what i ve suggested all along is that if we get the policy right, we re going to get the number right. i think the policy is going to be right. it s going to look at efficiencies in t program. it s going to tighten up have there been a lot of inefficiencies in the program? the error rate and fraud rate of this program is at historic lows. but there are issues involving ways in which people qualify for the program that can be tightened up a bit without disqualifying millions and millions of people who would otherwise qualify for the program. that s the key here. we want to maintain the integrity of the program. i think the compromise that folks are working on will do that. they re going to get the policy right. you know, frankly, america needs this bill. we need it because we want to remain food secure. and it s this bill that basically provides the confidence and the assurance to farmers that the risk of farming will be reduced to the point that they can continue to stay in the
to link anything on mental health with an effort on the expanded background checks. that may be your preference. i don t know. but do you want to not see your bill pass if it ends up if it gets tied to the gun control, politics of that, and then your bill doesn t pass, is that a failure? well, i certainly didn t want to see the mental health bill in the house or the senate for that matter go down. i think it s important that we go forward. i also believe that expanded background checks are an important part of the answer. we have ten categories of people in this country including people who are seriously mental ill who should not be able to buy a gun. as long as we have gaps in that background system, people can get a gun. if they re linked and they go down together, that would not be a good thing. i hope we can get the mental health bill through and see background checks expanded. do you want to see them go
washington. one immigration policy for one nation. terry moran, abc news, the supreme court. the water is a little murky. if they would have passed all four provisions it would have made it clear if you do have to show your papers law and they failed to provide the, the proper certification and identification they are here legally, we would have known what to do next. now because 75% of the bill doesn t pass. what happens next? states cannot legally deport people. the fed has to do that. the fed. basically what is going to happen now. i am going to read something to you, all the arizona cops can do is inform federal immigration authorities if they round up an illegal immigrant. and the feds are perfectly free to ignore them. so it makes you question, if we made any real headway or not in this. with the governor of arizona can say she will not tolerate racial profiling as a byproduct of the law which is important considering the battles that state has. that is something to keep in
that speech was that even though of course there is always a political component, there was no explicit political component to trirgt thing you talk about the push back against it. i think that gets to the points about records and speeches, right? one reason the campaign speeches work better and speeches like the one after gaby giffords or the oklahoma city bombing is they actually is there not a follow-up you need to get, a big speech on health care, the bill doesn t pass and things look bad, nobody thinks you are a great communicator. the speech might have been better well delivered, the teleprompter broke and he did a lot off the cuff, rick santorum might have love it had, incredibly well reviewed, health care went nowhere, retrospect, think of communication strategy being a failure which i guess it was. this thing presidents get, george edwards gave to me, they get fooled by campaigning, give speeches for a couple of years, then become the most powerful person in the world, so
on the things we agree on, what people are saying to me in florida, why are you fighting on the things you agree on? we assembled a bunch of things we agree on. if this kind of bill doesn t pass, we re in bigger trouble than i thought we were. are you talking to senator rubio about other ways of bringing in revenue? we had a very broad conversation. the senators and our staff. we sat down as a group over the last month and started with a much broader range of issues and hammered it down to those that we thought deserved bipartisan support. we weren t trying to put out a bill that we thought would die on the floor, that was a message bill. this is a bill that contains what we believe to be common sense proposals that ought to get rapid increase in numbers of co-sponsors and ought to get consideration. as senator rubio said before, we assembled this from proposals, democrat and republican, house and senate that have already garnered support. so it s our hope that this will show a com