and that they had to have a change of course. the change of course is lift the build back better up. one major at a time and make the republicans vote against it and for it. the problem is that is going to draw attention to the big problems inside the build back better bill. we have 10 years of revenue to support one year of the child tax credit or three or four years of the affordable care subsidies or five or six years of pre-k. we re using gimmicks to hide the true cost of the bill. bring up the bill and let the republicans vote against it and democrats vote for it and it will hurt them at the polls in the fall. our concern is about inflation drifp by too much government red ink spending. dana: there is a supreme court nomination that president biden will be able to do now. what do you say to folks who think this is a big turnaround point for president biden and a really big boost for the democrats?
years. the issues are obvious. one is that given that sacrifice they resent we just walked away from iraq, did not leave our troops, disengaged with the political growth of iraq and they know it gave rise to isis. and it begins to squander the sacrifices they made. also in afghanistan, the fact is, in afghanistan they know that president obama did not give general petraeus and mcchrystal, all they wanted, 25% less and pulled them out after having some success after a year. they know now the president announced he will pull owl the troops out of afghanistan in 2016, similar to what he did in iraq. many of the troops that have been there believe it will doom afghanistan to the same fate. so those are very specific issues for them as it pertains to foreign policy. molly: when you talk about that what is happening in the world right now, is there an opportunity for these poll numbers to go up, given what we re seeing with isis? is there a turnaround point
reporter: after serving two tours in afghanistan, tahmooressi moved to san diego in the spring to seek help for post traumatic stress. he spent march 31st in neighboring tijuana, walked back across the border to his car, then he says he made a wrong turn driving back towards san diego. swept south on a blind curve. there is no turnaround point. it s a point of no return with you make that one wrong left turn and that is literally what he did. reporter: with three firearms in his truck and no way back, the sergeant was arrested. he was confiscated, held captive, nearly killed by the gang members and the guards in that prison. i m furious. reporter: tahmooressi s mother is fighting for her son with a white house petition demanding his release. she received 129,000 signatures. tomorrow marks tahmooressi s 100th day in prison. after dismissing his first two lawyers, it will also be his first opportunity to present his