Disastrous healthcare. Gov are coming to life this evening and they do not bode well for the future of the entire program. All the stories and more on the kudlow report starting right now. Good evening. Im Michelle Carusocabrera in tonight for larry kudlow, and this is the kudlow report. Despite continued white house optimism tonight for the new deal to curb Irans Nuclear program, skeptics are not letting up, even harry reid says more sanctions may be needed instead. Nbcs Steve Handelsman joins us now with the details. Steve . Reporter michelle, thanks. Here in washington a lot of senators in both Political Parties say theyre ready to vote like the house already has for tougher sanctions. But president obama is asking them, and when he spoke today to israels Benjamin Netanyahu, he also presumably asked the hardline israeli leader give me six more months to see if this new, some would say softer diplomatic approach can work to get iran to give up building the bomb. The president spoke t
He said it got fixed within a month and a half, he said it was up and running and then he said now its working the way its supposed to. According to the president of the United States healthcare. Gov is now working the way its supposed to. Mr. President , the president of the United States is in denial. This is an incredible statement that he has made. I find it especially hard to believe when i looked at the Washington Post the next morning on monday, the day after the president s interview where he said that its working the way its supposed to, and you look at that headline on the front page of the Washington Post on monday, health site cant handle appeals. Health site cant handle appeals. Thousands of requests for fixes filed but unprocessed. Filed but unprocessed. Is that what the president of the United States means when he says now its working the way its supposed to . Is the president oblivious to what is happening in this country with his signature piece of legislation . Accord
It was on the minds of some of the Founding Fathers. On september 5, 1787, at the constitutional convention, they were discussing the public land related authorities in the constitution, including the authority that has now been included in whats often referred to as the enclave clause, article 1, 78 clause 17. Wufl delegates to the one of the delegates, elbridge garrett, a delegate from massachusetts stood before the convention and made an astute observation. There gary said this power, that is the power of congress over federal public lands might be made use of to enslave any particular state by buying up its territory and that the strong holds proposed would be a means of aweing the state into undue obedience into the general government. Close quote. Then as now wise observes often came from the state of massachusetts. Then as now, we have a grave risk associated with the fact that when the federal government owns this much land, the federal government has this much power and it was
We have to give meaning to the word unacceptable. If we say russian actions are unacceptable, what are we going to do as to not accept them . For a toughi argue hardhitting sanctions policy to pushback on this. The two rounds of sanctions were decent first steps. They happened weeks ago. It is past time in opposing additional, hardhitting putin and hisnst allies. We have to shift from a policy of reacting to events on the ground. We need to preempt the aggression. Theeed to continue implementation of the sanctions. The legislation that was passed in 2012 imposed sanctions for abuse of human rights inside russia, we have to do both at the same time. The putin regime is a thoroughly corrupt, authoritarian regime that will do anything to stay in power. That is what we are seeing play out in ukraine. This is an extension of domestic politics. Putins paranoia which was heightened the decade ago he ain when hequed ag saw hundreds of thousands of people turn out on the streets of ukraine. Ins
Utonium reactor at arak, capable of producing weapons grade plutonium once its operational. That tells us something about intentions. That is why we are concerned about how this agreement will be enforced. Yes, we agree on the verification. One of the things we remember as we deal with this government in iran, it is one that aggressively supports terrorism and the most radical groups. In 2006, i was in haifa when it was being shelled specifically with iranian missiles provided by syria. This is a regime which we are reminded not too long ago that when we heard the rally and the slogan, death to america, it was not just the [indiscernible] marching. It was members of the government as well shouting death to america. It is a regime that brutally represses its own people, and oftentimes the way a country treats its own citizens tell you how it might treat others. It threatens our ally with extinction, saying that israel is a country which could be destroyed with one bomb. It is that kind