White House official on Netanyahu speech: "Literally not one new idea"

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Democrats have been quick to issue harsh responses to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to Congress on Iran. An anonymous White House official gave a pretty stern, if anonymous, quote to CNN's Jake Tapper, telling him that the speech offered "literally, not one new idea," and was "all rhetoric, no action."

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Sr. administration official: "Literally, not one new idea; not one single concrete alternative; all rhetoric, no action."

An anonymous senior White House official also slammed the speech in comments to the Jerusalem Post, saying that "simply demanding that Iran capitulate is not a plan," and that the logic of Netanyahu's remarks was regime change in Iran

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Senior administration official tells me: "Simply demanding that #Iran completely capitulate is not a plan."

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Senior administration official tells #JPost: "The logic of the prime minister’s speech is regime change."

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi also immediately panned the substance of Netanyahu's remarks.

Within minutes of the end of the speech, she issued a statement saying that she had been "near tears throughout the Prime Minister's speech — saddened by the insult to the intelligence of the United States as part of the P5 +1 nations [leading Iran talks], and saddened by the condescension toward our knowledge of the threat posed by Iran and our broader commitment to preventing nuclear proliferation."

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