John Cornyn: “I believe the Supreme Court has held that you cannot indefinitely detain somebody under the Zadvydas case.”

That's a convenient excuse, and it happens to be untrue.

I think we were very close to resolving our differences in a way that was acceptable to the Department of Justice, but it’s clear that the president decided that was unacceptable.

There’s nothing we could do to rein in the president when he said he likes the fund and he wishes it still exists, but the fact of the matter [is] it’s dead, and that’s all we could do under these circumstances.

So he needs to pay more attention to domestic issues and affordability.