Rand Paul Appears on CBS Face the Nation- April 12, 2015

and joining us now Kentucky Republican senator rand Paul who announced last week that he is running for president as

Sandra call this controversy nowadays seems to hold really bogged down in partisan politics where do you come down all

you know the funny thing is occasionally I can be partisan as much as any other politician but on this I don't think I would jump to the conclusion that all the sudden the Ayatollah of

Iran is telling the truth and my god is lying to now I do think there's a problem though in the problem the biggest problem we have right now is that every

time there's a hint of an agreement the Iranian foreign minister tweets out in English the agreement doesn't mean what our government says it means so

I keep an open mind as to who's telling the truth but the thing is is that the Iranians aren't helping the situation by

tweeting out in English though the agreement doesn't mean any of that they're going to go along with clear program they're not going to have inspection so

it is very very damaging to the American public and to getting to the details of what the agreement are can't

trust the sincerity of the credibility of the Iranian government so at this point you have an open mind about yes

I want peace I want negotiations I don't want another war but I so one a good agreement and it's made it very difficult for someone like me who is a Republican who does believe the negotiations does have an open mind making

it very difficult for me to get even to the specific when I'm having trouble getting beyond whether or not I can believe

that Iran is sincere in the negotiations you wanna do you I want a good deal I think I want that there

Iran will give up their nuclear ambitions and I really do want to sincerely want to deal and I don't want war let's

talk about your campaign you have been reaching out to black voters to millennials %HESITATION you have said that the one point one million immigrants

in this country already here should have some legal status and pay tax if I didn't know better and

I didn't know better I would think you might be a Democrat do you really think you can get the Republican nomination making

those statements in taking those position well you add that to the fact that I'm also one of the most conservative members of the Senate in the sense that I vote against spending a vote against unbalanced budgets I'm

I want to do is first secure the boredom if we secure the border and we can say we know who's coming who's going in only people come come

legally the eleven million that are here do you work status for them and I think what I'm trying to say what we want is more legal immigration so we have less illegal

immigration but I am open immigration reform I voted against the bill that came forward to I merely because it limited the number of legal work we do

you think there are some in the Republican Party who are not is interested in buying it becoming

more inclusive than you are and I say that because after all it when the Republican take a party became dominant across the south it

was right after the nineteen sixty five civil rights law and stuff I like to remember farther back and I nineteen twenty eight when two

thirds of the African American population voted Republican it switched a lot and thirty two bureaucratic kept dwindling dwindling to anyway and

biggercity and I've tried to say to the African American population one I'm gonna fix the criminal justice system two