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Making sure that if iran doesn't abide by its agreement that we don't have to jump through a whole bunch of hoops in order to sanctions. >> president obama today saying he is open to allowing iran to get immediate sanctions relief in this negotiation as it continues in order to make it more palatable for tehran. >> we're back with the panel. starting there in the lightning round, charles? >> i'm glad you led the show with that because i think everybody else missed that. everybody is talking about obama's earn on the corker amendment. that is irrelevant. what obama said there is earth-shatterin...

More than half of it goes to border security and tightening that, or working with these central american countries to keep their kids out. that's more than half of this. this claim he doesn't want to deal with it is ridiculous. they won't give him an answer on this plan. last year a bipartisan group of senators had a very, very strong comprehensive immigration plan that got through the senate, that was very tough on border enforcement. the corker amendment called for more fences, more surveillance cameras, really serious stuff. a lot of people on the left didn't even like it that much, but it ...

Graham? >> guest: the bill will pass. we are on the verge of 70 votes. that is my goal. we are close to 70 votes. the corker amendment gets us over-the-top. >>chris: we will talk about that in a moment but a general prediction, senator lee, you are opposed to this. do you agree it will pass with a very wide majority something like 70 votes? >> guest: it is likely to pass and it could well be along the margin senator graham suggested. look, as sponsors of this bill they had the bet of intention. the best of intentions are not enough when you deal with 1,200 page bill. they promised under this b...

Karl rove is a former senior advisor to president bush. karl, good to have you here. what do you make of this? it look like it's got some momentum in the senate. some people are saying it's too much of a rush. they want more time to read the additional 100-pages from the corker amendment. >> there will never be enough time for some members and his amendment is 119 paimgs. it's -- 119 pages. it's easy to read. it's part after larger bill that's been laid out since may. it has five provisions. 20,000 more border patrol. $4.5 billion additional for border security measures.

Graham? >> guest: the bill will pass. we are on the verge of 70 votes. that is my goal. we are close to 70 votes. the corker amendment gets us over-the-top. >>chris: we will talk about that in a moment but a general prediction, senator lee, you are opposed to this. do you agree it will pass with a very wide majority something like 70 votes? >> guest: it is likely to pass and it could well be along the margin senator graham suggested. look, as sponsors of this bill they had the bet of intention. the best of intentions are not enough when you deal with 1,200 page bill. they promised under this b...