mexico and the united states currently is? it is zero. zero. the most recent numbers show that from 2005 to 2010 the net migration is zero. a huge change from 195 to 2000 it was more than 2 million people. but the number of people coming here from mexico was about the same as the number of people going to mexico from the u.s. so we re already spending almost $18 billion a year on a problem that does not exist. and republicans in the senate are poised to add $30 billion to that all over a handshake deal to win votes. and remember, these are the exact same people who say they care about spending and the deficit. let s take for example, republican bob corker, whose name is on the amendment. senator corker is nothing, if not a fiscal hog. our country is on verge of
secret deals are sadly endemic in washington, d.c.? that is true. bill clinton is an old style politician who believes in a handshake deal is a deal. wherever as barack obama i ve spent years reporting on barack obama he has a pattern of agreeing to a deal say with john boehner and whoever and not following that through. gregg: you are a former editor of newsweek and new york times magazine and you are best selling author of many books and your critics are excited and they are cause particular in their criticism of you. what is your response to that? some of them are calling you a chronic liar and discredited journalist. what is your response to that? my response is when the book first came out a year ago, i called barack obama an amateur, there was a
the whole story, but they have been playing games all along about telling the whole story. remember the reason that we even had access to these e-mails is because there was sort of a handshake deal after a long series of negotiations with republicans on the senate intelligence committee about whether john brennan was going to be considered for a nomination. there were threats of hold on the brennan administration and as part of sort of a handshake deal the white house agreed to provide these to members of congress on a temporary basis, short term basis, they can look at them, they can take notes but they couldn t keep them. it was only that and after the house republicans wrote up a report based in part on what they have nine some of the e-mails the white house relented and said we will show you all of this because there were so many questions. we have answered some questions as a result of seeing the e-mails and that s important but there is a lot of things we haven t had answers to.
the whole story, but they have been playing games all along about telling the whole story. remember the reason that we even had access to these e-mails is because there was sort of a handshake deal after a long series of negotiations with republicans on the senate intelligence committee about whether john brennan was going to be considered for a nomination. there were threats of hold on the brennan administration and as part of sort of a handshake deal the white house agreed to provide these to members of congress on a temporary basis, short term basis, they can look at them, they can take notes but they couldn t keep them. it was only that and after the house republicans wrote up a report based in part on what they have nine some of the e-mails the white house relented and said we will show you all of this because there were so many questions. we have answered some questions as a result of seeing the e-mails and that s important but there is a lot of things we haven t had answers to.
what a shame. that was harry reid on the senate floor in may saying progressive senators tom you d jaul and jeff merkley who were working to reform the filibuster they were right, he should have listened to their call to reform the senate rules, they wright and he was wrong not to listen to them. they were right and this was today. progressive senators working dramatically to alter senate rules were defeated thursday when senate majority leader harry reid and his counterpart republican leader mitch mcconnell set to announce a series of reforms on the senate floor that fall far short of their demands. one more? one more. we re going to change the rules. we cannot continue in this way. so i hope we can get something that that the republicans will work with us on but it won t be a handshake. we tried that last time. it didn t work. twharzry reid at the senate in december saying any deal to reform the filibuster would not be a handshake deal. today a handshake agreement is how rol