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we begin today, though, with a very serious issue. the obama administration says it's running out of options to deal with the humanitarian crisis on the border, calling on lawmakers to approve nearly $4 billion in emergency funding. >> doing nothing is not an option. at our current burn rate within the department of homeland security, i.c.e. will run out of money mid august, customs and border patrol will run out of money by mid-september. >> president obama may have skipped the trip to the border, but homeland security secretary jeh johnson heads there today to visit a new mexico detension center and meet with officials in texas. the crisis haz reached a tipping point, impossible for washington to ignore, with even j.lo weighing in. >> as a mom it's heartbreaking, but again i tell the stories and allow everybody to make their own decisions. >> indeed. republicans say they will not give the president, quote, a

blank check and are insisting on changes to a 2008 bush-era law which treats central american refugees different from immigrants from mexico. sonoran john mccain and jeff flake unveiled a memo thursday which would change the law requiring mandatory detention or the use of all the tiffs like ankle bracelets the it would also makes 15,000 additional refugee visas available for el salvador, honduras and ecuador. henn henry quear is also working on -- right now the republicans don't appear to have the votes to pass those stand-alone measures. nancy pelosi tells me yesterday she opposes the change, thoughi not a deal breaker. >> if it's a burning building, we have to put out the fire. i'm not going to have a conversation about the color of the buckets the water is in.

>> but democrats are making it clear they are reluctant to give away even narrow changes to immigration law. >> just as we don't tell jordan because they can -- they're being overwhelmed with refugees, you know, just send them back to syria to be killed, we have to set some examples ourselves. i can assure you that i will fight tooth and nail changes in the trafficking victims protection act. >> i hope the bill does not need amending, because it took six years to get where we are. >> all this comes as speaker john boehner, hoping to avoid the thorny issue of immigration announced hits lawsuit will focus on change the president has made to the health care law. >> you should hear some of them. sue him, impeach him. >> yeah. >> really? you're going to sue me for doing my job? >> this is a problem of the

president's own making. he's been president for 5 1/2 years. when is he going to take responsibility for something? >> yesterday florida congressman mario di's ballard, a key advocate for immigration reform pleaded with the house leadership to bring his he was told its today. alan gomez joins me live from miami. i want to just ask you right off the bat, this build that the congressman from florida had been moving forward, that was the last hope of any hope of immigration reform, and also the last hope for immigration reform in the future. for the gop leadership to shut the door on it so fervently, that has to be a real killer for anyone -- >> it was a year ago that the senate passed their version of an immigration bill.

since the beginning, john boehner said he would not let that bill come to a vote. what they were doing in the meantime is trying to develop bills on their own. for them to finally shut that down, to say that is not going to be able to get onto the house floor, that's just an indication that no way is anything going to get done. you look at the next congress, it's hard to imagine that the senate can come together against as they did last year and spend months to try to pass another bill like that. if their main concern -- the main concern that speaker boehner has indicated for passing an immigration bill is that they don't trust the president to enforce the immigration bill, you know, obama is still going to be there in the next congress. there's no way to think they're suddenly going to have a change of heart. >> while politics is surely being played with this, i think there is a moral failing here if you look at it. for lack of better words, you do have children sleeping in cages within the borders of the united states awaiting whatever their fate might be. when you talk to voters on the ground, when you talk to people

in the latino community, how is this viewed upon that this is happening in the united states and that it's become a political issue? that doesn't necessarily benefit one side or the other too much. >> yeah, i mean, well, immigration has always an incredibly political issue. it's something that, unlike a lot of issues, it really gets at people. it's something that really inflames that are eye motions in a way that a lot of other issues do not. when you look at the political reaction to that, on the one hand, they're going to have president obama there, who's been promising immigration reform since his first campaign, unable to deliver anything. on the other they'll have house republicans who had a bill that the senate passed, could have acted on it. in the last year haven't done anything on it. in the middle of that, what the president is doing, and this is what's probably going to factor the most into the upcoming elections in november, his department right now is doing this massive review of how they handle deportations.

does he protect more undocumented immigrants from deportation? does he allow some to stay on a work permit? the announcement is expected in the next couple weeks, by the end of the splismt that could go a long ways in terming whether that fast-growing hispanic electorate really mobilizes in november or do they stay home disappointed that nothing happened? >> it certainly would be fascinating to see. alan gomez, thanks for joining us. we appreciate it. >> thanks, luke. the white house has plenty of republican critics, but it's a democrat who's been one of the the biggest this morning in their side. that's congressman henry quear. he's been hammers the president irday this we're. >> i hope it doesn't become president obama's katrina moment. i'm sure that president bush thought the same thing, that he

could look at everything from up in the sky. if he wants to do the fund-raisers and after that stop by the board e. it's not too far away. >> last night i got in calls saying who are the local leaders? i hate to use the word bizarre, but under the circumstances when he is shown playing pool in colorado, drinking a beer, and he can't even go to within 42 miles to the texas border, like any crisis, i think a commander should go down there. >> democratic congressman henry cuellar of texas joins me now. thank you so much for being on the program. >> thank you. >> that's a serious charge, what are the biggest mistake that you believe the white house has made, and how many are you speaking for on the caucus? nancy pelosi seemed to say you were on an island.

>> the island i live is called the border. the border has been neglected by not only -- not only by the president, but quis honestly by other folks. we need to realize that the borders is a community, a lot of churches, nonprofits are working so hard to give the few little resources to help those immigrants that are coming across. again, i think every president, when there's a crisis, you know, he said it's not a photo op. well, what he does in colorado, that was a photo op. what i think we need to do is we know the president already left texas, maybe the door -- and i certainly left him the invitation to go another time, but i will fight for the border, i will fight for my communities. if anybody wants to criticize me for doing that, then they don't understand what a member of congress should be doing. >> now, you are obviously moving on changing a 2008 law that president bush was the person

who signed, that basically you want in central america what we have with canada and mexico, which is a quicker deportation rate. dick durbin said -- they literally shove the garbage in the middle of the stride so people can go through it rather than starve to death. let's take care we don't send them back into a deadly situation. will you be sending children back to a deadly situation? >> i'm a son of an immigrant. my father came over as a legal resident from mexico. i understand what it is to be an immigrant. i also understands what this is to be a nation of laws. we're trying to enforce the laws that we have right now. if somebody can tell me why mexico is so different from other countries, please tell me what the difference is. number two, the legislation we're going to follow will probably extra protection to

make sure that we have a day the court for those young kids who want to claim asylum, they'll want to claim credibility fear, whatever they want to claim. right now, what is it? i think yesterday they testified in the senate hearing there's about 375 kids who have not had a hearing, might be three to five years. is that process? is that what you call process? you know, how will we let them have a day in court where they can claim the relief in an immigration court when it takes three to five years? i live at the border, i drink the water, i breathe the air. my family lives there, and i understand what's happened at the border, with all due respect to other folks. >> what are the prospects for your legislation? will the house gop leadership allow you a vote on the house floor? it seems the senate will kill it off. will they allow you a vote on the floor? >> again, i don't know. i certainly want to look at a bipartisan approached to this. certainly you can have legislation, you can have amendments, add it to so many

other things. we'll be looking a the it in every way. i want to support the president by putting the right resources down to the border. we're not going to give him everything he wants. for example, why is he asking for $200,000 to hire a spanish specialist, a media specialist to handle media inquiries. we're look at those, but i want to give the president resources, eyes, border patrol, do you support implementing the national guard? >> again, i welcome any help that once it comes down there, but i understand the national guard, always does support work. i understand what the role is, border patrol are the only ones trained to do immigration reform. i want to support the border patrol. if somebody wants to kim in and supplement, sure, i'll have the -- i'll welcome the national guard. >> henry cuellar, congressman

from texas, thank you for joining us. we appreciate it. >> thank you so much. let me turn to alfonso aguilar, executive director, and he previously serbed as head of the u.s. office of citizenship under president bush. he joins us now you have been outspoken in favor of immigration reform. tell me how the felt. he was effectively dead for this year and the gop is punting it seems like until -- i really think this is a failure of leadership by speaker boehner. he was talking about t. saying that he wanted to push immigration reform. he made public the principles that would guide the debate on immigration reform, but didn't do anything to win over the

caucus to his side. he wasn't talking to conservative members. the reality is there are many members aligning to the tea party that want to do something, but feel marginalized. at the same time president obama and nancy pelosi were not doing anything really to engage anything in the house constructively to get something done. going back to the border, i have to agree with congressman cuellar, this is a katrina moment for the president. he knew, they knew that the numbers of an unaccompanied minors entering through the southern border were going on for two years governor perry told him, and they didn't do anything to anticipate the crisis. only a month ago they started redirecting resources to the border. this is a crisis of his own doing. however, having said that, republicans are wrong when they say that these kids surge of unaccompanied minors is due to a lack of enforeverment.

it's dao you to violence in those countries >> and one thing that bob corker said last year is that the provisions to border security were probably overkill. i'm hearing now that one of the reasons this is happening on the republican side is the border is not secure. how do you quantify border security in the house gop conference? it seems an impossible thing to do. >> almost impossible and everyone has a different definition of what border security is. however -- and there's something the i want said the other day in texas, he linked the current crisis with republicans opposing immigration reform. the truth is the senate bill -- immigration bill would have not done anything to prevent this current crisis. at the end, what we need, immigration is a problem of flows, of immigrant workers that come here to do jobs that americans don't want, and to fix the situation, we have to go to the root cause of the problem, and that's the flow of migrant workers. for that we need a market-based worker program, which obama

opposes ironically. >> one thing you hear from a lot of republicans is the reason we can't move forward is we don't trust the president. even though a lot of provisions take effect after the president is gone. how do you make the case to the republicans and say, this is not about obama. this is about the future of the party. >> first of all, we should do it because it's good policy, not only because of the hispanic vote, but that's an argument that i think most americans just don't buy. the president will be around for the next three years. we're going to stop governing? we're going to stop legislating? i'm encouraged, however, because when boehner announced the principles, the majority of republicans didn't say we're against them, they said let's do it next year. >> at some point, they have to take the plunge.

>> eye specially if they want to be competitive in the presidential election in 2016. >> alfonso aguilar, thank you so much. we'll be right back. ♪ and zero words per manwich. hold on. it's manwich.

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four days into the latest conflict, israel is warning that its military offensive is far from over. a ground invasion into gaza could be next. for the first time rockets from lebanon were fired into israel overnight. israel responded with artillery fire. they launched fresh strikes on gaza this morning. more than 1100 targets have been instruct since the assault began on mopped. the death toll begins rising, at least 103 palestinians have been killed, inclusion dozens of women and children. hamas has kept up a steady

stream of rocket attacks, including 70 alone. most have been knocked down by israel airon dome defense system, but at least one got through, injuring several people. this morning hamas warned it would be targeting tel aviv's main airport. president obama caused prime minister netanyahu, offering to help negotiate a cease-fire, but israel is showing no signs of backing off. on thursday, netanyahu said, quote, so far the ballots is progressing as planned, but we can expect further stages in the future. a hamas spokesman responded by saying, quote, we have nothing to lose. we are ready to battle to the end. martin fletcher joins me. what's the situation on the ground, the mood in the air. >> hi, luke, the situation is israel is all they want

continues to been an end to that rocket fire. so all of israel's attacks are serving that end. they say targeting mostly the rocket sites and the launches of those rockets. now, just a few minutes ago for the first time, the israeli army gave an idea of how successful they have been. a figure of 2,000 rockets. the israele army said they destroyed 2,000 of those palestinian rockets so far in gaza. the question is how many are there? the answer is we don't know. at one point israel said there were 10,000 rockets in gaza. if they've droided 2,000 there's another 8,000 to go, but the biggest questions, is what are those rockets and what are their range? the longer range rockets -- the one you mentioned earlier, the rocket that felt in ashtud, that was the first to really do some serious damage. it knocked out a gas station, wounded eight people.

one of the people injured in that attack is injured seriously. now the israeli army says it's ready to move in on the ground, only waiting for the order from the government to begin the ground invasion. it could happen, that decision of whether or not to invade gaza could be taken one two days. luke? >> martin fletcher, thank you. on thursday's show we heard from ron durhamer, and today we have yousef hunard. thank you so much for being on the program. i want to play for you a clip that ambassador durmer and get you on the other side. >> we've had 6 million israelis who have been in bomb shellers. these are women, children, elderly who have to spend nights in bomb shelters. imagine what would happened in the united states if you had about 200 million americans spending the night in bomb

shelters. so we have to take the action we have to take in order to protect our civilians. >> your response? >> sure. this is one of those sort of gimmicks we have been hearing so obvious from israeli spokespeople, completely devoid of any context. it's interesting that the introduction to this we had the report from martin in tel aviv, who was describing to us in detail the number of rockets, the range, all of this. rarely do we hear about the arsenal that the military maintains that it's using on a regular basis in gaza when there is rocket fire and oftentimes when there is not they include f-16s, apache helicopters, naval ships, taker artillery from all different direction, fire coming to gaza from the israeli side. i think it's important to contextualize the situation. one of the major problems with this issue and the reason why this episode we are seeing in

gaza, which we are seen before repeats, is because the only time we pay attention is when it's reached this stage. the reality is there have been cease-fires in the past, but afterwards israeli violations continue, and as that goes on, as palestinians continue to suffer under the boot of israeli military occupation, there's no coverage of this, there's no outcry until it reaching the crisis level, and then at that point oftentimes coverage is completely lacking the context that is so necessary >> there have been a huge discrepancy in terms of the palestinians killed, an this was spurred on by the deaths of the kip napping of three teenagers so far we have not seen an israeli casualty outside of that. bdv, boycott, divestment and sanctions, which you have saul all other paths for a change have so far proved infeeffectii. talk about how bds is the only

thing that can work now. >> unfortunately the state system has failed to pressure israel the necessary amount to get it to change its policies, have i avi the palestinians. we have seen through the process over the past 20 years nothing but the continued expansion of israeli settlements. the number of settlers in palestinian territory has tripled during the negotiations process. unfortunately that diplomatic process has only acted as a cover for continued colonization. at the same time, the arms struggle comes with very high costs. we see it. we see it every day. this is not lost on the people in gaza who every day are pulling now women and children out of the rubble of bombed homes. they realize this. they realize the high cost of arms struggle as well. that does not necessarily mean, though, that there are no other paths for redress of engine palestinian grievances. bds is one of the methods through which civil society can

engage, to raise pressure on israel in nonviolent ways. that's why i think it offers a very important path of giving hope for people who want to see a just peace. >> it seems that netanyahu does not necessarily care what the u.s. thinks at this point, especially president obama. they have a well-known contentious relationship. how much do you think this offensive is partly based on the idea you have seen this fractured relationship, you've seen kerry compare it as -- comments which ruffled a lot of feathers. is this sim saying i can do what they want, and the u.s. can't even get involved, because i really don't care what they think at this point? >> i think you're right to identify that attitude, and i think it's particularly disturbing when you note this is not a state that the united states is unaffiliated with. this is a major u.s. ally for which it gives billions of dollars a year, yet despite

that, it has very little ability to exercise leverage over israel to change its behavior. israel is a country that has a thriving economy, but when compared to the united states, it really relies on the united states in a variety of different ways. the united states should be able to get israel to abide by very simple things like international law at the least, and yet it's unable to do that time and time again. we should be asking ourselves why an israeli prime minister can feel comfortable in washington, d.c., opposing the u.s. policy and not hearing from u.s. officials condemnation of this. thank you for coming on the show and responding to ambassador dermer. thank you. and double trouble for scott brown. new numbers on his uphill battle to unseat jean shahin in new

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while 40% have an unfavoritable pin s brown's campaign downplayed the number saying the race doesn't actually begin until after the september primary. meanwhile, republican kellie ayotte will officialate brown's daughter's wedding in the state. not bad. turning to florida where a judge's rule may end up force the the state to redraw is the districts. yesterday, a florida judge ruled that the florida legislature illegally drew some of the state's congressional districts in a partisan manner and says they need to be redrawn. back in 2010, florida voters approved a law to make is illegal to gerrymander destructs the the judge singled out two districts, the 10th district held by daniel webster, and the 5s district represented by cory

brown. the legislature is expected to repeal the ruling, making it unlikely the ruling will affect this year's election. time for the first number in the data bank. while much of the focus so "game of thrones" and "true detective" it was another gnome that caught our attention. president obama's appearance on zach gavlifianakis' show. he urged people to enroll, and the episode quickly wen viral. don't feel bad. he has two grammy awards of his own when he did those books on tape. cutting through gridlock,

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we head over to nebraska, of course, one of our two states we've been looking at this we're in the tdr 50 sweepstakes of the nation we've been doing. nebraska features a unique form of state government. the only state in the entire country can a unicameral or single body legislature. all other states as well as the federal government have bicameral legislatures, meaning there's a house and senate, or in some cases a general assembly. but nebraska broke from the norm and has maintained a single senate since ever since the '30s. the man behind it was a man named george norris, a new deal republican who dreamed of reforming the u.s. congress. in is the 34, he managed to convince his home state to adopt

the idea. both as a way to cut spending and to increase transparency. the state also did away with party affiliations. candidates run without parties listed on the ballot, and committee chairs are elected by senate members rather than partisan caucus leaders. norris added one more wrinkle. he made is so every single bill is entitled to a public hearing, a system that still exists today. does it work? in in 1935, the last bicameral session, they passed 192 bills that cost $202,000 at the time. the first u.n. cameral session passed 214 bills at a cost of $103,000. hmm, it looks like it worked that first year. over the years several states have considered the idea of switching, but it's never panned out. one noble evidence came from jesse ventura. he couldn't get the idea out of a committee.

despite some evidence that a single-senate legislature can be more official, let's take this example. in 2012, new mexico, a similar population in nebraska passed 229 bills. another state of similar sigh, west virginia, passed 214. nebraska's legislature managed to pass 250 bills, more than either of the other states. so whether you think the system works or not, it does seem to work for nebraska. it's an interesting way in this age of polarization, maybe other state legislatures will think about adopting them if they want to get anything down out of their governments. indeed. that was chuck with a look, and why it's harder than ever to keep tabs on your state capital than with the folks who arguably affect our daily lives. plus the ballots on the border, is it helping texas governor rick perry get hi mojo? first or tdr soup of the day at adrian's cafe in overland

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it -- the sat truth is that local political reporters are a dying breed, according to a new pugh research survey. the number of full-time reporters to cover state houses have been plummeted. of the 1600 or so journalists on the job are more than half are part time. newspapers reporters make up the bulk of those coverings local government, but nontraditional media makes up 16%, setting up their own news feed to be broadcast on public television or online. >> thank you for joins us for oklahoma capital connection. >> alaskans do not live near, can watch some procedures on

gavel to gavel. >> every two years, you the citizens of arizona elect a new state legislature. now find out a little more about the men and women who represent you. >> in these segments we like to visit with members of the house or senate and talk about issues they've been working on, and how it could very much affect you. >> not every state is the same. california and texas still have a strong press corps. 19 states have fewer than ten full-time el 30% of the daily newspapers assigned any type of report to cover the state legislature. that number is lower when it comes to television, just 14%. bottom line this is an issue, because when it couple times as to government's impact on lives, local politics are what affect us the most. joining me now, three washington reporters who keep a close eye on the states. reed wilson of "the washington post," nbc political reporter

carrie den, and you wrote this wonderful story. as i travel around these small towns, some of the papers literally print the press releases that are doled out by members of congress and by members who are in the state house. there is no filter. >> that's true. that's the big problem with this. as coverage declines in the state capital, as the new industrial changes, we're seeing less and less accountability. that means not only do politicians get to spend their spin directly to citizens without any kind of filter, but the interest groups do, too. as we have seen this decline in political journalists, we have seen an increase in the number of lobbyists around state capitals. they're pushing their agendas free of any kind of scrutiny. >> that was something in 2010 that went under the radar, the koch brothers, a lot of interest groups went into state races and had a huge impact, much more

than on the federal level. >> a lot of money, and the think another effect with the press corps is that we see certainty national politicians getting more coverage than other politicians would, just because there's a robust trenting press corps, for example, an albany press corps, for example, with people like governor cuomo, governor christie, getting the scrutiny and attention they have been getting if it weren't for that. i think, you know, it can be a plus or minus for thiol politicians. in some cases it's a plus where they can raise their national profile without a much effort. and perhaps if bridge-gate had happened in another state, perhaps for christie it might not have been a problem. >> when cried dodd retired, we asked him the biggest changes. >> now i have reporters

following me around and now the main papers. austin texas, and that is the home, of course, of governor rick perry. carey you followed rick perry during 2012. it seems he's regained some of in mojo. he's coming out strong on the border issue, saying i told the white house about this two years ago, trying to position himself as an assertive leader, gave president obama a hug on the tarmac. says the new and improvement rick perry? >> remember in 2012, he was the guy who was too far to the left of his party in the gop primary. >> have some compassion. >> right, long before the oops mistake. that's when -- he said, look, you supported the texas dream act, which would have give in-state tuition to some illegal immigrant students. that sort of knocked him out of the gop primary before he really got into it. now he's able to assert himself

as i'm the one speaking power to the president, he managed to force this meeting to the president, he was in front of the air force one with obama and now he gets to be the guy that says i'm the voice that we need bigger border security. i'm a pragmatic border-state governor, i know how to handle it. >> it seems at least he's trying to fill that vacuum of i've led, i have the experience, i'm not all talk, here is a real accomplishment, and let me show you what i can do. >> as we talk about the 2016 field, i think there are at least a couple other governors who have to be ahead of the tack, given that perry has already tried and failed. scott walker in wisconsin, bobby jindal, christie in north carolina, mike pence, even john kasich in ohio is laying the foundation. i think all four, five of them have an opportunity here. perry certainly has fans, but carrie's point is dead on. his problem in 2012 was not that

he forgot a line on a debate stage, but he was on the wrong side of the party on immigration. >> do you think rick perry can raise the type of money needed to a or one of the things where the donors have made up their minds. >> it's too early to say how much money he can raise. an issue that was highly problematic for him in 2012 was playing out to be a good issue for him going into 2016. that can be something he continues to capitalize on. i think the fact that an issue that, you know, he could speak to in a good way in texas didn't always line up in a national sort of message in 2012, i think he's finding a moment because of the president is struggling, optics of immigration. he's finding a way to say the president has dropped the ball. >> and quickly. do you think he's changed mentally and knows what it takes. it would help him. >> i think he's done a lot of

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