now gives the white house a freedom from a veto override. this deal will go forward and everyone knows it now. now it s just a question of how many other senators will join up. talk to me about the significance of that number, because it s very important. we know we re very sure that in both houses of congress, what we will see proceed is a resolution of disapproval of this iran deal. the president has promised to veto that. and the question is, would there then be an effort in both chambers to override the president s veto. with 34 votes committed to the deal, that s not possible now in the united states senate. so that is over. there s been some discussion of how the vote comes up. does it need 50 votes, 60 votes? if they were able to get 41 votes, they could potentially do a filibuster. but as i said on rachel maddow s show last night, senator joe
obviously 34 votes are enough votes for the president s veto to be able to be upheld but we re not that s not the way we re approaching this, we want anybody and everybody, hopefully, to be able to vote for it. we ll continue to try to persuade people until the last moment and our hope is that that number will grow, obviously. but it is enough to sustain the president s veto. that s not satisfactory for us. we want to go further and we ll continue to persuade. but what s really important here, christiane, is not to get caught up in the process. it s to really look at this agreement. if this agreement were to be denied by the congress unilaterally after we have led the everyday to negotiate it and joined in good faith with france, germany, britain, china, russia and iran has signed up to this agreement, if the united states were to yuan launilaterae
donald trump and ted cruz are set to attend a rally one day later against the deal in washington, dc. going to general jack keene on whether or not the pressure is going to work. what your take. hope it does. the american people are against this deal and what is trying to take place here is get the representatives to truly represent that viewpoint, and i think that s the catalyst for these demonstrations and other movements to get the attention, not so much of republicans but certainly of the democrats. i don t know. i m not a political expert. i talked to people here in washington who have relationships with, and the republicans have pretty much unanimously in saying it s going to be awful tough to overturn the president residents veto. he has meat it clear he will do that. so it will be tough. but when you get that kind of consensus brewing and forming among the american public, one would have to think it should,
new jersey senator robert men mendm menendez says he will join with other opponents on capitol hill and vote to override the president s veto. we ll cope you posted. a teen prep school student is retaking the stand this morning facing the upper classman she says raped her. she says owen labrie sexual assaulted her as part of the so-called senior salute, a contest to see who can wrack up the most points. labrie also says that for girls at st. paul s participating in senior salute is a, quote, source of pride. quite interesting and painful testimony to listen to in court. both sides going back and forth about these specific details in
president s veto. how close do you see it right now? well, i m part of the group that s whipping our democratic colleagues in support of the deal. i think we ve only had maybe one or two defections from the 151 of us who signed the letter supporting diplomacy as the best alternative. and so i feel very confident that we re going to have enough to sustain a presidential veto. we only need 146. and i think we ll have significantly more than that. how about the democrats who oppose the deal, do you think they re going to face the wrath of the party and the white house when they re up for reelection next year? i m not so sure. this is one of those votes that is very personal. there are a lot of kind of divided loyalties here. you have some of the members, particularly my fellow jewish members, who come from constituencies that are overwhelmingly opposed to the deal, large jewish populations. even though i might ad the polls show the majority of the