mitch mcconnell is highly respected within his conference in the senate. i think his job is very safe. but he is going to take a lot of criticism because is a lot of frustration in washington. rating --ave calls waiting. caller: good morning. i'm getting a little confused as a republican because i remember back when john boehner took over as the speaker, and he said we not going to be pushed around by the tea party, the tea party is not going to push the republican party around. we are going to do what has to be done to get business taking care of. road, he waswn the in the gym right word tip o'neill, he wasn't even in newt gingrich. he couldn't generate enough bipartisanship to pass anything. it's time for this guy to go. he was totally ineffective, and now we a spot in the road where the republican party is going nowhere fast. opinion and historical sense, how is the world going to look at john boehner and say that guy was maybe not the best speaker we ever had? guest: certainly, if you look at speakership's, he is not going to be ranked among the most p

a clean spending bill we are expecting speaker john boehner to reach out to democrats and if mitch mcconnell decides to fund had and it will move forward on that bill and members of the media will come to the capital this weekend. >> you can follow her on her twitter handle, thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> federal agencies often send out water called guidance documents to clarify issues and existing labor department's improperly issued those guidance in lieu of formal rulemaking. live coverage on c-span2 11:00 a.m. eastern. and also live on c-span2. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> you know, we also want to change society and make decisions that will allow for change in society. ♪ ♪ >> which they are reduced to do so they grabbed it out to look at it. and the police officer handcuffed her. >> i cannot imagine a better way to bring the constitution to life than telling the human stories behind great supreme court cases. >> and you know, quite often in most of our decisions, are ones that the court has mentioned. >> if you had to pick one of the functioning democracies, it has to be freedom

speaker boehner and mitch mcconnell said, especially mcconnell, said there would not be a governmenthutdown. portrecognized it as a strategy because they did not have the votes to get a bill to the president's desk. they wanted to avoid that. certainly this has minimized the chances of a shutdown in september. you can also make the argument that congress is doing what it punting., it will be a very difficult decision for the next speaker, and arguably, increase the chances for a shutdown around christmas time. guest: remember, one of the legacies of speaker boehner is this is the lots of majority since 1930. he has built up a very impressive republican congress. interestingly, he still cannot get the vote on big fiscal controversial issues. in the house, you have to move bills through your party. you cannot rely on the minority in many cases to increase your power and leverage. he was unable to do that. host: a bit of irony there that the people who he helped to get elected are now in a conference, or caucus, opposing his contingencies as bigger. -- as speaker. guest: that is right.

mitch mcconnell says no. you would expect someone from where a lot of jobs are associated with coal to oppose that. it would be more of his prize if he wanted a cap and trade bill. -- more of a surprise. host: scott in richmond, virginia. caller: thank you for taking my call. i just have a statement. congress is coming back this week. that is nothing to cheer about at all. bbed aave already been du do-nothing congress. you look at the people in congress running to be president , why would we want them? president? in to be that are one of the president's, that is no different. they are being bought by the rich and powerful. democrat, but i am thinking more and more about donald trump. is.ays it like it my friends used to call that tough love instead of the meeting it. it is tough love that he is giving us. you might not like all the things he says, but at least he is not being bought and paid for . we mentioned trumps appealable for it does cross party lines. appeal before. you can find it in congressional app

you have governing conservatives, people like boehner and mitch mcconnell and governor bush and kasich say your job is in the government to cut the best you can and get something done and consecutives like trump, cruise. here is a sample from the presidential candidates after boehner says i'm out of here. >> john boehner was speaker of the house. y'all come to town and somehow that changes. my only request is can you come more often? >> here is what i say in response to speaker boehner stepping down. mitch mcconnell, it is now your turn. >> what is so amazing is how it just, it just reflects the d dysfunction in washington where people cannot even honor somebody that's dedicated their life to public service. >> kasich is a friend of boehner. they are both from ohio and served in the house together when the governor was in the house but can he sell that message to republican primary voters now that they are ahead. they knocked off the establishment general. can kasich and jeb bush go out there in this mood and say wait a minute, pay tribute to john boehner, wait a minute, you're suppose

he's already said good-bye to mitch mcconnell and others. he's walking to his car. there are hundreds of young house staffers primarily, some waving flags, most all wielding cameras. the small fiat is dwarfed by the size of the u.s. capitol behind him. every member of congress, to a person taking pictures, wishing him well. we're getting a bit of early reaction to the speech. i can tell you one republican member of congress told me he thought it was a soft scolding, but it was fine. it was not nearly as strong or strenuous as they thought it might be. we're going to talk to a few other members of congress here after he leaves. we can see the fiat moving slowly now. it's going to be driving in front of us, in front of the capitol here. the drive to st. patrick's is a short drive. that is a parish in the heart of downtown. i can tell you, if you go to mass there, as i have many times, even on holy days, you see homeless people in the sanctuary. this is a very important symbolic but an important church here, st. patrick's in downtown washington. a very old parish here.

mitch mcconnell says no.ou would expect someone from where a lot of jobs are associated with coal to oppose that. it would be more of his prize if he wanted a cap and trade bill. -- more of a surprise. host: scott in richmond, virginia. caller: thank you for taking my call. i just have a statement. congress is coming back this week. that is nothing to cheer about at all. bbed aave already been du do-nothing congress. you look at the people in congress running to be president , why would we want them? president? in to be that are one of the president's, that is no different. they are being bought by the rich and powerful. democrat, but i am thinking more and more about donald trump. is.ays it like it my friends used to call that tough love instead of the meeting it. it is tough love that he is giving us. you might not like all the things he says, but at least he is not being bought and paid for . we mentioned trumps appealable for it does cross party lines. appeal before. you can find it in congressional appro

mitch mcconnell worked very hard to get it done. we should not assume though that because the authority was done that we automatically are going to be getting tpp done. the politics around trade are tough. i said this even in the run-up to getting tpa authority, a lot of americans, when they think of trade, they think of plants in their hometown or nearby shutting down and moving to mexico or china, and american manufacturing and good paying jobs being lost. the argument that i have made consistently to democrats has been that there may have been some mistakes made in past trade agreements, and not, for example, having enforceable labor and environmental provisions that put american companies that are doing the right thing at a disadvantage. that there were not enough safeguards for intellectual property, and the abuses of state-owned enterprises and subsidies that companies may have been involved with. that is the status quo now. if you want to correct those things, we have to raise the bar. i did not fully persuade all of my democ

you know, to their credit, both mitch mcconnell and boehner i think are on the right program here.he closer we get to political season, the tighter some of these get. i will tell you this, though. that it will meet the compliment that i made that this will be the highest standard, most progressive trade deal in american history. it will be fwood for american business a business. >> thank you for being with us. hi, mr. president. i wanted to ask you about cyber surt. you know, you put an executive order in place earlier this year because of the issues we have with information sharing and with liabilities and. >> i want to get your thoughts and with the upcoming visit of the president of china about cyber security and our relationship with china. >> this is an issue that is not going away. it is going to be more and more important and it is going to be very challenging. it's challenging, in part, because the internet itself, the architecture of it was not intended to carry trillions of dollars of transactions and everybody's personal information. it was designed for a couple of profe

but is mitch mcconnell fighting? does he need to go? >> i'm not calling for that right now, but i am saying this. we need to do a better job up front of saying this is what we're doing. and this is what we're not going to do and here's why. and in a sustained way over a consistent period of time make the argument in a court of public opinion. that's not going to change in my opinion until we have a nominee and hopefully a president that will do that. right now that's not happening. it's not happening in either house. it's one of the things that's leading to this incredible amount of discomfort among the base of the party and america at large. >> wasn't the election, give us the senate, we'll stop the illegal unconstitutional executive amnesty. that was the whole campaign was about. >> that's exactly right. that's why people are so angry. that's why people are so angry. we gave you the house, we gave you the senate and obama keeps winning. >> in many ways this presidential campaign is the year i would argue of the nurjt candidate. you do

going to run for president, whether or not joe biden will be the one at the table or talking with mitch mcconnell. thate are going to have sort of negotiation going on on one side. the other piece of this is the planned parenthood funding debate. what we are going to see their -- mcconnell said at least, it is that he does not have the votes. there is no way to get 60 votes in the current senate for a rider of an appropriations bill defunding planned parenthood. that issue really waits to see if we get a republican president in 2017. the conservatives saw this, saw other reports from this interview with kentucky, and sort of went crazy -- perhaps rightly so -- saying we now control the house and the senate and yet we still can't do it. so that will be the big fight. is mcconnell and also speak or boehner on the , how do they get past the planned parenthood bait without having a government shutdown come about? host: in addition to your work that is available online, how can people follow you on twitter? i think it has probably been on the bottom of the screen at some point, but my .witter handle i

if we will change how john boehner and mitch mcconnell think, we will have to change how our body of politics thinks, which means changing how the media reports on these issues. how people's impressions of what it is like to struggle in this economy looks like. how budgets connect to that. that is a hard process, because that requires a much broader conversation than typically we have on the nightly news. e.j. dionne: i am tempted to welcome arthur to defend his network, but instead i want to invite him to -- [laughter] i want to invite you to the altar call, the president talked about basic public investments, that are old-fashioned. along the lines of somebody like president eisenhower supported. president obama: abraham lincoln thought land-grant colleges and infrastructure, investments in basic research was important. i suspect, arthur, you would agree in theory about those investments, then the question would be, how much? arthur brooks: no self-respecting person denies there are public goods, there are public goods. we need public goods, markets fail from time to time. there is

mitch mcconnell and speaker john boehner.nder the terms of the legislation, the clock doesn't begin ticking until the president hands over the entire deal and he has not handed over the side agreements. what that means, is that all that has to happen for mitch mcconnell and john boehner said congressional review period has not started. it is it illegal for obama to lift sanctions. now, this is it a lawless president. [applause] and so the odds are significant even if congress would do that this president would ignore the law and try to lift sanctions and i speak to the general counsel of every financial institution and bank that is holding frozen iranian money. if this president behaves illegally and decrees to hand the monpy over to iowa ran. that does not exempt you from the legal obligation to follow the law. and any bank that listens to the president and releases billions to it an international terrorist will face billions in civil liesht and litigation and there will come a president who is not named barak obama. mitch m

>> mitch mcconnell thinks it's going to be the defining issue. not just senate races, also the presidential race as well. but he's also willing to concede that this is going to go into effect, the iran nuclear agreement. he said, look, this is going to be something we'll have to debate on the campaign trail. and then the next president can decide what to do. it's going to be a matter of whether public opinion shifts on this and whether republicans can stoke both the president and the democrats handling of foreign policy. >> if you watch the whip count to help the president develop over the last few weeks, folks who were from safe blue states were on board with this. it took someone retiring to get to the point where there was no return. then you had all the eyes up for reelection in 2016 or worse 2018 when this deal will be underway, finely make their final decision. >> it was a pretty low bar for the president to clear. and they twisted arms for months and months to get it through. they accomplished what they wanted to. but it shouldn't have bee

>> mitch mcconnell said, how disappointed he was, he knew that john boehner was a straight shooter even the democratic leaders, nobody seems more disappoint than them. nancy pelosi. can't be overstated how much itch can going to miss john boehner because he had to wrangle this very restless conference of multi-headed boast, if you will. and he never over promised. he said, this is what i can do. >> now hear that extended conference where they talk about hopefully not what leader they want but what they want out of the a leader. because they got two brain cells to rub together, they can spend the next year beating their heads or whether or not they can defund planned parenthood or if want to get something done pick the battle, is that they have do the investigations that they can do put out a message that is going to help them keep the house, and keepment senate and put republican in the white house. that in the end is only way they ever accomplish things that they say they want to accomplish. >> dickerson: how do they do that? presidential context we've been discussing you have candidat

most senate republicans, including mitch mcconnell, have all kind of a knowledge that a deal that would defund planned parenthood would fail in the senate because senate democrats would filibuster the bill. even if it made it to the white house, to president obama's desk, it would certainly veto it. the next step that people are expecting is that on thursday, after pope francis addresses both houses of congress that morning, mitch mcconnell will again file another government be ang bill that would so-called clean funding bill, which would kid did you funding -- would continue funding planned parenthood and last until mid-december. this entire strategy is a way to prevent the government shutdown next thursday. both the house and senate only have about five legislative days left in session until that funding deadline. it looks like the majority leader is getting support within his conference. you retweeted a colleague saying that kelly ayotte says that mcconnell should not waste time with a showboat and moved to a clean cr. you also tweeted that ted cruz said to wrap the iran deal into a

mitch mcconnell and john boehner -- [cheers and applause] they are going to cut me off. when they finish up. mcconnell and boehner needs 60 days to review all the information we need to make this a great deal and get a deal that projects american exceptionalism once again. let me end on a strong note. hence, the answer is strong. but if the character of the american people standing out here today? strong. what nation future will you leave children or grandchildren? strong. what deal do you want demand with iran? tom. god bless you. god bless united states of america. thank you for letting me say a few words. god bless you. ♪ >> thank you, congressman brad. next someone who helped put the event together and active in the area of foreign policy far longer than i have. president for senior policy afraid to ask me. >> thank you to jenny back and the tea party team and all of you representing americans across this country by the million who do not want this deal. i want to share with you an insight. there is a courageous democrat in the united states senate by the name of bob

mitch mcconnell introducing two cloture motions. what is expected in the timetable for votes and any possibility of a senate democratic filibuster? >> mcconnell has mentioned five cloture this evening. it would set up the first senate vote on friday. mcconnell indicated he is hopeful they can do it thursday. little unclear if the democrats will filibuster, although there are 42 in support which is more than enough to sustain the filibuster if they wanted. not every democrat has said whether they will unite together. some have reservations about completely blocking the vote entirely. christina marcos commenting on the debate on "the hill" and twitter. theillary clinton spoke at brookings institution about the iran nuclear agreement. yesterday it was john mccain's turn. this is one hour 15 minutes. >> ladies and gentlemen, welcome to brookings and welcome to our second brookings debate. i'm the director of foreign policy here at brookings and it is my honor to welcome all of you here and online for spending the evening with us. conven

mitch mcconnell saying he's not going to allow it. it's a pretty partisan issue.become very political, and the concern among some republicans, mitch mcconnell included, is that the republican party would be blamed should they actually shut the government down. one of the interesting things over the last eight years is that there hasn't been a lot coming out of washington. you know, some people might say that's good, right? you don't have the lawmakers doing anything. the flip side of this is that nothing is getting done in the waive policy. taxes, lower corporate taxes to help our economy. there's not much being done to help grow things back at home. so consequently, everything michael has been left up to the fed, i think there is real risks with that. i think the risk is for 6+ years in a 0% interest rate environment because you're the only game in town, and you may have created yourself some other kind of problem, an asset bubble on your hands, now you have to deal with. >> right, and you become like japan which kept their interest rates lows if 20 years and as

majority leader senator mitch mcconnell offered an amendment that would prevent the president from lifting nuclear sanctions in the agreement until iran recognizes israel's right to exist and releases the four american prisoners currently held in iranian custody. before we provide iran with tens of billions of dollars in sanctions relief, we should get a commitment that it will recognize one of our key allies and ensure the safe return of our citizens. but democrats also blocked a vote on this amendment, allowing president obama to waive sanctions and move forward with this unpopular agreement. with these negotiations, the president had an opportunity to use the leverage created by international sanctions to dismantle iran's nuclear program. he had an opportunity to show leadership and restore our standing in the world. yet, instead this is a deal that fails to meet even the administration's own objectives. because the president operated from a position of concession and not of strength, the american people are left with a bad deal. i'm senator shelley moore capito, and thank you for liste

mitch mcconnel: -- mitch mcconnell: obviously the president's deal a bad deal with strong opposition. i have asked senators during the day to be at their desk and to treat this issue with the seriousness it deserves. this is the foreign policy debate at least of the last couple of decades and senator republican majority intends to treat it with the seriousness it eserves. the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, had he not stepped up and got enough democrats to support this, we would have had no voice at all. this is an executive agreement which means a year and a half from now, the next president will be able to start all over if he or she chose to. it is not a treaty. and will be looked at again, i assume if there's a republican president in the white house in january of 2017. host: that's the majority leader. we'll show you dick durbin's comments in a little bit. here's carolyn from missouri. good amp. caller: hi. i'm in favor of the deal. it might not be the best but it's better than the alternative of another war that we can't afford, period. we're sick of wars. i'

. >> majority leader mitch mcconnell and speaker john boehner. >> also. it took months for hillary clinton to get to this about her e-mail. >> that was a mistake, i'm sorry about. i take responsibility. >> but she continues to lose ground to bernie sanders. could sanders actually win the nomination? snoe senator sanders joins me live. >>> finally the refugee crisis in europe. how much is america's policy in europe to blame for the scenes we are witnessing today. joining me this morning for insight and analysis -- david brooks of "the new york times." maria hinojosa of npr. former bush white house political director sara fagan, and "the national journal's" ron fornier. welcome to sunday, it's "meet the press." >>> good sunday mourning. today is the first full day of the nfl season. you can be sure that somebody somewhere is nervously saying their team already faces a must-win situation. yes, even on week one. with wednesday's republican debate looming, a number of candidates perhaps like scott walker suddenly are facing their own must-win situation. score

here's what mitch mcconnell had to say about speaker boehner moments ago. >> grace under pressure. country and institution before self. these are the things that come to mind when i think of john boehner. he's an ally. he's a friend. and he took over as republican leader at a very difficult time for his party. and some said republicans could never recover. he never gave up. and some gave in to defeatism. he kept up the fight. and because he did, speaker boehner was able to transform a broken and dispirited republican minority into the largest republican majority since the 1920s. that's a legacy few can nudge. match. he flew across the country more times than he can count to support members of his conference, to recruit new members to the cause. and as a leader of the new majority, he turned the tide in congress and brought conservative reform in many areas. he worked tirelessly to provide hope to those who dreamed of a better life. and to middleclass families who struggled under the weight of this administration. john knows what it's like to struggle and dream something better. he'

mitch mcconnell needs to be out of the senate. ted cruz, 2016, a true constitutionalist. that's all i have to say. host: ted cruz spoke this morning at the values voter summit and we'll show that later in our schedule. also on c-span.org. we go to humble, texas, on our independents line. diana, hello. caller: hi. i grew up a democrats, became a republican. as i got older and got fed up with both parties and i'm now an independent. and i feel that both parties have changed tremendously from what they were for many years. the modern republicans don't resemble what the republican party used to be which is lower taxes, strong military, pro-life, pro-business. the modern democratic party didn't resemble what the democratic party used to be. if you listen to john kennedy's speeches, he will sound more like a republican than a democrat. the democrats have moved to an extreme end of the party as the republicans have. both of them do not resemble what we grew up thinking the parties were. and a lot of your callers, you know, have those extreme views too. the -- what the country ne

there names are majority leader mitch mcconnell and house speaker john boehner.terms of the corker-card inch review legislation, the clock does not begin ticking until the president hands over the entire deal and he has not handed over the side agreements. what that means is that all has to happen for mitch mcconnell and john boehner to say the congressional review period has not started. under federal law iting illegal for obama to lift sanctions. [cheers and applause] now, this is a lawless president so the odds are significant even if congress did that, that this president would ignore the law to try to lift sanctions. i want to speak particularly to the ceo and board of director of every financial institution and every bank that is holding frozen iranian money. if this president behaves illegally and decrease you can hand the money over to iran, let me tell you that does not exempt you from the legal obligation to follow the law. [cheering] any bank that listens to this president and releases billions to an international terrorist like the ayatollah khamenei,

mitch mcconnell, it is now your turn.se] governor jindal: if senator mcconnell is not going to fight for conservative principles, he needs to follow speaker banner's example. i will say something that may surprise you. i am actually angrier with the republicans than the democrats. you have got a: bunch of republicans that do not do the things they say they will do. remember when i said, honest socialists, guys like bernie sanders who are fighting for socialism. why won't our guys fight for freedom and america? [applause] governor jindal: on issue after issue, all they know how to do is give up. give us the majority, we will get rid of obamacare and amnesty. we did our work. we voted, we donated money and time. we still have obamacare. we still have amnesty. by the way, i am the only candidate with a plan to get rid of all of obamacare. not obamacare light. let's restore freedom to america's health-care system, not socialism. [applause] rico couldndal: secure the border in six months if they were serious about it. let's be

bill: mitch mcconnell from the hill.see what comes next and see if there is progress or if the deal is truly done in the end. mitch mcconnell, republican from kentucky. thank you, sir. >> thank you. martha: well there is another senator who is also a big critic of the iran deal, senator and presidential candidate marco rubio joins us on what he thinks is going to happen here. that as we continue today to remember september 11th 14 years later. >> i never give up. i'm so proud to be your daughter and to be named after you. i truly hope you are proud of the person i am today. and to your beautiful granddaughter, kyla who you never met, she hears about her grandpa jack all the time and your nephew steven flew in from vegas to be with you today. to my three fellow new york state court officers who also perished on that awful today. before they become trendy. >> i've never been more disappointed in the body than i am today. you won't let us have a vote. you won't let us have debate. and please stop saying this deal makes isra

since john boehner has stepped down are you asking senator mitch mcconnell to step down? >> i'm trying to influence the debate in our country by saying you know what, why don't we let all spending expire and make them start over. what we're doing is not working. we're adding a mountain of debt to our country. >> you don't have an opinion on mitch mcconnell? >> this isn't about an individual. it isn't about any one person. it's about the government going bankrupt. it's more important than making this about a personal battle. there are hundreds and hundreds of regulation that is president obama has passed. let's defund them. >> let's take a look at how the american people feel about this. i don't know if that's relevant or not in your mind and what happened today. the fight over planned parenthood, 61% oppose defunding but it's a little different when you look at republicans. 55% want to defund it versus 40. 9% of americans support shutting down the government over this issue. only 9%. >> i'm not arguing in favor of shutting down the government. what i'm arguing in favor of

we have watched a charade of mitch mcconnell and john boehner in the house. these people have put up an absolute fraud on the loyal opposition to this president's nightmarish deal with the iranians, have they not? may as well be fiction. >> that's why the popularity of republicans is slightly above that of barack obama, the face of the republican party. they have been outmaneuvered. ronald reagan combined a vigorous domestic program, strong foreign policy, welded it in the way that convinced the american people. we turn it around, the field is ready to do it again. lou: of the field now, 16-1, james gilmore barely hanging on. who -- you mentioned ronald reagan and theodore roosevelt. who comes closest in the remaining field to those two icons of american leadership? >> we're going to see, i'm still looking at the field. by the way, by the way, candidates are discussing it, lindsey graham he's going nowhere. >> you got to be kidding. my god. >> not winning the nomsgliegz this is the guy who wanted to be the hand maiden to barack obama to push the muslim brothe

mitch mcconnell offered a bill that would fund the government but cut funding for the controversial program. president obama is expected to veto any bill that de funds planned parenthood. the government faces a shut down october 1st if congress cannot pass the budget. >> the kentucky clerk jailed for five days after refusing to issue same-sex marriages telling megyn kelly this fight is about her religious beliefs and originally asked lawmakers to protect clerks who had objections to the supreme court ruling. she says she is not backing down. >> you have millions of christians who object this whole same-sex marriage issue. are their rights invalid? are their rights not worth anything? i mean it's a valid point and it's a fight worth fighting for. >> davis argues the couple who sued her did receive their licenses and she should not have to issue any more of them. the judge denying her request. >> it will be a washout today. heavy rain slash foods possible in the sou-- floods possible in south. >> we have a fleet for flash flooding. we will keep a close watch on that. current temperatures, it

. >> mitch mcconnell and john boehner were not that happy with what they heard. stand by, anderson and i will step away for 60 seconds. when we come back, we expect all 15 of these republican presidential candidates will make their way to the stage together for a group photo session and then get ready, the main event. >>> and welcome back. we're now 11 minutes or so away from the main event, the candidates just seconds away from a group photo shot on stage. let's go to sr. arah murray standing by. >> any moment the candidates will walk out of the door behind me and head to the debate stage. right now they are in this room together. it's the calm before the storm making a little slightly awkward small talk before they go out and take each other on on the debate stage and that's exactly what we're hearing a number of these candidates want to do. people like jeb bush, people like scott walker, their sights are set on being more aggressive this time and donald trump will be right in the middle of that stage. now we saw trump walk into the building awhile ago. he walk

give a path there are two men who can defeat this deal, mitch mcconnell and john boehner.he clock does not begin t icking until the president hands over the entire deal. he has not handed over the side agreements. to happen is for mitch mcconnell and john boehner to say the congressional period has not started. it is illegal for obama to lift sanctions under federal law. this is a lawless president. the odds are significant even if congress did that, this president would ignore the law. i want to speak to the ceo and board of director of every financial institution, every bank holding frozen iranian money. if this president behaves illegally, let me tell you now that does not exempt you from the legal obligation to follow the law. releases billions to an international terrorist will face billions of dollars in civil liability and litigation. and there will, president -- come a president who is not named barack obama. mitch mcconnell and john boehner can stop this deal if they simply enforce, if they simply enforce federal law. gets a nuclear weapon, the single greatest ris

mitch mcconnell took to the senate floor short after the iran nuclear agreement" >> was announced>> -- "q&a." >> mitch mcconnell took to the senate floor shortly after the iran nuclear agreement. >> the majority leader. >> two weeks ago i asked the obama administration to step back from the iran negotiations. re-examine the point of having the talks in the first place. that would have been the most rational and regional approach for the white house to take, especially considering it is all allies. it is deeply swearing to describe the direction of the talks. but instead of taking the time to re-examine basic objectives with its partners and agree on the nonnegotiable elements of any deal, things like anytime anywhere -- complete disclosure of previous military research and the relief of sanctions tied to iranian compliance. the white house acquiesced instead on the unofficial deadline after artificial deadline and opportunity for them to press for additional concessions along the way. given what we do know so far, it appears republicans and democrats were right to be deeply worried ab

republican leader mitch mcconnell responded bitterly. >> democratic senators just voted to filibusternd block the american people from even having a real vote on one of the most consequential foreign policy issues of our time. >> i understand my friends' frustration, this is a situation where he's lost the vote. and it's a situation, mr. president, where he is simply not in touch with reality as it exists. we're not in any way stopping debate, as was done by my republican colleagues hundreds of times in years past. this can be relitigated. let's do it over 60 times to try to break the affordable care act record if you choose, but this matter is over. >> so no amount of saying the issue is over makes it over. it's on the floor of the senate. we'll have an opportunity again next week to move past this procedural snag to give all members of the senate an opportunity to vote up or down on a resolution of disapproval, which we know is supported on a bipartisan basis. i end with this, there's bipartisan opposition to this deal. bipartisan opposition to this deal. only democrat support. >> j

will mitch mcconnell face a challenge? is this the end or beginning of the attacks?ing of the attacks. the beginning and end. here is what i foresee happening. anyone who gets the job, the farthest right faction of the republican party is going to continue to go after that person because as soon as you become speaker, you become the establishment. what i think is dangerous for them, all of these gop-ers running around saying we've won, we got rid of boehner. boehner going on "face the nation" or "meet the press" talking about the fact his soon-to-be former colleagues know they are promising their electorate something they can't deliver is dangerous. >> there is a theory among the democrats. they believe the republican right does not want to govern. it wants to disrupt only. let's take a look at this to make that point. conservatives are taking a victory lap over boehner's resignation. when marco rubio told the crowd the news on friday -- catch this. >> a few minutes ago speaker boehner announced he will be resigning. >> senator rubio did not whip them into a frenzy.

>> guest: you see mitch mcconnell running for people as ted cruz did back in december.call everyone back and told the story in the book when they said they could go home and go to than half the party ends up opposing. we had so many important things to do with confirming the important positions in the u.s. government. we had at the end of year bills that had to be passed into that was to make a point. on some of these issues including the issues in the revision and of the revision and important changes that have to be made to the patriot act. the way that it's done with tv ads and the showdown is designed >> host: you are marching in a labor day parade. >> guest: that was an minnesota. people were shouting klobuchar for president. what do you think of that? >> guest: i love my job right now and that's why i called the book for but senator next-door and a lot of people running for president i'm happy doing my job. >> host: it's not exactly -- if i wanted to i would call it boring to read. >> host: the next generation of office holders who might be considered running for

president does not have the authority to implement this iranian deal and that john boehner and mitch mcconnell can stop the deal by saying the clock hasn't started as it relates to the corker carden bill. do you agree with that assessment? >> i've heard that. the lawyers are going to have to tell us whether or not that's true. i was with ted cruz today. he's a terrific day. he was out there making speeches. i'm making speeches. the problem with making speeches we have 70% of the american people on our side but the politicians in washington -- just not listening. it's hard to believe. hard to believe what's happening with this deal, it is unconceivable that it's going forward. inconceivable. i mentioned -- i always use it as a good point. 24 days is a ridiculous thing. before you get to the 24 days it takes a lot of time to get there. in other words, they were request to go on and it could take a lot longer than 24 days. >> they pick the inspectors. it's not like they're american inspectors. they pick the inspectors. inmates are running the asylum. >> that's the new thing that came up two weeks

the senate minority leader harry reid would call the vote a waste of time asthma jr.ty leader mitch mcconnell says that they would strengthen thand congress should reject it. the roll call vote was susan colin's 6,000th vote of her career. colleagues would praise her for not missing the single vote over her 18 years. agencies are in charge of keeping you safe. we've got a rare glimpse inside that command center where various agencies will be monitoring the huge crowds, the movements too while they are here in washington. they will be able to share that in real time. and the emergency agencies, >> they would expect the people to attend their ceremony for pope francis on the white house lawn. >> 25,000 people expected when he is in dc. before that could happen as they would have more from the campus of their university. perhaps the most important thing, the alter. he spent countless hours, the mass is a job with a lot of pressure. he also built the alter that they used back in 2008. >> i don't think that there is a third time for me. but that is beyond words, i would think. >> reporter: it was

mitch mcconnell says they are dropping the fight but they will admit it will be an issue for the next president. maureen: the death toll from a northern california massive wildfire has grown to five. 20,000 people have been evacuated more than 800 homes destroyed. one man helped to neighbors get out of there's. he got emotional about an elderly neighbor who could not make it. say coolerials weather is helping firefighters gain ground. one is 35% contained and the other is nearly 50% contained. the department of agricultural will be spring for mosquitoes in laurel on sunday. it's a twin corpsman avenue and main street and sandy spring road. that is where a woman died from a suspected case of west nile virus. it will begin at dusk. keep your ears open in your mouth closed out there. [laughter] maureen: a beautiful day today again. doug: slow humidity levels are creeping up. it will turn somewhat cooler on sunday. let's get a look at conditions around the area right now with a befuautil -- with beautiful sunshine. you have the beach all to yourself. just a couple of people walking. it's

senator mitch mcconnell will set up starting on monday, probably finish work on this tuesday. government shutdown thursday, wednesday the house will be confronted with the question of do we swallow this or do we shut down the government? the senate left the with no options. >> host: let's look at the house, things are pretty active, in motion. what has been happening? john boehner meeting with what is called the freedom caucus the issue are they and what are they talking about behind closed doors? >> guest: the freedom caucus is a group of several dozen almost a dissident republicans who want the leadership especially john boehner to take a harder line on almost everything. on this in particular they threatened to vote against the spending bill that doesn't fd fund planned parenthood and that is the kind of choice john boehner has to make, whether he crosses them, he may face a referendum on his speaker'sship, if he doesn't he gets blamed for a government shutdown. >> host: they will meet early in the morning on friday, up what are we expecting might be coming out of those doo

mitch mcconnell, house speaker john boehner.d is sinking in large part due to republicans many of whom really are turned off by the party's leaders. do you think they have been strong leaders or they should make way for new leadership? >> i think they've done a good job. it's promising people things you can't deliver. we got the first budget in five years. we took the keystone pipeline vote, got it to obama's desk and heavy towed it. i want to win in 2016. we start shooting each other, we're going to lose. having a democratic president and 54 republicans in the senate is not a pathway to do everything you would like. >> we ask people on twitter to write in. eric writes this, question, do you support privatizing veteran's health care? >> yes, as an option. i support giving them a card to go anywhere they want to go. if they don't like the v.a., go somewhere else. the centers that serve the veterans well, we'll fund. >> since the republicans took the house of representatives in 2010, every year republicans have included serious me

mitch mcconnell and speaker boehner, do you think they're among the rascals who should be booted? >> absolutely! the iranians conned president obama. president obama condthe senate republicans. they approved this bill that requires them to have a two-thirds vote to disapprove it. every senate republican except tom cotton voted for it including the republicans running for president, including ted cruz and the others. we need a back bone transplant for the republicans in d.c. we need term limits. they need to live under the rules and laws they passed for us. they love obamacare while they exempted themselves from it. that has got to end. we need part-time legislators that work in the real world that grow the american economy, not the government economy. lou: governor, i think you caught a few people's attention in the last five minutes or so. we appreciate you being with us. governor bobby jindal, thank you. >> thank you. good to be with you. >> the president ordered his administration to dramatically increase the number of syrian refugees that the administration will allow into the

. >> i've been in the minority every single time i've run, and i can tell you firsthand that mitch mcconnellvery day with the worst majority leader in the history of our country, harry reid. so to think harry's fighting now? no, he's being a big obstructionist and not putting the american people's interests first. >> now there's calls for senator mitch mcconnell to step down. >> never happen. >> senator makes a great point, republicans should have sent a lot of bills out of the house to the senate to force president obama to veto them, but also boehner was dealt a really difficult hand trying to manage these two groups. i mean, a lot of times he couldn't please either one, and so sometimes i did pity the man. >> yeah, no. he got stuck in the mealy-mouthed middle. and i don't know if i pity him. i think he cries so much because he feels guilty about some of his life choices. i think it's really interesting. >> like what? >> i can't say that on the tv, andrea. [laughter] no, i think that he's lucky he didn't burst into flames while he was sitting behind the pope. [laughter] and i also think th