at the same time his record is clear he s fought for funding for planned parenthood, reproductive services, sex education, all of those things, and i think that this is just one area where i think he would explain it best in terms of how his faith guides him on i don t get it. on the funding, government funding of abortion. i don t get it. if he funds reproductive rights, that means he funds it with federal dollars. the hyde amendment restricts the federal dollars so you can t fund reproductive rights. i don t get it. i don t get the conflict with his faith. i don t get the difference between the hyde amendment and roe v. wade if it s a matter of faith and i don t get the funding argument if it s about access. i think you have to look at his record in totality, chris. he has always been for a woman s right to choose. he s always supported planned parenthood. he s always supported sex education. he s always supported those things. look, just for the record and to be very cle
if he funds reproductive rights, that means he funds it with federal dollars. the hyde amendment restricts the federal dollars so you can t fund reproductive rights. i don t get it. i don t get the conflict with his faith. i don t get the difference between the hyde amendment and roe v. wade if it s a matter of faith and i don t get the funding argument if it s about access. i think you have to look at his record in totality, chris. he has always been for a woman s right to choose. he s always supported planned parenthood. he s always supported sex education. he s always supported those things. look, just for the record and to be very clear, no one s going around and pushing people to have an abortion. i think if you look at his record in total you will see that he is a man who is committed to making sure his education plan just had pre-k. good. if you look at his equal pay for women, paid family leave, all of those things that support women so that they don t have to make that
they get some sort of a daca solution, so we re going to see more brinkmanship coming up to that break. so we re goi. i don t think the tectonic plates shift that much in three weeks. in a funding argument, immigration is hard for many members in the rust belt and many of these democratic senators who live in these ruby red states, you know, to stand in the way of the government shutdown, to support it, for immigration. i think there are a lot of americans that don t like trump, don t like where he is on immigration and other issues, but say, you know what? we should not conflate these issues and i don t know how they block i don t know what changes between now and then. one thing that has strengthened the democrats hand a little bit, it seems to me, is that the american people have, first of all been reintroduced
state, usually through consultation with the president, that decides how many refugees should be admitted to the country. there s little congress can do other than getting into a funding argument with the president about that. secretary kerry met with members of the judiciary committee to announce what he planned to do on refugees. that will be how it would be decided. legally, the president appears to have that power. but it would be my responsibility, i think, to make sure that it was exercised within the bounds of law. but you have a responsibility, too. you oversee the office of the pardon attorney which recommends the sentences like those of alton mills of commuted. you oversee the immigration courts which are responsible for irn terpting how the nation s laws apply to dreamers and refugees.
it s really the secretary of state usually through consultation with the president that decides how many refugees should be admitted to the country and there s little congress can do other than getting into a funding argument with the president about that. so, secretary kerry met with members of the judiciary committee to announce what he planned to do on refugees. that will be how it would be decided and legally, the president appears to have that power, but it would be my responsibility i think to make sure that it was exercised within the bounds of law. but you have a responsibility too. you oversee the office of the pardon attorney which recommends that sentences like those of alton mills be commuted. you oversee the immigration courts interpreted our nation s