you know governor, i hate to correct you but it is billions, not millions. that really ruined my christmas, thank you very much. hey, look, it is a place that must have u.s. leadership. without having the united states stabbed up stand up at the united nations and lead whether it s a budget reform initiative or any action at the security council or inside the general assembly, without u.s. leadership, the un becomes a talk fest. it is a waste of money if we do not have u.s. leadership. and really what we ve seen from the obama administration over the last number of years is a withdrawal from the united nations. the obama team gives us rhetoric that the un is indispensable and that we must go through them but if you look at the iran issue, the obama team has taken the iran issue out of the security council and moved it to geneva
you know governor, i hate to correct you but it is billions, not millions. that really ruined my christmas, thank you very much. hey, look, it is a place that must have u.s. leadership. without having the united states stabbed up stand up at the united nations and lead whether it s a budget reform initiative or any action at the security council or inside the general assembly, without u.s. leadership, the un becomes a talk fest. it is a waste of money if we do not have u.s. leadership. and really what we ve seen from the obama administration over the last number of years is a withdrawal from the united nations. the obama team gives us rhetoric that the un is indispensable and that we must go through them but if you look at the iran issue, the obama team has taken the iran issue out of the security
we have to play it for people to understand. let s look at the reason why he is giving this very long speech. madam president. reporter: ted cruz seized the senate floor and vowed not to let go. i intend to speak in support of defunding obama care until i am no longer able to stap. reporter: this is theater, whether he speaks for hours the vote timing and outcome will be the same. cruz aides fully admit he s using the senate floor stage to speak directly to his audience, conservative grassroots activists who fueled his tea party upset last year. where is the outrage? where are the senates standing here saying what a straf gee that young people are being denied a fair shot in the american dream because of what we have wrought, because of obama care? reporter: his talk fest is exactly what his republican leadership who oppose his tactics were triying to avoid. as he started gop leaders were
am no longer able to stand. reporter: to be sure, this is theater. whether he speaks for hours or not, the vote timing and the outcome will be the same. his aides fully admit he is using the stage to speak directly to his audience. the activists who fueled the tea party upset last year. where is the outrage? where are the senators saying when a travesty that young people are being denied a fair shot in the american dream because of what we have brought. because of obamacare. cruz talk fest is exactly with a his republican leadership who opposed his tactics were trying to avoid. in fact as he started, the gop leaders were talking to reporters a if you feet away, urging him to abandon what they consider a complicated fools errand. for procedural reasons, cruz is opposing the bill he supports. funding the government but defunding obamacare. if you don t follow, that s why many worried republicans are
and the interesting thing about turkey is their relatively low key response. because they invoked article 4 of the n.a.t.o. treaty which requires consultation of n.a.t.o. members not article 5, a response to an act of aggression of an n.a.t.o. member by all n.a.t.o. members. so we re going to basically have a talk fest among n.a.t.o. members. turkey doesn t want to expand this war on its border. turkey has its own kurdish problem. syria has kurds, it doesn t want syrian kurds not under the regime to get together with its own kurds. it also has a population, the same ethic minority, religious minority that rules in syria. they don t want those people upset and they don t want a war, a vietnam type war that goes on endlessly at their border. they ve been deliberately low