On Morning Joe, Thomas Friedman says that Barack Obama: "actually knows what America looks like from the outside in. And he can actually see America even to some point from the Iranian perspective."
On her MSNBC show, Melissa Harris-Perry frets that US tourists to Cuba would be a "plague," inflicting their cultural hegemony. Professor John Gutierrez sets her straight.
For Iran, Mike? On Morning Joe, reliable Dem flack Mike Barnicle manages to keep a straight face while lauding the Iran deal as an "extraordinary feat." He did so despite poll numbers displayed showing that a huge majority of Americans don't think the ayatollahs will abide by the deal.
On With All Due Respect, Mark Halperin and John Heilemann say that although Kelley Paul did a fine job in introducing her husband Rand at his presidential announcement speech, she was not at Michelle Obama's level.
Mika Brzezinski begins the interview of Wendy Sherman, chief US negotiator on the Iran nuclear deal, by offering her "congratulations." Sherman refuses to say how much advance notice of inspections Iran gets, other than to claim that "we will have the access we need to ensure that we have the time to make the decisions that we need."
On With All Due Respect, Bloomberg politics columnist Will Leitch says that Tina Fey and Jon Stewart have a "universality that maybe not everybody has, frankly including the Pope."
On Morning Joe, Eric Alterman of The Nation is stumped when Joe Scarborough asks him what he would do about Syria.
On Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski responds to a clip of Bibi Netanyahu criticizing a prospective Iran deal with a series of sighs and facial expressions.
On Morning Joe, Nicolle Wallace seeks to slough off a Politico report that Jeb Bush is losing the influential "Laura Ingraham primary." Claims Wallace, who served as Jeb's press secretary when he was governor of Florida, Ingraham "hates everybody. She always hates the Republicans more than the Democrats at this point, too."
