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We need a president to bring us together, not rip us apart. i hope the justice department does not respond to the ill-advised recommendation of the naacp to continue this controversy. >> chris: i want to cover a different story, which normally would be huge, and that is that harry reid in the senate is threatening to impose a nuclear option, to change the rules not by the normal 67 votes, super majority, but by a simple majority of 51 votes and 100. and this is because hes objecting to the filib...

We need a president to bring us together, not rip us apart. i hope the justice department does not respond to the ill-advised recommendation of the naacp to continue this controversy. >> chris: i want to cover a different story, which normally would be huge, and that is that harry reid in the senate is threatening to impose a nuclear option, to change the rules not by the normal 67 votes, super majority, but by a simple majority of 51 votes and 100. and this is because hes objecting to the filib...

Rose garden surrounding himself with college students to make his point. his plan would keep most rates on student loans low by pegging them to the ten-year treasury bond rate plus 1%, so the rate would be about 3% today under that formula. then he would keep them fixed for the life of the loan, and hed let students cap their payments to 10% of their income to keep them affordable. now, last week house republicans passed their plan. it would peg rates to the ten-year treasury as well but with a ...

Democratic syria without bass shar al-asad. that includes bringing together representatives of the regime and the opposition in geneva in the coming weeks to agree on a transitional body which would allow a transfer of power from assad to this governing body. meanwhile well continue to work to establish the facts around the use of chemical weapons in syria and those facts will help guide our next steps. we discussed iran where we agreed to keep up the pressure on tehran for its continued failure...

>> im rooting for marco rubio over ted cruz. if thats going to be the fight among cuban-americans, particularly. if thats going to be the fight, i know who im with. by the way, i think the president was very skillful today. i dont think he has an answer on the grand deal looking for this permission structure. but i think he has one golden egg he wants to have. whatever the right term is for the second term. and i think its because the republicans want this thing off their backs. >> as much as he...

Designed to show the iranians, look, were making an effort but we need to see on your side that youre approaching the talks in a serious way. it cant only be that we offer you something. we have to see, what are you prepared to do? are you prepared, for example, to actually limit 20% enrichment that youve been engaging in? is are you prepared to ship out of the country that enrichment, one of the other moves made by the five plus one was to allow them to retain a small percentage of that for use...

Justice kennedy is more bothered by the federal. is this really something for congress to decide since congress deferred to the states to define marriage. you put 4 plus 1 together, five votes to strike down the defense of marriage act. >> some suggested that gay rights advocates can be a victim of their own political success and this should be among the states and voters as opposed to by the court. >> that are gets to a question that the court has to deal with. its actually a legal question. sh...

Having an affect on p iran, but theres time to negotiate. there was a high level meeting of the so-called p-5 plus 1 earlier this month. there will be a technical meeting this march. there will be another high level meeting in april. and then well just see if the positive tone that came out of the last meeting translates into some real negotiating. i suspect well probably have to wait until probably late summer, a new iranian government, some assessment by the supreme court leader as to how succ...

Step. >> i see. >> once you get above 60% or 65%. >> so theyre responding to something that is not just 50 plus 1. theyre responding to something that looks like 65, right? you see this in congress on issues where the public -- well, thats not true. no. theres lots of issues that -- >> i was going to say, i think its tricky anytime youre dealing with polls who are how do you stand on a policy. >> absolutely. >> because the wording is such, nobody knows. on gay marriage. you ask that question, yo...

To the floor passed. i wonder if that sort of tells you the republican party as its currently constituted cant make a deal with obama. >> no. and the fact is on the senate side, the rules are that, you know, you should have just a majority but the filibuster is constantly present. they cant move in the senate because they cant get to 60 votes. not just 50 plus 1. at the same time, the president is held hostage a little bit by his side in that he cant go at medicare and social security and some o...