wanted to make himself public. as for how this story resonates, interesting to me when president obama basically said, we have choices to make. i think that it s really more like, one of those pharmaceutical commercials where you have the announcer talking about the prescription drug privateside, let s call it, saying that this is the prescription against deadly terrorism and then you come up with all the side effects, which could also harm the country in many significant ways. as that is happening, move ogan squeeze it in with the time we ve got, esther. answer this. we ve seen the president in california. yes. meeting with the chine ooepz president, xi jinping. productive. however, the issue of cyber security and cyber hacking, where they re very far apart. as the president looks at his foreign diplomatic platform, how does that work in to what he has to get downdomestically?
this sunday. we have esther arma hosts wake-up call on wbia radio. bob franken, syndicated columnist for king feature and robert costa, washington editor at the national review. all good friends of ours. good to see you. senator john mccain among a group of officials that just returned from the detention center guantanamo bay. the senator saying it s time to shut the facility down. i think that most americans are more ready than they were some years ago. by the way, it costs $1.5 million per inmate per year to keep them in guantanamo. i think my fiscal conservative friends might be interested in that. robert, to your readers, is there enough imp tis now that might see this facility shut down? it s a great question, richard. there is a growing consensus on the left and right to close gitmo but a lot of resistance
did this surprise you, bob? well, it didn t surprise me, because i think that the republicans certainly recognized that they have a political problem, and are looking for a way to somehow turn the tables a little bit on the hispanic, you know, the hispanic problem, that they have, but it s influential, because she was not one of the gang of eight. so this could bring others with her. right. the six here, esther, now the question is, is this bill filibuster-proof? looks less so because of the fact there are six republicans behind it, and most of the democrats minus maybe a couple, two or three, get on board with this, this is going to move through tuesday through the week and forward to debate. is this positive for supporters? i mean, i think there is definitely an issue with the ratcheting up around border pa contropa trol.
it s sunday. members of congress hitting the talk show circuit. the nsa surveillance, a big story we ve been talking about over the last week. listen to senator rand paul and what he said on fox. get a warrant, go after a terrorist or a murderer or a rapist, but don t troll through 1 billion phone records every day. that is unconstitutional, it invades or privacy and i m going to be seeing if i can challenge this at the supreme court level. robert, might this happen? mipt might it go to the supreme court? rand paul in a long time, a libertarian republican will probably bring this to the supreme court. the battle within the republican peart is interesting about the nsa leaks. the republican peart doesn t really have a consensus where they want to go. still there are people who think such as john mccain these programs for surveillance and the process for surveillance are appropriate. and they made that argument this morning on the sunday shows. as we saw. esther, we ve seen mixed
we are back with our brain trust. esther, and bob and robert still with us. bob, we left it all with you. let s move the subject to immigration reform. the big news today was senator kelly ayotte now signing on. now the sixth r to say, yes, i am going to support the immigration bill as it stands right now. let s listen to what she said. i ve looked at this very carefully. our immigration system is completely broken. we ve got 11 million people living in this country illegally in the shadows. a legal immigration system that isn t meeting our needs to grow our economy. i looked at this careful. this is a thoughtful bipartisan solution to a tough problem. that s why i m going to support it. and it shows her support is border security. a vote that was in play.