will muck it up. senator pat roberts, good to see you. do you think the president will get a clean messasure? he s going to get a bill. let me emphasize that one person s poison bill is probably another person s chocolate out of necessity. but the big thing is he had to monitor iran and make sure they were not exporting any terrorism. that would have been a big thing with his role but they took that out. now, a number of democrats are on board with this. if it doesn t meet muster with him, he would have a lot of ticked off democrats as well. this could get nasty, couldn t it? it could get nasty. we have the votes to overwrite and he knows this. i expect this to go on past june 30. that s the deadline. and we have i think we have six days to present it to congress.
our military, our vets, as pawns in a political game. got that? republicans will call out anybody who wants to use veterans as pawn. well, guess what they did when democrats led by independent vermont senator senator mcconnell tried to add a poison bill to add sanctions to iran. that is a bill that s backed by republicans and many democrats and would impose a new sanctions regime on iran, which both the white house and the iranians say would threaten the historic talks that right now represent the best chance we have to bring a peaceful resolution to iran s nuclear program. think about that for a moment.
have not heard enough about, john boehner. you know, what about john boehner s leadership here? i diend of feel like i hear about him all the time. really? what are you watching? here? john boehner s house is going to have to pass this. he s the speaker. the question is, is he going to be able to exert the leadership to get his party to do what the majority of americans want. that needs to be on his shoulder. matt, that goes to the policy discussion we were having haerl, which is what kind of triggers do you think are fair and reasonable to include. clearly many republicans and even libertarians rejected grassley s approach because it seemed like a poison bill pretending to be a trigger. how can we be sure that the alternatives are more real? i think it s all going to be in this sort of muddy zone between having dhs say, i think we got it under control, i think cornyn wants a 90% rate of catching illegal imgrachblts at the border. i think that s probably a nonstarter. they re g
to take 18% of what they want or 50% of what they want and think that they re doing their job or they want to engage in a permanent campaign. when the bush folks came to power, they said they would end the permanent campaign. it just got worse and worse with each new president and each new congress. the bill out there is just some kind of poison bill. student loan bill. both sides want to stop stafford loans from doubling. but attached to the democratic bill, payroll tax increases that republicans hate. attached to the republican bill was a cut in funding for the president s health care bill. is this just all posturing on both sides? i mean at some point, can they get something done? look, the violence against women act has bipartisan support today as it did ten years ago, the reason it had bipartisan support then and it has bipartisan support now, is not because there s been some
the past, the violence against women act, that s usually passed with great bipartisan support, may not meet its deadline for being reauthorized. so after the debate on planned parenthood, after the debate on the blunt amendment, you bet women are saying, what s going on? well, let s take a look. here s one of your colleagues on the other side of the aisle, jeff sessions, a member of the judiciary committee, a republican, he s against the new version of the bill. he told the new york times, i favor the violence against women act and have supported it at various points over the years, but there are matters put on that bill that almost seem to invite opposition. do you think that s possible? you think they might have put things in there that we couldn t support that maybe then they could accuse you of not being supportive of fighting violence against women? well, he s accusing you of putting stuff in the bill that s purposefully put in there as a poison bill i m sorry, i totally m