mark kirk is an incumbent. if anybody has a good chance of doing so, it's probably someone as impressive as tammy duckworth, a democrat running statewide in illinois in 2016. interesting on its own face, right? that's it. here's the really interesting part that just turned into the really important part. because even if tammy duckworth doesn't beat mark kirk next year, the fact that mark kirk knows he's going to have to run for reelection as a republican against a tough democrat just her declaring that she's running is apparently already paying dividends with really important national implications. because tammy duckworth declared she was running on monday. within two days, republican senator mark kirk now announced two great leaps forward we had never heard anything from him about before. first he announced, as a republican, he is absolutely opposed to the discrimination bill just signed in indiana. mark kirk came out against it. quote, i strongly oppose what governor pence did. we should not put bigotry under

mark kirk is off that hobby horse too all of a sudden.have some footage of republican governor asa hutchinson signing a fix to the mike pence style discrimination bill that the arkansas legislature recently passed. we have that footage of him signing the fix there. before the national outcry this week the against mike pence bill, asa hutchinson had been on track to sign basically the exact same legislation for arkansas, maybe even slightly worse legislation for arkansas. but after seeing the boycotts and the national condemnation erupt against indiana, governor hutchinson changed his mind and said he actually wanted that arkansas bill recalled or at least changed to alleviate those kinds of concerns. well, today he very happily signed that fix. with lots of cameras there lots of people there lots of people applaud inging as he did so. today, mike pence also signed that kind of fix in indiana. but we don't have any footage of him signing his fix. there was this weird moment this afternoon when reporters for some reason were advised that mi

senator mark kirk of illinois saying he would like to push for with a bill that would do just that if the so-called comprehensive deal falls apart this summer. bret? >> more on all this with the papal. kevin corke traveling with the president in panama. kevin, thanks. >>> tomorrow, we continue our interviews with possible presidential contenders. this time, with donald trump. the successful businessman has launched a exploratory committee as he weighs a possible run in 2016 and this time, he claims he is serious. he is also weighing in on the big issues like the iran nuclear deal in which he says the u.s. should negotiate not only for a nuclear deal but other priorities as well. >> we have three people over there probably four or five but we have three people over there, we have the minister, you have a soldier wonderful people that shouldn't be over there. why doesn't he say, it is iran, doesn't mean a thing to you, let them go. wasn't mentionseded during the negotiation. is it important? to me important. is it when talking about nuclear? no. it sets a great little example. fellas, l

illinois senator mark kirk has blted the deal saying that the u.s. has made dangerous concession is to iran and for years he has led the charge for tougher sanctions against the islamic state. he joips us now from chicago. senator, the president has said in his statements that the other alternative to the deal that is on the table now is war. is he right about that? >> he is wrong on that. there was never a choice between negotiation and war. the choice was between sanctions and a dis armed iran. that i've been working for a long time in the senate to make sure that we never have a nuclear war in the persian gulf. that our kids should never have to witness such a war. >> as we've seen the administration is obviously pretty happy about this. they're rolling it out in every day possible and spinning it. the iranian regime is happy about it the folk will with partying in the streets, although there's a lot in congress who aren't and there's a lot of american allies who aren't happy either. is it the president can't sell it or does he not understand in y

orrin hatch, ron johnson, mark kirk, mitch mcconnell and rob portman. just one senator did not vote -- ted cruz of texas. he was on the floor today in opposition to the nomination, but he did not take part in the confirmation vote. ashley parker of "the new york times" wrote "after railing against loretta lynch, ted cruz escapes confirmation vote." "where in the world was senator ted cruz? " he voted against a procedural motion to move ahead. mr. cruz missed her final vote on thursday afternoon. the reason? he had to catch a flight to texas for previous commitments in dallas. he was the only senator to fit the vote. his team on social media and e-mail quickly pushed back against the idea that the senator was shirking his congressional responsibility. he voted against cloture. that is from ashley parker in "the new york times." we will show you a number of highlights from the debate on the senate floor leading up to the confirmation vote for loretta lynch. first, we want to show you president obama's reaction after hearing that the confirmation vote went

you will hear from members of congress from illinois senator mark kirk. >> melee in a new york casino out in a chair flinging glass shattering fight, it left several people injured, others under

. >> although, the case on the democratic side of this, looking at a guy like senator mark kirk in illinois who has a hard re-election up in 2016 and is trying to tact to the center, tact to the left so he can appeal to a blue state, he won't want to be seen as voting no on loretta lynch and the democrats will try to hang that around him. even though he will have to say, as his defense, it wasn't a vote on the substance of her, it was a procedural vote to not vote on her at all. >> that is true. but we saw the tactics happen when the government shut down. they tried to force republicans' hands and force them to vote on whether or not to open the government back up or not. and it didn't really work. not only that, but working for republicans in the situation is just the fact that they seem to be very close to a deal on the trafficking bill, which is the big hold up. and senator mcconnell said they are trying to force it and dot the ts and cross the is. but at the same time, we don't know whether or not the deal will materialize. if they do vote on that, mcconnell said it will take a day to c

republican senator mark kirk up for reelection announced he will support the nomination of loretta lynch for u.s. attorney general. immediately that sparked accusations that kirk was responding to the challenge from democratic congress woman a wounded combat veteran. supporting lynch could win favoritism and says it goes back to the problem with chicago gang violence. homicides have increased and the city has seen only a few warm days. the senator interviewed lynch and believes she is the right person to confront the gangs. >> to make sure that the big large gangs cannot operate like they have been operating. she did a very good job with me. because she was so good on the subject i am going to vote for loretta lynch's confirmation. >> he has been involved in the antigang anticrime movement ever since he was a congressman and before that when he was a staffer. this is a guy with tremendous knowledge of the problem and that was the focus of his conversation with loretta. >> now, if all things remain constant the vote from the republican will either tie the vote or break the tie. in the eve

while senators mark kirk and menendez have a solution to tougher sanctions on iran. >> i'm angry becauseecutors at the justice department don't know the difference between friendship and corruption. >> reporter: the white house argues those bills could back fire and drive iran to pull out of the talks as the u.s. and other world powers try to craft a final nuclear deal by june 30th. in that scenario, aides say, the u.s. will get the blame. >> our argument is for them that diplomacy is the best way to prevent iran from getting nuclear weapons. >> reporter: the argument will be made to democrats. at least a dozen senators could support the corker bill that would give congress the final say on the nuclear deal. that may be enough votes to override a presidential veto. jim acosta, cnn, the white house. >>> now, we have brand-new pictures coming into cnn. an al qaeda member in yemen freed along with 200 others in a prison break last week. we've got new photos. his name is batarthi. he's one of the most wanted al qaeda leaders in the country. there's images coming into cnn just a few minutes a

people like lindsey graham orrin hatch, mark kirk. these are so there is enough votes right now to get her confirmed. there is a couple of undecideds. rob portman lisa murkowski on the republican side. it will be close and narrow. but the vote is already there for her confirmation but there is a question of, will conservative who is oppose her position on immigration drag this out because there can be a lot of time wasting goes on these votes. it may be hard to get a quick vote on this, but ultimately her confirmation looks pretty smooth at this point. >> following you on twitter. we'll find you at burgess, that is your first name, burgessevs "politico" dot-com. >> thanks for having me. >> we'll take you live back to the floor of the senate, 2:15 p.m. eastern time. we'll look at hearing on management of the state department. this is from earlier today with the inspector general before heading back to the senate, working on human trafficking and also possible this week the loretta lynch nomination. [inaudible conversations]. >> meeting

republican senators marco rubio and mark kirk demand president obama push for the immediate release of evidence against him that would justify these charges. >> these charges are absurd. >> these charges are as we said in the past patently absurd. >> this is the action of a country that wantings favorable relationships with america? >> he should be freed immediately so can he be returned home to his family. >> someone close to the reporter and work with him in tehran is thomas erdbreak. you've been back in the united states how many days? >> three days now. >> did you come back because your news organization thought it would be a good thing to get out of there? >> no. i'm here to promote my new series, but i'm also here to talk about jason who is a good friend of mine and who is a very good colleague of mine and i think like everybody else, i hope he will be released very soon. >> how did you learn that jason was taken. and did you even suspect that this would happen? >> i never suspected this would happen. jason was a very experienced reporter. he knew what he was doing in iran. and w

. >> i think mark kirk on that list is most likely to come around.s and he's going to face a very difficult shot at re-election. they are trying to thread the needle. they don't want to get beat by a tea party challenger on the right but don't want to go too far right so that by the time they get to the general election they get wiped out. in some ways this is similar to the death ceiling fight that we had where they didn't want their finder prints on it. the difference here though is that eric holder is the attorney general and he's quite happy -- he's willing to stay on the job as long as he needs to and they despise eric holder. >> which shows you how contradictory and hypocritical they are. we'll see pamela next week at the national action network 2015 convention april 8th to the 11th right here in new york city and certainly the loretta lynch issue will be widely discussed at national action network convention led by you, pam, and others next week. >>> straight ahead, jeb bush is trying to distance himself from his brother. but news today shows

. >> two senators marco rubio of florida and mark kirk of illinois they're demanding as part of any nucleart, see if there will be by the end of june as part of any nuclear deal the iranians have to release that "washington post" reporter jason rezaian and other americans who are held right now in iran. that's got to be a quid pro quo. do you buy that? >> i don't think that's the approach the administration is taking but they are raising the issue of these american hostages i think at every opportunity when they're interacting with the iranians. it is very much a priority for the administration at the same time i'm not sure that they want these to be a bargaining chip for tehran to drive a tougher nuclear negotiation and hold these as hostages to the nuclear talks. so it's a difficult situation, but certainly we're trying to do everything we can to get them freed. >> as i've been saying they stand to gain billions and billions of dollars immediately with frozen assets that are going to -- about to be lifted. why not say to them you know what, you're going to get a lot of money, release thes

portland of ohio mark kirk of illinois.ction campaigns. in addition lindsey graham in south carolina south carolina, lauren hatch. now in this final hour adding to it. just the voting to be done now. she'll be confirmed next attorney general. >> thanks to you kelly. we have more information from jim before we go which is the president did not authorize either of these strikes because there was no intelligence there was american. there was after the strikes cell phone and other intelligence hostages may have been killed. since then the sources were worked on to find out whether in fact that had been the case. they discovered it was in april and confirmed the hostages had been killed. more throughout the day on msnbc. that does it for us this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." msnbc live with thomas roberts is next. for the first time american kids are slated to live a shorter life span than their parents. it's a problem that we can turn around and change. revolution foods is a company we started to provide access to healt

remember it was due in no small measure to the congressional sanctions authored by senator mark kirk, which passed this chamber 100-0 four years ago that iran was forced to the negotiating table in the first place. the obama administration fiercely opposed those bipartisan sanctions back then, just as it opposed the bipartisan bill before us soon -- until very recently. but those sanctions have been so effective that even the administration has had to embrace them. congress was right then. and congress is right now. we should not be negotiating away the leverage that previous sanctions have given our country for a bad deal, especially agreed to for agreement's sake. look no piece of legislation is perfect. senators who would like to see this bill strengthened, as i would, will have that chance during a robust amendment process that we'll soon have heightright here on the floor. this bill will be open for amendment and those who seek to improve it will have an opportunity to do that. this bipartisan bill is underlined by a very solid principle and a lot of hard work. it represents a re

but mark kirk can only vote for loretta lynch if someone calls for a vote, and that has not happened of the longest confirmation delays in modern history. as of today, she has waited 147 days to be confirmed and that is why my letter today is to the man who has the power to end the wait by calling for a vote. senator majority leader mitch mcconnell. dear senator mitch mcconnell it's me melissa, and i'm writing to say one thing, set the date. back in november president obama officially nominated loretta lynch to serve as the next attorney general of the united states. she is standing on the press pous of making history as the first african-american woman to serve as attorney general. but mitch mcconnell, you are standing in the way of one kind of history while making another. starting tomorrow loretta lynch will have waited longer than any cabinet nominee, period in the past three administrations. all we're asking for is a vote. so senator, set the date. janet reno took 29 days. john ashcroft, 42. eric holder 64. so why, as of today, is loretta lynch's wait time a whopping 147 days? a

republican senator mark kirk said, "neville chamberlain got a better deal from adolf hitler," referring to the 1930's british prime minister and his policy of nazi appeasement. on thursday, president obama urged congress not to scuttle the deal. >> if congress kills this deal not based on expert analysis and without offering any reasonable alternative, then it is the united states that will be blamed for the failure of diplomacy. amy: to talk more about the nuclear deal, we are joined by seyed hossein mousavian, a former nuclear negotiator for iran. he served as iran's ambassador to germany from 1990 to 1997. he joins us from princeton new jersey where he is an associate research scholar at princeton university's woodrow wilson school of public and international affairs. last year, he published the book, "iran and the united states: an insider's view on the failed past and the road to peace." welcome, ambassador. do you see this deal as historic and a road to peace? >> good morning. definitely, the deal is a historic achievement and definitely, this is a road to peace because the deal p

the other gentleman is mark kirk, a senator from illinois. keep him in mind as well because he already has down the line legislation that would make it even tougher on iranians. in fact it would add new sanctions if a feel falls apart. greta clearly there are a number of interests on the hill and internationally that are looking at this deal very carefully right now it looks like the iranians are saying without lifting all the sanctions right away we are not going to play ball. that could scuttle the deal for. >> everybody kevin, there was also a report that the iran is saying that the military would be strictly off limits for foreign inspections. so it looks like even sort of unfettered inspections we wouldn't get that. >> well, you said it perfectly. keep this in mind, too. you have heard about the iaea, right, the international energy atomic energy agency. without them being able to actually get in there, greta, and take a close look at what's happening you don't know what they are doing. we have already seen on many occasions that the ira

but this afternoon, illinois republican mark kirk had this to say. >> loretta did a very good job withe and because she was so good on this subject, i'm going to vote for loretta lynch's confirmation. >> that's 51 votes. senator mcconnell get out your calendar. set a date for a vote because it's time -- past time for loretta lynch to be confirmed. joining me now is joe madison. thank you for being here joe. >> thank you. >> will senator mcconnell drag this out any longer or is he out of excuses? >> he's out of excuses. we know it would take now probably 15 minutes to take that vote. actually, they could take the vote before they leave for the easter recess, reverend sharpton. >> well, they left last friday but back on the 13th a monday i think they can do it right then. but let me ask you this joe. senator kirk has a tough re-election next year but there are several other republican senators up for election in states that president obama won. some of them not announced how they will vote. do you think anybody will follow kirk's lead now that he's stepped out there? some of them are in

. >> but illinois republican senator mark kirk, who sponsored the original sanctions bill accused iran of backtracking. >> secretary kerry recently testified before the senate that it would only take two more months for iran to build a bomb. we must use strong economic pressure on iran to prevent them from getting nuclear weapons. >> supporters say any agreement is better than none at all, and it will delay iran's nuclear program. but then there was this blunt threat from the iranian prime minister. saying, quote if we take the path of confrontation the united states and the united nations will continue with their sanctions and iran will continue with its enrichment program without any limitations. so as iran threatens to enrich whatever it wants, the talks will resume in vienna this coming week. the white house insists the president will only accept a deal with phased sanctions. as mr. terkerry presumably follows the president's orders skeptics say that's not a creative way of just saying uncle. >> eric thank you very much. more now with congressman thornberry. all of this going on at

whale senators mark kirk and bob menendez have a measure that would apply tougher sanctions on iran. the fate is unclear with menendez facing federal corruption charges. >> i'm angry pause prosecutors at the justice department don't know the difference between friendship and corruption. >> reporter: the white house argues those bills could backfire and drive iran to pull out of the talks as the u.s. and other world powers try to craft a final nuclear deal by june 30th. in that scenario, aides say, the u.s. will get the blame. >> our argument is that diplomacy is the best way for us to prevent iran from obtaining nuclear weapons. >> reporter: and that argument will be made to democrats. congression congressional aidesful cnn as many as a dozen senators could support the corker bill giving congress the final say on the deal. may be enough votes to override a presidential veto. jim accosta, cnn, the white house. >>> while the politics may be unnerving some, many investors are relishing the prospects of doing business with iran. the population of iran is the second largest in the middle

anyway, last week, senator mark kirk said, "neville chamberlain got a lot more out of hitler than wendy got out of iran." being john kerry's deputy at state department. others said before there even was a deal. here they go. >> if you really are a student of history, this reminds you of the neville chamberlain/hitler moment when chamberlain had a signed agreement that ended up being nothing but a piece of paper to hitler. >> the united states is about to sign an agreement with the ayatollahs in tehran over their nuclear weapons program that will be, in my judgment, the biggest single act of appeasement by the west since munich in september of 1938. >> i believe that history may well record it as a mistake and a catastrophe on the order of magnitude of munich. and when our negotiators return with a promise of peace in our time, we should believe it no more now than we should have believed it then. >> okay. why has this become such a popular refrain on the right? i have a theory. i'm joined by eugene robinson, columnist for the "washington post" and msnbc political analyst. and michael ru

and senator mark kirk says quote, neville chamberlain got a better deal from adolf hitler.his is about war and peace, but too many republicans are reverting to ugly rhetoric in an attempt to score political points, and it could have real consequences. joining me now is congressman iman walee emmanuel cleaver. thanks for being here. >> sure, good to be with you. >> the details of this plan are just 24 hours old. what do you make of the republicans racing to attack? >> well -- and keep in mind that the details that republicans are able to see that all of us are able to see is just the beginning. it's a broad outline of a deal with iran. we still have six more months to develop a more comprehensive plan including a difference in the interpretation of the nonproliferation treaty. the situation is this -- nobody's offering any alternative. if this is bad and they predict that whatever comes out in six months is going to be bad, what they're saying is we want to go to war. it's easy to go to war if all you have to do is go to your sofa and watch the war on the evening news. this

mark kirk,, the republican senator from illinois has already retired. the classless demagoguery award for 2015 and maybe 2016 as well when he said without having even looked at the terms that chamber lane good more from hitler out of munich than we did. i am cautiously optimistic and hopeful. i don't know what the option is what the alternative is. i think to bring them in it's always better to deal with people than to isolate them, and i don't do it with my eyes in any way closed to iran's evil acts. >> so this is the deal -- is the iranian regime stalin or gorbachev? if it's gorbachev who is ideologically dead and not believing in their own regime and this pulls together the nations then home run. but i think they're stalin and believe in the revolutionary zeal. in the iran-iraq war they have land minus. how do they clear land minus? they took kids, gave them a string and had them walk across a field. so they're in a different mental universe. that was at the high point to have the revolution. but they're not so far away. they're spending all this mon

democratic side of it i guess the counterstrategy on this would be looking at a guy like senator mark kirklinois who's got a hard re-election effort and is up in 2016 and is very much trying center center, tact to the left to appeal to a blue state electorate in illinois for a re-election effort, he won't want to be seen as6h loretta lynch and the democrats will try to hang that around him if he doesn't side with harry reid on this though he'll have to say as his defense, it wasn't technically a vote on the substance of her, it was a procedural vote to not vote on her at all. >> sure. yeah. i mean that's true but at the same time we saw these kind of tactics happen when the goia9l,$dñafz /uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu bring up some kind of procedural motion to force republicans' hands and force them to vote on whether or not to open the government back up or not. and it didn't really work. not only that, but working for republicans in the situation is just the fact that they seem to be very close to a deal on the trafficking bill, which is the big holdup as you mentioned. and senator mcconnell s

. >> republican senator mark kirk adds to that that if there are no more sanctions the iranians are goingllions of dollars that he says will be used to finance terror attacking. >> and as you know that is one of the major concerns out there. thank you sir. >>> iran meanwhile is also trying to get what it wants in yemen. the president criticizing for sewing the seeds of the hatred. this as the saudi led coalition continues its aerial led campaign after iran backed rebels take over government buildings and pubbed out the country's president. one cease fire plan has already been rejected. >> and place in australia say they have arrested five teenagers on suspicion of plotting a terror attack on police. authorities nabbing the suspect this is morning in melbourne. according to investigators, they were planning to target officers at a veterans ceremony later this month. and also say they have found evidence indicating the teens who are all between the ages of 18 and 19 were inspired by isis. >> these individuals arrested today are not people of faith. they don't represent any culture. it is no

there have been two other republican senators susan collins of main and mark kirk of illinois who have voiced their support for loretta lynch so add that to all the democrats voting and they would have enough to first of all jump over a procedural hurdle of cloture where they would need a majority of the votes of the senators present and then they would move on to an actual final confirmation vote for her. it would be about 165 or 166 days after she was nominated. >> host: in going to the cloture vote the first procedural vote we should see on the nomination at 11:45 on thursday morning? >> guest: that's right so senator mcconnell got up and announced there was an agreement between everybody in the senate for a schedule. there will be two hours of debate tomorrow prior to the 11:45 cloture vote. you can expect republicans to get up there and talk about the issues that they have with loretta lynch mainly on immigration and her support for obama's executive action that he announced also in november. then you're going to see a lot of democrats get up there and defend loretta lynch as some

senator mark kirk speaking for many of his colleagues today voicing i had concerns about the deal in joining us more with more on this story. peter? >> for a good chunk of the time that we've been talking to the iranians with five other world powers including russia, tehran and moscow have been working on a deal of their own for iran to buy ballistic missiles from russia. this afternoon we heard from an israeli intelligence official who is very alarmed by this under-the-table talking. >> it's fundamentally wrong. it's morally wrong to sell such sophisticated weapons to a country like iran that support terrorism and try to become a nuclear state. don't forget, this is the most dangerous fanatical regime in the entire world. >> but at the white house no sense of panic as president obama doesn't think things that iran is doing or saying away from the negotiating table really matter. president obama chalking it all up to politics as usual. >> part of the p-5 plus one's job is to sometimes find formulas that get to our main concerns while allowing the other side to make a presentation to

chairman bob corker has a bill that would require congressional approval of the deal while senators mark kirk and bob menendez have a measure that would apply tougher sanctions on iran. that bill's fate is unclear but menendez facing federal corruption charges. >> i'm angry because prosecutors at the justice department don't know the difference between friendship and corruption. >> reporter: the white house argues those bills could backfire and drive iran to pull out of the talks as the u.s. and other world powers try to craft a final nuclear deal by june 30th. in that scenario aides say, the u.s. will get the blame. >> our argument to them is that diplomacy is the best way for us to prevent iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. >> reporter: the argument that argument will be made to democrats but congressional aides tell us that as many as a dozen senators from the president's own party could support the corker bill that would give congress a final say on the nuclear deal. that may be enough votes to override a presidential veto. we have to wat be waiting. jim acosta thank you. we will be wa

mark kirk of illinois's, the chair of the subcommittee. you're watching c-span3. >> he was a vietnam veteran in the marines and presented himself to the v.a. with chest pains. went to see dr. deetiter, the head of cardiology. he didn't want him to be in his win loss record. referred him to the floor. there, tom expired of a heart attack. wanted to make sure that that kind of a thing never happens to our veterans that we have. competent, strong administration of people. ms. secretary, i have raised this issue with you multiple times. behind that is the story of lisa a cardiologist as we witnessed this whole thing and thought it was an outright malpractice happening in this case. i know you have a ten minute opening, mr. secretary. >> thank you chairman kirk. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i've got a pretty brief opening statement, and then we'll get after it. i want to thank chairman kirk for his leadership on this subcommittee. i want to welcome secretary mcdonald. thank you for your work as you appear before this subcommittee, and your commi

who join them including senator's hatch, flake, lindsey graham of south carolina susan collins and mark kirk as well. again, that's expected to take place a little bit later today. shortly after 2:00 p.m. >> peter, we're learning of a major security flaw in the protection of former president george h.w. bush? what can you tell us about that? >> that's exactly right. this is the report that comes from the homeland security office of inspector general. the report just coming out earlier today. basically what it says is there was a problem with the security system, the alarm system at the home, the houston home of george h.w. bush and his wife barbara bush. that five years ago a secret service employee noted that said the system in place was too old and needed to be fixed but for some reason that request was rejected. ultimately in september of 2013 the alarm system broke down all together and it was 13 months before it was replaced. during the course of that time, the secret service added another agent to the site to rotate positions around the home and there were no security breaches that too

also supporting the lynch nomination orrin hatch, ron johnson, mark kirk, mitch mcconnell and bob portman. senator tight endfloor speeches and more coverage on the confirmation tonight at 9:30 p.m. on cspan. next, wisconsin governor scott walker. he was part of last weekend's leadership conference hosted by the republican party of new hampshire. the gathering also included several declares presidential candidate candidates for 2016. you can watch their speeches at cspan.org. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> thanks. >> thank you, governor, not only for that great pep rally i feel like we should start charging the hill right now. you made a great case there, but most of all thank you for your leadership in the party. in the state and this country. we appreciate two first ladies in the back there. i want to begin by adding my thanks to jennifer horn. you've done a great job again, so thank you for this great couple of days here. i want to begin off the bat because i'm going to talk a lot tonight and end up a little bit talking about freedom. one of the things about freedom, it's certainly some

was very disconcerting this week is that you saw people right away whether it was tom cotton or mark kirkfore a final deal has been reached to military action. in my district and around the country, that is not a very popular thing and it should be a last resort. marco rubio, for example, said that we shouldn't take military action off the table. i agree with that. that should be an option but it should be a last option. i would also point out that we also shouldn't take peace off the table and shouldn't take diplomacy off the table. >> i want to follow up on that. i understand the basic point you're making about if you're not going to pursue a diplomatic suit very that probably does put you on track towards conflict, but i guess the question is specifically this deal specifically this diplomatic route, is this if something that congress -- that your colleagues were to decide this is not a good deal or a deal in the interest of the united states, do you think by rejecting this specific deal we go on to a path to war? >> i think it certainly brings us closer. i think democrats are going to

that would be people like lindsey graham orrin hatch mark kirk these -- so there's enough votes right now to get her confirmed. there's a couple of undecided. rob portman, lisa murkowski on the republican side. so it is going to be close. it is going to be narrow but the votes are already there for her confirmation but there is a question of will conservatives who oppose her position on immigration drag this out because there can be a lot of time wasting that goes on on these votes. maybe harded to get a quick vote on this but ultimately her confirmation looks pretty smooth at this point. >> be following you on twitter. we'll find you at burgessev and also on politico.com. >> thank you so much for having me. >>> she was considered modern for her time. called mrs. president by her detractors. and was outspoken about her views on slavery and women's rights. as one of the most prolific writers of any first lady she provides a unique window into colonial america and her personal life. abigail adams. sunday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span's original series first ladies influence and i

senator mark kirk has been talking about mushroom clouds over tehran.annot be trusted if they're able to garner -- if they can garner the support to kill this deal they will. >> let's not forget from an iranian perspective, it was the united states who overthrew an iranian government in the 1950s and that legacy make it very difficult for ordinary iranians to want to trust the united states when they know that there is a long nefarious legacy of cia involvement and even more recently with things in the region that would make the iranian government extremely, you know questionable and suspicious of u.s. intentions in the region. >> so historical context super important here. we can't wipe away history. >>> more coming up after the break with -- i'll get sabrina in here to say more about this iran nuclear deal. the tool s and help on experian.com. so how are we going to sweeten this deal? floor mats... clear coats... >>you're getting warmer... leather seats... >>and this... my wife bought me that. get your credit swagger on. become a member of experian cr

host: here's "politico," mark kirk republican illinois senator will back lo are the at that lynch when her confirmation comes retta lynch when her confirmation comes lily is a democrat in san francisco. lily good morning to you caller: yeah. i think this is possibly a good deal. if you look at what has been happening with us, we've been trying to leave that region and have also become more energy independent and iran sort of had -- is looking at what it wanted which is to be the main influence in the area they got a little bit of an idea how it would look and basically, it looks pretty chaotic. i think now we're sort of -- i think they maybe need us more than we need them for once and it gave us a little bit of bargaining power. so they have a reason now to make a deal and hopefully will have a reason to stay with the deal. host: early reports indicate this is obama administration spinning diplomatic failure. mary is in florence wisconsin. caller: good morning. i believe that the president's efforts here are an effort to enhance his legacy only. this is all he wants to do is have somet

also before we get into discussing the text i would like to thank senator bob menendez and mark kirk. these are the two senators that has led this body to put in place sanctions question sanctions that have led us to this place and i cannot thank them enough for their leadership in dealing with the issue of iran. last year we had a significant amount of work on creating some kind of review process relative to some final agreement that might be worked out with iran and i want to thank senator lindsey graham who has just been stalwart on ensuring that somehow congress play a role on the ultimate deal that may or may not occur by glenn c. has been steadfast and congressional review. senator mccain has joined in that effort and has been outstanding to work with. senator jim risch and marco rubio all have pushed for this type of legislation. when we began this process there were some -- when they moved to the process that we are ill and there were original supporters of this bipartisan bill that really called us to have the leverage of the will to move to the place that we are and again se

when mark kirk, republican from illinois announced a few weeks ago that he would support loretta lynchy my count that was the 51st vote. what republicans really did not want is that loretta lynch would get 50 votes and they would have to call joe biden in to cast the deciding vote. it would just be embarrassing. the fact is, almost the republicans have objected to loretta lynch based on her qualifications, her past. there is no loretta lynch scandal. the only thing that republicans are really objecting to is that she supports president obama's integration executive order. it's a little -- immigration executive order. it's a little difficult to go against those who have nominated her, but that is what republicans are asking for. in truth, the republicans do not want a first african-american j woman attorney general to be shot down. they want to vote for her. they know now they probably have the votes for her and they want to get this out of the way and out of their hair. host: jonathan weisman of the "new york times" joining us. thanks for your time. guest: thank you. host: we have been

we wrote an op-ed piece, me john mccain, mark kirk and marco rubio in october of 2011 saying you needthe ballot box, the libyan people are not radical islamists nor are the syrian people so this whole idea their problems are their problems makes no sense because radical islam is trying to kill us not because we went into libya and iraq but because we don't agree with their religion. >> so was the middle east a more stable, secure place, was the world a more secure place when -- you brought up qaddafi. when qaddafi was in power, saddam hussein was in power and assad was in power? >> i don't think so. >> because none of these conflicts were going on. in qaddafi were still alive we would haven't libya in a state of anarchy would we? >> well here's what i say. radical islam is not a grievance about us supporting dictators. we were hit on september 11 2001. qaddafi was in power, saddam hussein was in power, we didn't have one soldier in afghanistan, not one penny of aid, not even an embassy. so to those who think we brought this on ourselves, you don't understand what al qaeda and those pe