joining me now is beth fouhy and jeremy peters, and steve latourette. what happens next? >> well, it's really a matter of whether cooler heads prevail, but i don't think that's going to happen. as a republican, when they came back for the deadline of february 27, and this judge had given them a gift by staying the president's executive orders on immigration, they had won, you know. the homeland security bill was a bill written by republicans, funded by republicans. i really thought, my goodness, this is wonderful. can you declare victory, go home and move on to other things. cooler heads did not prevail, and you continue to have 50, 51, 52 republicans who, they don't have a plan b. in the clips introducing the show, the most telling was speaker boehner saying, do they have a plan? not that i'm aware of. they never have a plan b. they just know what they don't want. and that really isn't what happens when you're trying to governor the country. >> beth fouhy, isn't it john boehner who has to have a plan b? >> this is just crazy kabuki theater. >> i hate taking the suspense

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and "new york times" reporter and msnbc contributor jeremy peters. in walk former white house press secretary for president obama robert gibbs. we will get to hillary clinton and aaron schock. literally a shock. we have that story coming up. a little heart breaking. extremely abrupt. there must be more going on there. first, let's begin in israel. prime minister benjamin netanyahu is eyeing a fourth term after a dramatic turn of events defying expectations and the most recent polls, his likud party surge to pick up ♪ parliament. six more than the zionist movement. netanyahu is declaring a race that days ago seemed to be slipping away. netanyahu is urging other parties on the right to help him form a strong and stable government to protect the security of israel. but the negative tone of the race is leading to plenty of questions about the future this morning. what will be the fallout to comments about the turnout to israeli arabs as he wrote in part quote the right-wing government is in danger. arab voters are coming out in droves to the polls. lef

. >> joining me now to discuss this controversy, joy reid and jeremy peters. good evening to all of you. what does it take for republicans to be failing the rudy standard? >> if obama only had been a prosecutor instead of a law professor. i think it's really interesting. rudy wants to obviously protect somebody of his own ranks, a prosecutor, show that prosecutors here in the federal system are qualified to have a job like this. he's a former federal prosecutor. perhaps he could be somebody's a.g. one day. but i think the situation with loretta lynch is so out of control and so surprising to so many people. the fact that he's come out in support of her should be a big wakeup call. >> it is nice to know that rudy giuliani has found an african-american he doesn't think is criminal or a hater of their own country. that's good news. but it is something to do with a rudy giuliani who is potentially thinking he may be in a position to have the exact same job loretta lynch is vying for. but i find puzzling two things. number one, you're alienating african-americans a

. >> jeremy peters joins us. al hunt is here nbc news chief foreign coast correspondent is here. associate editor of the washington post and msnbc eugene robinson. willie willie willie willie giest as well. >> yesterday it was a short hour, willie. everybody just for one hour everybody in washington forgot it as the favorite leader netanyahu came -- >> i don't have a problem with him. i think he made a mockery of us -- >> right willie? >> just for one hour. >> go ahead. >> i was just going to say, it was totally striking i thought. whatever you thought about the content of the speech that happened walking down through the aisle, go up to the podium and deliver what amounted to a state of the union address pounding the podium but going after our president of the united states. it was a remarkable moment in the congress. >> yes, it was. >> it really was remarkable. >> in the elevator bob woodward summed it up it was kind of strange to see netanyahu making a war speech in front of our congress. so thank you so much the republicans. thank you. >> he's not the first. and democrats sho

. >> flyers announced today they've sandy peter edward bellmawr to a multi year contract extext. eagles elected not to use the franchise tag that many means they only have eight days to work out a long term deal with jeremy maclin or he hits the free agent market. birds signed linebacker brad jones to a two year deal. jones was released by the packers last month. he has started only 36 of 76 games but does play on special teams. >>> the phillies open grapefruit play tomorrow against the yankees. they will not have their starting second baseman that's because chase utley he said he is taking things slowsly while nursing a sprained ankle. he didn't work out with the team at all and says he likely won't play in any games this week. we flip the cal today from february to march when means madness is upon us. done look now but villanova has moved up to number four in the polls which means they are now in position to get a number one seed. >> if this team gets a good seed one or two they're still going to be judged by how far they advance. what they've proven is in the regular season th