Pushed the senate to pass the new start treaty during the lame duck session aides to jon kyl said privately republicans have the votes to block it some of biden s pressure came in the wall street journal op. ed that says president obama proved that missile defense and arms control can proceed hand in hand. john bolton disagrees. it creates of a political construct basically for the russians to block you are national defense process. the russians threatening to pull out of a treaty that the president has said is very necessary if we engage in significant national defense activities. kyl and five other republican senators suspect the person who now holds bolton s job ellen tourer may have agreed to missile defense limits that not spelled out in the start treaty. asked for proof she hasn t. more than a year ago the president scrapped plan force a missile defense system in poland and the czech republic that