House Speaker John Boehner, who invited Netanyahu to address Congress, says there’s a huge “demand for tickets” to attend the prime minister’s speech.
“The demand for seats in the House, the demand for tickets, I’ve never seen anything like it. Everybody wants to be there,” Boehner tells CBS News.
The house speaker speaks out against the Obama administration for “attacking” him and Netanyahu.
Speaker of the US House of Representatives John Boehner on CBS’s ’60 Minutes’ on January 25, 2015 (screen capture: CBS)
“What I do wonder is why the White House feels threatened because the Congress wants to support Israel and wants to hear what a trusted ally has to say. It has been, frankly, remarkable to me, the extent to which, over the last five or six weeks, the White House has attacked the prime minister, attacked me, for wanting to hear from one of our closest allies,” he explains.
He adds that the strained ties between Israel and the US is “is no secret here in this town,” but the administration has “certainly made it worse over the last five or six weeks.”
Netanyahu “can talk about this threat, I believe, better than anyone. And the United States Congress wants to hear from him. And so do the American people,” Boehner says.
“We’re not going to resolve this issue by sticking our heads in the sand,” Boehner adds in reference to the Iranian nuclear threat.
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