Despite having savaged Republicans two weeks earlier for voicing opposition to an Iran nuclear deal in an open letter to the totalitarian regime, on Friday, NBC chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell and Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd suddenly realized such a deal would be a bad idea.

On her MSNBC show, Mitchell worried: "...this is a really fraught political issue here because the Iran nuclear agreement...is going to be a hard sell politically for this White House....And you've got a tailor-made issue for Republican critics saying, 'Until you stop Iran's moves throughout the region, why are we doing a deal with Iran?'"

Todd followed: "Why make Iran stronger? Right? That, ultimately – any deal with Iran is going to make Iran stronger in the region....Iran's strong without this deal, giving them a deal will make them stronger. So how do you then sell that politically?"

On March 12, Mitchell and Todd eviscerated Senate Republicans for the Iran letter. Mitchell touted Secretary of State John Kerry's "outrage" at the move. Todd proclaimed:

"...did they not realize what they were signing on to? Did they not realize sort of how big of a deal this was going to be or how much it was going to be promoted? It is – look, let's just look at the political mistake of the letter....forget the actual policy and the historical precedent and all of this other stuff, just on a political front it was stupid.

On Friday, neither Mitchell nor Todd admitted that Republicans may have vindicated in their objections.

Here is a transcript of the March 27 exchange: