with hoda. notice the hand, dear friend. she has serious boyfriend, willie is happily married but there is a hand on willie and -- >> very tender. >> something very familiar, like they're going through hoda to kiss. >> just cooking. >> great news right there. >> we have learned -- all right. this is the end of the show. if it's way too early, it's "morning joe." but what time is it now? >> right now, it's time for our old pal, chuck todd. chuck, take it away. >> tame as it ever was, president obama plans as much immigration action as he can, without congress. but can he really do that much? and does anyone think it will break any log jam in the house? also this morning, the high court handed down a narrow decision that still took everyone to their talking points. find out how the hobby lobby

case will end up shaping 2014. plus, just how clean is clean coal? this week's tdr 50 state is wyoming. and they boast that they have the cleanest coal of all. we'll talk to the governor about what that means. good morning from washington. july 1st, the second half of the year is under way. this is your campaign 2014 headquarters. president obama acknowledged what everyone else in washington already knew. immigration reform is dead in 2014 and likely until the end of his presidency. the president announced he will try to use executive power to make changes to the immigration system without the help of congress. >> i take executive action only when we have a serious problem, a serious issue and congress chooses to do nothing.

and in this situation, the failure of house republicans to pass a darn bill is bad for our security, it's bad for our economy and it's bad for our future. >> can you tell if the white house secretly love this is boehner lawsuit? anyway, the president announced he will take executive action by the end of this summer to, quote, fix as much of our immigration system as we can. he has asked our team to report back to him with recommendations. the fact that he doesn't have them yet it's clear that he doesn't know what they could really do that's substantial without congress. immigration rights groups held protest in nearly two dozen states over the weekend, asking the white house to stem deportations, which are up. 111 million immigrants, the president is focused on the immediate border crisis, sending a letter to congressional leaders saying he will request,

planning to beef up a border surge and speed up deportations and repatriation of the children. increasing penalties for coyotes who smuggle innocent migrants like children. stepped-up effort to address the causes of this increased migrati. n. secretary of state john kerry meets with the leaders of el salvador, honduras. 150 border patrol agents would be moved immediately from other parts of the country to the rio grande valley. >> the journey is not safe. i continue to stress this. those who are thinking about

sending your children on that long, over 1,000-mile journey need to know it is not safe. >> remember the request for more funding, more help and more resources is totally separate from the larger immigration debate. that's a vote the house is going to have to take up. and how they do it this year, i have no idea. it's unclear how much more the president can do on the other immigration issues. the white house says the president decided to act on his own after speaker boehner told him last week that officially the house would not vote on any immigration legislation this year. responding in a statement yesterday he said, quote, in our conversation last week i told the president what i've been telling him for months, the american people and their elected officials don't trust him to enforce the laws as they are written. until that changes, it will make it impossible to pass this issue. can't trough the president, why

pass any laws? strongman for why immigration reform for them seems impossible politically. before that, remember the roadblock was border security. >> the american people expect that we'll have strong border security in place before we begin the process of legalizing and fixing our legal immigration system. >> border security funding is actually up under president obama. last year congress funded customs and border protection, $1.7 billion, 64% more tan in 2006. to over 21,000 last year. truth is that immigration reform is dead because house republicans are afraid of the politics. pure and simple. they are in the worst political box i've ever seen. if they pass immigration reform they will split their party in two and it could be disastrous for them for a few years, if not a decade. if they don't, it will probably cost them the presidential

election, not just '16 but perhaps 2020 and 2024. compromise only happens when both sides believe there is a political benefit at some point for them. republicans believe they will have bigger problems internally if they address immigration than if they don't. any political advantage for them in the short term. the scars of rhetoric will take years to heel with the hispanic community. longer this goes on, the longer it will take to heel. this moment has been building for at least the last six months. by february, politics of immigration reform were so bad a former advocate said if boehner touched immigration this year, it would cost him his gavel. >> we start with immigration reform in 2014. is it mostly or completely dead? well, on thursday after six weeks of raising expectations, after rolling out immigration principles just last week, house

speaker john boehner abruptly slammed on the brake. >> i have never underestimated the difficulty in moving forward this year. >> people are going nuts here. i keep getting e-mails and now cokie has sent me a sound bite. i keep mentioning amnesty today as i can't believe it. amnes amnesty. rush, rush, rush, boehner has said there won't be any this year. >> jarring change in tone from the change in immigration from the 2013 republican party autopsy to the statement yesterday. in 2013, this is what the rnc said. we must embrace and champion comprehensive immigration reform. if we do not, our party's appeal will continue to shrink to its core constituencies only. from the same rnc monday for years the immigration has neglected our borders and

precipitated the current crisis through its executive order. president obama's reactionary response does not solve the root problem of our broken immigration system. both sides say reform is dead. tweeted this yesterday, we're all frustrated that immigration reform hasn't moved in the house but potus dismissing u nichltlateral action doesn't help. but others, like graham, have been notably silent. immigration reform may be a net positive for democrats in the presidential year. it may be a positive in 2014 in places where there is a significant hispanic voting bloc. there aren't a lot of senate races this year that will be decided by the hispanic vote. colorado may be the only one. immigration couldn't pass with a republican president and republican congress. it couldn't pass when democrats

controlled the executive and legislative branches in 2010 and as of yesterday we know it won't pass with a democrat in the white house, democratic senate and republicans in charge of the house of representatives. it's hard to imagine that a future republican congress and democratic president is somehow going to get this done in the last two years of the republican presidency. jennifer palmieri joins me now. good morning to you. >> reporter: >> good morning, chuck. >> the president is asking his attorney general and secretary of state of homeland security for what ideas on actions he can take. i take it if you're asking for them, it means you guys don't really know what you can do. is that a fair assumption? >> well, it's that the president is asking to conduct as thorough a review as possible. two pieces to it, one that will happen right away, which is to move resources from the interior to the border, to aid when the situation at the border with the

central american immigrants and as part of that, you would prioritize from the interior deportations of criminals, people who have criminal records beyond their status and so that's likely to have an impact. the broader thing is to report back by the end of the summer of what you can do. and the charge from the president was pretty broad, it was to fix the immigration system. and we'll do something now on enforcement, but he is asking them to look broader than that. >> let me split this in two here. there's the broader comprehensive immigration reform we've been talking about. but then there's the short-term crisis at the border. >> right. >> $2 billion you're asking for. that's something you still need from congress, right? this is not some -- this is not some executive action you can take to deal with this, right? you still need -- >> no. >> -- $2 billion appropriated by the republican-led house of represe

representative. >> that's true. they're working on what that number is going to be. that will probably happen next week. we are going to need more funding to deal with the situation on the border. so, that's dealing with housing the children, transporting, processing, providing judges to do adjudication processes. so, yes, we actually need that money and we're going to need congress to be on board and working with us on that. >> when do you need it? >> that's why we wanted to put a marker down this week, just to give people a sense of what that might be and come back next week when congress is here to do that. >> is this something you need by the august recess? this kind of emergency funding? >> i'm not quite sure. it may be -- we'll see what the budget office comes back with in terms of timing. they're look at what kind of resources we have now and at what point they're going to run out for those that are providing from hhs as well as dhs that are aiding the border. >> there's one report in the "new york times" that there are

actually some work permits that somehow the president could either create or expand on his own without congress. what is that, exactly? did you share a sense of what that is? >> i can't share a sense of what that is. there are -- but there's -- you know, these are the types of things that dhs -- the president wants dhs and the attorney general to look at. when i say these types of things, it's, you know, what beyond just making the enforcement of our laws more humane, what is it that you can do proactively in the absence of legislation. >> do you believe -- >> proactively that would aid people who are here. >> do you believe right now that the border is less secure because of this crisis right now, that border patrol agents are being distracted and they can't monitor, for instance, the attempt by drug cartels to smuggle drugs across the border? >> i can't determine, myself, if

it is actually less secure. it is certainly -- you know, resources are certainly being strained. we are -- it's true, though i'm not sure if people understand this. that when people from central america come across the border, they're generally looking to be apprehended. it is not a question of us trying to find -- people are coming over the border, coming to us in order to get processed. i don't know that it's quite the situation people imagine it to be. clearly, we are straining our resources there. and that is why we want to make sure we are getting the funding that we need so it doesn't become a problem elsewhere in the border and we don't have a broader security issue. it's one of the things that we're concerned about. >> and finally, do you believe that speaker boehner's threat of a lawsuit against the president on these executive actions has empowered you guys at the white house to do more? >> i don't know that it has empowered us to do more. we are doing more.

this is something, you know, the president met with the speaker last week and he made clear that they were not going to be able to move forward. it took us a couple of days to figure out what the parameters of the president's announcement would be, but to move forward with his executive authority. the speaker came out later to make his lawsuit public. we would argue to the american people, as the president did yesterday, congress should act. if they don't, he's going to do what he can. if they want to sue him to stop him from doing their job, i guess that's up to them. we'll see how the american people react to this. we're going to stay on our course. >> you don't believe the lawsuit -- you're not look at the lawsuit and it's not giving you second thoughts about announcing any new executive actions? >> no. no. it does not. obviously, everything we do, we do in the confines of the law and it doesn't give us -- it's not going to be part of our calculation, it certainly will not slow us down. i think that's what it was designed to do. and so we'll stay at it.

you'll see us talking more about actions. the president is doing that with his cabinet, at his cabinet meeting. >> jennifer palmieri on the north lawn of the white house this morning. communications director for the white house. thank you so much. >> thank you, chuck. it may be closed for the supreme court. the repercussions of the hobby lobby verdict, how both sides can exploit it for the upcoming election. the president speaks at the washington harbor. that's a little place where a whole bunch of people get drunk at happy hour, back in the day apparently. they still do that, i'm told. but somehow they're going to be talking about the key bridge and bridges. we'll be right back. it's simple. a body at rest tends to stay at rest... while a body in motion tends to stay in motion. staying active can actually ease arthritis symptoms. but if you have arthritis, staying active can be difficult. prescription celebrex can help relieve arthritis pain

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now to the 5-4 supreme court ruling in the hobby lobby case and a sharp difference of opinion. supreme court justices seemed to go out of their way to shall a narrow ruling, saying they were limiting its legal implications. on the other hand the political implications of the decision may be much greater. the court ruled that the obama administration's mandate to pay for contraceptives -- even dissenting opinion argued that it opens the door to challenge any number of laws on the same ground. the mantle tried not to set a precedent, arguing that it only applies to what it called closely held for-profit companies and other forms of discrimination wouldn't be allowed on similar grounds. justice anthony kennedy called for a ticket for one day only.

democratic opponents of the decision have been discussing the limits of the ruling. instead they seem to be going out of their way to frame it as a larger political battle overwhelm's health. >> president obama believes that women should make personal health care decisions for themselves rather than their bosses deciding for them. >> you know, i know it's a spectrum but all these kinds of decisions about women and women's rights and women's bodies and women's roles are on that spectrum. thankfully, we're far away from a lot of countries that don't even issue birth certificates for girls because they're soworthiless, why record their births? we're very far from that. but this kind of decision raises serious questions. >> democratic senate candidates have jumped on the issue, using it to attack their republican opponents and there's reason to think it could bear political fruit for democrats. while 48% of men believe

companies should be exempt from the contraception mandate just 35% of women agreed with that. 59% of women said they should not be exempt. to those on the winning side of the decision, this wasn't about women's health at all. it was about constitutional right rights. >> women's voices are heard, standing up for religious freedom, about women and men and something that all americans should celebrate today. thank you. >> senator john mccain called it a victory. and speaker boehner described it as another defeat for administration that has repeatedly crossed the lines. dennis hastert, amy howell and former white house counsel bob bauer. as the interpreter of the middle, was it a narrow decision or not? >> it was a fairly narrow

decision and the majority took pains to say this is one ticket only. we're not handing every corporations everywhere sort of cart blanche to say we don't want to do that because it conflict with his our religious beliefs. on the other hand, we are going to see a lot of challenges in the months and years to come based on religious beliefs. but the court made very clear, we think this is a very narrow decision and in part it was made possible, in fact, by the fact that the obama administration carved out for churches that didn't want to provide access to birth control for their employees. they said we can tell there is another way to do this. in this particular case where there is an easy way to do this, we're going to say that hobby lobby don't have to do it. >> you would argue what? in your political hat, you would argue what? >> i'm probably better with my lawyer hat. >> can it be one in the same in this case? >> a slight difference of opinion with amy about this. it's a now you see it, now you

don't type of an opinion where there's an appearance of narrowness but the implications are very broad. take the closely held corporation, for example. you suggested that the case is open to closely held interpretations. their basic position is that all corporations essentially represent the sum total of the beliefs and alcohols of the believers, the shareholders, the employees, the officers. there's nothing really to distinguish closely held corporations from others under the court's analysis. >> only these nine people, basically what these five are saying, that they wouldn't, that they're not going to accept a larger company trying to do this? >> the court decides cases on individual facts brought before it. they try to inti dmate we shouldn't be concerned t doesn't prejudge, in any way, future cases. >> john, you're a veteran of political wars. it always seems that the losing side ends up the political winner, right? it motivates a base in some way. >> right. >> i've seen it on the right in

social issues in the past. it motivated, galvanized. are you fearing this could galvanize the left a little bit? >> there's less here that meets the other. i don't think this will be overwhelming enough to take the spotlight over from president obama and his polling numbers. as amy said, it's a pretty narrow decision, doesn't eviserate completely obama care. i don't think it will have that long-lasting effect. >> there's a shift, it started somewhere in 2012 when this contraception debate began and republicans basically bungled it. >> there's no dousbt, republicas understand that. democrats understand this is their best chance. it's a dismalelection cycle for them. the question is, will they be successful in making this case the centerpiece of the election?

i don't think so. >> i want to go back to this idea of the majority trying to say this is unprecedented. they tried that with bush v. gore. there were plenty of people who sued based on bush v. gore and it has been used as precedent even though we were told it wasn't going to be. >> it has been used. given, really, the -- how hard the majority worked in this case to lay out all of the ways in which this was a narrow decision, we will certainly see challenges. and some of these challenges will probably come back to the supreme court. and so in that sense, it is a narrow decision. did they leave the door open for future challenges that are a little bit broader to succeed in the future? maybe so. >> and, bob, i guess i wants. one, if the president hadn't done a carve out for religious groups, do you think, at least if you listened, if you read anthony kennedy -- forget the other four. >> i don't know that we can forget the other four. >> no, i understand, but kennedy

clearly was the uncomfortable fifth justice of the majority. >> what he had to say was sort of short and i'm not quite sure on impact how much we should put on that, how much we should weigh that. but let me say something about that opt-out arrangement. the court basically says there are two ways that -- two other means by which women's reproductive services can be secured. one is by the government paying for it directly and the other is through this arrangement available through nonprofits that want to certify that they don't want to provide the cover. the responsibility shifts to the ensurer. the court also says that it's not clear that that option is legal. it's not clear that it's consistent with the very statute that they're construing. now you see it, now you don't. >> what you're arguing is they've invited a new challenge. >> there's some uncertainty that the relief that they're offering really here is real, that there's something there that people can really put their hands on and say we'll protect the rights of women in this

circumstance. >> this, you expect more lawsuits to come? do you think this is one of these things where, particularly on the right, they think, you know what? we're going to chip away at health care. if we do it a lawsuit at a time -- >> absolutely. on this show i predicted months ago that this was going to happen and the right would continue to try to chip away at obama care. >> in little ways. >> because they hate the law. they're going to keep going at it. they're well funded. it's get morgue excitement to go forward. >> what is on the docket that you think could end up finding its way that's coming up in the next term that could be similar health care? >> similar? there's already -- based on yesterday's decision, the u.s. court of appeals for the 11th circuit ruled that a catholic tv network did not have to provide -- exactly, does not have to provide health insurance that includes access to birth control for its workers and certainly they could -- this particular ruling yesterday, the families had been objecting to four particular kinds of birth control. iuds. >> this is the full --

projecting all of it, right? >> exactly. objecting to all of it, based on their religious beliefs. lot lots to come. >> may i point out that hobby lobby's lawyer, oral argument said it objected to all forms of contraception. although it was focused on morning after pills and iuds -- >> the court has not taken up that issue. >> it has not. we're talking here about an opinion that seems to distinguish reproductive health services for women from almost any other medical service and that's going to trouble women in this country. >> thank you very much. on the southern campaign trail with a little surprise in louisiana. plus, hillary clinton chimes in on the mississippi mess where chris mcdaniel still won't concede. today's tdr trivia question, which senator was the first to hire a female senate staffer? first person to tweet the

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>> the republican party of mississippi expanded its base. it reached out to democrats and, particularly, black democrats and said join with us thad cochran is a better choice. and they succeeded. now there is a lesson in there, expand your base. get out of your comfort zone. actually talk and listen to people you don't agree with. and build back that sense of trust, which is the glue of any democracy so that we can start making the hard choices that will give us the american dream for this generation and all generati generations to come. >> looking good, walter. former secretary of state seems to be taking the view that cochran's efforts were more about politics than simply done out of desire to keep his seat, offering a hit of how she wants

to portray herself. meanwhile, mcdaniel campaign still hasn't succeeded, by the way, is aggressively pushing around accusations that they say is vote buying by the cochran campaign, complained by many of preconceived stereotypes of what some of their supporters believe is done with the african-american vote. there's accusations of vote buying and things like that. nothing has been substantiated yet. that's not the only in-filing, though, inside the magnolia state. evan alvarez, of college republicans announced he would resign his position and plans on becoming a democrat. gop has left the tea party -- has let the tea party have too much of a voice in the republican party. and in today's data bank, 20 million. that's how much the republican super pac american cross roads and its super groups are shelling out in the fall. five of the six are all in red states. american crossroads spent more than $10 million on ads they want to put up in alaska,

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million short tons of coal, more than the next six states combined. that year they generated over a billion dollars for wyoming's economy. new regulations being imposed by the epa would take a bite out of wyoming's coal profits. >> it will significantly improve harmful carbon from power plants, looking at opportunities to shift to lower or renewable carbon technologies and also to look at energy efficiency. it's really using the clean air act the way it's supposed to be used. >> the problem, some say, is that the proposal, which would slash carbon dioxide emissions to 20% by 2030, would hit coal plants particularly hard. that's because they're responsible for three-quarters of the energy sector co2 emissions, producing twice as much carbon dioxide as natural gas. even wyoming's coal, which has

some of the lowest sulphur in the nation, still gives off co2 than gas. a broader transition away from coal and will leave wyoming, he argues, paying the price. >> the president has a war on coal. he promised before he ever got the job that he was going to end coal. that makes a tremendous difference for wyoming and america. >> joining me now, wyoming's republican governor, matt mead, who joins me on skype. thank you for joining me this morning. >> thanks for having me on, chuck. >> how much of the economy do you attribute -- could you balance your budget without revenue from coal? >> we're a conservative state and would continue to balance our budget. certainly it would be hugely detrimental to our state to have coal reduced. but i think the broader

question, chuck, as i've said, certainly it will hurt the state of wyoming. the question is, how will it hurt the country? and coal is 30% -- responsible for 40% of the electricity in this country, affordable sense and it helps to keep us competitive. the question is when you put a target on coal's back, not only how it will attribute wyoming but more broadly, it will hurt the country. we're fighting for coal with everything we have, both for the state of wyoming and for the country, to provide coal to about 35 states. it's critical for the country's future for us to be competitive and to reach that goal of energy independence. >> do you believe the country's reliance on coal should be reduced over time? obviously, look, you have paragraphochial interests in wyoming and i get it. big picture, considering the data and the science that's out there, coal versus other forms of energy, do you think over time the country should look at reducing its dependence on coal? >> the way it's looked, we ought

to look at the market. one of the other things that is not recognized in wyoming is we can be a leader in renewables as well. we're getting ready to put up one of the world's largest wind farms. it ought to be competitive, it ought to be market based. what they're doing now is trying to target coal with rules and regulations rather than suggesting innovation and technology. that's what wyoming is doing, saying, listen, we have a vested interest in this. we're going to look at innovation and technology. we didn't make changes -- we didn't get the light bulb because rules and regulations on candles and that's what's happening here. rather than recognizing it's a very valuable energy source and let's work to improve it, by rules and regulations they're trying to kill it. >> well, but let me actually challenge you on that point. rules and regulations have created innovation in the past. sometimes it's reluctant innovation. it's created innovation and suddenly there is more efforts being made, perhaps, if there is such thing as a cleaner coal.

>> well, the issue is the technology is not going to come as some sort of abstract environment. coal companies and all those who rely on coal have to know there's a future for coal. otherwise the technology is not going to come there. and when there's not just the recent rules but layer upon layer of rules and regulars that seem to just target coal, the future doesn't look as bright. and so it's not that we're saying there shouldn't be rules and regulations, but there should be a balance there that will provide environment for innovation and technology can thrive, where people are going to invest in coal rather than walking away from it, because it looks like it's trying to be killed. >> what's the bigger threat to the coal industry, federal government or fracking? >> i don't think fracking is a threat to the coal industry. you know, we're three or four natural gas, number eight in oil. we have to have fracking for energy independence. like i said i think the market will allow those to compete. the bigger threat, to answer your question directly, to coal is not fracking.

it's not natural gas. it's not oil. it's not renewables. it's unreasonable rules and regulations. >> is there -- i guess let me go back to the question -- you sort of ducked it before and didn't really answer it, which is do you think we should have a goal of reducing our independence on coal? >> no, i don't think we should have a goal of reducing our independence on coal. the goal should be energy independence and how do we do that in a way that is clean, innovative and look at all energy sources. the fact is there's 1.3 billion people in this world who are in energy poverty. it's premature to start taking energy sources off the table. coal is the fastest growing energy source globally. >> right. >> and this is one of the few countries that's looking to change that. and if you take away all coal, that's still going to be the case, it will still be the fastest growing energy source. so my answer remains the same. i don't think it ought to be taken off the table. i don't think it ought to be removed or reduced.

we ought to look at innovation technology to make it efficient. >> how do you incentivize the organization? if you do believe there is a technical way to make coal cleaner, to burn coal cleaner, how do you basically force that innovation without some sort of rules of the road that demand it? >> you look at what the state of wyoming is doing. take a look at leadership on this. got a lot of money on the legislation, to look at the innovation prize. looking at the slip stream that comes off our plants and rather than having that as a liability, use it as stock for chemicals, for food stock. these are the things that we can do. and this is the sort of thing that wyoming is doing. university of wyoming, we put about $50 million in recent years for innovation and technology. these are things that can be done and that we are doing. you look at what the federal government has spent on renewables versus co2 research it's a skewed balance there. and so i would encourage look at the fact that this is a leading

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