different, but obviously, the pathway forward for me doesn't exist. well, it was disappointing. >> the comedians get the last word for the week. if you're on twitter, follow my tweets @mharrisperry, "sister citizen" is available now. "the rachel maddow show" is up next. happy friday, everybody, thank you for staying with us for the next hour. we have news tonight of some very, very dirty political tricks that are played in michigan. also an attempt to put the remarkable candidacy of michele bachmann into context, and i think the most ambitious debunktion junction in the long and storied history of debunktion junction, that is all ahead tonight in this hour, but here's where we start. one of the great dorky ideas in linguistics is you can't really think about a thing well until

that thing has a name. it's sort of a function of us being word-based, language-based creatures, and i am starting to think my favorite thing in obama politics, which is republicans being opposed to their own ideas now, i'm starting to think that remains an underappreciated because it doesn't have a name. i think we should name it, call it the great flabb ebeflabberga there's something about president obama that so flabbergasts republicans that he causes them to turn against themselves and create opposition to their own positions. this week alone, right, we've been talking about president obama proposing action on new trade deals and on patent reform, he's been talking about these things on his bus tour. these things are literally in the republican jobs plan released this year. everybody overuses the word

literally, but in this case, literally it's written in their jobs plan. president obama is introducing something in their plan and they are responding where's your plan, i hate that plan. this has been the obama era, i shouldn't even call it the obama era in democratic politics, this is in republican politics, flap flabbergasted republicans. they support pay as you go rules in congress, so does obama, so now they are against that. they support cap and trade, including sarah palin on tape, remember? >> john mccain proposed legislation calling for mandatory cap from global warming gases or co2 emissions, do you agree on that? >> i agree with that, absolutely, he's got a good cap and trade and details are being hashed out right now, but in principle, absolutely i support all that we can do to reduce

emissions and clean up this planet. >> republicans support cap and trade. it is a republican idea. obama supports it too, and so now republicans are against it. the individual mandate in health reform as a means of getting everybody covered, not only is that mitt romney's implemented idea from his time as governor in massachusetts, it is a republican idea dating back to the 1990s when people first came up with the idea, so this republican idea, obama is also for that, and so now republicans see their own individual mandate idea as the end of the world over and over and over again, it is republicans against their own ideas. this is the obama era in politics, the great flabb flabbergasting, we should have known it was coming with the first and most blatant of these from john mccain. >> during this campaign, you, like your rivals, have been putting the first priority on

border security, but your original immigration proposal back in 2006 was much broader and included a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants that were already here. at this point, if your original proposal came to a vote on the senate floor, would you vote for it? >> it won't, it won't. >> no, i would not. no, i would not support my own immigration plan. i would vote no on my own idea. to be clear, this is not his party's immigration plan, not just a plan he voted for once upon a time, this is his own plan that he wrote, he authored it, he would vote against it. give john mccain credit, he was an early flabbergast, in 2003, he was a co-sponsor of the dream act which would grant citizenship to those going to college or serving in the military. the dream act was a republican idea, originally introduced by

orenhatch of utah. it had 13 republican co-sponsors including john mccain. president obama gets elected in 2008, he also supports the dream act, so flabbergast, their own idea, now they are opposed to it. >> dream act, offering a path to citizen those brought in the country illegally as children, in defeat. >> mostly republicans are just not embarrassed about stuff like this anymore. they are so not embarrassed they don't explain the flip-flop, they just say they are outraged by the idea of the dream act. but the way that some other republicans, like john mccain, for example, have tried to weasel out of that u-turn, was by saying that there wasn't enough border security in place to move forward with the idea they used to like, there were too few deportations, too porous

a southern border. immigration is so central to who we are as a country, it's so fundamental to how we became the country we are that we have exact statistics on deportations going back to 1892, in 1892, they deported 2,801 persons precisely. because we keep detailed records of these things, barack obama is deporting more people than any other people in american history by a lot. by the time george w. bush left office in 2008, he had deported about 349,000, the next year, president obama kicked it up to nearly 400,000. we have never deported more since president obama has been president. he's also beefed up border security like no other president before him, including george w. bush. so does that mean we can have

the comprehensive immigration reform now? that is what republicans said. they said we can deal with this as soon as we deal with enforcement. not until we had enforcement. we have never dealt with enforcement the way we have during this presidency. now do we get reform? no. >> we have gone above and beyond what was requested by the very republicans who said they supported broader reform as long as we got serious about enforcement. all this stuff they asked for, we've done. even though we've answered these concerns, i've got to say i expect there's going to be some who are trying to move the goal posts on us one more time. you know, they said we needed to triple the border patrol.

now they are going to say we need to quadruple the border patrol. maybe they'll need a moat. maybe they want alligators in the moat. they'll never be satisfied. >> it's not about what they are asking, it's about keeping you from doing anything. since then we've had the current governor of texas get into the race for the republican nomination and suggests if this president was serious about the border, he'd have drones flying over the border, governor perry, there's already drones flying over the border. here's an article about it from twine. you step up deportations and they demand deportations, you fly drones on the border, they demand drones on the border. the obama administration today, knowing what they know about arguing with republicans on this issue and doing what they have

already done on this issue, the obama administration today took the next obvious step and stopped waiting for republicans to make good on their word. the obama administration today enacted what looks to be everything they could on immigration reform short of getting something through the republicans in congress. obama administration has announced plans to suspend deportation proceedings on immigrants. the department of homeland security will undergo a review of 300,000 people and will allow those deemed a low priority to apply for work permits to stay in the country temporarily. this policy chachk has two impacts, one is political. when he was sworn into office in january 2009, president obama held a 74% approval rating in the hispanic community, after he was sworn in, that went up to

85%. now this week according to the latest gallup poll it's down to 49%. protestors turned up this week across the country at democratic party offices, not to cheer president obama on, but to protest his deportation policies, so this sort of change in policy on this issue does have the potential help president obama with a community he does need help with that gives latino voters a nice, stark choice between the two parties more importantly, this policy shift has the potential to have a very large and very practical impact on tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of real people in this country who have been staring down the barrel of deportation,

immigrants who have served in the military, spouses of american born gay lesbian citizens, anyone not a felon, as well as children brought by their parents at an early age, this policy could change those people's lives and families profoundly. joining us now, a pulitzer prize winning journalist, mr. vargas came to the u.s. as a child from the philippines, lived his entire adult life here, been extremely professional. back in june he decided to write about his secret life in america, he's the founder of the website defineamerican.com. jose, nice to see you again, thanks for being here. >> thank you so much for having me. >> does this change of policy affect you personally? >> actually, no, it doesn't affect me personally, although i have to tell you, all of us 11

million undocumented immigrants in this country, when there's one good piece of news, it's good news for everybody. so this is good news for everybody. but at the end of the day, it doesn't affect the majority of the undocumented immigrants in the country, even the majority of dreamers, students that would benefit from the dream act. >> it's one thing to reprioritize deportation proceedings, it's another for the federal government to provide a pathway towards becoming a citizen or a legal resident. >> which is why it's really laughable and very intellectually dishonest for conservative republicans to cry back door amnesty or for them to say the president going after the will of the american people. washington, senator john mccain, senator oren hatch. people play political football

with our lives, this is something that americans, undocumented immigrants, and american citizens want, but at the end of the day, the fact no one can agree on a compromise, people are basically still in limbo. mind you, what happened yesterday when the policy was introduced, this could change if obama is not reelected to be president in 2012, so lives are still in limbo. >> in terms of the potential calculus here and the room to maneuver that the administration has, as you heard in the introduction there, i felt like the obama administration has made it pretty clear that they felt like the investment they made in border security and also the hugely stepped up number of deportations should have bought them some political room to move in terms of making immigration reform possible. do you think they did buy themselves room to maneuver? >> i think the obama administration tried to be as forth coming with what their plans are, although mind you,

the obama administration has gotten a lot of heat from immigration groups because of a program called secure communities that is literally dividing families apart. one thing that american citizens might not understand is a lot of undocumented immigrants live in mixed status families, someone married to an american citizen might be -- those families could be separated, but i think what's interesting here, is, as you mentioned, the president is preparing for reelection, governor perry is the governor of texas, you know, a huge hispanic population, a huge immigrant population. at the end of the day, the latino vote is something that they both desperately need. and this is not something, given the kind of grassroots activities happening online, this is an issue that is not going to go away. in my mind, this is going to be

one of the key issues of this campaign. >> if the president wants to prioritize immigration reform further either between now and the campaign or whenever he can, with this congress and with the politics of immigrant and the republican caucus being what they are, is there anything else he can actually accomplish, did he do as much as he could do administratively, is there anything else he can do? >> at that point, people feel as if this is as far as the obama administration is willing to go. you have to give him credit, it is unprecedented the way they formed the committee, but what i think what's missing here is really the truth and honesty from congressional leaders on the other side of the aisle, on the republican side of the aisle. i mean, we are talking about an issue that is not just political but personal for a lot of people, one out of six americans is hispanic many of them, you know, have undocumented family members or co-workers, mind you,

not all undocumented immigrants are hispanic i'm philippine, so what's fascinating here and what's really sad in a way is that as all this political and electoral posturing happens, people's lives are in limbo, and all the stereotypes, like, for example, i'm sure you heard about the hero in new mexico, the 22-year-old guy that saved the life of the 6-year-old girl who happens to be an undocumented immigrant, he's married to an american citizen. that's a mixed-status family. under certain laws, this guy in albuquerque might get deported, but this is the kind of reality that we're dealing with. >> jose antonio vargas, founder of defineamerican.com, doing some incredible advocacy on immigration reform issues, thank you for joining us.

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you want to go to canada, which direction do you go? actually, you go south, counterintuitive, i know, but ontario cuddles michigan on top of lake erie there, so in order to get to windsor, ontario, you sort of drive south across the detroit river, southeast essentially. one way to get there is to drive across the detroit river on the ambassador bridge. it's privately owned by the billionaire and is opposed to the idea local officials on both sides of the border that there needs to be a second bridge, a second bridge, of course, would be competition for this guy, so

the owner of the existing bridge does not want that second bridge, and in michigan, when big power and money are involved in a decision like that, things can sometimes get ugly and quickly. >> sheets of paper meant to look like eviction notices showing up in this neighborhood monday. >> do what you're going to do and stop playing games with the people. >> fake notices asking residents to protest the new international trade crossing project. >> stop scaring the people, stop trying to intimidate the people, help the people. stop playing politics. >> it's an underhanded, sleazy way of getting people to fight against the bridge. >> in the fine print it says they were the work of americans for prosperity, a group against the bridge. >> for them to pull a stunt like this, i mean, if you can't argue something on its merits, then you don't have a viable argument. >> neither the group nor the

bridge company responded to our request for comments. >> the amount of stress this is going to cause people, it should be illegal. >> it may not be illegal, but it is slimeball politics, those eviction notices, michigan style. that was a video report from the detroit free press. they do excellent video reporting on their website. coke brothers funded group americans for prosperity is the group that sent out the notices in detroit to scare people into opposing a revenue stam and they spent the rest of their day twirling their mustache and cackling easily. meanwhile, michigan is facing upheavals that have roiled other parts of the southwest, in wisconsin, back lash against scott walker an the legislation there, of course, led to recalls of state senators, two republicans lost their seats in the recalls, republicans are now

down to a one-seat majority in the senate that doesn't support the governor on their stripping of union rights in wisconsin. in ohio, back lash against john kasich and the legislature there has led to a recall campaign against ohio's union stripping bill itself. a recall/referendum that has so much support governor kasich called uncle. they are willing to compromise on the law if democrats and unions would call off the vote. the group's response was yeah, right. they'd be delighted to sit down with the governor about a fresh start and compromised law, all the governor has to do first is get the republicans to recall the old law or watch while the voters of the state of ohio do so on november 8. in michigan, the back lash against governor rick snyder and the republican legislature of michigan has a recall campaign there too, but their recall

campaign is 26 times over, there are 26 recall petitions circulating now in michigan to recall the state's draconian effort. there's one to recall the legislative sponsor of the measure, one to recall governor snyder himself, and to recall more than a dozen other officials. as if michiganders haven't been subject to enough this year, this one sounds like a new one. this audio was posted of a robocall that has been reported in michigan in the midst of these efforts against republican governor rick snyder and his emergency financial manager law and other officials, listen. >> this is an identity theft alert, petitions are being circulated door-to-door and at public locations throughout the county that require your name, your address, and your signature. the state of michigan does not

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there was a little sort of undernoticed moment on the not quite campaign trail in iowa that seemed to be kind of a snippy confrontation between a citizen and politico, in this case, a woman who says she's a alaska president and todd palin, the husband of former alaska governor sarah palin. first glance, this was a woman, almost personal snip fest between the two of them, very tense, but then todd palin said something here in this little snip fest that i actually think in retrospect is key to understanding at least why a lot of the people running for president right now are, in fact, running for president. listen to what todd palin says here. >> we're from alaska. we were sick when she quit. >> what would you recommend? what would you recommend doing when you had $700,000 over your head? >> well, you go for the money,

obviously. that's what she did. everybody in alaska thinks she sold out. >> when you have that much money over your head. what would you do? hundreds of thousands and dollars and all this debt hanging over your head. >> it's not there anymore, is it? you got quite the deal. sell out. >> the husband of sarah palin telling a woman confronting him in iowa this week that his wife stopped being governor and started doing what she's doing now, this is part of her new iowa-specific campaign ad out today, todd palin said she started doing this and stopped being governor because she had a lot of bills to pay. and that actually explains a lot. not just about sarah palin but about what everybody is doing in the republican presidential field right now. [ man ] behind every business is a "what if."

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this channel, msnbc, was founded as a cable tv channel in 1996. but it was not until about ten years into msnbc's life that this channel really began to

solidify its place in the market and really started to take off. in the interim years in that first decade, one of the things that msnbc did that people do not believe this company did, one of the things that msnbc did that seems patently impossible in retrospect but i know for a fact happened, one of the things msnbc did in its first decade, was it broadcast a tv show for 23 weeks that was called "allen keys is making sense." >> also, a reminder the chat room tonight is busier than the court office at the court. the mere fact i raised that question proves i'm a nut. hold up. stop there, please. don't talk over me. don't talk over me. we'll cut your mike up if you don't stop when i start. >> clips from "allen keys is making sense." that's the name of the show. if you have to insert in the name of the show the host is making sense, it tells you

something about what the people think the host might be. something has taken over this network when this show's name gets changed to "rachel maddow's blazers sure fit good." michele bachmann did this on the campaign trail in iowa this week. >> before we get started, let's all say happy birthday to elvis presley today. happy birthday. >> michele bachmann said that not on elvis presley's birthday, but on the day that elvis presley died, then this from michele bachmann yesterday. >> what people recognize is that there's a fear that the united states is in an unstoppable decline. they see the rise of china, rise of india, rise of the soviet union. >> soviet union. you may also remember michele bachmann on the campaign trail saying she was proud to be from

waterloo, iowa, because that's where john wayne was from. >> what i went them to know is just like john wayne was from waterloo, iowa, that's the spirit i have too. >> john wayne is not john wayne the movie star, but the serial killer. michele bachmann also gave a shoutout to lexington and concord for their work in the revolutionary war, not as a shout out to a neighborhood state or a generic america, she did it when she was in new hampshire because she thought the massachusetts towns of lexington and concord were towns in new hampshire. >> i love new hampshire and what we have in common is our extreme love for liberty. you're the state where the shot was heard around the world. >> no. you know, people make mistakes,

i make mistakes all the time, constantly. candidates make mistakes. candidates do not usually make this many mistakes, though. and here's the thing whether or not gasps like this from michele bachmann are important politically for her. michele bachmann, as far as i can tell, like allen keys, michele bachmann is making sense. her candidacy makes sense, there's a reason why more than a god fly, less than a contender candidacies are an important part why republicans run for president. one of the outcomes was him getting a tv show on the cables, which not only paid him, but helped him maintain his influence. he ran for president again in 2008 and runs for senate every time you turn around. he even moved to illinois to run against barack obama. running for office is a career strategy for allen keys. pat robertson ran for candidate in 1998.

he came in second at the iowa caucuses, got lots of attention before parlaying all of that into all sorts of ways to make money and make his influence, his television empire grew. since then he has published about a dozen books, plus the thing about the diamond mine he owned with the dictator in liberia, plus his age-defying shake recipe that allows him to leg press 180 pounds whenever he wants. like allen keys, a very good thing for paul robertson's career, also good for mike huckabee, mike huckabee won the iowa caucuses, was he going to win the republican nomination? who cares, when all was said and done, he was a host. four books, plus audiobooks, got his history dvds for kids. one of the reasons mike huckabee said he wasn't going to run this time is because he'd be walking

away from a pretty good income. there is a reason there is not a broad democratic party parallel here. i mean, there are individual democratic candidates here and there that have tried to do the same thing, but the republicans do this wholesale, every year, a lot of their candidates are following this path, that's because the conservative movement that overlaps with the, is in constant need with conservative celebrities. they've created this market. becoming a conservative celebrity, speaking things and the publications and direct mail and giant tv network and religious tv networks, the conservative movement needs celebrities, people who whether or not they have won political offices are famous for being conservative. they just need to be well known, they need name recognition and stay conservative headline grabbing things, and a presidential campaign is a great

platform to do that. it's a great place to build the brand, as they say. whether or not every twist and turn and mix up between the serial killer and movie star is a newsworthy thing this year, i think that's up to the individual news agency to decide on about michele bachmann's candidacy. but whether or not the candidates like michele bachmann and rick santorum and herman cain, whether or not those folks stay in the race, that isn't really a judgment call, that isn't really a mystery. that, like allen keys, is making sense. joining us now, chris hayes. chris, it's good to see you, thanks for being here. >> i think all cable news hosts should be showed the clips of allen key's making sense. >> the title of the allen keys show, the name of the show is one of the most profound things to happen. >> it's pretty sweet. >> i was trying to think about

it. i went with "rachel maddow's blazers fit well." >> which is adorable. i don't know if it's exactly proper. >> if you try to advance your critics, their argument with the title of your show. i don't know. it's a challenge to all of us. are you going to be telling me i'm underestimating michele bachmann? >> i think you're underestima underestimating, no. i do think you're underestimating the megalo mania, it's unclear how self conscious the strategy is, you're right about the broad structure of the incentive and monetary, intense monetary incentives for people on the right who run for president, and the sarah palin phenomenon itself blew open the barriers, but i think, and it's impossible to get a sole x-ray, but i think her husband thinks that and the

small knit circle of advisors think that too, and all sorts of people who have no chance of being presidents of the united states manage to convince themselves they will, in fact, be president of the united states. >> why don't we see -- and tell me if you disagree with the premise, but i don't think we see the same thing happening with democratic presidential candidates. i think it's an odd thing when it happens with democrats, do you think it's true there isn't balance here on both sides? >> i think there's an imbalance on the scale about the fact conservatism in america is a multi-billion industry. self consciously conservative conservatism, there's a whole universe of platforms. there are people, rachel, there are radio talk show hosts that almost no one who is watching this program have heard of who have millions of people who listen to them every day. you can go to the new york times

best seller list and see four or five right wing authors on that list. sometimes people i have never heard of, and i sort of think about this and cover this for a living, so there's an entire universe and industry and it dwarves the scale. look, i write for "the nation" magazine and that's how we make money, selling subscriptions to liberals. there's nothing wrong with it per se, but there's a certain point whether people are doing this for the right reasons, whether they are ideological warriors or a racket. >> whether or not, what it tells us about them as individual candidates and the potential trajectory of them as candidates and whether they are good, bad people, all that, then the most interesting part of it, but then there's the political impact, i wonder if it's possible to separate off, to hive off the

people trying to build their brand and set them apart from the people running to be president, because the presence of the brand builders makes the presidential context that much more stupid and craven. >> i totally agree, yet what would be the procedure one could plausibly apply to the field to do that separation? i mean, you know, michele bachmann is polling quite well, thank you very much. there are -- i mean, there are certain candidates who were excluded from the stage, gary johnson and buddy roemer who we had on the last word last week, congressman, people with credible records who are not on the stage, i don't think are running to be celebrities, but if you say well, herman cain is just running for this reason, herman cain saying no, i'm running to be president of the united states, it's hard to think of how you would go about making that separation, but i agree that it does produce a

circus atmosphere for sure, particularly in the early stages of the republican primary. >> chris hayes of msnbc and "the nation" magazine, obviously, cleaning up. thank you so much for your time. >> that's right. thank you, rachel. mostly "the nation." >> i understand. it's friday night, so we are especially grateful you're spending an hour watching this show, it's friday. as our friday viewers know, after the show is done, it's time for the show about the prison, right? but before we're done on the show, we have a new story for you about the show about the prison. also about me and the republican governor of florida. [ female announcer ] so you think your kids are getting enough vegetables? maybe not. v8 v-fusion juice gives them a full serving of vegetables plus a full serving of fruit. but it just tastes like fruit. [ male announcer ] get five dollars in money-saving coupons at v8juice.com. in money-saving coupons or creates another laptop bag

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due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. we put the train in the prison. debuknion junction. florida governor rick scott pulled the plug on "lock-up"? florida because i advertised him on the air. is that true or false? false. the production team signed a $110,000 contract with the florida department of corrections to fill inside the santa rosa correctional institution. not florida paying florida but florida paying "lock-up." florida department of

corrections touting the benefits of having lock-up to come in. the head of the department ed bus who worked as head of the team said, "i have no qualms of them coming into our prisons. i hope this will help floridians understand the challenges we face as a nation with our inmate population. a few days later the "lock-up" production team starts filming inside and then suddenly this week on wednesday, florida's republican governor rick scott pulled the plug on the whole project. his stated rationale, the stated department of corrections did not have the authority to grant this contract and failed to vet the contract with the staff before signing it. the feeling is it was outside the scope of the department of

correctio corrections perview of the state. i don't know if it's going forward at this point. in reporting on the canceled "lock-up" controversy, i prefer to think of it as principal pointer-outer. we had to prove or debunk he is that thinned skinned. the florida department of corrections said, "other contracts were pulled, too. it wasn't just yours.

snchl "what they were, we do not know. "lock-up" was not singled out which suggests what is not any cause or effect situation in florida. and further tonight, governor rick scott's spokesperson e-mailed us flatly denying the suggestion that the primetime cable news needsling led to the k efre kebosh. there you have it. we had nothing to do with it. this is a full-on debunktion provided you believe him. that concludes our allotted time on the network tonight. now because florida or no