The Note: Debating The Deal

ByABC News

April 6, 2015, 10:01 AM

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BENJAMIN NETANYAHU: IRAN WOULD USE SANCTION RELIEF TO BOLSTER 'TERROR MACHINE.' Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said yesterday that the agreement reached over Iran's controversial nuclear weapons program is a "bad deal" and asserted that Iran would use the relief from sanctions currently imposed to bolster its military operations and what Netanyahu called its "terror machine." "It leaves Iran with a vast nuclear infrastructure. It lifts the sanctions on them fairly quickly and enables them to get billions of dollars into their coffers. They're not going to use it for schools or hospitals or roads," Netanyahu told ABC'S MARTHA RADDATZ on "This Week." "They're going to use it to pump up their terror machine worldwide and their military machine that is busy conquering the Middle East now," he added, according to ABC's BENJAMIN BELL. http://abcn.ws/19VhqX6.

SEN. CORKER OPTIMISTIC ABOUT DEMOCRATIC SUPPORT IN IRAN DEAL. On Fox News Sunday, Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., said that Congress' involvement with the Iran deal was a vital check in keeping the sanctions accountable to the American people and the Western countries. He is confident that because Congress has been "weighing in," they are ensuring they will keep Iran from getting a nuclear weapon with a "deal that will stand the test of time." He asserted that Senate Republicans would potentially have enough Democratic support to allow Congress to have the final say in the deal, ABC's MISHA WEE writes.

ANALYSIS -- ABC's RICK KLEIN: President Obama is testing some of the biggest assumptions in modern politics by putting forward and pushing for a nuclear agreement with Iran. Everyone knows Obama has no real relationship with Congress; he'll need to foster one now to stop this framework from being scuttled. Everyone knows you can't get anything done in Washington, certainly not in the fourth quarter of a presidency; this would be a big one, a centerpiece of a foreign-policy legacy that needs one. Finally, everyone knows you can't act big in a world of small -- that the challenges and rivalries are too large for all but the most incremental movement. In defining an "Obama doctrine," the president has big aims, along with more perhaps more confidence in American capabilities than his adversaries give him credit for. "The doctrine is: We will engage, but we preserve all our capabilities," he told The New York Times' Tom Friedman.

MARCH MADNESS UPDATE -- SCOTT WALKER'S UNBEATABLE BRACKET? Scott Walker is running away with our 2016 potential-candidates' NCAA bracket, ABC's CHRIS GOOD notes. Aside from Iowa State, Baylor, and Georgetown, the Wisconsin governor picked just about everything right. His accurately predicted Final Four has played out according to Walker's picks, with Duke playing his home-state Wisconsin Badgers in the final. The only other candidate to pick a Wisconsin-Duke final was Rick Santorum, who'll finish second to Walker if the Badgers win tonight. http://es.pn/1F5AIaz

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