Everybody. Our guest is representative ed royce. This is his first visit. We are grateful to him for coming this point. He is a native californian and a graduate of California State University school of business administration. His interest in politics is longstanding. He headed you for reagan in the 1976 challenge to the then president gerald ford. [indiscernible] after her brief career in the private sector, in 1982 our guest was elected to the ,alifornia state senate athoring a law that made it felony to stalk someone. He has been a member of the House Foreign Affairs committee since coming to congress and was named the chair in the member 2012. Now onto the ever popular process portion of our program. We are on the record here. Logging or tweeting and no filing of any kind while the breakfast is underway to give us time to listen to what our guest says. No embargo when the session ends. Several pictures of the session to all reporters here as soon as the breakfast ends. If you woul
Blowback from republicans this week, if you just gone to the border and did a lap around. The conditions especially in the house of republicans, i do not know what president obama could have done to make things better over there. To the border, there would have been blowback and different way. It does not mean he should not have taken the trip he did hear it drinking beers and playing pool, a preplanned attempt to make him a make obama more approachable. And fundraising, that is what created a strange dichotomy in what people were seeing him doing and what happened on the border. It would have been tough either way, telling these children in holding situations, he is actually trying to say, i will deport you. I will deport you. Im not sure what message he would have put out, but the entire trip was not exactly the best image for the white house. Thank you both for being with. On newsmakers thank you. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by nati
United states to lean very heavily on the government, especially on maliki. If you were to point to one thing that has unraveled our ability of iraq as a cohesive it is theesist isis, decisions made by mr. Maliki. Awesomeously, he is so he has so ostracized the sunni and kurdish community, but on top of that his decision to go to the military he just put his son for those of you who saw that his son is now in charge of the military in iraq. He has gone to the officer corps and removed a competent officers and instead put in his friend. Any of those friends have no takes brains whatsoever. The troops have no confidence in the officer corps as a consequence of the decision to sack the senior officers. You have an individual here who go, andp down, who must you saw health the stony al sistani, you saw the shia religious leader explained the necessity of an to stepping down, that is absolutely true. He has got to go, and then cohesively, the Iranian State is a viable iran institution if yo
Be like serving in the United States senate. We actually liked one another than. We actually got along with one another. And deal with all of you has been one of the pleasures. I mean this sincerely, of my tenure as Vice President. And saw a lot of you back at the white house not too long ago, and i want you to know that i want to thank, i want to thank bill for the passport to get back into tennessee. I appreciate very much. He said you here last week. Hopefully youre not coming next week. No, he didnt say that. I was your last week actually. [laughter] but, you know, folks, i probably shouldnt say this, but [laughter] but then again, im joe biden. [laughter] [applause] as, no one doubts what i mean what is a. Sometimes i mean all that i say. But i mean this sincerely. I was thinking about this a lot the last, the last three or four weeks. The greatest honor of my life was to be United States senator and serve for all those years in the United States senate with some of the greatest,
Program judge andrew napolitano. Hes going to come on. Were going to talk about lincoln, hot or not . [laughter] i, of course, say hot. I love a good beard. Let me tell you this first were going to turn to crimea. As you know crimea is a region. [ laughter ] in the southeastern part of ukraine that juts out to the black sea and is well known for its charges of its light brigades. [ laughter ] who against all odds dont actually win. You pretty much let me tell you something. You want to bet the odds on the light brigade because they go down pretty hard. Nobody . Tennyson, nobody . All right. Americans know nothing about the crimea beyond what was assigned to them in that one english class in eighth grade. I think crimea is lost. I dont think theyll put owl the there. Crimea is effectively gone. Is it lost . Im afraid so. You think crimea is gone . I do. Jon where is crimea . Its all gone its gone. Crimea. Oh, crimea. We hardly knew ye. [ laughter ] seriously, we knew nothing about ye. [