he crossed the 100 thres hold and largely empty handed on the legislative victories. gun control and grand budget deal. he is expressing optimism . noted yesterday that he would nomit necessarily make same-sex benefits for coupilings under the immigration reform bill and that a deal breaker and sign it and he might anger the left and win conservative. take a listen to the president. this kind much immigration bill has an opportunity to do something historic that we have not done in decades. i don t expect after we are finished with it, people are going to say, there is not a single problem about the immigration system. it has nothing to do with latin or central america. it is syria, with the news of israel launchings the air strike to prevent chemical
hill holds obama legacy in its hands and it does. if they say no to immigration reform and to gun safety, if they say no to a grand budget deal, it shuts down. and his legacy he is passed obama care in his second year, and may be stop this from having a depression and that is it. right. one day it s the coolest job in the world. on the other hand, you have to deal with the congress that doesn t want to give him any of that. not going to be much done on guns. at most a watered down universal background check that won t actually be universal. there is probably not going to be any kind of grand bargain on the budget so immigration gives him his best chance because both parties have a strong incentive to get it done. republicans need it to get beyond their problems with hispanics and obama wants it because he thinks it s the right policy and needs it for his legacy. so there is a lot of momentum to getting it done. there are even folks in the house talking about being open for a deal tha
issue, at the moment, seems to be an issue which i actually have some sympathy for the concern about which is one farmer wants to sell to another farmer and the father to the son, all of these kinds of specific cases of how does this actually work. so now you have joe manchin and pat toomey off and colburn moving back from it and manchin and toomey trying to get a deal down. i get progression is what is happening on gay rights and on other issues. i think the history of gun control is kind of opposite in way we pass assault weapons ban and repealed it and tried in 68 to get a robust piece of gun legislation after rfk and martin luther king was killed and maybe a watered down version. maybe you re right and i hope you are but think this is our moment and a time we need to get everything we can get. i agree with richard. i think history is moving in one direction on this issue. i think 33% of americans have a gun in their home versus 50% not so long ago.
ought to give them this because we want to save our business and we want to be on the right side of it but as you see in foreign policy in a lot of places leaders don t do the rational thing when it s in their economic interest and other factors take over, emotion. the 7% in any issue that is 93/7 can often be more vocal, more passionate, more powerful in some ways than the 93% and i think that is what wayne lapierre is dealing with as well as his own views and his own personality. do you know how many guys that run hedge funds that would make this decision? no. but look. guys who run hedge funds are the most commercial, the most focused, the most sort of data driven what is in their interest kind of guys. hedge fund guys are not emotional. i think at the end of the day, mika, i think that that is why i believe we will have a deal on this because wayne lapierre doesn t speak for second amendment rights gun owners. he speaks for the people that make millions off of guns and they k