deal any minute. both sides could also walk away from a week of talks with nothing. andrea mitchell is live in lausanne in what could be the final hours of the talks with iranians. andrea the obama administration had been adamant they weren t going to extend this deadline. now they have. based on your conversations there on the ground are they getting any closer to a deal? well they certainly were. they were talking about progress overnight. the president was briefed by the team here. there was a full national security meeting with defense secretary, national security adviser rice, the president all in the situation room, which you know so well in the basement of the white house. a video conference. it was midnight here. john kerry took a break. he was accompanied by the energy secretary, who is a key player here, a nuclear physicist, who along with his iranian counterpart, both from m.i.t. by the way, are the two detail people. this is a highly technical
no deal is better than a bad deal. the united states will not sign on to a bad deal. the only kind of diplomacy that we envision is one that definitively shuts down every path to a nuclear weapon that iran has and imposes and iran cooperates with a set of extremely intrusive inspections. leading the charge against the nuclear deal is israeli leader benjamin netanyahu. happening right now, the israeli prime minister is meeting in jerusalem with house speaker john boehner and a delegation of house republicans. we re expecting a live statement from them any moment. you can see that podium on the bottom part of your screen. of course the speaker gave the prime minister a platform to talk about the nuclear deal before congress just last month. let s bring in cnn s oren liebermann live in jerusalem where any minute now we should hear from the prime minister and the speaker. reporter: john you re absolutely right. this scheduled statement perhaps a little more fluid than we expected. bu
diplomatic agreement, political agreement that we envision is one that definitively shuts down every path to a nuclear weapon that iran has and imposes and iran cooperates with a set of extremely intrusive inspections. leading the charge against a nuclear deal with iran israeli leader benjamin netanyahu. happening now, he s meeting in jerusalem with house speaker john boehner and a delegation of house republicans. last week speaker boehner gave netanyahu a very high-profile platform to speak out against the nuclear deal in a speech to congress. let s bring in cnn s oren liebermann with the very latest. we re awaiting a statement from boehner and netanyahu at any moment. reporter: you re kpngtly lyexactly right. that should come any second now. we re just waiting for them to step out to make their statements. they don t have to say much here just boehner s presence alone is a very powerful statement. a show of support from
be used by iran to blame the u.s. for blowing this deal up which is exactly what they don t want. they want, if anything to be able to blame iran for walking away from the table. i think most of all, they want an agreement. they want a decent agreement, an agreement they can defend. i think it s more important to get that than to get it on a particular day. and i think president obama understands that. i would guess that was probably one of the messages he delivered in that closed-door meeting last night. indeed. michael gordon thank you so much. and joining me now from washington is robert ian einhorn, a senior fellow from brookings brookings. you ve been this round. you know these sanctions. you know the iranian nuclear program. what do you want to see in this deal to conclude that it s serious, that it will actually restrain iran s nuclear program going forward? well andrea the goal was to get a complete framework, all the basic elements of a deal
re-election. thank you. the hard part begins now, as you know. that was the easy part. the elections are always the easy part. little bit of laughter there. house speaker john boehner met in israel with prime minister benjamin netanyahu. and although speaker boehner did not comment directly on the iran nuclear talks that continue today in switzerland, the photo op is ending its own message about the politics of a potential deal. joining me now for our daily fix, chris cillizza and jean cummings. thanks, both for joining me. i want to start with you, jean. what is the impact of speaker boehner meeting with prime minister netanyahu? obviously not a coincidence. and sending a pretty strong message. actually his trip was planned several months ago. at a certain level, there is a bit of a coincidence happening. it s good for netanyahu and those who are very concerned about what this final deal is going to look like. we ve known about this deadline for a while though. exactly. an