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Despite having savaged Republicans two weeks earlier for voicing opposition to an Iran nuclear deal in an open letter to the totalitarian regime, on Friday, NBC chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell and Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd suddenly realized such a deal would be a bad idea.
On her MSNBC show, Mitchell worried: "...this is a really fraught political issue here because the Iran nuclear agreement...is going to be a hard sell politically for this White House....And you've got a tailor-made issue for Republican critics saying, 'Until you stop Iran's moves throughout the region, why are we doing a deal with Iran?'"