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Best and the brightest in the field of journalism, helping them get that education and gentlemening that degree. more recently under the leadership of ed chen and abc's ann compton and jennifer levin we as an association decided we needed to do a lot more. last year and again this year we are awarding $132,000 in scholarship money. [ applause ] if you a lo allow me to introde you to each of the recipients. >> geraldo: forgive me if we don't hear all of their names in full. but if the first lady says significant of substance we will take her remarks in full. you can keep it up there. eric doesn...

Resolution that i'm hopeful that congress will produce very shortly which will impose real sanctions on any nation doing business with the state, the nation of iran because it is iran that poses an existential threat to us here in this country as well as israel. >> on that note of cooperation, very quickly, ten seconds. >> well, all i wanted to say is obviously the president has said, congress has said, a nuclear armed iran is not an exceptional alternative and we need to be very strong and clear on that proposition. >> steny hoyer and eric cantor, they agree on that issue. we'll see if they a...

>> they just, by the way, eric cantor passed in the senate, nonbinding resolution saying this idea of a value added tax or national sales tax, not a good idea. >> that is certainly good news. nobody in this country wants to become like some of the big government nations in europe where taxes real lir effectively even just at marginal rates over 50%. then you put a value added tax on and they're over 60% taxed. like your poll said, wolf, americans think washington wastes a lot of money. we do. we don't have a revenue problem here which is why i say we ought to join together and say no tax hikes...

It's ever been. there is no way to dissolve the bonds between us and israel. but obviously, i have indicated that i think that whatever differences we have ought to be discussed in private. >> eric cantor, you and steny hoyer co-sponsored a letter, 333 members of the house signed it democrats and republicans, basically correct me if i'm wrong, rebuking the white house for the way the president treated benjamin netanyahu. >> that's correct. i stand sid a buy side with and salute the leadership of steny hoyer on u.s.-israeli relationships. it is synonymous with our own. we have a lot of struggle...

Strongly disagreeied with his policy. eric cantor got a threat here. the governor of new jersey has been at least joking ly threatened by some of the interest groups in new jersey, the republican governor of new jersey, but by and large for the last 50 years, at least since the early '70s when we still had left wing problems, these have been systemically coming out of the far right and again i think that all those folks have a place in our political debate, we just have to know where to draw the line. we have enough threats against the president and the congress that we should be sensitive to ...