with groups of young people who work so hard and speak with so much heart about what s best in america even though i knew some of them must have lived under the fear of deportation. mitt romney was critical of the changes. he spoke while campaigning in new hampshire. believe the status of young people who come here through no fault of their own is an important matter to be considered and it should be solved on a long-term basis so they know what their future would be in this country. i think the action of the president he took today makes it more difficult to reach that long-term solution because an executive order is a short-term matter that can be reversed by subsequent presidents. what should the reaction be from u.s. congress? no big surprise here, it comes down along party lines. athena jones breaks that down for us. reporter: senator minority leader mitch mcconnell refused to answer shouted questions about the new immigration policy, but the reaction from other
what else is happening? reporter: absolutely. this is day one of this two-day election. people are lining up despite the awfully hot egyptian summer heat. they re here to cast their ballots. people tell us that they re still excited they have a choice in who will be the next president. it is not a right they had after decades of dictatorship in this country. there are two candidates they can pick from. one is a former air force general and the former prime minister are appointed by the former dictator. another is a candidate from the muslim brotherhood. and earlier today, we got a sense of what people think voters think about these two candidates. take a listen. who did you vote for? for shavic. yes. i know that many people like him because he s from the previous government. at least he has connected to be president, you know? who did you choose? i want democracy. i hate any man like hosni. reporter: the problem here is this is coming at a very tesh lent ti turbul
i would hope the administration would revisit keystone. i don t look to that anytime soon. so far what we heard is a short-term band-aid approach, release oil from the strategic petroleum energy reserve. god help us if we have a serious natural disaster and we depleted that reserve. bill: thank you for your time, sir. here is martha. martha: there is a high-takes meeting set for the oval office. president obama will sit down with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and at the top of the agenda is what kind of warning if any israel would give the united states if they were to go after iran s nuclear facilities. bill: how s this for a road trip. we ll go under the sea. as far and deep as you can go.
york. did speaker boehner betray the tea party yesterday? no, absolutely not. the speaker didn t betray anyone. first of all, you have to remember something, just like myself, speaker boehner has an obligation to govern. and governing is not an easy thing to do. we went into this with good faith. we wanted to push that s why i got a big kick of your first segment how we re not protecting taxpayers. we re pushing for one year because it s good policy. everyone has told me since i took office in january, don t do band-aid approaches, don t take the easy way out, stand up and try to enforce good policy even though washington is broken. and that s what we tried to do. maybe we were naive in taking the president at his word that he really wanted a year and maybe i didn t want to believe that he would just trick us, but that s what happened. and the truth is at the end of the day, there s only one loser here, that s the american people because they did not get good policy, they got anoth
the tea party yesterday in the deal? no, absolutely not. the speaker didn t betray anyone. first of all, you have to remember something, just like myself, speaker boehner has an obligation to govern. and governing is not an easy thing to do. we went into this with good faith. we wanted to push that s why i got a big kick of your first segment how we re not protecting taxpayers. we re pushing for one year because it s good policy. everyone has told me since i took office in january, don t do band-aid approaches, don t take the easy way out, stand up and try to enforce good policy even though washington is broken. and that s what we tried to do. maybe we were naive in taking the president at his word that he really wanted a year and maybe i didn t want to believe that he would just trick us, but that s what happened. and the truth is at the end of the day, there s only one loser here, that s the american people because they did not get good policy, they got another band-aid approach