More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.
In an interview with National Security Advisor Susan Rice aired on Friday’s NBC Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie challenged the White House effort to reach a nuclear deal with Iran: “Anyone watching this closely, they all say basically the same thing – that the optics are that the administration wants this deal too much.”
Rice defensively shot back: “Well, that's rather ridiculous since it's not us that's under crushing sanctions. So that’s not the case. The President has been absolutely clear, all of us are clear, no deal is better than a bad deal. And there will not be a bad deal.”