unpop lore. and the idea that projection will make it popular if people don t like their health care experience i find pretty unlikely. nancy pelosi said obamacare would allow everybody to pursue their passion poetry, painting, whatever. i love painting but i will not make a living on it still. i think she was wrong about that. jonah, ab, thanks very much. thanks. thank you. jenna: turning to big news overseas some new information in the fight to defeat isis with iraqi security forces heavily backed by iran making some progress in the battle to reclaim tikrit. as they close in on saddam hussein s home city the government forces are reportedly taking control of a nearby town. john huddy following the story from our middle east bureau. john? reporter: jenna that town is called, al-alam on the outskirts of tikrit, saddam hussein s hometown as you mentioned. the reports we re getting iraqi security forces alongside
there are hard cases where you say that case doesn t deserve full enforcement. but when you take an entire class of people and say we are going to apply prosecutorial discretion to all of them, that to me is a serious abuse of the separation of powers in our constitution. it s the congress that writes the law, it s the president s duty to carry them out. if he doesn t like a particular law he needs to carry it out nonetheless. and if that s unpop already with the public they will put pressure on the congress to change a law they think is needing to be changed. but the congress needs to do it, not the president. martha: a lot of questions about the process. we ll be watching. thank you so much for coming here first, congressman. good to talk to you this morning. we ll see what happens at the top of the hour. bill: 22 minutes away from starting. the ncaa tournament came to a
pope francis has granted his first in depth interview to a jesuit magazine. it s a 12,000 word piece so it is no small feat. it was published this morning. right to cnn s senior producer who is the coeder to of cnn s belief blog. this was astounding news that the interview was given and that it was as candid about topics ranging from abortion to women in the church to the right of the church to interfere in gay people s lives. can you give me some of the headlines? yes, it s very unpop-like for a pope to sit for an interview of this length. it was done over three days with the roman jesuit journal.
unpop letter. and they want to make r maintain what little influence there is in light of all of the other growing influences that are now affecting egypt where the u.s. used to be the main influence. thank you to you both. stay safe, ayman. yesterday, texas senator ted cruz tried to put his very own birthing controversy to rest. after the dallas morning news published his birth certificate proving, yes, ted cruz was born in canada and that makes ted cruz a dual citizen, he renounced canadian citizenship saying, nothing against canada but i m an american by birth and as a u.s. senator i believe i should be only an american. why the rejection of the maple leaf? because the whole born outside of the united states thing might upset the conspiracy theorists, a real estate mogul, donald trump. let me ask you this. ted cruz, born in canada.
bring their balance sheet back in line. ewant to give you i want to give you the last word on this. i d love it if you could address the housing crisis. we hear proposals, considering to try and let folks refinance even those under water at these low rates. do you have a benevolent dictator housing i do not believe there is any large scale housing policy that would be effective and timely in a macro sense that it s politically feasible. the things we propose on the campaign turned out to be unpop harry lar. the reality is, we will fix the housing market by getting the economy going and getting homeowners back in jobs and getting better growth and we re going to have to muddle through otherwise. there s nothing else you can do. jar we have to get income to these houses not through the temporary gimmicks. the government s broke and the households are broke. the only part of the economy hawaii a balancing working orltder, the business community,