Statue of liberty, there is a poem by m. Lazarus who says bring me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses wanting to breathe free. 12,000 refugees at displaced population of almost five million. Weve seen these heartbreaking pictures of children who are being killed. And think about i guess were talking about 400,000 syrians being killed in this. What about what our and b is as human beings what our obligation is to other human beings. These are people who are fleeing isis. These are people are fleeing an assad regime that uses poison gas against civilians. The u. N. G process is first, refugee, first vets people hands them to us. Average a over on year and a half before we vet them, is that correct . Yes, thats correct, senator. Senator franken and have we had any dulls that came over in syria engage in some sort of errorist plot . No, senator, not to my knowledge. Senator franken you know, my grandfather came from russia. He arrived and saw that on the statue of liberty. He was o
down s syndrome. some of these kids with disabilities are the disabilities are so severe that they require 24-hour care. these are the americans we d be telling to fend for themselves. but is the president making a mistake defending entitlement programs that cannot be funded and not focusing on job growth? let s meet our panel right now to discuss it. john paul horowitz is here, former member of president reagan s economic policy advisory board is here, democratic strategist and former senate communications director for jon corzine. first off, i read your column yesterday, john, i kind of know where you re going with this. you were stunned by the speech, good against evil. right. kind against mean, you know, democrats want to help kids with autism and republicans want to take kittens and throw them in the river. that is the general tenure of the approach here. is it inaccurate?
day before with regard to reducing the debt. so the criticism continues to trickle down yesterday. specifically by paul ryan who had put together his own plan the week before. he was, shall we say, flabbergasted and very detailed in his criticism. although at the same time, there s other concern about whether or not president obama is stoking some fear in some of the comments he s been making. yeah, already starting to see the ground being laid for the campaign. listen to these comments from the president yesterday on what the g.o.p. plan is going to do and tell me if this doesn t sound like it s already 2012 campaign rhetoric. take a listen. if we believe that it s unacceptable for our seniors not to be able to go in a nursing home when they need care or, you know, children who are poor, not to be able to get a good education, then we ve got to make sure that we re paying for it. here s here s the problem with this entire situation. as you mentioned, clayton, it s el