Obama: Netanyahu offered no 'viable alternatives' to Iranian nuclear talks

President Obama on Tuesday shrugged off Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's fiery speech criticizing the ongoing Iranian nuclear negotiations, saying the foreign leader "didn't offer any viable alternatives."

"As far as I can tell, there was nothing new," Obama said, adding that Netanyahu gave a nearly identical speech last year full of dire predictions that have not come true.

In his controversial address to a joint session of Congress, Netanyahu claimed the Obama administration's nuclear negotiations would "pave Iran's path to the bomb."

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