Susan Page

I can tell you, I think Obamacare is here to stay.

We were listening closely to this section on Iran because we have now deployed two aircraft carriers to the region.

It's the biggest buildup we've seen in the Middle East in more than 20 years since before the Iraq War when we were preparing for that invasion.

So a lot of curiosity about whether the United States actually plans a military strike of some sort against Iran.

What the president said was he prefers diplomacy, we have talks going on, but that he will not allow Iran, who he described as the world's number one sponsor of terror, there's some evidence of that, to have a nuclear weapon.

And he said that they hadn't said the secret word, we won't build a nuclear weapon.

I think he actually meant the magic word,

But and of course, Iran has repeatedly insisted that they don't plan to build a nuclear bomb.

Not everybody believes them.

So we got no guidance from the president on whether a strike on Iran is ahead.

But he certainly held it out as a possibility if diplomacy fails.

Well, there are legal questions, and there's also the argument by Democrats that it's going to throw up hurdles to voting.

It will make it harder for Americans to register to vote and to vote.

So there is Democratic opposition to it, although, as the president said, it has broad public support, the idea that you have to show a photo ID to vote or that you have to prove your citizenship to register to vote.

So this is a big issue, and it's very much entangled

with Republican concerns that they are going to have a very bad midterm election and they want to do everything they can to maximize their prospects.

You know, I guess we'll find out.

The fact is the president is in an embattled position here.

His approval rating has sunk below 40 percent in most credible national polls.

And, you know, he's not on the ballot in November, of course.