Robert Gibbs pans Benjamin Netanyahu’s Iran nukes speech

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Former White House press secretary Robert Gibbs panned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s latest address to the United Nations on the Iranian nuclear weapons program, saying the speech was “directed only at a domestic audience in Israel.”

“I don’t think Israel helps itself [with] some of the rhetoric that you heard from the prime minister,” Gibbs, now an MSNBC analyst, said after the speech.

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