good to be with you, i m alex witt in for katy tur. we re right now following breaking news out of washington where the justice department has just announced it will not prosecute attorney general merrick garland for contempt of congress saying in a letter that garland s refusal to hand over audio of president biden s interview with robert hur to gop lawmakers was not a crime. joining us now from capitol hill is correspondent julie tsirkin. so let s interpret what this all means. i guess the implication being this was a political maneuver by congress. reporter: first of all, alex, this was as expected. congress, even republicans here who pushed this contempt vote. remember that just happened a couple of days ago, they successfully voted on party lines pretty much, except for one republican, to hold merrick garland in contempt of congress because he did not turn over those tapes from biden s interview with special counsel hur, and the classified documents case, republicans e
nuclear enrichment, if you can prove that. what do you think, is netanyahu right? yes, israel s prime minister is 100 percent right. this is an idiotic deal. the iranians based on the details we know thus far, bill, the iranians give up nothing. destroy no sentry fumings, they reverse no processes. they take a very brief timeout while we loosen sanctions enough to rescue their collapsing economy. bill: why would we do that? sanctions have been working, and we re going to throw it away. bill: why would we do that? several reasons. believe it or not, there s a tie-in to obamacare. the administration s reeling so badly from that rollout disaster, they need a win. and this is something they can present as a win to the american people. see peace in our time, even though it s a really, really bad deal. again, these sanctions have been working. why back off now? yes, of course, peace is better than war. but this isn t going to bring peace.