Posted on 02/15/2015 5:15:22 PM PST by Nachum
Fox News' Chris Wallace interviews Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-In) about a lot of topics. From 4:57-8:10, they talk about Boehner's invitation to Prime Minister Netanyahu to address a joint session of Congree next month.
Boehner bluntly says that he did not tell the White House he was inviting Netanyahu (contrary to earlier reports), because he did not want President Obama interfering with Prime Minister Netanyahu coming to Washington.
Let's go to the videotape.
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Drudge: TV: White House cuts Israel out of Iran talks...
This means that obama is allowing the Iranians to have nuclear bombs. Millions will die.
I watched the interview.... I keep thinking someone replaced. Boehner with a droid that had a spine...
Backhanded way to tell our golfing King, he’s now not revalant...
Bravo and accolades to Boehner on this one. He actually is showing some Balls. Can’t wait to watch the anxiety in the Jew hater faces. Wonderful move Boehner!!
Somebody kidnapped Bhoener and replaced him with somebody who actually is doing something right?
May it continue. Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem and if they need to Take Care of Business in IRAN without any help that the Israelites be triumphant otherwise WW3 is in our future.
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Why does His Majesty need to be informed?
The House wants to talk to someone, they can talk to someone.
Way to be on the defensive, Boner.
Naw, he's only saying that for the flyover country. He doesn't mean a word of it. He permitted the invitation of Netanyahu in a drunken stupor. Now that the S has HTF, he has to say something to the rubes.
Well ... I’ve heard it said here both ways ... that Obama was informed ahead of time and that he wasn’t informed ahead of time.
IN FACT ... I do recall a goodly number of FReepers making a big deal about it — that contrary to what was said in some news reports — that Obama was INDEED NOTIFIED!
Now ... am I to understand “straight from the horse’s mouth” that Obama WAS NOT NOTIFIED ahead of time?!
My issue with this is that I don’t want to go telling other people the wrong thing, so I should KNOW which way it was!!
.."'I didn't tell Obama I was inviting Netanyahu because I knew he would interfere',....
Did he really think 0bama wouldn't find out, and start interfering, with the added charge of not being told?
It’s probably his second day without alcohol.
Assume he didn’t. Obama, Pelosi and Reid violated so many protocols why should the libs get their panties in a wad because Boehner offended them once?
As a coequal branch Congress can invite whomever they wish, same as the executive. Would congress try to tell odinga whom he can and cannot invite to an executive meeting? (Well a democrat congress might try.)
I was kinda impressed with Boehner myself. Pleasantly surprised. He didn’t let lib Chris Wallace get away with anything.
He was notified before he was not notified ;)
From the transcript of today’s Fox News Sunday broadcast:
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WALLACE: You’ve created quite a controversy by inviting Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to speak to a joint session of Congress without telling the White House.
Now, everyone from Vice President Biden down to 12 congressional Democrats have said they are not going to attend.
Haven’t you taken one of the few bipartisan issues in this country, support for Israel, and turned it into a political football?
BOEHNER: I have not. The fact is we have every right to do what we did. I wanted the prime minister to come here.
There’s a serious threat facing the world and radical Islamic terrorists are not going to go away. The president devoted but a few words to it in the State of the Union address.
And then when it comes to the threat of Iran having a nuclear weapon — these are important messages that the Congress needs to hear and the American people need to hear. And I believe that Prime Minister Netanyahu is the perfect person to deliver the message of how serious this threat is.
WALLACE: But when you talk with Ron Dermer about inviting Netanyahu, you told him specifically not to tell the White House.
Why would you do that, sir?
BOEHNER: Because I wanted to make sure that there was no interference. There’s no secret here in Washington about the animosity that this White House has for Prime Minister Netanyahu. And I frankly didn’t want them getting in the way and quashing what I thought was a real opportunity.
WALLACE: But it has created a — if not a firestorm, certainly a controversy here. It has a created a controversy in Israel. And shouldn’t the relationship between the U.S. and Israel be outside of politics?
BOEHNER: It’s an important message that the American people need to hear. I’m glad that he’s coming and I’m looking forward to what he has to say.
WALLACE: What’s the rush? The deadline for a framework agreement with Iran is March 24th and, this week, the president said this:
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I don’t see a further extension being useful if they have not agreed to the basic formulation and the bottom line that the world requires to have confidence they’re not pursuing a nuclear weapon.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
WALLACE: I guess the question is why not put off the Netanyahu speech until you see whether or not there’s a framework agreement, and basically wait to see how the talks go?
BOEHNER: There’s bipartisan concern about these discussions with the Iranians. And, frankly, we want to hear what the Prime Minister of Israel has to say, because what we’re trying to do is strengthen the president’s hand in these negotiations. There’s another round of Iran sanctions that are being discussed on both sides of Capitol Hill in a bipartisan manner.
WALLACE: But the president says he doesn’t want a —
BOEHNER: I understand he says he doesn’t want them. He doesn’t quite understand that we’re trying to strengthen his hand. And the discussions about the sanctions bill, with regard to Iran, makes it clear that only the sanction would go into effect if there was not an agreement.
IIRC...it was Netanyahus peeps who contacted the WH about the invitation and never got a reply
I figure a lobbyist has his ear on this issue, or to put it less delicately, is pulling the right strings.
Thanks for the transcript. That makes it clear. I’ll take him at his word on what he did.
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