change, not because of political implications but human implications if republicans fight this there will be massive political implications they should get behind this and not seed the fastest growing group to the democrats and i'm not sure they will. "now" starts now. >> as violence spreads in the middle east, new reports say israel rejected parts of secretary of state john kerry's latest ceasefire proposal. it's friday, july 25th and this is "now." >> new reports say israel rejects certain elements of the proposal for a cease fire in gaza. speaking from kir row, secretary kerry said of the plan, we still have terminology in the context of the framework to work through but we are confident it will ultimately work. according to reports, israel wanted modifications before

agreeing to end the hostilities, hamas is yet to respond to the proposal. after 18 days of fighting, the battle is no longer being fought in gaza, 10,000 people took to the streets in the west bank again today for what was declared a day of rage, chanting with our soul, with our blood we will redeem gaza. five people were ki8d in the protest bringing the death poll in the west bank to seven. israeli aircraft struck 30 houses killing a leader of hamas and two sons. hours ago a group of u.n. workers came under fire from forces while surveying the damage from yesterday's shelling. hamas continued the rocket fire launching 35 rockets from gaza, ten of them intercepted by the iron dome. joining me now is managing editor bobby goesh and senior fellow steven cook. i'll start with you, steven,

from your reading of the various reports that have come out, it seems there is a framework that is slowly being agreed to for some type of cease fire. what do you like israel would like to see to move forward? >> i think if you look at the framework and conditions that secretary kerry has set out, there's really nothing in it that the israelis argue with. i think they want more time. if you look at -- former israeli ambassador to the united states, the statement in t"washington post," the goal it to destroy hamas and discovery of the tunnels are a major threat to the israelis and they want more and more time to do as much damage to those tunnels as they can. i don't think there's anything in this, the israelis may be haggling over some terminology here but they are bargaining for

more time. >> bobby, one thing that's starting to fester now you see is the demonstrations in the west bank. we're 18 days into this conflict, starting to see deaths between protesters and there's a fear there could be a third infat at a arising and if there is in fact violence in the west bank and you have two fronts about this battle, what does that mean for the possibility of peace going forward and future of israeli/palestinian negotiations? >> this is a very serious business. west bank has been quiet, fat ta has been quiet for this ep tint period. it opens up the possibility of a two-front war for the israeli military. they are already taking casualties in gaza against hamas. if they have to fight the war in fro different fronts, they will

be quite stretched. they have overwhelming superiority of arms, there's no question of them losing but it would mean they would wind up having to kill more people. we've seen the kind of international criticism that is israeli attracted in gaza, there will be even more when innocent civilians start dying in the west bank. there's also politics to consider here. there's nothing really in this proposal that the israelis can argue about, but there's a political dimension. last week there was another peace proposal and hamas -- israel said yes and hamas said no. that brought enormous pressure on criticism on prime minister netanyahu for agreeing to something that hamas rejected. this is israel in some respects going early. israel wants to reject it so they don't wind up looking like patsies here. hamas is not going to agree.

the terms they have set are not terms anybody, israel or any of the -- >> the blockaid is extremely difficult -- john kerry is not going to agree to that. israel is preempting hamas a little bit. >> you originally saw this unity government between hamas and fattah that they tried to move against that. read the anecdotal stories through the news reports, i read one that said i want my son to join ham a. the way forward for the palestinian people. this seems to have dire consequences now the area of the west bank which some folks would say was a little bit more moderate than what you saw in gaza, they seem to move to the more extremist elements of the palestinian lieadership -- >> first of all it's a fallacy they were not strong on the west bank. they have been strong on the west bank but the palestinian authority and palestinian police

have kept them bottled up for quite some time. but this entire operation in the outpouring and demonstrations last night and today belie the idea that israelis would be weakening hamas as a result of this military operation. in fact, they are galvanizing the population and images coming out of the gaza strip and idea that hamas is resisting after all of this called the islamic resistance movement. it is part of a political identity at this point. it is galvanizing people to come out into the streets and express their support for hamas. it forced the palestinian authority to take their own police off of the streets. i think this is a worrying development but it does to some extent in a cynical way serve israel's interest. israel has said it doesn't have a partner for peace. the stronger hamas is it becomes a self-fulfilling pro fetcy. >> it traces back to the three

deaths of teenagers but it seems we have been in this constant cycle of neither side wanting to essentially move from what they would ultimately like and case of hamas and even fattah, you read this idea, we don't want to go back to the status quo. it is an economic blockade and we get appoipower for a few hou ago. how can you negotiate in that context, people in gaza, saying enough is enough, we're fed up, we would rather live in a war than live in conditions we had prior? >> that's exactly the problem, luke. both sides, israel and the palestinians, hamas, in this case, are making demands that they must know will not be met ahead of any kind of cease fire. those demands they have to start negotiating after a serious condition cease fire after the shooting has stopped. >> that's an extremely difficult thing for hamas to agree to --

>> israel says we want the right to remain within gaza territory because that's the only way we can guarantee security, get rid of the tunnels and deplete the missile stockpile that hamas has got and destroy hamas open completely. hamas is saying we're not going to talk unless you lift the blockade, these are positions that have not moved in 18 months. for john kerry, that is some indication of the scale of the difficulty of what he's trying to achieve. >> it seems this set the region aflame, the kidnapping -- >> different corners of the world. >> steven, i'll finish with you on this point, moving forward, this is different than it has been in the past because of the impact of social media. do you think that israel will perhaps eventually agree to lift the blockade of gaza because of international condemnation they are receiving in europe or go back to status quo just peace

until another tinder box explodes? >> i don't think we're going to go back to status quo but i don't think the israeli will lift the blockade, their feeling is they are always condemned by the international community. it's clear the israelis have said enough is enough and want to do as much damage as they can to destroy hamas. we may agree that's full's errand but it seems as if they are preparing themselves for a wider separation. the israeli defense minister before we went on air told israeli soldiers to prepare for wider operations. i think the tendency is going to be now there's a discovery of tunnels leading from gaza into israel in contrast to the tunnels from egypt into gaza, i think the israelis tendency is going to be let's destroy the tunnels and maintain the blockade and tighten it. >> and the conflict will go on. after the break, president obama

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been at risk as consequence of the rise of unaccompanied children traveling from central american countries to the u.s. border leaving the homes in central america and making a journey that poses great dangers to themselves. >> the meeting comes as the new york times reported the administration is considering a plan to grant young people from honduras refugee status still in their country. mean while a legislative solution from congress looks far from promising. lawmakers have five days left to respond before the august recess and today house republicans appear to be hardening their position, cutting $500 million from their original $1.5 billion proposal in addition to wanting changes to a 2008 anti-trafficking law to speed up the deportation of minors.

they plan to hold a vote challenging the president's 2012 executive order deferring deportation for dreamers. >> we need to go and work with the president to do away with his executive order. >> do you support that as part of what you do? >> yes, i do. you have to go forward -- and the president owns this and we want to make sure he's held accountable. >> it didn't pass congress or the house or senate. the only thing it passed was the president's lips. >> the hardened stance is part of an effort to bring enough hard line conservatives on board to get 218 votes because they will get little sport from house democrats. still, even if house republicans could agree on a plan and pass it, it will have no chance of passing the democratically controlled senate which plans to vote on the own solution next week. joining me now, senior senator from connecticut, senator

richard blumenthal. thanks for being on the program, appreciate it. >> thank you. >> you recently came back from the border region and said this about any changes possibly to the 2008 human trafficking law, quote, i'm very reluctant to change the law because i think the children face death, murder and vicious abuse and persecution if they are returned. those are pretty strong words and says that house republicans however don't believe that, they want to change that law. if you believe it's going to be persecution and murder those kids go back to, that's a pretty hard thing to overcome and compromise on, is it not? >> what i saw and heard, not only by the faces of these children, 6, 8, 10-year-olds but also from the border patrol agents who interviewed them from the advocates and local officials were stories of threat, of vicious persecution,

violent abuse, gang war fair, driven by a drug trade that has moved from colombia to those countries in central america. what's needed at the border now, not only more humane conditions, cell blocks and cages i saw there, but more better adjudication, more expeditious individual assessment so that there can be a determination, fair and just with due process as to who is threatened, who deserves asylum and expediting that process really part of the answer, not just returning everyone to a possible or near certain death in honduras and guatemala and el salvador but address the drug trade. >> with the clock kpiring though, congress is essentially gone by friday of next week for a six-week recess. this is a very difficult thing to figure out a compromise with in that time frame. do you think we could go to the

summer recess without congress moving forward on a unified plan to deal with the border crisis? >> there must be a compromise. if we can't agree a humanitarian crisis exists at the border and i really think we are in a disgraceful state right now. the united states stands for something bigger than dollars and cents. i spoke to the mayor in texas and i really expected him to say to us, by the way, this was a bipartisan trip to the border, his town was overwhelmed, they were resentful about the burden placed on them. in fact, he said, we are welcoming these children. they are in need of help and refuge and many of them is eye lum. this is what we do as americans. we care for people in the midst of humane tear yan crisis, that's the better nature. >> do you foresee the presidents who are there meeting with

president obama today, they are calling for more aid. do you see something in the future along colombia, billions of aid to shore up security there and provide economic opportunity to try to stop the gang warfare related to america's drug consumption? >> very much so. dealing with root causes means enforcing law enforcement, reinforcing their police who are all too often corrupt and also providing more resources for our military. you know, i spoke to some of our military leaders just yesterday who told me they know where these drugs are going. they know the roots and can see them literally threw intelligence and surveillance but can only stop about 20% of them right now because they need more helicopters and boats. that's the kind of investment against the drug trade that can help deal with this flood of migrants at the root cause. remember, also, here's a really

very important point. most of these children, the vast majority, maybe as many as 90%, have moms and dads already in the country, aunts and uncles here, some relatives and family members. >> senator richard blumenthal, we appreciate it. take care. joining me now is congressional reporter ed o'keefe and professor at the lbj school of public policy, victoria soto. thank you so much for joining us. ed, you had wonderful interviews with the president of honduras and guatemala, really focusing on their view of the conflict. it's always so often americanized here. i want to play a snippet about what the president of hon dur ras views is the real issue at hand. >> translator: your country here in the united states is the largest consumer of drugs and what happens with that is you manage to resolve the problem by

separating the violence from the consumption of drugs and for many, public officials here the problem is a matter of health. what is it for us in central america? it's a problem of life and death. >> absolutely striking words right there. a lot of it deserved to america and ed, that's the mindset of the central american leaders that hold on, you might have to deal with few thousand kids who are refugees but it's because of what you do that the problem exists. >> exactly. it's an important reminder as congress fumbles through what exactly to do. let's face it, five days to go, they are not going to get it done. it's impossible. they are polar opposites on this and there's no reason to believe in the next week they are somehow going to be able to solve this. they'll come back after the august recess and reassess it at that point, that's what seems to be happening? as they visited washington, don't make this a kras political

debate. remember, there is human life and human dig nilt at stake here. what they are arguing, if the united states would take 10% of the money they spend that we spend along the u.s./mexico border and invest it into three countries, that perhaps that would help solve the problem. the presidents said both, you have these great big agreements with mexico and colombia having dealt with the issue, what's in the middle? it's central america. you've squeezed the drug violence into us, that's why our citizens are trying to leave. whether or not that will be a convincing sell in a city that's deadlock remains to be seen. >> victoria, one thing we could possibly see as a solution is this idea you could see the u.s. trying to dechair refugee status to try to dispel people from making the journey. what would that mean for the future of this debate? >> luke, i wish we would have started here. kids are making a 1,000 mile

journey in reaching our border, not having to go through the dangerous conditions and budget and costwise, it would have been a lot more effective for the u.s. to not have to expend all of the resources, the bottom line here is, in this move of talking about what we can do in honduras and having conversations with the presidents of central america, we're targeting the push factors of immigration. immigration is a big dynamic process that has pull factors and push factors. we need to understand what is going on in the countries sending people over. it's not about what we do once we get. i think looking there is where we should have started with. >> and ed, you know as well as i do that if they do in fact punt on this, this is a huge issue for a lot of these republican guys when they go back for town halls. blake said of this quote, i was talking to one member who said,

yeah, if we don't do anything, i'm can selling all of my town halls. those guys will get hammered for any vote. a lot of folks will see that as amg nesty no matter what. what does that play in the debate for the future? >> if everyone allows this to fester for five weeks, it will be a topic of concern. poland sh there are ten to 20 house republicans for whom the issue could become a big deal. in colorado, texas, florida, midwest, few seats in the northeast, if they go home having not sefld this issue, they'll be confronted on both ends of the argument, you can't do anything or doing too much. that might create an opening potentially. certainly republicans will be uncomfortable going in.

>> vickie, quickly, we're hearing now reports from republicans saying that there should be elimination of it is the reason the deferred action gave dreamers in 2012, the reason for the increase at the border. what would the ramifications of that be, a reappeal of dak ka? >> it is one very small part of the whole immigration issue. i go back to the last response, luke, we need to focus on the push factors and it is a good program. let's leave it intact and deal with the problem of violence in central america. >> thank you so much for joining us. we appreciate it. >> coming up, new reports of attacks on the ukraine border as the u.s. issues a stern warning about russia. details on that next on "now."

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the kremlin continues to deny involvement in the conflict. mean while, the site where the remains of the m 817 exploded, there are no signs of investigation. there are no recovery workers and no guards and no police officers and no investigators. wasn't exactly the game change everyone had predicted. status quo still in effect in ukraine and russia. just ahead rand paul made latest pitch to the national urban league. we'll talk about the rand revolution. don't want to miss that, next on "now." i get a little bit tempte♪ ♪ by the chocolate all around ♪ turn around brian! ♪ this bar has protein oh yeah!♪ [ female announcer ] fiber one. the porter was so incredibly... careful... careless... with our bags. and the room they gave us -- it was... beautiful. a broom closet.

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mean, i'm trying to find out what the connection is. >> yeah, that was the old senator rand paul speaking to a group of howard university students just last year. today at the national urban league, we got to see the new and improved senator rand paul. >> frankly, it's easier to arrest and convict poor kids in urban virmts. not only do i support the civil rights acts and voting rights act, i'm a republican who wants to restore a federal rule for the government in the voting rights act. anyone who thinks race does not still, even if inadvertently skew the application of criminal justice is not paying close attention. republicans though, you know, they say we're sometimes accused of believing in no government. the point out this fallacy, i often joke, i'm for $3 trillion worth of government and spending what comes in. >> but paul's comfort level

isn't the only thing evolving so are his positions. in may he described his views on voter suppression, this is nothing wrong with it, i don't object to having rules with how we vote. in 2010, here is how paul tip toed around the issue of the 1964 civil rights act. >> would you have voted for the civil rights act of 1964? >> i like the civil rights act in the sense it ended discrimination in all public domains and i'm all in favor of that. >> but -- >> you had to ask me the but -- >> i don't like the idea of telling private business owners i ab who racism, i do believe in private ownership at the same time. >> that was the old rand paul. joining me is casey hunt who interviewed senator paul in cincinnati and from washington reporter for the daily beast,

ben jacobs, casey, great interview with rand paul. i want to play a clip of it and get you back on the other side. >> do you think private businesses should be allowed to discriminate based on race? >> no. >> you've changed from when you said before you were concerned about that title -- >> never said before. >> you're not concerned about any the titles in the civil rights act anymore? >> what a difference four years makes, casey. >> quite the difference. the overall change in tone is part of why senator paul wanted to come to conference here today and why as he's looking towards a 2016 bid, he's trying to make it appear as though he's focused on reaching out to minorities and expanding the republican party. as you can see some of the places where he's tripped on this in the past, a lot of it has to do with his sort of libertarian roots. i asked about that in the interview. he went on to say while the republican party has always been

the party of lincoln, focused on how republicans were originally fighting against slavery, he didn't answer the question about whether it was libertarian ideology did or didn't have some troubling racially related past issues. so i think that he's very definitively trying to lay out a set of policy positions that he thinks can appeal to minority communities. he came here today and said i'm introducing a bill to eliminate the disparity and sentencing between crack and powder cocaine. he criticized mandatory minimum sentences and got a relatively warm reaction. i will say they had to delay the start of the speech because there were so few people in the auditorium at 8:00 a.m. when he was set to begin. >> it is early. ben jacobs, you did touch on the point casey just brought up, this idea you wrote in your piece, quote, instead of voting rookts advocacy puts paul in a unique position going forward, increasingly the republicans push a libertarian brand of

compassionate conservative without the big government trappings of the bush era. can you do that? can you be a compass nat conservative libertarian? >> it's a difficult needle to thread but it's one paul is in the process of evolving how he does this, part of what the bush administration did with compassionate conservatism was finding a faith based way to reach out to americans to try to deal with that talking about charter schools. a lot of what he's talking about with voting rights, to keep folks from minority backgrounds from being able to find new jobs as well. >> casey, rand paul is certainly developing quite the platform for the republican party for folks who are inspired by his father who wanted to go somewhere. we have an nbc marist poll doing

better than most any other gop contender in a hypothetical. is this working for rand paul right now? >> i think at this point there are some ways in which he is the front-runner right now for the 2016 nomination. i put that question to him in our interview. hey, sort of indulged the question and said it's good not to be dead last. so i mean, he's pretty open even more so as candidates are doing this sort of very careful i wear i'm not yet running for president dance they have to do leading up to the next election. he's pretty open about it and courting donors in silicon valley and wall street. he has that grass roots network and some of the early states that's left over from his father. many of the paul supporters are very, very good at the kind of early organizing you have to do in those early states, it's grass roots and door to door. in fact, they had taken over the iowa republican party for a

while. they've since been thrown out. we'll see if that effects him on the ground going forward. >> absolutely. ben, i'll finish up with you, a lot of democrats i speak to, hold on, hold on, this is still rand paul we're talking about here. he's obviously putting lipstick on a pig when he does stuff like that. we can get at him for his economic record, his plan wanting to privatize social security and medicare and institute a flat tax abolish the department of education and cut the safety net to a large scale degree. those are large scale problems for rand paul if he ever were to make it to the general election. >> those certainly are large scale problems if he makes it to a general election, this still moderates his image that no one expects that he'll win the black vote or get a third of the african-american vote. but this move forward and smooth some of the rough edges may not be putting lipstick on a pig as

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mary burke is trying to sell us on her experience at her family business but forgot to mention that they make 99% of their bikes overseas in places like china, where her company is outsourced jobs for years.

>> wow, no, that campaign ad is not from president obama's 2012 re-election, it's the latest in a series of attack ads none other than scott walker, correct, walker is attacking his democratic challenger mary burke's record as ceo of trek bicycle, founded in 1975 by burke's father. the company since expanded and employs 1800 worldwide and generates $600 million in annual revenue. burke put out her own ad last week. >> mary burke helped build trek into a company where almost 1,000 wisconsin people go to work every day making more bikes in the u.s. than anyone. it's walker's agency that gave millions in tax breaks to companies that relocated jobs overseas. >> if walker's ad coming from a man one of mitt romney's staunchest defenders on issues

of outsourcing sounds like a political gamble, it may be because it comes on the heels of a new poll. joining me now, washington correspondent and associate editor, john nicholas to discuss all of this. john, scott walker being called out by that bastion of liberal thinking "wall street journal", democrats don't understand how free markets work and cynically exploit workers insecurities, mr. walker is better than that. not the best idea to make an ad criticizing a home grown wisconsin company like trek bicycle? >> i don't think so. it's a very interesting circumstance. one of the ugliest thing in politics is a politician who thought he was in good shape and sutdly finds polls are running bad for him.

this attack on mary burke has a real air of desperation to it and it becomes problematic not because of the attack on burke, candidates attack their opponents, but the advertising has been so harshly focused on trek, which really is a beloved company in wisconsin, a company that employs 1,000 wisconsinites and a company that decided to push back. it isn't mary burke herself pushing back. trek itself bought a full page ad in the milwaukee sentinel saying this is really unfair. >> trek has 1,000 employees in wisconsin and over $50 million payroll in wisconsin. and went down a whole list of commitments to charity and other things and governor put himself in a position very rare for a democratic or republican governor of attacking a home grown business that actually has

a lot of roots and still a lot of employees in the states. >> politics 101, never attack a home grown business under any circumstances. walker is well known in wisconsin. this will be the third state over the last four years. there seems to be an incentive for his team to try and define who burke is. her name recognition is not up there yet. people are still finding out who she is. do you suspect this will be close as more people get to know mary burke? >> the prairace is already clos wisconsin is an intensely divided state and has been for quite a while. usually a battle ground state in presidential races and clearly divided over scott walker's policies. almost 50% of people still say they don't know enough about mary burke to form a full opinion on her and yet she's tied in the polls with scott walker. clearly that's why he is

attacking so aggressively -- we should be clear about this. outsourcing is a legitimate issue but to attack with this level of intensity suggests to me that he's really trying desperately to define her at a point before people get to know her. >> real quickly, we often hear about democrats glum over the senate. when it comes to governor's races they have a good shot. tom corbett has been left for dead essentially and john kasich, rick scott, big important states going into 2016, how big would a knockoff of scott walker be for democrats this cycle? >> it would be absolutely huge. remember, scott walker's positioning to run for president in 2016. knock off a presidential contender two years out, that's a big deal. >> thanks so much. have a wonderful weekend. after the break, a top white

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folks, keep your eyes on this. the white house is preparing for -- wait for it -- the i word, senior aide said i saw a poll that a huge portion of the republican party base saying they supported impeaching the president. a lot of people in this town laugh this off. i would not discount that possibility. it is a cnn/orc poll, showing the majority of the country opposes impeaching obama, one third of voters support it,

fiver noted that sarah palin recently called for impeachment and argued republican leadership is making outcome more likely, saying speaker boehner by going down this path of this lawsuit has opened the door to republicans possibly considering impeachment at some point in the future. boehner has repeatedly denied any intention of impeaching the president including when i asked him directly about palin's comments. >> what is your response to governor palin? >> i disagree. >> what about the folks in your conference calling for -- talking about impeachment? >> i disagree. >> his comments come a day after the rules approved the proposed lawsuit claiming the president overstepped during the rollout. >> this has nothing to do with the law. this has everything to do with trying to manage some of the

extremists in your party, some the cook koo clocks talking about impeachment. >> the committee vote paves the way for a full house vote which is expected next week before congress works for summer recess xs paul ryan told chuck todd he would vote yes on the lawsuit. it's worth noting if republicans go through about legal action it would likely take years to make its way through the federal courts and in the meantime democrats are seeing unexpected benefits. they announced it outraised the republican counterpart five-fold amongst small donors atribt buting it to boehner's lawsuit. could be a huge, huge, story. that's all for "now." alex wagner returns monday. the ed show is coming up next. thanks for hanging out. take care. good evening, americans and

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