speaker boehner inviting israeli prime minister net net net netanyahu to speak. and joining me jason reilly from the washington post and jane harman former congresswoman and kathleen parker from the washington post and charles lane. and we asked for questions and karen writes what was the turning point for america where israel became the enemy of the democrats. what happened to the respecting leaders that support america. when did things turn ugly between president obama and prime minister netanyahu? i think this has been building for sometime? netanyahu is worried about
but if the iranians don t agree with that, then the deal will fall apart. the new legislation was just introduced on friday it is a new corker-menendez bill and it removes the president s ability to waive a limited amount of sanctions during the first 60 days after the deal. it said congress will review the deal and they will decide whether that waiver is okay or whether to add something. and they are working to keep congress out of this. congress can t be kept out of it. i actually think that is a pretty strong idea. better than the one they had, which is congress is at the negotiating table. that is unprecedented. this way i think this could strengthen the administration s hand in getting a better deal and there needs to be a strong deal or no deal. i think we ve been going we ve in the we re in the weeds, but let s step back and look at the big picture here. what has happened? the its and israel are at each other s throats. the republicans and democrats are at each other
down to a different approach in all things. president obama is much more atuned to the round table where we all sit down and sort of hash things out together. whereas israel is under existen shall threat at all time. and you can t bridge that gap i don t think look, to the leadership question, obama could have said about netanyahu, let him speak. i want to meet with him. what is wrong with that. a very good question. we have to take a break. panel, we ll see you later. up next, congress avoids a shutdown of dhs with a one-week extension and what does that say about the ability to governor. we ll ask the house majority whip steve scalise, next.
to say i will come after the election, with the unity government, i m sure i will be part of that government and he would look much more like a statement and i took that exact view to his intelligence minister who asked me a month ago what i thought he should do. what did he say? he said he would pass along and obviously the prime minister doesn t agree. and we are where we are. but the big deal is democrats and republicans love israel and all of us care about the threat to israel from iran. let me just say, because the real issue here isn t the speech. the real issue here is the nuclear deal that the west and that the u.s. and our five other allies although china and russia i don t know if they are allies, but they are trying to negotiate with iran. here is what president obama said about where the deal stand this is week. i gave the amir an update and