i don't think john boehner thinks so. i think john boehner wants to get out of it but i think the media often oversensationalizes. but here i think that they are undersensationalizing it. we have a real potential train wrecks coming up. we have the house needing to cooperate just to keep the lights on. not talking about passing new laws and solving problems. we're just talking about averting creating problems. it's hard to see how that happens. it can happen but it really might not. >> maybe #trainwreck should not be used for the aca but instead for the gop caucus. "new york" magazine's jonathan chait. as always, thank you. we'll post your article online after the show. >>> william shakespeare famously wrote "what's in a name?" the answer might be a lot of money in memorabilia sales. we'll get the latest on royal baby watch 2013 live from buckingham palace next on "now." ♪ [ male announcer ] harvey's i'm so happy you're home dance. that's real love. and so is giving him real tasty food. but some leading dog foods add suga

i don't think speaker boehner can pass a piecemeal bills. let's take the toughest one enforcement, no democrat will vote without a path to citizenship. 40 republicans saying they won't vote for any bill because they don't want to a conflict. within several months, speaker boehner will find no bill or let a bill pass with a majority of democratic votes and some chamber of commerce type republicans. he'll find that the better choice. we'll pass it by the end of this year. >> john: do you agree senator mccain that the house will pass the senate bill? could republicans be perpetually in the minority and thirdly, speaker boehner says he is not going to bring it to floor with the majority support of caucus. he has invoked the hasert rule. would you encourage him, would you encourage him to wave the hastert ruling in this case? >> i respect and admire john boew. we've been colleagues and friends for many years. i respects his leadership. i really don't feel it's appropriate for me to tell him exactly how he should handle this. one thing i want to e

boehner certainly understands that. there are other leaders in his party who are making that argument behind the scenes. but you also have to recognize that even democrats think that in this case, it's almost better for them, as far as controlling the house, for republicans to be viewed as obstructionists, and democrats know that. and that gives them an incentive to not really go along with what the republicans are doing if they don't really legitimately like it. and so you have these sort of countervailing forces that really could, together, bring the whole thing down. >> is it your assessment, big picture, that immigration reform is dead? >> i think at this point, that's a pretty dramatic way to put it, but it seems at this point to be on life support and that what came out of the senate is certainly dead for the next several months. now, you also have to remember, we talk a lot in washington about how, you know, we don't want to focus too much on the process, but in this case the process is going to matter a lot. you

that john boehner.him. >> nobody spent more time trying to fix a broken immigration system than i have. i talked about it the day after the election and i've talked about it 100 times since. >> for more i'm joined by contributor ryan grim and the washington post political columnist dayne fa milbank. dana, is this the final evidence we needed that speaker john boehner has, in can the fa, had an intellectual and memory collapse of extraordinaire proportions? >> no, on the contrary. i think he's got this exactly right. you see on sunday he said he should be judged by how many pieces of legislation he's able to repeal essentially to have killed. so when he says he's done more for immigration, he means he's done more to kill immigration than anybody. >> he's right. is it, ryan grim? >> in the up or down world, that's exactly what's going on. >> ryan, do you agree with that analysis? >> sure, i mean, if that's what he -- if that's what he meant, then sure. even if you use his own judgment, his gauge of how su

i mean, speaker boehner -- poor, speaker boehner. he's in a tough position. we all know why.hink the president is right to try to go around congress. and in fact, let's keep something in mind. the president has tried to work with republicans and work with congress since he walked into the white house especially since the democrats lost the house to the detriment of his base. the base was yelling at the for why was he trying to work with people that didn't want to work with him? many times the president adopted republican ideas in a hope it would lure them to the table to actually, you know, do the act -- the art of governing. to not let it happen. so in the second term, the president and the administration have decided they're not going to play the game anymore. especially since the president has built up a lot of political capitol in the minds of voters. >> but i want people to understand, michelle, that we're talking about some very substantive serious issues that he can deal with with executive ortder. the actions will cover grounds like voting rights, health care, job cre

what does boehner himself want?. >> you know, me taking a position one way or another somewhere is just going to slow the process down and make it more difficult. i'm -- i've got a difficult enough job as it is. i don't need to make it harder. >> and his job is complicated by the fact that the party's long-term interests seem to be in conflict with the more immediate electoral needs of house republican members. 84% of whom represent districts with electorate 20% or less hispanic. texas representative kenny merchant summed up his opposition telling the ap -- if you give the legal right to vote to ten hispanics in my district, seven to eight of them are going to vote democrat. or as one house aide said -- our guys actually do primary over immigration. jerry bernstein, cnbc chief washington correspondent john harwood, and democratic congressman from illinois, luis gutierrez. congressman, i'll start with you. a lot of people pleebelieve the incentives for john bainer to put this on the floor are few because if he actual

we'll talk to house speaker john boehner and michigan governor rick snyder. with government gridlock worse than ever, the house speaker told us he'll redouble effort to repeal the president's health care plan, but as if to underline just how far apart the two sides are on everything, said this when i asked-- what do you think the president's agenda is for the second term? >> i have no idea. >> in detroit, the worst that had been feared happened. the city that had once within the pride of american industrial power went bankrupt. $18 billion in debt. we'll talk to michigan governor rick snyder about the fallout for municipal pensioners, bond holders, and businesses. and the calls for a national conversation on race. >> trayvon martin could have been me. >> we'll talk about that and the other news with our panel, susan page of "usa today." pbs correspondent gwen ifill. the "wall street journal's" gerald seib. "time" magazine's michael scherer. david ignatius of the "washington post." and our own john dickerson. this is fooks. captioning sponsored by cbs from cbs

boehner knows it.ey're so worried. >> seems the rebrand by the gop hasn't gone anywhere in the first seven months of trying to do it. >> all the polls show the gop could be in jeopardy if they don't try to win over the majority of voters. of course you'll have boehner and gop leadership speaking out so fiercely. >> it's fascinating stuff. we'll be right back with the gaggle to talk a little bit about anthony weiner. trivia time. we asked, since 1947, what's the most number of days the senate has been in session during one two-year term? congratulations to today's winner. ivanthek. congratulations. and if you have a political trivia question, e-mail us, dailyrundown@msnbc.com. we'll be right back. wait a sec! i found our colors. we've made a decision. great, let's go get you set up... you need brushes... you should check out our workshops... push your color boundaries while staying well within your budget walls. i want to paint something else. more saving. more doing. that's the power of the home depot.

i believe that speaker boehner has a tough job ahead. admire his leadership, but we've got a lot of work to do. >> john: senator boehner says the house will write its own bill and house, the way it's going, it's in bite-sized chunks with path to citizenship being the last of chunks. president has said he is not going to sign any immigration bill that does not include a path to citizenship. from the outset, are you concerned that immigration reform may be dead? >> no, not at all. in fact i believe that by the end of this year the house will pass the senate bill. i know that is not what they think now and they will say, no, that is not what is going to happen. let me explain why. first i understand where speaker boehner is coming from. i have a lot of respect for the house. he has a whole lot of republican members, they will vote no. they fear republican primaries from the right if they vote yes. i think the dynamic will change and they are still worried about their primaries but let it go for four reasons. first, the coalition john mentio

professor dyson, on sunday, speaker boehner told bob schieffer how house republicans should be judged. i want to play that clip for you as well as senate majority reid's response today to that particular comment. take a listen to this. >> we should not be judged on how many new laws we create. we ought to be judged on how many laws we repeal. >> that's true, mr. president, house republicans are failing even by their own metric. they've replaced virtually nothing. >> so professor no matter what your metric, speaker boehner and the republicans are an absolute categoric failure, are they not? >> absolutely right. let me join in with mr. corn in saluting the crown for the new prince born today. but the reality is that the republicans are at loggers head with themselves and they are creating a log jam in the process and flow of american government. isn't it interesting that the republicans who were known in the past at least in terms of

of one web company who is fighting back against the security state and john boehner says he's proud that congress doesn't pass any bills speaker of the house and his do nothing congress is turning america into detroit in tonight's deal. you need to know this republicans are thrill that detroit has filed for bankruptcy that's because for the g.o.p. the fall of detroit is a talking point goldmine over the past year the american public has started to wake up about the total failure of austerity both here in the united states and across the atlantic in europe so the chance to blame the decline of a great american city on democrats on workers on african-americans and on big government is an opportunity that the right wingers don't want to miss paul krugman wrote a great column about this in yesterday's new york times republicans you argued are trying to paint detroit as the new greece a place doomed to economic failure by greedy public sector workers a fullish deficit spending. goodman is right about the republican take on this just take a look at this clip of daily caller reporter neil munro

or in the words of speaker john boehner, it's an empty easter egg.these are the divergent views, as the president wraps up a two-day three-city speaking tour, delivering an impassioned speech in jacksonville just a short time ago. let's get more americans back on the job that will be good for home ownership. that will be good for education. that is the smart thing to do. let's get past politics and do it. >>> the president who's traveled from illinois the midwest, has used plain and direct language. he wants the sideshow in want to cease, and he wants good job and a better bargain. he even invoked abraham linking who still managed to focus on what makes a country strong. yet dplt middle he wail still thinking how do we build that railroad. how do we widen our canals and ports? there are some things we can only do together. >> rebuilding our infrastructure is only one of them. >> he's not only advancing his agenda, just over 1200 days. he's also preparing for major budget fights that have dogged his tenure. >> i'm not going to let gridlock or inaction

is that an accurate characterization of boehner?was a conventional wisdom on him but a lot of people began to think maybe to keep his own speakership he saw this as too heavy a lift. >> i think they don't know exactly how this is going to play out still on that particular front. i posed a similar question to some of his aides earlier today. they're being very cautious in waiting to see exactly how the pressures shake out. they're going to learn a lot when they go home in august and spend time with their constituents, get feedback in that way. then you'll come back in september and i think you're going to start to see those pressures kind of fall out on either side. you'll see boehner take a position at this point. i mean, there is an incredible amount of pressure on him to pass some sort of bill that can be viewed as a victory for the gop when it comes to immigration reform. huge pressure. so does he want to pass something? absolutely. what that will actually look like is still a question mark. >> one thing that happened in the bush

let's face it it's all up to boehner. boehner can drive it up the floor for a voting nothing could happen. lookshink if boehner at these pieces coming out of the committees and it's a strong republican bill bring it to the floor it will pass and then it will go to the conference where it will be whittled down. now, there will be a move by the republicans who instruct their people that go to the conference don't move on this language. and that's happened all the time. i have been in those things all before. they move. >> bill: this is a very public debate here. what troubles me is i don't know how many members of the house just simply won't vote for any immigration bill. do you have any idea, beckel? >> i would say about 35 or 40. >> that's the same estimate that cammeron has given us. now, the immigration bill that the senate passed you like that, right? >> yeah, i think it's a good bill. >> bill: when people say we don't trust the government, they are not going to do what they say they are going to done 00 border. they'r

. >>> also tonight, john boehner has a cantaloupe-sized steve king problem. and the longer it goes on, the worse it is for the speaker of the house. >>> plus, sex scandals and second chances. america seems always ready to forgive the men involved. what about the women? that's all coming up. >>> tonight, we begin with texas, once again, locked in a fierce battle with the federal government. this time over voting. you see, texas probably thought they were in the clear after the supreme court struck down section 4 of the voting rights act last month. this morning, attorney general eric holder speaking at the national urban league in philadelphia said not so fast. >> today i am announcing that the justice department will ask a federal court in texas to subject the state of texas to a preclearance regime similar to the one required by section 5 of the voting rights act. >> what holder announced today is an aggressive and crafty step by the federal government to try and limit the damage caused by the supreme court last month. by using a little known part of the law

this morning speaker john boehner seemed to welcome those efforts saying that younger members of his caucus seemed to be educated on immigration issues? >> when you look at this, 2/3 of the house members, at least 2/3 of the members have never dealt with this issue. the more information that we have for our members, the better we're going to be able to facilitate dealing with a very thorny issue. >> one of the names on the gang of eight's target list is paul ryan. democrats hope may emerge as a champion of reform in the house. as evidence, after the republican immigration meeting last week as some members were bashing so called amnesty and insisting no way no how on comprehensive reform, paul ryan repeatedly reminded his conference that the problem is still a problem and needs to be fixed. >> we have a broken system that needs to be fixed and i think we have consensus that the system is broken and it needs to be fixed. it needs to be fixed. it needs to be fixed. there is an emerging consensus that it's broken and there's a consensus we need to fix it. >> it needs to be fixed. joining

now we go to boehner. boehner is proud he's not doing anything.ten to what he says. >> on sunday, john boehner speaker of the house said -- cenk: sorry guys. what boehner says the graphics, i'm going to read it. he said: cenk: so, basically he's bragging here, we don't do a dam thing. if you ask me politically that's a terrible way to go. michael, do you think that's an effective strategy of 2014, we're the party of do absolutely nothing for you? >> you hit the nailen oh the head and joined these two stories, which is an attempt something president is always going to beat a do nothing congress. this is a congress that has done nothing. i don't know boehner is an absolute failure. he's not even the most odius speaker, but he is so ineffective, because he can't manage his own caucus and can't work with the democrats at all. i think you're 100% right this is a formula for disaster and i don't think he's going to listen to the speaker no what ther what happens next congress on sunday, john boehner speaker of the house said congress should not be judge

look at john boehner's quote of a week or two ago.on't judge us by the laws we passed, judge us by the laws we repeal. i mean, which is just an astounding thing for a speaker to say. they're not even repealing laws. they're not passing laws, not repealing laws, just making a lot of hot air. >> eugene robinson, thank you so much for joining us this afternoon. >> great to be here. >> coming up, summertime. and the many senior skip days of speaker john boehner. >> halfway through 2013, just 15 bills passed by congress had become law. they almost passed a 16th bill but obama refused to sign hr-2904, the this is not another repeal of obama care we swear but don't look inside it just sign it act. >> we're not just over here making noise. the house republicans are copy continuing to take action. being sixteen, alex thinks he's invincible. his dad knows he's not. that's why dad got allstate accident forgiveness. it starts the day you sign up. [ female announcer ] with accident forgiveness from allstate, your rates won't go up just because of

it is a problem for boehner.ifficult problem with his rank and file republicans on some legislation, whether it goes back to the fiscal cliff, on the farm legislation, and of course he's having to deal with this. but it shows that the leadership might be on one place when it comes to tone in the immigration debate, but the rank and file might be elsewhere. >> all right, thank you, mark murray. >>> anthony weiner now says he traded explicit messages with as many as three women after resigning from congress for the same behavior. this as a new poll shows he's rapidly losing support in the race in new york city. a new poll finds among registered democrats, his closest rival, christine quinn, now leads him by nine percentage points. the poll was conducted just a day after weiner admitted he continued to have inappropriate online relationships after he resigned from congress. he was leading quinn by five points earlier this month. he addressed the scandal again this afternoon. >> i certainly understand that for many n

>> i think it is in many respects more on boehner today. it will be more on obama come february, march, april of next year when we're getting into the political season for the 2014 races of the house. that's when you'll see the president i think lead on immigration, using it as a sledgehammer. >> if nothing's happened. >> exactly. so this presents boehner and the leadership in the house to really begin to come out of this thing. maybe not smelling like a rose but a good gardenia would help. something that would make -- would give it -- them the legs to stand on in front the electoral next year. >> i want to talk quickly. harry reid. you think this is a good thing for democrats? >> what we have to figure out is a solution where a president gets up or down votes fairly quickly on his own nominees. >> better term limit? >> right. >> you think there either should be a distinction? >> sure, i think judicial nominees, i think legislation, keeping some balance into what the senate has always been, understanding that the filibuster has been wildly

tough decision, isn't it, john boehner? >>> good wednesday morning.on first look, dangerous heat continues to consume a large part of the country. so when will it end? >>> four more jurors from the george zimmerman trial break their silence. >>> the autopsy report is in for actor cory monteith. so what killed the 31-year-old "glee" star? plus, frightening moments outside the international space station. >>> mcdonald's gives employees a lesson in belt tightening. >>> and who is the star of major league baseball's all-star game? >>> good morning. i'm mara schiavocampo. as you may well know, it's hot, outside, very hot. parts of nearly every state hit

it is john boehner who has said i can't do this. >> i hope you are right. i hope he wants to deal. only post u lags i can put forward is saying he does not is president obama has decided the most important thing he can do for his legacy is to get a democratic house in 2014 and to do so, he must continually blame republicans for all problems. >> i do want to move on to an even more difunctional government scene playing out in congress, bob filner is asking the city of san diego to pick up the tab for his growing legal fees after seven women have come forward accusing him of sexual harassment. the city is filing a cross-complaint asking him he pay them for their legal fees. ryan, this guy is not taking a hint. >> this is when you know you've been in government too long, you expect the government to pay for everything. if he maybe wins the case, then the government with pick up the tab. but when you're credibly accused of those accusations, you have a responsibility to pay for your own legal fees. >> i don't see it's a reflection on the party. >> it could damage the party. >> this guy

but the leader of your opponents in congress, speaker john boehner, says his job and i'm quoting him, is not to legislate but to repeal legislation. he also says he's ready once again to use the debt ceiling as a hostage. i assume, i guess, we should appreciate mr. boehner's honesty because basically, what he's saying is that his caucus doesn't care if their actions damage the country. the only thing they will care about, their sing ghoul lar priority for this nation is obstructing this particular president, isn't it? >> well, that's exactly right. as the president said today, we should be building up our economy. we should not be tearing things down. unfortunately, we have a republican majority especially in the house of representatives, where if the president were to adopt the republican platform tomorrow and say yes, i agree with you, they would all say we don't agree with our own position anymore. and that is exactly what's happened in the house, martin. president has put forward what used to be very bipartisan ideas, let's invest in our infrastructure. let's make sure we invest i

tough decision, isn't it, john boehner?gton, the nuclear option has been avoided in the senate, and democrats and republicans have finally agreed on a way to make the senate work a little better. >> you could call it the senate's own cold war. >> the filibuster is at the heart of a huge showdown today. >> are democrats preparing to go nuclear? >> the nuclear option. >> nuclear option. >> that nuclear option. >> changing longstanding senate rules to confirm cabinet nominees have been held up by senate republicans. >> how close are the democrats pushing the senate button? >> we'll move past the closure vote.

i know speaker boehner once a solution. it is our challenge to give him a proposal that meets that criteria. >> thanks to both of you very much for sharing your thoughts on this very controversial, sensitive, and important topic. you have given me a lot of ammunition. i will go to the hill and their view congressman goodlatte for my sunday show "capital gains." thank you very much. [applause] another event soon here at bloomberg government. >> again, the senate passed the immigration bill last week before leaving for the july 4 resource. politico writing this morning that new york democratic senator chuck schumer predicted yesterday that despite contrary statements from speaker john boehner, the house will vote on the senate bill. in fact, i believe, by the end of the year the house will pass the senate bill. senator schumer said on fox news sunday. there seems to be pressure on speaker boehner and other house members to pass an immigration bill. national republican leadership will tell john boehner if you do not pass the b

i was impressed with john boehner's remarks, acknowledging the hateful remarks., steve king remains unbowed. let's hear what he says about child smugglers. >> but i can tell you this, 80 to 90% of illegal drugs consumed in america come from or through mexico. i can tell you that in mexico they are recruiting kids to be drug smugglers, between the ages of 11 and 18, the media is replete with this. anybody who reads the paper should know, especially those who live on the border should know that there are many, many young people coming across the border unlawfully who are smuggling drugs into the united states. >> joy, the reasoning there seems to be there are drug smugglers, therefore they must all be dreamers. there is in connection between the statistics he is spouting off. >> i can't imagine the republican party lost 72% of the latino vote. i can't figure it out. even when he is not speaking, and doubling down on the cantelope calves, all gays are just bad, bad, women should be baby machines. the republican party is going to die if they don't weed out this frost

tough decision, isn't it, john boehner?ngton, the nuclear option has been avoided in the senate, and democrats and republicans have finally agreed on a way to make the senate work a little better. >> you could call it the senate's own cold war. >> the filibuster is at the heart of a huge showdown today. >> are democrats preparing to go nuclear? >> the nuclear ti

look, he got to start with--john boehner is a joke. everybody knows in washington he's a joke.t in charge of the republican house caucus. the tea party is in charge of the republican house caucus. this will be in affect the 38th time that they have voted to repeal obamacare. one would think that they might get the message that it ain't going to work. they're never going to repeal obamacare. they will never get the vote. that's the thing. it's like a masturbation society there. a mass masturbation society. it's going nowhere. they're not going to get a vote in the senate. if it were to pass the house obama would veto it. the point is they have to continue pleasuring themselves. >> john: pleasuring them or pleasuring the base. he still has the job. eric canter has not shot him in the back. he still has the job until next year. >> he is letting the tail wag the dog. letting the most extreme members of his caucus decide the agenda. oh so they don't do anything about student loans. they dump--the only way they'll pass a farm bill is to bump food stamps when everybody from george bus

but ultimately, the fate of the senate bill lies in the hands of john boehner. senators mccain and schumer spoke about the bill's chances of finding its way to the president's desk. >> there's always friction between the house and the senate. a lot of it understandable. a lot of it just egos. but i respect the house of representatives. i respect their views. and we have a job ahead of us. and convincing them. >> national republican leadership will tell john boehner, if you don't pass a bill, then we're going to be a minority party for a generation. and he's not only the house leader, he's a party leader. speaker boehner will find two choices. no bill, or let the bill pass with some chamber republicans. we'll find that the better choice. we'll pass the bill by the end of the year. >>> texas lawmakers will begin another 30-day special session. they will take up the state's abortion bill that could close nearly all of the state's clinics and prohibit abortions after 20 weeks. it is the same bill that was challenged by wendy davis. the filibuster has kicked off a na

speaker boehner has all the cards right now.confident given what i know of our members on the house side that they will get what we'd like to see happen. >> chris, how do you predict this plays out? speaker boehner has the upper hand in trying to move this forward. he's been very open about the fact that he wants the hastert rule in place, to have a majority of the majority. but do you see the compromise necessary to move this forward or is it really just a stall tactic to kind of let this fade out? >> well, i think it depends on what speaker boehner wants. what i mean by that is does he want to keep his speakership or does he want to do the right thing and actually not only what's good for the country in terms of passing comprehensive immigration reform, but i would argue, painfully, that actually it is good for the republican party. the reality i think the republicans face in the house is, they clearly do not want a path to citizenship. if they don't include that, or if they water it down as it is being -- i think that the tal

boehner say, what he said is wrong. there can be disagreements without being hateful.g is saying his description comes from the border patrol. >> that comes from being down on the border, spending days and nights down there and multiple trips and time with the border patrol. that description essentially came from them. it's not something that i'm making up. this is real. >> joining me now, nbc news latino contributor raul reyes. king saying this came from the border patrol really reminds me of michele bachman when she was talking about the vaccination for the hpv where she said some random mom came to her and told her this. she didn't get her team to research any of this. she rejurch tated it on the "today" show and the mom was never found. steve king is saying some random border patrol person said this to him and he presented it as fact. >> right. and the crazy thing here, aside from the fact that these comments are highly offensive to latinos, to immigrants -- >> boehner called them hateful, hate speech. >> he's right. but the bigger problem is, you know, it is good

john boehner, 22%, the congress at 22% john boehner dreams of 45%. he will never ever get it. >> you make a very good point. congress, you couldn't find lower approval numbers than that. one of the things that the president is talking about in pressing congress on is his federal reserve appointments. he's mentioning more the name of larry summers, i see you making a face because he is an odd choice given the fact that he was a wash in red inks all along the way. let's take a quick look at the summers' quote that obama had. then we can talk more: >> cenk: it seems to me you can be critical of larry summers on the merits. this is a political battle. >> i think so. he's not my choice, i hope the president won't go for him, but at the same time, i think i don't think larry summers is a good choice. >> we're not even talking ancient history. the first obama administration, is this a harvard thing? are they backing each other no matter what? i don't get where--i admire the loyalty, but they keep him in the loop is crazy. >> but along sow i would point out

you see the criticism, the gridlock and you and speaker boehner are the face of it. is that father or unfair? >> well, i don't approve of congress. it's very different now than it has been under this congress and this president. the republican majority just simply will not offer any cooperation to the president. that's very different from how it was. >> reporter: but in terms the public perception, it's both democrats and republicans are doing this together. >> they have the majority and they are obstructing the president. we're not obstructing the president. we didn't obstruct president bush when he was president. we disagreed and contested him on the issue of privatizing social security and the war in iraq and that, but we didn't say nothing you present will ever be approved in the congress. in fact, we did many good things with president bush. >> reporter: is it out of the question? is it something you can't go into a room with speaker boehner and say we'll air out our differences we're the leaders? >> let me just say i don't think this's a useful use of time to s

i don't hate john boehner as speaker boehner but you know every night he would go to the round table of the tobacco lobbyist everybody knows that he would be seen would be viewed over there he would drink and eat for free everybody knows that for eight or nine years now a lot of this stopped when i got into trouble and a lot of these things have been codified now into law as a legal way to do things but but so they're not so it's not legal for him to do when now a lot of things have been again made legal the swamp wasn't drained it was made legal but but what he did passing out tobacco checks on the floor of the house which is what happened carter former congressman large and expose that. eating on somebody else's tab for years some of the golfing you know the things that that he did were illegal and again i point some of this out in the book not to just disparage him but to say that these these existed at the highest levels now why his his he wasn't taken to task for is a decision the justice department not myself and i would think you know frankly why the democrats aren't talking a

but is boehner's mindset really that hard to discern? his goal seems clearly to do as little as possible. that much is obvious not just from the record of the 112th and early stages of the 113th congress, but also because the man himself second in line to the presidency has said so.

even john boehner admits that.e said last week, don't judge us by how many bills we pass, judge us by how many bills we repealed. they haven't done either one. they haven't passed anything or repealed anything. they're a do-nothing bunch of slugs that are sucking up our tax dollars and wasting them. i'm talking about, of course, the republican leadership. the two years under nancy pelosi, everything that president obama accomplished, he accomplished in the two years under nancy pelosi. that was a kick ass congress. john boehner, nothing. you know why? because they really are anti-government. they want to shut the government down. again, president obama's gotta make sure the american people know that. donna is in atlanta, georgia. hey, donna. >> caller: hi, bill. first i want to thank you and your staff for your service in getting information out to us because a lot of us wouldn't know without you. so first of all -- >> bill: well, i appreciate that. thank you. we're happy to be here to do it. >> caller: i think wha

>> you can, of course see all of bob schieffer's interview with speaker boehner on "face the nation." >>> israel has agreed to a longstanding palestinian demand to denounce peace talks there. secretary of state kerry said friday that the two have laid its groundwork to resume talks as early as next week after a three-year stalemate. he said the deal to revise peace talks is not final and requires more diplomacy. >>> well perhaps, you've been wondering why hasn't the royal baby arrived yet? i know you have. you have lots of company. the world media is wondering, too. one who is watching even more closely than most is royal commentator ryoya mika. good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning. >> i know it's hot. there's a lost people camped tout see what's happening. what can you tell us about the situation right now?

it's time for speaker boehner to appoint budget conferees to the house and senate negotiators so they can begin to reach agreement on a balanced compromise. i will continue, mr. speaker, to call on both parties to listen to the men and women of packs river, of webster field, of indian head, quantico, folks in north carolina that mr. jones represents, folks in maryland that i represent, the folks in connecticut that mr.

john boehner.hner came out today saying flat out snowden is a traitor for showing our enemies what our capabilities are in surveillance. boehner is a republican but senator dianne feinstein, i mean, she has -- well, she shares his view. she's the chair of the senate intelligence committee and says snowden committed an act of treaty. and the same goes for republican congressman mepeter king who sa snowden is a danger to the nation. and president obama, here he is, 2013, president obama hasn't weighed in on snowden but his justice is. 's preparing criminal charges against snowden. and friday the president defended the nsa sueillance program saying they make a difference in preventing terrorist attacks on this country and america. now the case for labelling snowden and his actions heroic, if you can imagine that has happened. and none other than glen beck and michael moore. these men couldn't be more opposite in their political views typically, but beck tweeted out that snowden has the, as he put it,