exthreatennous and trivial it doesn t matter over the fourth of july weekend when the egyptian crisis was reaching its zeent john kerry was yachting in nuclear as you know the same frivolous charge used to be aired against george bush in the modern communications. national security policy makers can be briefed and offer wise counsel from the president from pretty much in the world. the greater failure is. bill: come on, rosen, don t be a wise guy. the perception is that one, the president golf course and kerry is floating around and there are people being killed in cairo. i get the perception. i get the optics. bill: basically just for appearances sake. i understand your point. it s a correct point. you can do the job. i don t know whether you did k. do it on the golf course but you can do it it on the yacht. particularly kerry s yacht which has every gizmo in the world. but is it wise to put forth this kind of a face to the world that, hey, you know, it s just those crazy egypti
bill pill unresolved problem segment tonight, can anyone fix the immigration mess. here now the man who might know how to do that, one of the stars of the five bob beckel. first of all you just heard cammeron say he doesn t think anything is going to happen. it s just going to be like the gun control thing. nothing going to happen. just continue along. is that what you think. no, not at all. i will tell you why. unless the house members really don t care about the presidency. but without an immigration bill, the republicans have dealt themselves out of the presidential race. one. two, there is a lot of power behind this bill coming out of the senate when i mean power i mean republican constituency. the chamber of commerce, a bunch of others. bill: yeah, rove and mccain and. the farmers. bill: bush the younger. let s face it it s all up to boehner. boehner can drive it up the floor for a voting nothing could happen. lookshink if boehner at these pieces coming out
of the committees and it s a strong republican bill bring it to the floor it will pass and then it will go to the conference where it will be whittled down. now, there will be a move by the republicans who instruct their people that go to the conference don t move on this language. and that s happened all the time. i have been in those things all before. they move. bill: this is a very public debate here. what troubles me is i don t know how many members of the house just simply won t vote for any immigration bill. do you have any idea, beckel? i would say about 35 or 40. that s the same estimate that cammeron has given us. now, the immigration bill that the senate passed you like that, right? yeah, i think it s a good bill. bill: when people say we don t trust the government, they are not going to do what they say they are going to done 00 border. they re not going to secure the border. reagan said he would and he didn t do it. reagan didn t do it, bush didn t do it, clinton
i ll be happy to answer that. given that resounding endorsement, i will move on to the other must talk about piece of news, which is what books will be on the bedside tables of d.c. movers and shakers, biographies, satire and crime fiction are jodi, as an author, governor bob mcdonald is reading washington. senator mikulski is cleopatra, a life, which a book i have, and am excited to read chris matthews they eat puppies, don t they? i do read want to read cleopatra. you know, i think the dilemma for both politics and political reporters, when it s 10:00 at night, do you want to read anything political? i think most of us look for
talk about how critical the individual mandate was is being replaced by a lot of talk maybe it wasn t that critical. it will cost the government more, less people will be insured, but it won t tear apart of other insurance reforms. there s a cleaner way to do it, give people a tax break for getting insurance coverage, and the people who don t, don t get a tax break. they re exploring that as well, as well as punishing people who show up at the emergency room with a tax. but my point goes a little broader, which is the entire debate and question about what justice kennedy will do comes down to word choice. the tax power is very strong, and you can t get a tax break for an electric car or hiring american workers or all sorts of things. it just shows how weird this case is, that if you went back and had the same amount of money on the money, called something different. but they did that