got swamped as often happens with all the other news to reverse himself on the declassification of documents and communications including text messages from doj and fbi. what do you know about this? what can you infer about this? some of us who watched this story unfold foresaw a prince patriotic rebel oninside the intelligence community saying mr. president, declassifying our most sensitive secrets for political gain is not how we run things, it s dangerous for national security and it s not going to happen on our watch. they pushed back and it appears they have won over the president. the president had to back down embarrassingly with his tail between his legs and say uncle. i think the professionals have to be yielded to in this one rare instance. matt miller, i m duty bound to end with this question to you. if someone breaks glass over the
let s bring in campaign manager, ken, is chief investigative reporter. there was a number of issues with mitt romney, this guy won t get off it. he said i had the biggest this, biggest number, 3 million people vote for me. what s going on here? at some point it s like having a conversation with a person who believes that the world is flat. the fact that he communicated is false. you have to throw up your hands and say uncle. is that good for democracy and that you give up on notion of objective reality? of course not. you can t say, the moon is
out for some even better deal from our point of view and the demand you often here is no uranium enrichment at all, which is simply unrealistic, fail to realize that this team on the other side, the iranian side, president rouhani, foreign minister zarif, and they are, indeed, backed by the supreme leader, the ayatollah, as he s made it clear, that s as good as it s going to get. we cannot expect any iranian leader, the supreme leader or the president or anyone else, to simply fold and say uncle, we give up, so gary s quite right. this is a critical moment. now, you spent your career analyzing the middle east. what s your read on this new face of iranian leadership? you know, netanyahu has been very skeptical. do you trust them? well, the most important point is we don t need to trust anybody. we re talking act a set of agreement, since there s going to be a preliminary agreement,
house? no, in the house there is no guarantee. i mean, at this point, first of all, just assuming it does pass the senate it will be right back in john boehner s court, the court he was unable unwilling to bring up unwilling to even bring it up from the senate before, but that was before we were really literally up against the deadline. the assumption from people around john boehner is that he would allow it to come to the floor. i mean, the fact i m being told he ll send a shell to expedite this process suggests he will allow it to come but we ve assumed he would sort of say uncle before many times and kept the process going but this time it seems like he ll try to push it even with democratic so they are still in there working. the house is gone. they adjourned for the night. harry reid we believe is still in the build sglg appreciate that. bring in the chief business correspondent with more on what
stop! the nation could be headed for its first-ever default. uncle! uncle! the president saying i won t have a conversation. we asked to sit down and have a conversation. it s about having a conversation. what s up, i m pay pay phone. if it you re there, pick up, pick up, pick up, pick up. he knows what my phone number is. we re having ourselves quite a little game of phone tag here. george, i m ready for the phone call. i just want to hang out. no big deal! i m ready for a conversation. let s get right to our panel. joining us is msnbc contributor, goldie taylor. the atlantic s molly ball and jonathan capehart of the washington post. welcome to all of you. go goldie, this crisis, there could be an up or down vote and end today. the president has advised him to do so. why doesn t he do it? because, frankly, his