Another half billion dollars returning that money to iran simply to compensate them for continuing to talk. Boehner invited israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu to deliver a speech to a joint session of congress on the iranian threat an invitation that netanyahu has accepted. It will take place february 11th. A direct rebuke of the president s threat to veto a bipartisan bill calling for more sanctions against iran. The speaker making it clear today that if the president is unwilling to take irans threat seriously, the new Republicanled Congress will. And that he doesnt require the president s permission to bring mr. Netanyahu to capitol hill. I did not consult with the white house. The congress can make this decision on its own. I dont believe im poking anyone in the eye. There is a serious threat that exists in the world. And the president last night kind of papered over it. And the fact is that there needs to be a more serious conversation in america about how serious the threat is. Republicans also turning the page today on the issue of illegal immigration and Border Security. The House Homeland Security committee marking up a bill that would give the department of Homeland Security two years in which to gain operational control of high traffic areas along our southern border with mexico. Five years to succeed in that objective for the entire border. The bill introduced by Committee Chairman congressman mike mccall requires more infrastructure to secure the border, including 27 miles of new border fencing. There will also be aerial surveillance, using Defense Department equipment to proventil illegal crossings of our border. If dhs officials fail to meet any of the bill standards they would face significant penalties, including an end to all bonuses and salary increases. Joining us a member of the House Republican leadership who has led the way on an approach to immigration legislation. Were joined by congressman bob goodlatte, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. Mr. Chairman, good to have you with us. Good afternoon. I would like to go through a few chronological issues here. The invitation of netanyahu is a stirring moment of maneuver on the part of the speaker. And the white house obviously left dumbfounded, flat footed as a result. Your thoughts . Well, first of all, you look at this president s state of the Union Address yesterday and you say, there he goes again. This speech was chock full of things that the American People didnt vote for in november. Mistrust. Overregulation of the economy. Putting a burden on American Families. Taking away the College Savings tax benefits that millions of American Families rely upon to send their children to college. In the midst of that, he issues four veto threats when he is supposedly coming to the congress to talk about working with the congress for the benefit of the American People. They dont buy it. We didnt buy it. The speaker didnt buy it. So i think that the invitation, which im so pleased Prime Minister netanyahu has accepted, is a strong signal that the congress will watch this like a hawk and we are going to take measures necessary to do our duty to protect the people of this country from a country like iran Getting Nuclear Weapons and were not going to simply rely on what the president tells us when he stands there and says ill veto anything you try to do to put iran in check. If legislation passed by the congress that has imposed the sanctions they already have that have brought us to the limited point where we are now and we need to push this president to take us a lot further to assure us that iran is not going to get nuclear weapons. Pushing the president further and ensuring Border Security is the mike mccall legislation, the mccall bill to secure our borders, the first bill moving today. Do you believe that it can win significant support, significant defined as veto proof support . Well, i dont know about veto proof support, but i do know its going to get strong conservative support. I, and my staff on the House Judiciary Committee and other committee members, some of who serve on the Homeland Security committee, have worked closely with him to make sure we have a very strong bill. And i think hes done just that. Theyre working it through the committee right now. And i think this is very important to send a strong message. Again, we have a president who could enforce the law right now. Hes not doing that. Theres a tremendous amount of mistrust here. But we need to send the signal of how it should be done right. This is a very good first step. The Judiciary Committee will follow right behind with the interior enforcement legislation, legislation giving state and local governments a clear statutory rule to enforce our immigration laws. And electronic verification of employment to make sure every business in america is checking to verify that the person applying for a job is indeed lawfully present in the United States and therefore entitled to a job. Thats, i think, the next steps in this process for a stepbystep reform of our laws that need to be reformed. But the first thing we need is for the president to enforce the laws now. Instead, hes going in the opposite direction by granting amnesty to 4 to 5 Million People. Thats a separate battle, but one we have to put right at the forefront as well. Lets examine those two issues. One is the legislation that you already moved from your committee, focusing on interior enforcement, everify. The legislation, the approach that you have taken on resolving our illegal Immigration Crisis in this country is incremental. It is rational and effective. Is the leadership, that is Speaker Boehner and the Republican Leadership of the house, are they enthusiastically endorsing what youre doing here to the point theyre prepared to lead with a republican version now of the goodlatte legislation and make a real difference and hopefully resolve the countrys crisis that has been absent now for over a decade . I believe theres strong support from our leadership and virtually the entire republican conference in the house to do the kinds of enforcement measures that need to be put in place. But, again, what we really need is a president of the United States who is going to enforce the law, not flout the law, which is what president obama is doing. This will show the American People theres a right way to do this. And i think we should push ahead with this approach. And at this point youre going to move ahead. What is your next step . Well, our next step in the Judiciary Committee will be to look at bills that we brought up in the last congress. Youll recall we have had four bills through the House Judiciary Committee, all of them good bills. And look to see what improvements can be made to them and then start moving those bills out of the committee. The difference i hope well see this time is that not fearing a comprehensive Immigration Reform bill of barack obama and harry reid and others in the United States senate. But with a new senate we should also pass the bills through the house of representatives to show the American People how do you soon do you think it will be passed by the full house . I dont have a timetable yet, but i would hope early in this first year of this congress. Congressman, always good to talk to you. Congressman bob goodlatte, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. Thank you. The state of the union sounded like a wish list from lefty on the loose. Last night was a little petulent. Its the republicans who look like theyre turni in my world, wall isnt a street. Return on investment isnt the only return im looking forward to. For some every dollar is earned with sweat, sacrifice, courage. Which is why usaa is honored to help our members with everything from investing for retirement to saving for college. Our commitment to current and former military members and their families is without equal. Start investing with as little as fifty dollars. Republican leaders today rejecting the president s four veto threats. And his partisan proposals last night. This kind of partisanship is what we have become accustomed to from the president. And we know the president may not be wild about the peoples choice of the congress, but he owes it to the American People to find a serious way to work with the representatives that they elected. We need to fix our broken tax field, balance our budget, replace the broken Health Care Law with solutions that lower costs and protect jobs. Joining us now is karl rove, former deputy chief of staff for george w. Bush, republican strategist. Fox news kron attributor. Karl, i have to say that john boehner impressed me profoundly perhaps for the first time in his tenured speaker by inviting netanyahu before a joint section of congress. It was a stroke of brilliance. And i suspect theyre still choking on it at the white house. Yeah. Theyve got to be upset at the white house. And, look, underneath the surface there is something even more disturbing for the white house perspective. That is you have a significant number of democrats in the house and senate who are supportive of this backup sanctions bill. Remember, this doesnt impose sanctions on iran. It simply says that in the event that theyre unable to reach an agreement that the sanction tools will be immediately available to the president. And it allows the president even to slip the deadline like he has been doing. You just have to go to the congress and say im going to try for another 30 days. Im going to continue to try to negotiate this beyond the deadline that i have publicly stated. So white house cant be happy about this. Netanyahu is going to provide a principled and i think powerful case for the necessity of reigning in iran. And theyre going to have a large number of democrats on the hill led in the senate by the just recently removed just recently the chairman of the Foreign Relations committee, Robert Menendez of new jersey. Menendez talking about the tyrrhenian talking points of the president. Turning to domestic issues and powerfully important issues, job creation, restoring prosperity to an economy that is were in the midst, as you well know, of the worst economy following to be termed a recovery from recession in our modern history. And the republicans talking last night senator ernst i have to give her credit. She is talking about jobs and the american dream. And she talked about the middleclass. That was so, i think, a breakthrough moment for the Republican Party. I dont know whether you would agree with me. I dont know whether you think the republicans will follow through. I hope they do. Yeah. Look, i like the comments we heard from Party Leaders last night. Paul ryan was particularly effective. And this is an opportunity. Republicans need to understand this is an opportunity to go on the offense. Sure, 2 million more people are working that we had at the time when the recession began in december 2007. There were 138 million americans working then. There are 140 million americans working today. On the other hand, there are 14 million more americans who are not in the workforce because there werent jobs for them. Think about that. We have going 2 million more people have gotten jobs since the end of the recession. But we have 14 million more net no longer in the workforce or tried to get in the workforce and have given up. That is an astonishing comment on the weakness of the economy. We have 2. 1 million more people working parttime, though they want fulltime work and cant find it. And the president seemed to say we have turned the page. We have done it great. Now on to the next one, which is Free Community college for everybody and higher taxes. I have to tell you, karl, i heard reverberations of Mission Accomplished in those words of his. And i think it was a very bad choice of language on his part. The middleclass at this point defined by purchasing power in which statistic you choose, it is less by 5 to 11 than it was in 2009 when this president moved into office. We are shutting down more businesses than were creating in this country. Weve got 93 million americans not working. And we have a serious, serious challenge before us because we have a president who thinks he can say he won two elections. And thats quite an adequate response. And the Republican Party that is going to have to accommodate less of its oldest allies. That is k street, the chamber of commerce and Business Roundtable and what hopes will be new allies, that is working men and women, Small Businessmen and women and their businesses are the principle creator of jobs. Yeah. Well, Small Business people have been historically very republican. Whats interesting the last couple of elections, particularly in 2014 and 2012 was working class white voters have moved solidly into the republican voting column. They dont identify as republicans as much as they vote for republicans. Youre right. Weve got to identify with those people and make certain that the republican agenda gives them hope and optimism that life is going to be better. Last night, it was interesting. A lot of those people are trying if theyre trying to save for their kidss education, many of them are using 529 plans. Right. 14 Million People have these accounts in the states that offer them. And the president last night said were going to take the savings that youre putting away tax free for your kidss college education, and when you draw it out and write the tuition check, were going to slap a tax on that. So when you write the check to the college for your kid, you have to write a tax to the government. And this was a big mistake. And saying, why are we doing that . Isnt it wasnt the purpose of that original creation of taxexempt savings accounts for education an attempt to encourage people who didnt have the means normally to do that to be able to access college. And theres to me a more fundamental issue in it all. Education in this country is an opportunity for all who show both the skill, the talent, the intellect and the energy and the desire to be educated. Its ameritocracy. It is not a gift from on high. Whether on high is right. Whether on high is president obama or the federal government. One last point. Sure. The president is saying Free Community college at the same time the department of education is trying to put out of business every forprofit college in america which have a higher retention rate, higher Graduation Rate and higher job placement rate than Community Colleges do. But they are part of the free market, Free Enterprise community. He hates those. He wants Free Community college instead. Really insane. Why not free trade school, free vocational training, free fouryear schools. And a cplus requirement to get into them. He said you had to keep up your grades. You had to get a cplus average in order to get free education. Well, that sounds like more than one of my semesters. Thank you, karl. Appreciate it. Thank you, lou. Up next, why americans are paying too high a price for the president s refusal to Talk Straight to the American People and, indeed, to the world. Recently, a 1954 mercedesbenz grand prix race car made history when it sold for a record price of just under 30 million. And now, another mercedesbenz makes history selling at just over 30,000. And to think this one actually has a surroundsound stereo. The 2015 cla. See your authorized mercedesbenz dealer for exceptional offers through mercedesbenz financial services. Startupny. Its working for new york state. Already 55 companies are investing over 98 Million Dollars and creating over 2100 jobs. 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