john thune, we're on standby from the comments from the president.>> thank you, bill. bill: senator, we'll talk again. 27 past. here's martha. martha: ted cruz jump-started the 2016 race for the white house this week but can the junior senator from texas win support from his own party? >> he is doing fine. what he said about fund-raising i don't doubt for a second. this is the man who really excites the most conservative element of the republican party. >> brit hume last night. so the debate over cruz's electability. we're going to talk to another potential candidate, former new york governor george pataki. bill: could a new app help decide the election in 2016? why experts say this is the next big thing. ♪ [ male announcer ] meet jill. she thought she'd feel better after seeing her doctor. and she might have if not for kari, the identity thief who stole jill's social security number to open credit cards ruining jill's credit and her dream of retirement. every year, millions of people just like you experience how a little personal information in the

think a lot of people and the president himself said no deal is a bad deal. >> woodruff: senator john thune of south dakota, thank you for talking with us. >> thank you, judy. >> woodruff: now connecticut senator chris murphy. senator, thank you for talking with us. what we heard from senator thune is the reason it's so important to have congressional approval for this nuclear deal is it is nuclear weapons and has ramification force an entire, important region of the world. >> well, this is an important as it gets. we're talking about preventing iran from obtain ago nuclear weapon and perhaps stopping the entire middle east from becoming a nuclear region. so all of us are taking this very seriously. that's why many of us are so concerned about these ongoing efforts to undermine the negotiations which many of us believe will ultimately get to where we all want to get to which is an iran that is divorced from any nuclear ambitions. there will be a time and a place for congress to weigh in. but that time and place is after a deal is agreed upon. congress will always have the ability to defund

and through my position of working with the chairman of the commerce committee john thune i have been pushing takata and the automakers to speed up fixes for these defective air bags. people are driving around with a lethal bomb in their steering wheel, and if it's defective and it goes off, they are filled with shrapnel. that has killed five people. that's documented in this country. in this country it's killed five people. nobody ought to be driving therefore, a car for five months when, in fact, they have a known defect that can seriously kill them. well, i.t. just not it's just not acceptable. and progress has been painfully slow. and we received a letter from nhtsa noting that only 2 million of the 17 million vehicles recently recalled -- 2 million of 17 million are -- that's all that's been repaired as of the end of last year. and that letter notes that takata has continued to stonewall nhtsa's requests for documents related to the defect. i.t.it's now being fined $14,000 a day until they start cooperating fully. and they've also failed to produce a number of critical documents

but interestingly to fulfill their ambition that john thune said in that clip to eliminate the deficit in 10 years. they're assuming -- that even though they repealed obamacare they still get money -- they never said how they were going to do that. and they proposed that because of the tax reform which they also haven't passed. there there's going to be so much of an increase in the economy activity that through what the process they call dynamic storing they're going to get more money. gwen: it's an ideological document. >> it's completely an ideological document with a twist, they want to cut medicaid and food stamps. they want to increase defense. what they don't want to do any time soon is cut medicare and social security which are the popular programs. so in the house budget, for example, they do nothing at all for social security, called for a bipartisan commission. and on medicare they said we want to fundamentally reform the program with these vouchers they call premium support but we're not going to start it for 10 years. it's something that's not a recipe for concrete action.

life starts here. >>> with us now bring in republican nart from south dakota our friend john thune.her members of the obama administration were not in the audience yesterday for netanyahu's speech. why is that? >> well i just thought was an effective speech, joe, and i understand about how it happened and i know you guys have been mixing it up about that this morning, but -- >> can you believe mika? it's offensive. isn't it, john? >> i don't know what you're speaking of. >> losing your power of persuasion. the scarborough touch isn't working. you're not going to win that one, joe. >> not with mika on. for sure. >> the substance of the speech effective and very per spaesive. >> >> -- >> persuasive. >> when you could have the president take away one part of the speech what would it be? >> i think that the danger -- understand where israel is geographically historically surrounded by people who want to kill him, and i think continuing to highlight that and i thought that emphasizing this thing having a sunset clause a finite instead of perpetuity. the highlight and activities they're i

you might want to hear this next republican out the only one in senate not running for president, john thune he is on a mission from god. >> we're on a mission from god. >> hit it. people ship all kinds of things. but what if that thing is a few hundred thousand doses of flu vaccine. that need to be kept at 41 degrees. while being shipped to a country where it's 90 degrees. in the shade. sound hard? yeah. does that mean people in laos shouldn't get their vaccine? we didn't think so. from figuring it out to getting it done, we're here to help. shouldn't what makes each of us a unique individual, help individualize our cancer treatment? now through advanced genomic testing, we may be able to pinpoint and diagnose what makes your cancer different, which can reveal precise treatment options that were not considered previously. with this important breakthrough at the intersection of science and technology we've arrived at precision cancer treatment. the evolution of cancer care is here at cancer treatment centers of america. call or visit cancercenter.com to learn more about precision cancer trea

and senator john thune. he is the chairman of that committee.rules. good morning. >> good morning, andrew how are you? >> so senator, two things. let's start with what do you want to know from wheeler? >> well first off, we want to get to the bottom of how they reached this decision. clearly, we think it's a wrong approach. a wrong-headed approach. and we actually a number of us have been working on a more direct limited authority for the fcc that is tailored specifically to some of the things that would protect us sooner that doesn't give the broad authority to go down the path if they wanted to of rate regulations and price controls. >> just to they've. that is your big issue. the sort of slippery slope that it could become in terms of ability to set prices. >> right. they're using a 1944 law to regulate the internet. and that law designed in a utility era is designed to regulate monopolies. it's a very different times. we think that authorities granted to the fcc under that statute are far-reaching. even though they're saying for the time bei

chairman john thune and house of representatives committee chairman john upton did the same. according to a survey last week, 79% of the american people favor making the document public. but still, the fcc has insisted on keeping it behind closed doors. we have to pass president obama's 317 page plan so the american people can find out what is in it. this is not how the fcc should operate. we should be an independent agency, making decisions in a transparent manner based on the law and the facts and the record. we should not be a rubber stamp for political decisions made by the white house. and we should have released this plan to the public, solicited their feedback, incorporated that input into the plan and then proceeded to a vote. there was no need for us to resolve this matter today. there is no immediate crisis in the internet marketplace that demand immediate action. the backers of the president's plan know this, but they also know it cannot stand up to the light of day. they know that the more they know about it, the less they will like it. that is why it was done beh

senators bill nelson and john thune warning that weaknesses that weaknesses in the faa's networks couldtems at risk for cyber attacks. they know this because of a january report from the government accountability office. it's a huge concern and obviously for anybody who's on the plane today thinking about these things, too, not exactly what you want to think about. they will be calling the transportation secretary to testify in front of them. >>> it's been a long road back to nasdaq 5000. since the year 2000 we've seen the apple boom the rise of facebook and social media and the markets suffering a major crisis. before all that in 1995 a search engine with lycos was one of the leaders of internet and search. bob davis founded the company with $2 million. it would then become the fastest ipo in history. by 1999 it was one of the most visited sites on the world. and in 2000 lycos agreed to be acquired by terra networks. bob davis left in 2001 were high land capital partners. he joins us with his perspective this morning on this long trip back. it's great to see you today. thanks for joini