it is the top of the hour. i m boris sanchez along side jessica dean in washington, d.c. tracking an israelied a vance inside gaza right now and the rush to get thousands of civilians out of gaza through egypt while another high-stakes visit to israel conducted by u.s. secretary of state antony blinken. weighing all factors trying to avert a wider war in the region. the secretary of state departed last hour. before leaving he reiterated israel s right to defend itself and addressed the immense civilian suffering unleashed inside gaza. listen. we will be talking about concrete steps that can and should be taken to minimize harm to men, women and children in gaza, and this is something that the united states is committed to. i m not getting into the details here but it s very much on the agenda. when i see a palestinian child, a boy, a girl, pulled from the rubble of a collapsed building, that hits me in the gut as much as seeing a child in israel or anywhere else. notably,
covered. i m thinking politically. i have no idea what goes on between those ears. i can tell you if history is a guide, it will be part of a long con a bait and switch where he ll say something and never come through with leadership. i would characterize this as a ludicrous idea. it has been rejected by 5 million educators in this country, reject bid law enforcement who don t believe it s a meaningful way to deal with this problem. it s really a distractioning to try to distract. this is an nra tactic. we ve seen this for years to distract with this argument that the solution to guns is just more guns everywhere every time day or night inside or outside. and i don t think it is a real solution and it s disappointing because we need real solutions. this one solution that i heard hip at one point agree that we need to raise the age to get assault weapon and now i ve heard he might be backing off from that.
problem that exists in the organization. so it s very rare dana for pelosi and boehner in agreement on anything. but the other day on the five you mentioned, enough of the back-and-forth. how are we going to fix this problem. i do think it s a little bit of a distractioning talking about whether or not shinseki should step down or not. right. i think a resignation or a firing is coming because there s just going to be it will become impossible for president obama to continue to have confidence in him if everybody in washington doesn t, even if the speaker and pelosi do not think he should be fired. partly because i think what boehner and pelosi are saying, it s one thing to remove the top guy, but you can t just ignore the rest of the problems. if it s a systemic problem throughout the entire v.a. and shinseki didn t know about it, there are plenty others that did. you can t fire them all. maybe you could, but you have to have some sort of plan in place
ted nugent is not an elected republican, not in any way have any sort of office as a republican, not at a county or state level, at a federal level, not at any level. he s a rocker who has a second amendment big advocacicy position. it was a mistake by abbott to bring him out because he s become a distractioning ted cruise refused to campaign with him. mitt romney had gone on twitter championing when he ted nugent endorsed his father. playing at inaugurations from pick. ery. perry s hesitation to denounce it. that s the broader issue. the broader issue is this. i have to tell you, i actually heard rick perry denounce what ted nugent said and i heard rand paul denounce it. rick perry did on repeated questioning from wolf blitzer. right. so but why should people be denouncing somebody that s not even in elected office? i think the republican party has
that s interesting the first person to bring up losing, we think so much about winning, what does that feel like when you are walking off the field and you lot of that big game? you have a madge tgical seas. you are a hero. you lose the game and they are popping congety and it s a crime and you have confetti on your c for you. i saw like 110 million eyeballs watching the game. do you feel that or once that whistle is blown, it s game o. the first super bowl i really felt that and it was distractioning, but the second super bowl, the fear of losing again had me focusing on the game and what i had to do. i was blocked in. that s what helped the team, the experience and the players that had been through the other side