to divert attention from what s going on here at home is if you bring jared kushner with you and you solve the israeli/palestinian conundrum that s been going on for so many decades. look, you know, it is clear that you don t necessarily hold this administration in high regard. presidents should go on foreign trips. of course! i think the american people want the u.s. president visiting not just key allies, but countries in difficult and challenging regions and reaching out and trying to forge a new future, which every president should do. i talked with ben cardin, ranking member of the senate foreign relations committee yesterday, a democrat, no fan of the president, who s been offering advice to the white house for this foreign trip. so, this is a trip i think that, you know, democrats and republicans can get behind. oren liebermann, specifically to the point that you brought up about the intelligence issues, the fact that the president in his meeting with the russians, you kno
rosenthall. good mortgage. thanks, chris. senator reid argued that stripping away the assault weapons ban makes the bill more passable. it would leave a bill that would require universal background checks, gun-trafficking a federal crime. a program that gives funding for school security. do you think harry reid made a good move? well, it s disappointing. but he s done the calculus and knows that an assault weapon bill will not pass the senate. sadly, i think he also knows that even in the democratically controlled senate, a background check for criminals, a universal background check for all of gun sales, including for criminals will not pass the senate. and it was certainly not going to pass the house. so that s what we re up against. and just so everyone is clear about this, you know, i m a law-abiding gun owner. i own firearms, i go to a gun
creating the path, that is making the line, because right now there isn t one. that s what we have i guess the complication is what will that path look like? and how many sort of requirements will there be along the way? we ve got the bipartisan group of senators who are working on something. they say they re on track to unveil something, maybe the end of this month, early april. what do you think that might look like? i think right now what the senate is favoring ten-year wait for naturalization before you can apply three years for citizenship while the white house, they have in the leaked report they favored 8-5, either way, you re looking at about 13-year period, which is considerable and the polling among latinos from latino decisions shows that latinos want a waiting period of and this is voters. they want a waiting period of roughly five years. so there are many parameters to be worked out here. but the fact is that conservatives are coalescing around this issue, it s
the common denominator in all of the mass shootings. when i go for a duck hunting license, i m limited to three rounds to protect the duck population. but congress says it s perfectly fine for the criminals and mentally ill to have 30 and 100-round clips to fight police officers who are limited to 13 to 15 rounds. what s going on here isn t so much the nra, it s cowardice in congress. it s allowing the uniquely unregulated gun industry to buy congress and intimidate the democrats and own the republicans. until the public stands up and says 87 dead americans is too important not to act to reduce. this is going to go on. well, let me show people some of the senate seats up in 2014. democrats have seats up in alaska, arkansas, louisiana,
we re viewed by the syrians at this point. and that really in the end is the shame of it all. you mentioned the refugees, i think the latest number i saw, we should say the president is going to be heading to jordan on friday. 450,000 syrians have fled there. the refugee camps are absolutely overwhelmed. michael, do you agree with the ambassador that the u.s., though, is marginalized in all of this? unfortunately, i think, ambassador ginsburg is exactly right. that the united states seems oddly sort of paralyzed on this issue. and we are moving very incrementally, very slowly. and our allies in the region just don t really understand it. you know, i was testifying at the senate foreign relations committee yesterday, and the international representatives, the ngo representatives who had been to the refugee camps are reporting that people are resentful toward the united states, even more so, perhaps, than countries like russia because they see us as their natural ally, their friends