sometimes pop culture can function like a national church where we can all come together and deal with our greatest problems and seek peace. 60 years ago, that big ugly monster did that for japan. that does it for the "the cycle." "now with alex wagner" starts now. congressman you have the spotlight. darrell issa exit stage right. this is "now." >> benghazi. >> benghazi. >> benghazi. ♪ >> let's start with benghazi. >> the scandal house republicans can't get enough of. >> house speaker john boehner is forming a select committee. >> another select committee? another investigation. and more partisanship. >> there've been 13 hearings on benghazi, 50 briefings, 25,000 pages of documents released. >> there may be other documents. >> what we really need to do is get our hands on the documents that the white house has been withholding.

>> benghazi. >> benghazi. >> benghazi. >> peter king acknowledged that there is kind of an overreach danger. >> republicans could be seen as somehow encouraging a political fight over the fact that four americans were murdered. >> it is a political stunt. >> benghazi seems to not have resonated other than on fox and a couple of other groups. >> everybody knows it's a political stunt. >> it's a conspiracy theory without a conspiracy. >> they're all tried and true red herring. >> benghazi. >> benghazi. benghazi. >> 13 hearings, 25,000 pages of documents already handed over. over 50 briefings. a smoking gun at every turn, but still no fire. and yet with nothing else they can seem to agree on, benghazi will be the gop message in 2014. >> we want the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. >> what did secretary clinton do to secure that facility? >> leading up to an election.

they knew right away it was a terrorist attack. and yet that was not pushed by the administration. >> they're hiding things. when they say this e-mail doesn't matter, these are the same people that tried to hide it. they saw benghazi, i think, as a threat to this re-election. it wasn't a fog of war problem they had. created a political smoke screen. >> today john boehner officially con officialed that after 20 months benghazi torch is being unceremoniously taken out of the hands of darrell issa and passed off to south carolina congressman trey gowdy who will chair the committee on benghazi. just like congressman issa, gowdy insists there is coverup. there is evidence of a coverup, but he just can't disclose it yet. >> i have evidence that -- that -- that not only are they hiding it, it's an attempt to hide it.

i have evidence there was a systematic way to withhold documents from congress. >> apparently there is no cure for the gop's benghazi obsession. it's a candy store for the conservatives. they lwill not, cannot let it g. perhaps there is is convoluted logic to this hysteria. the benghazi conspiracy complex has been built with a singular purpose. to tarnish hillary clinton who just so happens to be a likely subpoena target of the committee. so benghazi happens to be a fever making republican obsession that also happens to function as a really, really premature attempt to derail the hillary clinton 2016 campaign. but there is another reason house republicans continue to build additions and tack on all sorts of new wings to the benghazi conspiracy complex.

and it has to do with republican in-fighting. doesn't it always? after months of ignoring calls to form a select committee, house speaker john boehner finally relented on friday. his camp insists that is because, quote, the new e-mails this week were the straw that broke the camel's back. the speaker is sick and tired of this evasion and obstruction from the administration. but what about boehner's frustration with his own people? a source tells roll call that boehner's call to convene a special select committee came only after house armed services chair buck mckeon last week dissed darrell issa in public by discrediting one of his benghazi witnesses. mckeon's comments set off something of a turf war and leadership saw the need to compartmentalize the investigation going forward. so wait. was darrell issa actually the straw that broke the camel's back? more specifically, was darrell

issa's colossal mismanagement of a highly dubious scandal that also happens to be the only thing republicans have left to talk about was that the thing that made the speaker sick and tired enough to finally call a house select committee on benghazi? as nbc's first read explains, boehner needs to control this more, and a special select committee actually allows him to call more of the shots and parenthetically keep darrell issa out of the spotlight. joining me now is the democratic congressman from maryland's eighth congressional district and the ranking member of the budget committee, chris van hollen. thanks for joining me on this absurd and all pervasive topic in republican circles. >> sums it up. good to be with you, alex. >> let me first ask you, do you think the house select committee is a power play by speaker boehner? >> no. i actually think that speaker boehner has gotten back into this in some ways. for the reasons you just said.

he has in-fighting within his caucus. you have the fact that the tea party has been pushing very hard for the special committee for a long time. outside right wing republican groups. and he resisted it because i think he understands that this spectacle of a political witch hunt in washington when we've got all these economic issues in front of us, when republicans refuse to raise the minimum wage, that that doesn't go over well with the american people. but i think he's now been pushed into it through events. and i think the american people are absolutely fed up and at their boiling point with this. so i think it's only bad news politically for the republicans. because this is not something that is on the kitchen table for the american public. they're focused on jobs and the economy. now you've got these guys in washington doing this political witch hunt maybe to get hillary clinton in 2016 but certainly not to focus on the issues that people care about now. >> congressman, if it is, in fact, a farce and a witch hunt, are democrats going to

participate in this? >> well, we're going to oppose the establishment of this. the point you made in the lead in is we've had thousands and thousands of pages of testimony for committees in the house. two bipartisan committees. so this is a waste of taxpayer money. we'll have to see how the structure the actual committee. my guess is they'll have to create something that's lopsided, that will not have an even number of republicans and democrats. so the speaker hasn't actually put his proposal forward. but we're very skeptical. >> there is some talk that leader pelosi might not appoint anybody and there would be empty seats. is that a possibility? >> that's an option. because again, this is a political witch hunt. the question will be whether it makes sense to have, you know, democrats in those seats countering this political witch hunt or to try and make it clear through their absence that this is just a political charade. let's first see what republicans actually propose in terms of the

shape of this community, how many members, what the rules will be. and then we can reach the kind of judgment that you're asking about. >> congressman, let me ask you just from a political perspective and a strategy perspective, this is obviously something that riles up and motivates the republican base. they seem to have lost some of that fire given the success of the affordable care act. on the flip side, could this actually in some ways be good for democrats because of all the reasons you outlined? it serves to highlight just how little the republican party stands for at this point. the policy, this inaction in congress, the way the house has not pursued anything meaningful in terms of legislation but is putting all of its chips down on benghazi. >> well, look. from a policy perspective, this is just wrong headed. because we've seen the facts don't bear out these conspiracy the theories. i do think it's a political mistake for republicans. other than the frenzy tea party right, most americans understand

that we've gotten to dhe bottom of this, number one. and number two, are focused on these other issues. it's like the government shutdown last fall. speaker boehner knew that would be a stupid political move in addition to being bad for the country. and yet the tea party wing in the house of representatives pushed him into doing it. this is the same thing. he'd been resisting this. now he's going for it. i think it's going to come back to bite republicans politically. it's certainly the wrong thing at this time. >> chris van hollen, thank you for your time. >> thank you. >> i want to bring in now dave weigel and brian boyler. do you think this all ends in tears much like the congressman outlined? the government shutdown ended in tears for republicans. >> well, i think the fact that the committee has been established at all is the victory ta the conservative base wanted on this. if you go back, really from january from the inauguration of

barack obama, conservative groups had been asking for a select committee to be created. the reason boehner held off on it for so long, i think congress van hollen got to it. there's a specter of going too far in investigation and it backfiring. of your members accusing people of crimes that they can't be proven and asking for impeachment immediately. i think what happened was the base dragged boehner to it at a certain point and i think boehner has more confidence that some of the e-mails that will have revealed the administration not taking this very seriously, that those themselves can become scandalous. i think that's the next shoe to drop which is not related to the night of september 11th, 2012. is trying to egg the scandal on so you can get a subscandal you can investigate next. >> brian, what of trey gowdy's leadership if we're going to call anything the select committee on benghazi something

worthy of leadership, but compare him in terms of, you know, pursuing this and in a way that maybe not just fringe republicans will listen to the findings. will he be better than darrell issa? >> well, he does have a prosecutorial background. i think that could aid him. i think he'll be assisted in just these other committees especially the ones like armed services and oversight which are at odds with each other. if they get sidelined a bit, maybe republicans can focus on whatever it is they want to focus on. this is dwindling to the issue whether it's appropriate for operatives to say that the administration they work for is working hard and is in control in the midst of a scandal is somehow unseemly. but it's kind of trivial. and i think that will ultimately be gowdy's biggest problem is trying to re-blow this up into something that, you know, people will actually want to sink their teeth into. >> this is all coming as a result of the release of one e-mail. dave, in terms of the ultimate

goal here to tarnish hillary clinton, to keep up this momentum through 2016 and of course hillary clinton has not announced her actual candidacy for the presidency. but how possibly effective do you think this could be? >> according to polling and there's not a ton, but "the washington post" had one a couple months ago. according to to polling there are lots of voters that are led to believe that the administration is covering up benghazi. that's the balance republicans want to strike. they want to keep asking questions without going overboard so they make the administration look sympathetic. that's a mistake they made in the clinton years. that's a mistake they don't want to make this time. >> worth bearing in mind, brian, that this is the week the lois lerner is going to be held in contempt of congress. they have not let any scandal go with regards to any of this stuff. i'm highly skeptical they can

keep the momentum going and do it in a way that is tasteful enough not to totally, you know, force the sympathy card for democrats. >> yeah. i mean, what has happened is the affordable care act has receded as an issue. republicans don't really have much substance ta run on. they've returned to other scandals and are trying to goad the white house into over-reaching on immigration reform. so they can turn that into an example of an ruely obama administration. i think that is what's going on. >> dave weigel and brian beutler. thank you for your thoughts. >> thank you. after the break, tomorrow may madness kicks off in north carolina as republicans prepare their first big face-off between the tea party and the establishment. we will preview the latest fight for the gop's soul when patricia murphy joins me next on "now." passenger: road trip buddy. let's put some music on. woman: welcome to learning spanish in the car. passenger: you've got to be kidding me.

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fresh off his derby day with billionaire media tycoon and fox news owner rupert murdoch, rand paul now has his mind on a different race. and not the one you think. paul was in north carolina today to tip the scales in one of the most important primaries in the country. a race that could show which party controls the upper chamber next year and the fate of legislation for the next two. the person rand paul was stumping for? senate candidate and tea party activist greg brannon. gra brannon described his bid to unseat kay hagan thusly. i was on a run at the beach. i just felt god lay on my heart. november 14, hagan seat.

whether it was endorphins and an elevated heart beat, he doesn't just invoke the devine. no, the most collection of right wing dog whistles. >> 80% of farm bill is food stamps. when you're in the house of somebody else you're actually a slavery to them. >> all ten of karl marx's men fes toe are laws in our country today. i think it'd be better if we had a militia of north carolina. that's collectivism, guys. i know people use the word socialism. i love to talk about slavery because i'm a pro-life as well. we have a baby in the womb called a fetus or a tissue. we have that holocaust occurring. >> for awhile, all that seemed to be working. as recently as march, brannon

was tied with tom tillis in a fight tr the republican nomination. but perhaps voters realized they did not want a man who compares the united states of america to nazi germany as their next senator. brannon trails tillis by 26%. joining me now is founder of citizen jane politics and daily beast contributor patricia murphy. it's always good to see you especially when we talk about things we don't understand happening in southern races. >> welcome to the south. >> exactly. so how did thom tillis do this? they were running neck and neck a few weeks ago. now he leads by a healthy margin and is expected to win. but is this truly a story of a -- of the establishment candidate triumphing over the fringe candidate? >> well, a couple of things to note here. this race is actually tightening up a little bit. a ppp poll came out this morning showing greg brannon closing that gap by nine points with

thom tillis. tillis is right at 40%. he needs 40% plus one vote to get through without a primary. greg brannon has been able to bring in people like rand paul, has been able to knock thom tillis down quite a bit. in this last week, nobody saw that coming. but what has thom tillis done right? he has spent a ton of money. he obviously is the big money republican candidate here. there's also more than $10 million of money coming in from outside the state on behalf of thom tillis. he is the pick of the nra, of the chamber of commerce. he is the establishment candidate for that reason. but you have to look at his record as the house speaker in north carolina. and that body, that legislative body has done almost the most conservative record that you could really imagine any legislative body ticking through in the last five years. so he is the establishment candidate. he also has a very, very conservative record as the leader of the house. >> yeah. i mean, i think that's -- it's

sort of the new establishment. right? under tillis has speaker of the house, you have huge, major controversial voting restrictions, loosening of gun safety laws, restrictions on abortion clinics and of course a refusal to accept medicaid expansion under the provisions of the aca. north carolina is a state that the president only lost by 2% in 2012 and won in 2008. is thom tillis, he may be conservative enough for the republican primary, but is he too conservative for north carolina voters? i mean, this is a state where you have huge progressive protests. moral mondays which are largely a channelling out of the outrage, the indignation and frustration that plenty of voters feel in north carolina. >> you know, that's the million-dollar question here. can thom tillis win tomorrow tuesday in their primary and can he go on to mount a credible challenge to kay hagan? kay hagan is quite damaged in this state.

she has a very low approval rating. obamacare is wildly unpopular. she's not a perfect candidate even for herself. she's also running in a year that is very difficult. she won when barack obama won north carolina in 2008. and that lifted her very, very strongly. even if she did the exact same percentages with the exact same people, kay hagan would lose in november just because we know that republicans will have higher turnout in a midterm election than democrats will. so she really needs to do something. i talked to a lot of democrats in the state. they said what she needs to do is take that anger toward the house speaker and translate to votes in november. and, you know, again, they have this very, very conservative record, but you look at the north carolina republican primary electorate. 58% do not believe in evolution. 52% of republican likely primary voters tomorrow do not believe barack obama was born in

america. so this is -- you know, thom tillis really has a very long way to stretch himself to be far right enough to get through that republican primary especially without a runoff and swing all the way back to the middle to really challenge kay hagan. so if he does get through tomorrow without a primary, he's going to really need to amass his resources. like you said, it's a swing state, but a state in transition. so it's a state i think still figuring out who they are and who's going to get to the polls and how is this all going to come out? the stakes are so high. i have not talked to anybody who can predict the outcome though. >> citizen jane politics and the daily beast, thank you for your time my friend. coming up, from orange is the new black to a pair of veeps, there was plenty of binge watch related humor. we'll look at some of the laugh lines next. i'm sinora and this is my son, chris. i'm a messy person. i don't like cleaning.

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on saturday night washington held its annual soiree. the white house correspondents dinner. the dinner brings together the worlds of hollywood, politics, and media for a night of self-lacerating humor. this time president obama paid particular attention to his republican colleagues in congress. >> these days the house republicans actually give john boehner a harder time than they give me. which means orange really is the new black. but i have not given up the idea of working with congress. in fact, two weeks ago senator ted cruz and i, we got a bill done together. and i have to say, the signing ceremony was something special. got a picture of it, i think. >> but the star turn came from

someone who wasn't even at the dinner. vice president joe biden who teamed up with "veep" star julia louis-dreyfus for what was hands down the best vice presidential buddy film of all time. ♪ >> what? what the hell are you doing? >> come upon. >> yellow? seriously, yellow? >> get in the car. >> oh. >> hey salina, hi joe. >> a wwhat are you doing here? >> getting my tattoo done. >> bring it on. >> oh, yeah. bring it on. >> if the whole presidential thing does not work out for mr. biden in 2016, may we suggest a ray ban spokesmanship? coming up just ahead, hundreds of teenage girls

kidnapped by group bokko haram. but it was only their parents armed with bows and arrows who looked for their daughters for week. nick kristof joins me coming up next on "now." if you a me about shingles, i'd say, did you ever have chickenpox? 1 in 3 people will get shingles in their lifetime. guess which one i was. kidnapped by group boko haram. (meow mix jingle)

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three weeks after over 300 school girls were kidnapped by islamic militants in nigeria while taking a physics exam, the group in charge of that abduction boko haram claimed responsibility today. in a video the leader shekau said i abducted your girls and will sell your girls in the market. something allah told him to do. i will marry off a wo m at the age of nine. boko haram which translates to

western education is sin. has killed over 1500 people in nye gigeria so far this year. yesterday nigerinigeria's presi goodluck jonathan made a vow to find them. whoever the girls are, we will get them out he said in a broadcast. until now the government has not conducted a formal search for these girls. prompting protests around the world commanding their rescue. two of the women protesting the response to the kidnapping were arrested. one remains detained by the government. as it stands, no one knows where these girls may be. since they were kidnapped, their families have tried to pursue the kidnappers on their own traveling to remote forests in search of their daughters. 53 of the girl who is were kidnapped have escaped. 276 of them remain at the hands of boko haram. joining me now is "new york times" columnist nicolas kristof. thanks for joining me on an issue that has been

embarrassingly and shamefully underdiscussed. >> it is horrific. one compares the lack of search for these girls with the huge international search for the passengers in mh-370 even though there are more girls missing in nigeria. you know, and the fact that the nigerian government has let this happen and hasn't undertaken a search at all. it took two weeks for the country's president to even mention this. and then to have protesters who were trying to advocate for these girls then be arrested in turn. it is shameful at every level. >> what do you attribute their inaction to? on a certain level this is embarrassing for the state. but given the international outcry that has only been magnified this week, the relationship between boko haram and the nigerian government is a contention one. she goes on to say the nigerian

government can't be trued. do you think that's accurate? >> absolutely. the problem is general has been the nigerian government has been very focused not on suffering people in northern nigeria like these girls in the town of chibok but bombings. and their thought has been to round up every young man in sight where boko haram has support to then create more support for boko haram. so i think one reason why the government hasn't been more engaged right now is that girls in general and certainly girls in remote parts of northern nigeria are not its concern. and to the extent it is concerned about the boko haram insurgency, it's worried about the sheridan hotel getting bombed, not about girls being

kidnapped. >> what does boko haram get? what's the strategy here? instilling fear is one way of consolidating power. is it the economic incentive? rans ransom? what do you attribute their motives to? >> i think there is an economic element here. i think it's partly showing that it has some power. both sides have been trying to find soft targets. and, you know, what softer target than a girl school in chibok? you don't want to tangle with a nigerian military, so you kidnap people from a girls' school. there's also an element of these fighters being away from their families. and wanting girlfriends, wanting female company. and the way to do that, you kidnap all these high school girls. >> and on that note, the leader of boko haram said he would be selling off many of these girls if not all of them no matter their ages to husbands, sold

off. i want to talk to what is happening here in terms of sexual slavery. nigerian has the fourth largest slave population in the world. when one talks about the feasibility of selling these girls, it is entirely likely they have been sold or will be sold. >> yeah. i mean, there are indications that some already were sold for $12 each. and, you know, think about it. these are some of the brightest lights in these villages in northern nigeria. in an area where female adult literacy is less than 50%. these are girls who have been all the way through school who are on track to become doctors, teachers, lawyers. and now simply because they sought to get educated, they're now being sold off for $12 each to be the wives of militants. and, you know, what is especially aggravating to me is that if you try to think how you can effectively resist the mind seattle that leads to boko haram, you know, it's not

drones. it is precisely educating girls. and in that sense, boko haram knows what it's doing. it is counteracting the greatest long-term threat to militancy which is a girl sitting under a tree with a book. >> do you think this has a chilling effect on girls in other parts of the world or sub-saharan africa that are trying to get an education? >> you know, i'm not sure that girls in cameroon or chad or elsewhere, their parents are going to be put off so much by this. but i do think it's really worrisome we've seen militants in one place after another take on as backlash against girls' education. just as groups around the world have found one of the most effective ways to bring about change is to educate girls. i think militants found one of the best way to stymy forces of

change is to burn down those schools, to shoot girls going to school, to bomb those buildings. this is fundamentally not just about girls and whether they can learn to read but about the future of these countries. >> "new york times" columnist, the great nick kristof. thank you as always for your writing and time and thoughts. >> thanks. coming up, its recent history of bizarre and controversial legislation. remember last week's zombie apocalypse gun provision. it now appears that the state of florida is actually doing something right. the good news for dreamers in the sunshine state. that's just ahead. [ male announcer ] eliminate odors and reduce allergens with new febreze allergen reducer. [ man ] wanna see some allergens? [ together ] eww! what is that thing? they could be all around you right now. [ gasps ] ♪ how would you deal with them? um... ninjas. [ male announcer ] no need for ninjas. reduce up to 95% of inanimate allergens becoming airborne from fabrics

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we will respond to the threat of climate change. knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations. some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science. but none can overlook raging fires, crippling doubt, and storms. >> that was president obama in his second inauguration vowing to take on climate change as one of his top priorities of his final term. now years after putting other policy fights first, his environmental agenda is ramping up. and a key part of that push comes with the release of the landmark national climate assessment. a 1300 page report compiled by 3 300 scientists and experts due to be unveiled at the white house tomorrow. the draft earlier this year said climate change once considered for a distant future has moved

firmly into the present. americans are noticing changes all around them. summers are longer and hotter and periods of extreme heat last longer than any living american has ever experienced. the findings are expected to guide the president's agenda going forward. and we are likely to be at the start of another long, hot summer when he rolls out the most ambitious phase of his climate plan in june. a proposal to cut greenhouse gas emissions from existing power plants. the same greenhouse gas emissions that 97% of scientists agree have contributed to loss of sea ice, more longer intense heat waves. a changing climate is no digital abstraction. just ask people in guthrie, oklahoma, where a massive wildfire has torn through 3,000 to 4,000 acres of land. it's destroyed homes and killed at least one person. authorities say the fire which started as a controlled burn spread out of control due to ongoing drought, dry air, and

recorded heat with temperatures today approaching 100 degrees. joining me now is white house reporter for "the washington post" juliet eilperin. thanks for joining me. first let's talk about the white house push on the climate. this is something the president has been talking about since he was a candidate for the office. but one that has been delayed and delayed. i wonder from your reporting whether you get a sense of frustration coming from this administration that by and large any action on the environment is going to have to take place through executive action and the once-bipartisan coalition around it has atrophied and no longest kpiss. >> there is some frustration there's a clear road block on capitol hill. there are absolute limits on what to establish there. they see this as one of the issues where they can accomplish a number of things through executive authority that will have lasting impact. in that sense they see it as a place where they have some running room and they can really

address something that as you mentioned the president has cared about for a long time. but he didn't necessarily have the support from some of his top aides or some of his allies to move forward with it. so now this is moment where they can move on it. >> yeah. i think it's important to underscore these epa regulations are major. the effects it could have is significant. called possibly the biggest story of the obama presidency both terms included. and they are sure to be met with no small amount of republican resistance and outcry. do you get the sense in the context of keystone. until after the midterm elections that this is the sort of give and take that is sort of traditional to this administration. yes on keystone, but these sort of what the administration would probably say, bigger more substantive changes around the environment with the epa regulations. >> it's not clear right now whether they would engage in that trading. at this point it's partially they're so fully committed to

pursuing the regulations at power plants that it's hard to use that as a bargaining chip for environmentalists to say we'll give you this, we won't give you keystone. everyone know he's going to do it. the white house counselor who's obviously spearheading this climate action, he spoke to white house reporters today and made it very clear that the president was so committed to these regulations that they're confident they could override any attempt to reverse them through congress. so it gives you a sense they're all in on these rules and they see this as really the most significant action they can take in terms of addressing global warming in obama's presidency. >> yeah. and we had john on the show last week. and he spoke specifically about these regulations and called them the crown jewel of their environmental policy and echoed exactly those same points given what the supreme court ruled last week on the issue of regulating across state and interstate pollution effectively that they felt they had a green light to go for this. it is a tenacity and a

commitment to this -- an issue like this that we have not seen in a long time from this white house. >> yeah. i think it's a combination of the fact the president feels strongly about this and he's brought in people like john who has spent their careers working on these issues and are leveraging every aspect of the federal government they can to achieve this. and so you really do see a public and private commitment to this issue which we haven't seen for quite some time since the start of the administration back in '09. >> there is certainly a lot hurled around on the issue of climate and on energy production. i wonder, though, given where we are in terms of the economic -- plaguing all parts of the country, the heat waves that have been the polar vortex. every part of the country has felt a part of this. at one point the republican

party didn't believe in climate change. now climate change denial seems to be the order of the day. but i wonder given the white house commitment to this issue, do you get a sense there is back channel communication between this administration and republicans to say, look. we know you guys understand this. if not from the environmental green perspective? then purely on an economic cost benefit. do you get the sense that they are trying to win over any support from that side of the aisle behind closed doors? >> right. i really don't, to be honest. and this is something i try to keep monitoring. and so i think they feel like there are very few people in congress or particularly elected office on the federal deal they can deal with. they do feel there are governors to work with on these issues and some other state and local office holders. so there has been some outreach on that front. particularly on this issue of power plants. because it's really the states that are going to have to

implement this. the head of the environmental protection agency. to make sure some of these policies are welt executed. when it comes to that side. >> it is not exactly a sunny day, but i don't know. something optimistic is afoot here. thank you always for your time and thoughts. >> thank you so much. undocumented students in florida are poised to finally get a piece of the american dream. details on a life-changing law in the sunshine state. that's next.

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at long last, a good day for dreamers in florida. ending an emotional debate, the florida state legislature pass z a bill friday to grant in-state tuition to young undocumented immigrants who have attended florida schools for at least three years. the bill is the latest sign that in florida at least the gop is stepping back from the tea party-led anti-immigration wave of 2010. governor rick scott, the same rick scott who pushed for an arizona-style crackdown on immigration last year that guy is expected to sign the bill into law making florida the 20th state to offer some kind of in-state tuition to children brought to the country illegally. rick scott overcome by compassion or waking up to political reality ahead of his re-election bid later this year? either way, vice president joe biden delivering cinco de mayo remarks a few hours ago

announced he hopes it's contagious especially where house speaker john boehner is concerned. >> it's time for him to stand up, stand up and not let the minority -- i think it's a minority -- of the republican party in the house keep us from moving to a vote to change the circumstances for millions and millions of lives. >> it remains to be seen if speaker boehner is willing to stand up for anything, but in florida at least he has some cover to act on principle. that is all for now. i'll see you back here tomorrow at 4:00 p.m. eastern. "the ed show" is up next. ♪ good evening, americans. welcome to "the ed show" live from minneapolis, minnesota. i'm ready to go! let's get to work.

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