White House Maintains: Obama Will ‘Walk away’ from a Bad Deal with Iran

GARRETT: "That's not a direct answer to that direct question. Direct question was is the president prepared to end the negotiating process not whether or not he will take a bad deal over a good deal. That's a separate question entirely. The key question is if after a day or two there is no resolution will the negotiations cease?"

EARNEST: "Major, what I was describing to Jim is that I wasn't weighing the merits of a good deal or a bad deal. What I was suggesting to Jim was that no deal is preferable to a bad deal meaning the president is prepared to walk away from a negotiating table before he signed a bad agreement. And by bad agreement I mean agreement that did not definitely shut down every pathway they have to nuclear weapon and did not quantify or at least commit -- get a commitment from Iran -- to cooperate with intrusive inspection."