First on 13. President obama is debuting a controversial new years resolution today. The president telling americans this morning. Its time to get serious about gun control. 22 30 my new years resolution is to move forward on our Unfinished Business as much as i can. Thats especially true for one piece of Unfinished Business, thats our epidemic of gun violence. Today hell meet with attorney general Loretta Lynch to discuss options for tightening gun laws. At the top of his list. Expanding background checks. Hell then conduct a three month review of other steps to help reduce gun violence. To make his ideas a reality. Hes expected to skip congress approval. And take executive action. But some republican president ial candidates are already promising to reverse any action obama takes if they win the presidency. President ial candidate 50 59 so he is going to sign another executive order having to do with the second amendment, having to do with guns. I will veto that. I will unsign that s
First on 13. President obama is expected to reveal more of his controversial plan first on 13. President obama is expected to reveal more of his controversial plan to deal with gun violence. The president telling americans this morning. Its time to get serious about gun control. 22 30 my new years resolution is to move forward on our Unfinished Business as much as i can. Today hell meet with attorney general Loretta Lynch to discuss options for tightening gun laws. At the top of his list. Expanding background checks. Hell then conduct a three month review of other steps to help reduce gun violence. To make his ideas a reality. Hes expected to skip congress approval. And take executive action. But some republican president ial candidates are already promising to reverse any action obama takes sot donald trump, president ial candidate 50 59 so he is going to sign another executive order having to do with the second amendment, having to do with guns. I will veto that. I will unsign that s
President obama has Just Announced one of the biggest congressional power grabs ever by a president. He has declared unilaterally that by his own estimation, almost 5 million unlawful immigrants will be free from the consequences of their lawless actions. Not only that, he will in addition bestow on them work permits and other benefits. And president obama has stated over 20 times in the past that he does not have the constitutional power to take such steps on his own. And has repeatedly stated, i am not a king. Well now ask for the video be rolled. The notion that i can just suspend deportations through executive order, thats just not the case. Because there are laws on the books that congress has passed, there are enough laws on to the books by congress that are very clear in terms of how we have to enforce our immigration system, that for me simply through executive order ignore those congressional mandates would not conform with my appropriate role as president. I cant solve this p
The Armed Services chairman who is retiring. We are starting off on that note. Then his last big bill, the Defense Authorization bill is going to be the first matter up for consideration. , when we knewht senate,forward with the there has been an agreement struck about 3 00 today. Earlierittle bit depending on the level of cooperation. There is going to be a series of votes that will lead to the passage of the Defense Authorization bill. And itat has happened passes, the bill will go to president obama. That, then we are in the end of the year negotiations on time and how to compress time in order to get the rest of the work done. When it comes to the spending bill, what are the chances that its going to pass the senate . Will the senate be in on saturday to get this done . Guest thats the big deal. There will 00 votes, be a series of negotiations between all 100 senators behind the scenes. They will figure out whether or has to go through to process of filing cloture cut off the debat
I think it will rest with the press. Democrats are at least as good as republicans on skating on this. Forecasting the moment this would get ugly is now. 2014. Looks different in the next 1015 years. If you win, you will cement a budget in 2017. Over 90 without taking changes in mandatory programs. How do you fund all the things you want to find . Keep our nation strong. Fund it at a fair level. Both infrastructure and education. The press says, you cant do it. Were talking if this person becomes president in 2017. Cap got they have got to have a budget. Both parties whoever wins are saying, we have midterms. We dont want something controversial. Those of us over 60 50. We dont have to be told. We know how important it is. We vote accordingly. We will respond to fear mongering. We will be forging in the alley for food. We are insufficiently peach got a to do the right insufficiently patriotic to do the right thing. I dont think democrats are less capable of dodging the press. I emphasi