Joy Reid: Who Are We to Tell Iran That They Do Not Need a Civilian Nuclear Energy Program?

PHILLIP: “One of the questions about what the American people know and what they trust is, do we have a good understanding of where things stand in terms of Iran and a nuclear weapon? And I think, to Ana‘s point, there‘s such a long history of Americans feeling misled. I think that people — “
Todd: “Being misled, not feeling.”
PHILLIP: “Oh, absolutely, being misled. I think people are legitimately wondering, when you warn that this is weeks away, how true is that?”
Todd: “It is true. It is true. We have — “
PHILLIP: “And should we really be getting into a war because of that?”
Todd: “Because we know they have uranium enriched to 60%, which you don‘t need for a civilian nuclear energy program, which, by the way, they don‘t need a civilian nuclear energy program anyway.”
Reid: “In your view. So, how arrogant to tell them what they need.”
Todd: “Whose side are you on?”
Reid: “They have been two weeks away since Bibi Netanyahu said it in ‘96. He said it to George W. Bush, he said it to Joe Biden, he said it to Barack Obama. He‘s been saying they‘ve been two weeks away since 1996, when my children were infants.”