foreign stem student graduates they should have a green card stapled to their diploma. >> he addresses that idea of stem so you'll see folks that are not going to go to other countries or competitors they will stay in the country because they can actually realize the education they had in this country. >> it strikes me if there are areas of agreement, i would hope it would be the case that everyone could work together to sort of pass those but -- >> we just had this happen last week, a bipartisan majority in the house voted for a bill and a bipartisan majority in the senate voted for a bill but the president said i won't pass a pipeline that will create a lot of jobs for union workers. we can do this and the president will block it. >> doug heye, maria hinojosa thank you. now rachel. >> thanks at home for joining us. it was a hot day in june, the summer before the 2012 election and president obama

went to the rose garden to make an important statement about a policy change that he was instituting. and in the middle of the president standing there formally in a suit at the podium with the presidential seal on it and everything set up in the very formal rose garden in the middle of all that a guy who works at tucker carlson's website started yelling at the president in the middle of his statement. and it was a weird thing to happen in any circumstance but in the formal setting of the rose garden while the president is giving an official presidential statement it was really weird and the president got really mad. >> it is the right thing to do. >> why'd you favor -- >> excuse me. it's not time. >> you have to take questions. >> not while i'm speaking and the answer to your question, sir and the next time i prefer you let me finish my statements before you ask that question is this is the right thing to do for the american people. >> the guy who was yelling at

the president as you can see there has -- see the thing there. he was a credentialed member for the tucker carlson website and not once, not twice he yells out at the president during the president's remarks that day. now during that question and answer period, no. but while he was trying to make his statement. you know, this president like every president has been heckled before and seen him heckled a lot by immigration activists, for example, and seen him quietly heckled by a conservative justice from the spect supreme court and pitfully heckled by a republican member of congress. remember the first time he addressed a joint session of congress. you lied. but an accredited member of the press, of the press corps stopping a presidential announcement to heckle the president while he gave his statement, i mean, that was just weird. it was not, you know, weird like the iraqi guy throwing the shoe at president bush, that was a member of the press corps too. it wasn't that weird.

that guy went to jail for three years for doing that but still that moment in the rose garden in the summer of 2012, it was an astonishing moment. the publication he worked for put out a statement after the incident saying they were very proud of their reporter for his behavior during that presidential rose garden address and in fact the guy still works there. that was 2012 in the heat of president obama's re-election campaign about five months before the 2012 election. and what the president was announcing that day was for a specific group of people who conceivably could be deported he was going to offer them temporary relief from the fear of deportation. people who had been brought to this country as kids when they had no say in the matter and people who have grown up and known no other home as adults, those young people, he didn't give them citizenship or legal permanent residency and green cards but temporary relief from one thing, from the threat of being deported. and the republicans lost their minds. they were very upset.

congressman steve king said the republicans should sue the president to stop this terrible thing he was doing. but they didn't sue the president and the policy went into effect. when the policy went into effect. you may remember this was the scene all over the country when young people could turn up, make themselves know, fill out an application, find out if they qualified. that was 2 and a half years ago and between 500,000 and 600,000 young people have qualified under that program to get temporary relief from the threat of being deported. and the sky did not fall. all right. the economy did not collapse under the weight of this small-scale compassionate act the president announced unless you say falling unemployment accelerated and the dow approaching 18,000 to be collapse. the president announced that policy change two years ago in the summer of 2012, the republicans and conservative media couldn't even wait until he had physically stopped announcing it before they started screaming at him about it.

but you know what, that policy change, it is kind of working out okay. the country is okay. and tonight's announcement from the white house builds on both that policy that he announced in 2012 and essentially expands the idea of temporary relief from deportation to include families who have a legal resident or a u.s. citizen in them so families do not get physically divided by force because there are different immigration statuses among different members of the same family. >> we're going to offer the following deal. if you've been in america for more than five years, if you have children who are american citizens or legal residents. if you registered and pass a criminal background check and willing to pay your fair share of taxes you'll be able to apply in this country temporarily without fear of deportation. you can come out of the shadows and get right with the law. >> what president obama

announced from the east room about an hour ago. substantively what he announced tonight, it builds on that idea that president obama announced unilaterally in 2012 in the rose garden. builds on what they call daca, but it also builds on a long track record from this president. i mean, frankly, a long list of worrying signs from this president that he was going to do something like what he did tonight and i don't know whether or not consistency is a virtue in politics or in life but in this issue, president obama and even just barack obama before he was president has been consistent on this issue. in 2007 when he was a united states senator, the bush administration wrote a big comprehensive immigration reform bill and even though it had been written by the bush administration republicans in congress still didn't support it. barack obama voted for it, though, as a senator. when barack obama ran for president he campaigned on his support for the d.r.e.a.m. act which would be a very specific form of immigration reform

targeted at young people who made promising investments in themselves like going to college or joining the military and campaigned on the d.r.e.a.m. act when he ran for president. when he got elected president he supported the d.r.e.a.m. act. democrats in the house introduced the d.r.e.a.m. act and got it passed in the house in the first half of his first term and democrats in the senate, most of them supported it as well but fell to a republican filibuster so tried on the d.r.e.a.m. act but couldn't get it done. then when he was running for re-election in the summer of 2012 he made that daca announcement where the tucker carlson guy screamed at him in the lead-up to the 2012 election then president obama won that election. and democrats picked up seats in both the house and the senate and everybody's diagnosis, even the republican party's self-diagnosis in 2012 was part of the reason that republicans had lost so badly in 2012 they didn't support immigration reform so after that 2012 election with the republican party's official autopsy of what went wrong, recommending explicitly that the republican party embraced immigration

reform and champion it, with even fox news getting religion on the issue after that election -- >> we've gotta get rid of the immigration issue altogether. it's simple for me to fix it. i think you control the border first, you create a pathway for those people that are here. you don't say you got to go home and that is a position that i've evolved on." >> he evolved. he has since unevolved. right after the 2012 electric the republican party, fox news, house speaker john boehner, they were all saying the republican party would finally come around and support immigration reform. this was going to happen in 2012, right? right after he was sworn in for his second term president obama took a trip out to nevada and gave a speech at a high school in las vegas where he was so happy he was like vibrating three feet off the ground. he just had been re-elected and sworn in for a second term. democrats did great in the election all the way down the ticket all away around the country and nevada voted for by

a mile and at the high school with the kids and crowd all psyched to see him and then listen to what he says here about how he thinks it's finally going to happen. it's an emerging consensus. republicans are finally coming around. he really believed it. everybody did. >> those of you who have a seat, feel free to take a seat. i don't mind. >> i love you obama. >> i love you back. [ cheers and applause ] >> last week, last week i had the honor of being sworn in for a second term as president of the united states. [ cheers and applause ] >> i know that some issues will be harder to lift than others, some debates will be more contentious, that's to be expected. but the reason i came here today is because of a challenge where the differences are dwindling. we're a broad consensus that's

emerging and where a call for action can now be heard coming from all across america. i'm here today because the time has come for common sense, comprehensive immigration reform. [ cheers and applause ] >> the time is now. now is the time. now is the time. >> you hear the crowd actually getting louder, swelling there. it's because the crowd did go wild and gave them a standing ovation. the case he's making is a remarkable moment in time. he says the differences are dwindling. a broad consensus is emerging. in other words, the republicans have finally agreed to do it, you guys. this was right after the 2012 election and everybody said immigration reform would happen. even fox news thought immigration reform would happen and it started to happen. within six months of that speech the senate had passed a bill, a big bipartisan, tough,

comprehensive bill with enough votes to beat the republican filibuster. they got 14 republican senators to sign on to that thing. okay, so that's step one, right. we got this emerging consensus, differences are dwindling, 14 republican senators agreed with this and that's enough to pass it even over the filibuster. okay, all right, done, now it's time for the house. go on, house. you take it from here, house. john boehner had said that the house would pass immigration reform. but they got that bipartisan bill from the senate and then it just, you know, it never came up. for awhile it just sat there with no explanation. then finally the house republicans came up with a procedural objection and said they didn't want to pass a comprehensive bill but piecemeal and pass each piecemeal bit by bit and the democrats responded and the president responded, okay, whatever you want. however you want to do it, we'll do it that way if that's the way you need to do it. >> they're suspicious of

comprehensive bills but if they want to chop it up into five pieces, as long as all five pieces get done, i don't care what it looks like as long as it's delivering on those core values we talk about. >> you need to chop it up, jaw wired shut. can only chew tiny thing, piecemeal is a weird way to do it but that's what we'll do. they said that's what they needed. apparently is at any time. even after getting an agreement on that they never did it and as much as everybody thought they were going to, as much as they said they were going to, as much as they promised they were going to, as much as they said it would be in their own interest to do so and of course they would do it, they never did it. the house republicans never did it. and that's what happened and that was more than 500 days ago. and so now tonight, the president like he did with daca in 2012, the president announced

he would act on his own. he can't change the law but he can change the enforcement priorities of his administration and the homeland security department and all the rest of it. and now congress will not vote on these things that the president announced tonight, those changes will just go into effect starting january 1st, 2015. and, yeah, the republicans and the president's critics say they feel blind of sided by this action. it's not like nobody knew where he didn't stand and tell you over and over again it was coming. >> enact comprehensive immigration reform once and for all. they need not -- we can't wait 20 years from now to do it. we can't wait ten years from now to do it. we need it by the end of my first term as president of the united states of america. >> we want to move this process. we can't continue with a broken immigration system. >> the time has come for common sense, comprehensive immigration reform. the time is now. [ cheers and applause ]

>> today i'm beginning a new effort to fix as much of our immigration system as i can on my own. >> i've said before that if congress failed to live up to its responsibilities to solve this problem, i would act to fix as much of our immigration system as i can on my own and i meant what i said. so this is not a question of if, but when. >> see, the timestamps on all those for the last, oh, five, six years. i mean, whether you like what president obama announced tonight or not, it's not like you didn't know it was coming and republicans are losing their minds over this in some interesting ways. we will talk more about that including with some of our republican friends. but you know what, what the president did tonight is something he said he was going to do for a long time. there's no question this is a big political fight and fascinating to watch what will happen between president and congress and democrats and republicans, this is an

absolutely riveting part of how the game of politics is played. big presidential announcement like this, congress saying, no, we're going to light our hair on fire and never let you do it. it's amazing thing to watch. fights like this in politics are really, really top of the ticket fights. but that is not actually what this story is about. this is not at all what tonight was about at its most important level. i mean this, is what this story is really about. all right, what the president announced tonight will have practical everyday effects on millions of people in this country. millions of families, i mean from the moment they wake up in the morning to the moment they go to bed at night. this announcement will have an immediate effect on people's lives and families, now and for generations to come, 5 million families had their trajectory in life change dramatically. for all the politic has is the real story here. joining us now is jose diaz-balart, the host of "the rundown" on msnbc and news anchor on telemundo. what's your reaction to what the

president did. >> 5 million people, rachel. 5 million families. 5 million people that tonight, tonight see the opportunity of coming out from under the shadows of fear and that have been living here, remember, this is going to be people that have been living here five years or more in the united states of america and have u.s.-born children or u.s. residents, imagine what that means for 5 million people that for years have seen their children go to school and they fear maybe not being there when their children come home from school. imagine going to work not knowing if you are going to come back from work because you don't have the documents to do that work that many times other americans don't want to do. talk about the american dream, rachel. this is 5 million people. you know, i was with the president in las vegas, that 29th of january in 2013 at the high school in las vegas which, by the way, the president is going back to tomorrow. >> exactly. >> to that same high school and

then the day after that on the 30th of january of 2013 in the white house i interviewed the president and i asked him about latisia, a mother i met at that speech? las vegas and she came to see me after she saw the president of the united states of america and she told me i wish i could have told him this, i have u.s.-born children and i was deported from the united states. i left my children here and one of them was molested. so i have come back knowing that my fate is probably sealed, but a mother's responsibility is far stronger than laws, when my children were born here. ask the president if he can do for the -- he can do for me what he did for the d.r.e.a.m.ers. i kept thinking about her and all things are limited and this is a short program for three years and it will be contested but thank you for bringing up, it all boils down to human beings and what prosecutor we as a country? do we not care about human beings?

these are children born in the united states, families separated. and that, that is going to change for 5 million people in short order. >> jose, when we have seen presidents take unilateral action not to change law but the way the law is enforced, in the past the two big times that's happened for big swaths of people have been in the administration of george h.w. bush and president reagan, both of them took action of a similar character to what president obama did tonight to the extent that they were about keeping families together. they acknowledged that the legal policies that were being enforced had the effect of tearing families apart. they wanted to try to allow families to stay together while still maintaining the law. should this be seen as in line with those previous examples. >> yeah, except to be very clear, rachel, both george h.w. bush and ronald reagan went toward amnesty so this is something that the president of the united states currently says is not possible and he doesn't think that his -- his executive

orders will be able to go towards anything that could be considered amnesty. this is a short period of time, three years and doesn't give you a green card or the possibility of being citizen of the united states of america. now, clearly those folks that are critics of today's action will tell you that both bush and reagan were acting as a response to legislation that was either in the pipeline or had already been passed by both houses of congress. but the fact is, this is a very limited program, sure, it's 5 million people but it's about 41% of the undocumented population in the united states which is -- about the same population percentage i should say that was affected by the decisions of both bush and reagan. 41%. different numbers in totality but the same percentage. look, the fact is, the folks that work behind me right there and you said it very clearly had the opportunity to do something about it. well, maybe they'll look and see that maybe now is a time to deal with issues, it's not going to go away discuss because you

don't want to deal with it. >> that's right. if they want to change something about what's about to happen on january 1st. it's because they have to act on their own terps and unwilling to do it. jose diaz-balart, telemundo anchor, host of "the rundown every day here. thanks for making time for us. >> my pleasure. >> much more ahead on this historic night. please do stay with us. broker. he helps looks after all our money. kid: do you pay him? dad: of course. kid: how much? dad: i don't know exactly. kid: what if you're not happy? does he have to pay you back? dad: nope. kid: why not? dad: it doesn't work that way. kid: why not? vo: are you asking enough questions about the way your wealth is managed? wealth management at charles schwab

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much about it. >> the president's speech and "usa today" published a surprising interview with oklahoma republican senator tom coburn and the paper's bureau chief asked him how he thinks republicans were going to react to tonight's speech. this, amazingly, was his answer. >> oh i don't think it's so much a republican reaction here, the country is going to go nuts because they're going to see it as a move outside of the authority of the president. and it's going to be a very dangerous situation, you're going to see hopefully not but you could see instances of anarchy. >> what do you mean? >> you could see violence. >> the country is going to go nuts. instances of anarchy by which i mean violence. really, senator? are you sure? joining us now is robert gibbs, who knows a thing or two about the white house and conflict,

understandable and crazy. mr. gibbs was white house press secretary and senior adviser to his campaign. thanks for being here. >> thanks for having me, rachel. >> first of all, what is the white house -- how is the white house handling that core charge from republicans that this is outside the president's authority, that this is unprecedented. that is tyrannical. how are they dealing with that, that charge? >> well, i think the president dealt with it head on in his speech tonight and addressed it very early by discussing how he actually did possess all the authority necessary to do that legal scholars will back that up. i think what senator coburn was saying actually probably isn't something that you'll see the white house spend a ton of time responding to, because i think like many of the viewers who just watched that interview they're a bit taken aback by the idea that the president's announcement will be met with lawlessness and violence. after all the core policy of immigration reform that the president enunciated today is

supported by probably 60% to 65% of the american people. there aren't policy differences on this, there's a difference on the will to get it done. >> so, on that point, there's a lot of good political axioms about whether or not you're fighting about the process or whether you're fighting about the substance if you're complaining about the process usually people say that means you're losing the fight but on the issue of the process we can't get any republican elected officials to come on the air tonight to talk about this, even before the president's speech. no one would come on to talk about it. the republican strategist, very reasonable guy, friends of mine doug heye and steve schmidt were so exercised you could see them sweat, so upset about the president being so inappropriate and unconstitutional in this action, i don't think they're faking it. i think they've really talked themselves into this idea that this is something hot that just no other president has done but this president has never done anything this radical. i feel like they're -- that --

their sort of position of conflict toward the president is a sharper edge than it's ever been. >> well, you know, which is so hard to believe given the fact that, you know, you've -- i think republicans, this town, most of america has known this has been coming for quite some time. in fact, if anything, democrats got upset at the president for having delayed what they thought this announcement would be at the end of the summer and now it's -- now it's almost at the end of the year so none of it's a surprise. i do think it puts republicans in a tough political situation. you know, you talk to the beginning of the broadcast where two-thirds of the senate voted for comprehensive immigration reform and, you know, if the bill got put up in the house today a majority would support it. republicans are in a very tough bind. they can't shut down the government because, quite frankly, we've seen how that works. they don't look like they have

reasonable policies to defund this. they've talked about taking it to court. i don't know that there is interestingly enough a genuine organized response to something that they knew largely was coming. i think the smarter voice in the republican party, i saw senator jeff flake say earlier today our response ought to be to spas a bill and, again, i think what's remarkable about this is we know the outlines of what that reform and what that bill would be because it passed a year and a half ago in the senate and quite frankly it's not a lot different than what president obama was talking about in 2005/2006 and in 2007. >> that's right. >> it's not a policy difference, it's a will. >> robert gibbs, former white house press secretary for the president. thanks for your help. interesting point that he's making too about if -- about what they'll do. if you think about the temperament, the upset. we'll impeach him. there will be anarchy and violence, the statement from rand paul tonight, i will stand

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i know some of the critics of this action call it amnesty. well, it's not. amnesty is the immigration system we have today. millions of people who live here without paying their taxes or playing by the rules while politicians use the issue to scare people and whip up votes at election time. that's the real amnesty, leaving this broken system the way it is. mass amnesty would be unfair. mass deportation would be both impossible and contrary to our character. what i'm describing is accountability. >> president obama a little over an hour ago addressing the nation about his plans for the kind of limited immigration reform a president can do alone

without congress. for the record i should tell you this is what the big three broadcast networks were playing while the president made his address tonight, cbs did not show it but for the west coast viewers. nor abc, ran it at all because there was this other stuff to show that was way too important to delay for ten minutes for a presidential address. in may 2006 i should mention george w. bush gave his own primetime speech calling for immigration reform. >> some in this country argue that the solution is to deport every illegal immigrant and that any proposal short of this amounts to amnesty. i disagree. it is neither wise nor realistic to round up millions of people, many with deep roots in the united states, and send them

across the border. there is a rational middle ground between granting an out 3459ic path to citizenship for every illegal immigrant and a program of mass deportation. that middle ground recognizes there are differences between an illegal immigrant who crossed the border recently and someone who has worked here for many years and has a home, a family and an otherwise clean record. >> in 2006 president george w. bush's pro-immigration reform speech, i should say it was twice as long as president obama's speech tonight and all the broadcast networks happily carried that one and got a huge reward for it, got a huge audience, more than 40 million people watched that 2006 speech on immigration. basically the same number of people who watched the state of the union that year. that was, you'll remember that where he talked about switchgrass and whispered it but after president bush gave that speech in 2006 his administration basically wrote a bill for comprehensive

immigration reform. it died. republican opponents of the bill said they were elated when it died. republican senator jeff sessions of alabama who is a lead egg opponent of the bill said talk radio was a big factor in derailing the immigration bill. jeff sessions said supporters of the bill tried to ram the thing through, quote, before rush limbaugh could tell the american people what was in it. so not that long ago it was president bush pushing for immigration reform and jefferson bow reyard sessions ii and rush limbaugh beating him so he would not get it. barack obama voted for that bush bill, by the way but not enough republicans did even though the bush white house wrote the bill so it died and interestingly after that bill died, president bush move add head to implement some parts of what he had called for even though congress wouldn't approve it. he said in a statement in august 2006 "although the congress has not addressed our broken immigration system by passing xr

legislation my administration will take every step to build upon the progress already made." that same day explaining what the bush president -- bush white house was doing without congress, the press secretary at the time explained "we're going as far as we possibly can without congress acting." so they did what they could by executive action after they couldn't move even republicans, people in their own party, in congress to support a bill to reform immigration. the bush white house, the george w. bush white house acted alone just as the other bush white house did as well and just as the reagan white house did as well on immigration, procedurally every recent president has acted on some element of immigration reform when congress wouldn't. but there remains this really interesting and still unanswered question, why didn't president george w. bush win that fight within his party in 2005, 2006, 2007? he called for immigration reform. he really went for it. he made the case, his

administration wrote the bill, he was the leader of his party. his own party told him to stuff it. why did george w. bush lose on this? he really lost on this. i mean this is what the latest incarnation of would-be presidential leadership sounded like this. this is what the republican party became post-george w. bush on this. >> the question is if i were elected and congress were to pass the d.r.e.a.m. act, would i veto it and the answer is yes. >> should there be aggressive seem them out, find them and arrest them as sheriff arpaio -- >> i think you saw a model in arizona. we hired a lawn mower company to mow our lawn. they had illegal immigrants that worked for them. we said you can't have illegals working on our property. i'm running for office, for pete's sake. >> you don't want to round up people but you're also saying they would have to go back to their home countries then apply for citizenship so if you don't deport them how do you send them home. >> the answer is self-deportation.

>> self-deportation. that's the last iteration of what the republican party was offering in terms of potential presidential leadership on this. self-deportation, running for office for pete's sake. i mean that's where the republican party is on this issue right now. is the party of like tom tancredo on this issue. that's why president obama acted alone instead of signing some bill tonight because republicans really won't pass in addition on immigration through congress. how did that happen? why did george w. bush lose this fight in his own party? to such impressive effect? joining us is nicolle wallace, former communications director for the george w. bush administration and senior adviser to the mccain palin campaign. host off "the view." great to have you. >> great to be here. >> do you dispute my premise. >> no, but let me tell you a couple of things that are different. president obama controlled, obviously, the white house, the senate and the house and he could have done this with the congress when his party controlled all lee. >> yes, but the republicans did

philly butter it in the senate. >> the republicans also did vote for a senate bill. there had a senate bill with bipartisan support and the house should have taken it up. the house republicans should have taken it up and -- they supported a more piecemeal approach. >> he said, he said he would be happy to do the piecemeal approach then they never brought -- >> they should have. i'm out of step with the current republican party. i still stand with the president. i work for. i worked on that speech. that address to the nation on immigration and i remember we had a hard time getting network time too. i think we moved it around a little bit to work with some football games so i want to say -- >> always do. >> we were probably a little more flexible and that's why we got the air time. but what we pushed, had the support of senator ted kennedy and at the time senator mccain so there was bipartisan support for what president bush was doing and public support for it. i think we had over 60% of the public behind comprehensive immigration reform which is the only immigration reform that works. you cannot ignore the fact that there are -- we use the number 11.2 million people.

there are some estimates that put it at 17 million people who are either here illegally or vast number of people here with expired visas so working illegally. and anyone in our party that suggests, oh, we got to lock up the border, it's illogical. it's nonsense. >> why didn't he win that night -- >> for which you just aired. >> was it talk radio. >> talk radio's power isn't derived in ray booth. talk radio's power is because the millions of people that listen are convinced of the argument so there are a lot of people who are still either unconvinced that this is -- that this problem -- i mean 17 million people is a lot of people. that's not like texas' problem or california's problem. that is coast to coast. illegal immigration is everywhere and after 9/11, i believe there was a moment where you do combine the fact that this is -- we basically have an unrepresented class of people living in our country going to our schools, you know, working

in our neighborhoods. george w. bush say former texas governor understood that these were illegal immigration wasn't someone else's problem. these were our neighbors and jeb bush has a very interesting approach and philosophy on this because he's trying to exist and survive in this modern republic but he understands that illegal immigration and called it ang act of love and got a world of love for -- >> he wrote a book and his book tour -- >> if you can't survive the politics of your party you can't lead in -- >> you can't be allowed as a republican to run for president to be a squish on this issue. the republican house had every opportunity to do this anyway they wanted including working on even just parts of air bill that got 14 republican senators to do it. they never brought it up. they never got close to it. they never were going to bring it up. people said this ruins the chance for john boehner to move ahead like john boehner was going to move ahead. please, it was never going to happen. >> listen, president obama is the one that said for six years he didn't have the authority to do exactly what he did tonight.

>> you don't think -- >> listen, don't pit me against obama. i'm pitting obama against obama. and what he no longer gets to be is our constitutional law professor -- >> hold on. what he was saying, people would say change the law. he said i can't change the law and gave the speech and said it clear, this is not citizenship, i'm not doing amnesty. reagan did amnesty. i'm not doing it. it's not -- >> and nothing he did tonight. i'm not offended and the republican party shouldn't be offended by an attempt to keep families together. the republican party cannot be against -- these are nuclear family, moms and dads of american born kids. we can't stake out a position that we're against that. no one is for it but a majority of americans oppose what he did and opposed usie ining executiv action to -- >> the reason is because the republicans are telling him this is some unprecedented thing and reagan and bush all took executive action on the way you

enforce existing immigration law. they told them this is tyranny. this is -- >> suddenly powerful -- obama said this is tyranny, i'm not an emperor. >> it would be if you don't change the law. >> he didn't do anything. i think these people are deserving of legislation, i think these are moms and dads of kid that is go to our schools and live in our towns and deserving of legislation and i hope the republicans call his bluff and pass comprehensive immigration reform and i'm, you know, call me another class of d.r.e.a.m.ers, i hope they someday will but george w. bush won 44% of the humanitarian vote in 2004. hispanic vote and mccain i think has evolved on the issue. >> he said he'd vote against his own. >> the republican partys are parties on the wrong track on this and mercy slap who was president obama's adviser on this, one of them, i talked to her on my way over, where do we go from here. she said republicans really need

to govern and legislate and get this done and lead on this issue. i think she's right and i hope we see a robust debate in the -- i hope jeb bush downs down as someone who understands the act of illegal immigration why illegal is motivated by love and this long-held america dream for a better life and until we get our heads around why people come here and why they want to stay here, i think we are in a very tough spot politically with a very important part of the country. >> and the fact that the republican party can't evolve on that despite that argument, i think, is an unexplained thing in american politics which is -- i think -- i think it's unexplained for -- >> listen, i think if president obama thought the politics were clear-cut he would have done it three weeks ago. >> no, i think he knew what he was going to do. vulnerable democrats said don't do it because he was afraid because they were like, oh, it might save mark -- they're always worried about their bottom line and what they might achieve if they inspire people. democrats are wrong on strategy.

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