I would wait and see. We need at least one more source than the Wapo. There may be more to the story than reported.
Agreed. With all that’s happened with the media, how can anyone take a report like this at face value?
I read the article and Kyl’s only “walking it back” very slightly. He’s still saying that Obama told him if Obama secures the border then Republicans won’t have any reason to vote for “Comprehensive Immigration Reform.” That part of his original statement hasn’t changed. The part he changed appears to be that now he’s not saying the administration is holding border security hostage, but instead he’s saying the left is holding it hostage in a political sense. It’s a relatively small change in his statement and doesn’t change the significance of what Obama said, but just tries to say that the administration isn’t intentionally not securing the border. Instead he’s saying that the left is peventing the administration politically from doing more to secure the border.
The WaPo is trying to turn this into a significant mistake by Kyl, which it isn’t. This is a slight change in Kyl’s statement and it’s not going to cause any problem for Republicans in November.