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Former Sen. Mark Kirk speaks publicly for first time in years

Late. if you are picked up pursuant to civilian authority and you appear before a civilian court. no american citizen picked up inside the united states should being dragged before a military detention authority. bill: mark kirk, thank you for your time. i want to ask you about some breaking news because i know you're very much attuned to what is happening in iran today. apparently a number of people stormed the british embassy. has at been resolved and what is your effort in this? >> students have taken over the british embassy. seized classified documents. about 50 personnel are there. it is...

Obama administration should be forced to go to congress and get approval on iran and an iran deal. 76 pr say yes, only 19% say the should should be able to go it alone. on the point, though, do we know if the president is going to come to congress an actually get an up or down vote? >> he should. the reality of u.s. politics is eventually the republicans will win the white house. if the republican position is united against this then this deal has no lasting power. >> do you guys have enough votes in the senate for a veto override number one on demanding a congressional vote for a -- for this ...

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 your opinion wh...

Much of it owed to overseas creditors, who expect to be repaid by our children with interest. >> as a republican, member of congress, do you really want to stand by your party's record on the debt, going back since you came to congress? >> no. i've become very much a fiscal hawk here. i foreswore earmarks for my own congressional district. we could save $66 billion right there. the kirk amendment passed in the house that attacked the bridge to nowhere, even though it was in a republican district, the chairman of the house transportation committee and now it's actually the bridges to nowhere, w...