unions really need to recognize the democratic party might be the lesser evil that you need to vote for in this election. pouring all this money into national campaigns is not going to help anyone. unions really need to start achallenging democratic governors like andrew cuomo in new york. so those -- >> which you wush they would never do. >> yeah. >> they're not going to touch him in wisconsin. >> the thing is scott walker, he is just too bold. he wnts to cut off the heads of the unions. they're doing the same thing. by the time unions wake up and realize what's going on, they're too weak. they're in a vulnerable position. and the member shps are not activated. may 1st, a union rally. 1,000 people came up. i would say for every -- >> city hall where? >> new york city. for every five union staff that showed up, probably told to go after work. 1,000 people total. this is the most union dense area of this country. they have their membership engaged. they have a stake in the union. the thing the unions used to say, that is only true in a few democratic unions. aenthose need to be the model

it was the democratic party. african-americans were generally not allowed to vote in the democratic primary. part of that had to do with the laws on the books that were disfranchisement laws. one was the literacy test. it could be very hard for an african-american who was even quite educated to pass the test because it was quite subjective. they could fail someone even if they were qualified. very few african americans voted in mississippi when they were a significant part of the population. the idea was if we cannot take part in the democratic primary, we will create our own separate democratic party. they would be open to all comers, black and white. part of the focus was to organize people around the state to take part in this freedom vote. they brought their own delegation to atlantic city in 1964. they challenged the credentials of the mississippi regular democratic party saying they were discriminatory. >> ♪ >> that was a famous event in which they testified in front of the credentials committee about what

gets a lot less press a battle of course is the battle between the democratic party's democratic or present progressive wing and its corporate or clinton wing ever since bill clinton triangulated and moved to the right after taking office in one thousand nine hundred three the mainstream of the democratic party has followed suit putting its support behind things like welfare reform school reform and banking reform things that are basically conservative policies a liberal sounding names as a result except for the brief period when howard dean was head of the d.n.c. the corporate wing of the democratic party has dominated democratic politics for most of the past two decades but now things are changing and they're changing fast over the past couple of years the progressive wing of the democratic party has made a huge comeback all across the country led by people like i was with warren and shared. brown it's taking the corporate wing of the democratic party to task and in the process has put issues like raising the federal minimum wage protecting the social safety net and cracking do

-- democratic party. they would be open to all comers, black and white. part of the focus was to organize people around the state to take part in this freedom boat -- freedom vote. they brought their own delegation to atlantic city in 1964. they challenged the credentials of the mississippi regular democratic party saying they were discriminatory. >> ♪ >> that was a famous event in which they testified in front of the credentials committee about what they experienced in mississippi and the hardships and violence they faced. a former sharecropper talked about being beaten during the midst of her efforts to organize to vote. >> the state highway patrolman ordered the first negoro [indiscernible] estate patrolman ordered me to lay down on the bunk bed on my face. i laid on my face. the first negro began to beat me. negrobeaten by the first until he was exhausted. hands behind be on the left side because i suffered from polio when i was six years old. after the first negro had been me until he was exhausted,

that party was the democratic party. african-americans were generally not allowed to vote in the democratic primary. part of that had to do with various laws on the books that were disfranchisement laws that prevented blacks from joining and what was the literacy tests, and it can be hard for an african-american was quite educated to pass that literary test because it was subjective. the voter registrar could fail someone be even though they're qualified. effectively, if you african-americans voted in mississippi even though they were a sick give him part of the population. they thought, if we cannot vote in the primary, we will create our own party. unlike the regular party, they would be open to all candidates, black and white. part of the summer's focus was to organize people around the state to take part in this freedom vote. quite famously, they brought their own delegation to the national convention in atlantic city in 1964. they challenge the actual credentials of the mississippi regular democratic party saying th

party. the idea of the democrats of jimmy carter as president. the idea of democrats as the weak party.party being weak on foreign policy. republicans had a lot of electoral success. is there something to tap into when they do this? >> first, i'm shocked that dick cheney would not take responsibility for the mess in iraq are. the criticism that he and mccain and lindsey graham and everybody would be akin to saying we were attacked on 9/11 because they were weak, if he canless. i don't remember them making the claim. historically ever since the george mcgovern campaign, even before that the republicans get a lot of political mileage out of calling the democrats weak on national security. they have tried it again and again with this president but with the bin laden raid, libya, and with winding down wars that were unpopular, they have gotten no traction. he beat john mccain, the war hawk in 2008. he beat mitt romney. he tried to make that issue, too. now they are going to keep pounding away. last august when it came to the syria episode they saw the approval ratings drop because of that m

the democratic party is very divided. very little agreement with the seven democrats. that was his main concern. it was not getting republicans over. it was trying to outflank the southern democrats who opposed most of his agenda. >> resident johnson came out with a memoir called "the vanishing point." not a bestseller. >> not a bestseller. not the best presidential memoirs. in some ways, i think the best memoirs he has left us are these tapes. you get to hear what he has to say rather than him trying to remember his viewpoint. i think it was really an effort to reconstruct what he did, but they are not the best memoirs. >> he died relatively young. intimations of his own mortality? >> yeah, he did. physically, he looked very different. he almost looks like a hippie. a sense of he had his mortality from the time he decided not to run. i think that was the end of him in some ways. the core.itical to he spent his whole life in washington, his whole life trying to achieve legislation. that is how he measured his greatness. from the moment he told america i will not run in

make it the west virginia democratic party and not the national democratic party, and now i see elizabetharren who's probably the most popular figure in the national democratic party coming into west virginia. what can she do there that no other national democrat can do? >> well, the argument from the tennant campaign is she can come in and be a, quote, champion for the middle class. they expect senator warren's message will message with the residents and voters of west virginia. a vast majority or a large amount of west virginia's population relies on some of the welfare or social programs that national democrats tend to promote and historically democrats have, you know, done very well in the state so they're hoping senator warren's policy stance is on some of these issues will sort of resonate with these voters as opposed to some of her stances on the president's energy policy. >> so, i mean, the conventional wisdom about this race has been -- this is the senate seat that jay rockefeller, long-serving democrat, he's retiring this year. basically the assumption in washington this year, t

he has told his friends and associates that when he speaks to his party chairman, these these democrats coming learns that the obama administration, the political people in the obama is have been there as well and that they are looking for what bill clinton called a mini-me, a clone of obama someone who will come out of nowhere and challenge hillary for the 2016 democratic nomination. so i'm bill clinton size, there is no greater obstacle to hillary getting the nomination then barack obama. >> host: next florida, john end up in i line. >> caller: yes i i believe the great economy in the mid-90s inspired bill clinton but not because of him. bill clinton signed off on nafta and approving china being the most favored nation status of all 20 years ago and then he signed off on the repeal of the glass-steagall act which caused the great recession and we know nafta set the stage for china and other countries giving up our manufacturing jobs. our economy now is a result of bill clinton. hopefully that democrats will get someone credible like joe biden to run and certainly not hillary. thank yo

that was a sore democratic party thank you but you'll start to see that we know the party really start to gain if you will i think that you know not to preclude what we'll talk about later but what we're seeing in west virginia is you know it's. it's her gaining power in trying to bring together those the far left branch of the party that seem isolated by the president's policies and what will become from hillary clinton who really is more or less a more or less a centrist compared to you know prepare to leave well and in fact before we move along on this topic here's a clip of elizabeth warren campaigning on behalf of somebody else a lot of people are wondering if she's campaigning on behalf of her so. negative and i'm sorry i was huge but i'm more efficient if you about are valid issues that define its human being that great our job is to fight for the families of america that the republicans know the phrase in and then of. the equal pay for equal work they said we're going to. carry an order to make our budget balance they know all those pension promises they say is more for wall st

i think he's raising this money for his legacy, this would be the democratic party. because even after president obama is no longer in office he continues to be ahead of the democratic party. >> naturally the president comes west looking for money. it's friendly territory, half of the people still approve of the president's performance. the president's bay area visit, it doesn't come without controversy. there will be a line demonstration by immigration activists who will be outside of the president's silicon valley event. they'll be calling on the president to deal with the humanitarian crisis on the border and protect the thousands of children coming into the u.s. there will be a traffic issue if you're going to be here in san francisco today. this is howard street that's blocked off between 4th and 5th. once the president leaves his hotel sometime around 9:00 there will be rolling street closers as they make their way down to are the bay. channel 2 news. >> just so you can be aware more details now on the president's schedule in the bay area. it could affect traff

increasingly liberals are in the democratic party, and liberals in the republica li, and conservativesn the republican party. the people on the consistent left are not extreme liberals. they're consistent liberals. the same thing on the right. the people in the center are not really the middle. they're people who are mixed of inconsistent attitudes. if you allow me to give an example, the index that under lies these graphs is based on ten questions, like do you favor military strength or diplomacy? do you favor programs for the poor or not? most people don't feel 100% on one side or the other of those dichotomies. 65% military strength, 35% diplomacy. if every question were like that, i'm not going to be in the extreme liberal but consistent liberal even though i'm fairly moderate on those issues. in the news lately the right wing populist. this person may have extreme views, cut off all social programs, deport all immigrants, heavily tax. there is a tendency for people to look at these graphs and determine them to be extreme, center and extreme right when they're consistent liberals,

fascinating is if elizabeth warren or arguably bernie sanders represent the legitimate left of the democratic party and sanders isn't even in the democratic course alicia's you to a live one is sure represents the legitimate left of the democratic party who represents the legitimate right of the republican party at the national level this . i mean we're seen all out war swore affair between rand paul and a whole bunch of republicans who are you know the john mccain lindsey graham faction is essentially where where is the. i want to say hard right but that sounds like a slur and i don't mean it as a slur i mean where is the legitimate right the far the far right if elizabeth warren is the legitimate left or is the modern day barry goldwater yet or you say it's of the river to say if it isn't this a very interesting question and will be receiving here is this rand paul style libertarianism almost defining itself we're seeing that process taking place and i don't think it's going to happen by twenty sixteen but i think over the next two or three election cycles you start to see momentum to the point t

. >> democratic parties are pushing for carling them away, but even though this is a humanitarian crisis. >> democrat i can leadership tee map and there the a fire fight between the escalating violence in the -- violence in the middle east. >>> and we have a chance to ask the former secretary of state, hillary rodham clinton what is she doing and the number one question she is expected to be asked? . >>> secretary of state john kerry left to broker a cease- fire deal. he will be joined by others in cairo sometime today. yesterday was considered the deadliest day yet among the fighting and among them killed was california native match steinberg who served as a sniper. 87 palestinians were also killed in this reason battle and they talked about it including fox 5 news sunday. >> israel has accepted a unilateral cease-fire and has accepted the egyptian plan which we also support and it is important to now step up and be reasonable and understand that you accept the cease-fire, you save lives... >> reporter: they have been using tunnels to get into the country and so far they have found 16 t

he's here to raise money for the democratic party ahead of midterm elections. after that event he traveled here to a private home in los altos hills where a luncheon is being held. the money at these events will go to benefit the campaign committee and the house majority political action committee. some donors spent more than $30,000 to attend the event. neighbors gathered to catch a glimpse of the commander-in- chief. >> we've missed him the last couple of times he was in the area. so this is literally five minutes walking distance from our home. i thought it would be a nice experience for my son and my friends' children. >> how many kids -- [chanting] >> reporter: protesters touting causes. stoppade to israel group was on hand handing up signs for the president to see. there was a group urging president obama to uphemed net neutrality and establish the internet as a public utility and immigration right rallies for refugee protections for those children crossing the border. their focus was for central america because many of the children are escaping ongoing v

got her into trouble, where she had moved too far to the center for the days -- base of the democratic party particularly on issues of foreign policy. it will be interesting to see how she positions herself in 2016. host: huntsville, alabama, michael. i am in elizabeth warren democrat. there is something more intriguing about rand paul, who has been talking about populist issues around the prison situation. if he gets serious and stays with that, he could peel lost some minority votes. but his biggest problem is that -- aynn randn problem. question thats no the folks who identify with the occupy movement are going to want a spokesperson on the stage. i think a lot of folks from the war in camp would like that person to be her. she has basically come out and said that she is not going to run. it just doesn't look likely. i think the likely spokesperson for that wing of the party will be bernie sanders, from vermont. the big profile in this issue looks at what kind of spokesperson he would the on the left on the primary stage. obviously, sanders would not say this but he would not be running t

while there is disaffection within the democratic party, nearly nobody is ready to say see you later. what they are ready to do is to fight with a party leaders in wall street over policy and political direction. so, if a third party is not on the agenda for now, what does the left do in the meantime? hope the democratic party will do what's right? not at all. two interrelated tasks come to mind. one, it is to continue to build the broadest, deepest grass-roots coalition, including the dems against the right. the other is to give new imagination and urgency to expanding and deepening the extreme of political independence inside and outside the democratic party that presses the progressive agenda. [applause] now, will there be tensions? of course. how could there not be? that is the nature of coalition. we will learn during the course how to unravel and move this whole thing forward. that takes me to challenge 5 -- climate change and planetary sustainability. of piling up of carbon and other greenhouse gases in our atmosphere has reached a point that james hansen, one of the world's mo

the fore of the issues you have a week of the republican party just as you have a wing of the democrat partywe have the republican party that is you know very vocal about this there's no such thing as a democrat party it's the democratic party but the but you're talking the john boehner wing was one man you can know it's nice but the john boehner we would say it's there's a there's an element of anti immigration components in the let them vote it's i mean all he has to do is say ok we're going to vote if they can all but no one and i mean they have is they have a twenty vote majority in the in the house they are ninety whatever it is vote joining they can they can just floated up and through that is it would probably pass significant really wilkens what is always a probably what happened yes it would that's that's the that's the fine line of being boehner has to continue walking and we've seen in the edge of battles and that sort of thing although the last thing that i want to add to this is that you know i i've been listening to this rhetoric in fact i've done my radio show from a couple of

>> well, the president is raising funds for the democratic party. what he needs to be doing is dispatching both the defense secretary and particularly the secretary of state to israel and to make public statements. the president himself, saying that because hamas is nothing more than a puppet of iran, that the united states supports israel fully in doing whatever it has to do to shut down these rocket attacks. megyn, i have been all over the southern part of israel. i stood and have seen 4200 katyusha rockets filed up behind the police station. america would never tolerate what the israelis have been asked not just to tolerate but to accept and give land away for. it is absurd, and we need to suggest to the world that they back off, let israel put hamas out of business once and for all, do whatever it takes, including a ground operation in gaza, and stop this nonsense because it's escalating out of control, and nobody wins this except terrorism. >> what the president has done, you know, before he went off to the fund-raisers is he wrote an op-ed. he

cost of the hotel rooms, m&ms, bottled water, bagels, everything should be picked up by the democratic partyhould pass a law. simply unfair for a president to spend the majority of his time he is he doing that now fundraising for his party while all americans pay. i want to get you, you get that law, get rosen and cammeron on it. >> fair point. we should note that in a situation like this what they usually do is split some of the taxpayer costs. >> no split. just the secret service. that's it. everything else and if it's a republican, the republican party pays. vacation. so we have done our crack research. it looks like president obama takes less vacation than president bush did, than president reagan did and president clinton took the least. does that jive with what you know? >> it does. i think, look, when people hit the president over vacation time. everybody is entitled to some vacation. you take it. i don't take it. >> i don't take much. >> you don't take a lot. you are usually in the chair. that's why have you been number one for a long time. 18 years. i know somebody who plays golf wi

>> the president's getting hit from both sides in the democratic party.epublicans are sitting back and looking at this to be honest with a little bit of a plea that the president is caught between -- is creating a split in the democratic party between those on the left who as i say think he's being too harsh on this and saying that these children, many of them are going to have to go back, and what he's asking congress for is money to help expedite the process to send them back. many democrats in texas who are struggling in a republican state to hold on to their states, many congressmen in texas think he's not doing enough, think he should have gone down to the border, he should be pushing harder. >> i want you to talk about these other communities crying foul that texas is shipping immigrants to them without their knowledge coror consent. >> the federal government months people around all the time, they move detainees from one place to another, so it's not as though the president is doing any wrong in this regard, legally what he is doing potentially wro

and we were talking about how the democratic party has really changed. that the parties weren't that different. they'd have a different view of life and the world but things have changed, haven't they? >> very, very strongly. the democrat party is -- has become a very negative force. i'm going to go to this now. it's more socialistic in their thinking and they have given young women the wrong ideas about what democracy really is. debbie wasserman schultz is the gang leader for all of the information to our young women, convincing them that republicans are stopping their liberties and freedoms of reproduction, when the truth is, as the supreme court upheld, that religious freedoms are being infringed upon. we're all aware -- i'm going to go to this -- the latest atrocities that have taken place in israel. you've brought this up. >> absolutely. >> three young teens have been killed mercilessly. obama promised prime minister netanyahu america is your ally and we will cover your back. so why does he continue to send billions to the palestinian authority, who

there's a restlessness, a populism in the democratic party. >> will that be to the danger of the democraticrd live -- >> it could be. a it's question whether somebody is able to make it more centrist. the point is -- >> who of those not hillary clinton's make that case? to you? >> well, i think that's the question. i think the governor of montana can, former governor -- elizabeth warren, jim webb could be an independent. he hases been a republican, democrat, left the senate, frustrated. and the antiwashington message, which is the basis of jimmy carter in '76, partly george mcgovern's message in '72, and remember, when gary hart ran in 1984, walter mondale was so far ahead, when he finally got into the race, he almost knock edmond dale out of the race. >> mondale eventually won. the idea beingó1ç such a challee can help you. didn't help him obviously but this might help -- >> could help if she is able to turn it back. puts pressure on her. the problem is there are too -- she seems still surrounded by people who are looking for the main chance. guys with blue hair looking to get their hands

host: host: what about the sentiment of the old democratic party versus this new one which you ta talk about a little bit. guest: there are some people who are trying to look at the tea party for cues about how to change their party, how to shake it up and shake some of the older ideas. it will be -- i don't know that they are there yet, you know, you look on the right and various faxes are spending millions of dollars against each other. i mean it is indeed a civil war on that side. you don't see thhappening on th left. although, everyone i talk to says, look, there is one person who has started a group and they are running progressive candidates against democrats in primaries and so they are using the same pump at least on the local level with some success, you know, on the local level. so, i think, you know,

>> this is something you feel bubbling up through the entire democratic party. s something dividing the republican party, too. there is a lot of energy behind the populist message from rand paul. there ises a lot of push-back from the traditional main stream republicans who think something like the xm bank ought to be -- >> what about the sense that the rich are getting a good deal? could romney run as a populist? no. could chris christie? these are big shot northeastern people. >> i don't think they could. that's not where their party is. they could probably run as a democrat because democrats generally feel the middle class and the little guy is getting screwed. all republicans do not feel that way. >> let me ask you, robert. you're covering the campaign grows. this is tied up with the anti-war movement. it's connected. this is populist middle america, the plains states, the middle west. if this is growing mood with the tax breaks and all the advantages they generally and having the money, how does jeb bush win who inherited his position in life? how about mitt

and while he's no longer raising money for himself, he's the leader of the party and needs to help democratshang onto the senate this november. >> what [president obama is doing is raising money for the party. this is not money he's raising for his presidential library. i think he's raising money for his legacy. that would be the democratic party because even after president obama is no longer in office, he continues to be athe head of the democratic -- to be the head of the democratic party. >> reporter: and the bay area visit won't come without controversy. there are some protests planned along the way at some various stops today. that will include a large demonstration by immigration advocates around noon. they will be outside the silicon valley event and they will be calling on the president to deal with the humanitarian crisis unfolding around the border and pushing for him to assist the unaccompanied children coming into the u.s. right now. as we bring it back out here, you can see heavy traffic on many of the surface streets in this area. that's because of the street closures that are

>> well, the president is raising funds for the democratic party. what he needs to be doing is dispatching both the defense secretary and particularly the secretary of state to israel and to make public the president himself, saying that because hamas is nothing more than a puppet of iran, that the united states supports israel fully in doing whatever it has to do to shut down these rocket attacks. megyn, i have been all over the southern part of israel. i stood and have seen 4200 katyusha rockets filed up behind the police station. america would never tolerate what the israelis have been asked not just to tolerate but to accept and give land away for. it is absurd, and we need to suggest to the world that they back off, let israel put hamas out of business once and for all, do whatever it takes, including a ground operation in gaza, and stop this nonsense because it's escalating out of control, and nobody wins this except terrorism. >> what the president has done, you know, before he went off to the fund-raisers is he wrote an op-ed. he wrote an op

>> well, the president is raising funds for the democratic party. what he needs to be doing is dispatching both the defense secretary and particularly the secretary of state to israel and to make public statements. the president himself, saying that because hamas is nothing more than a puppet of iran, that the united states supports israel fully in doing whatever it has to do to shut down these rocket attacks. megyn, i have been all over the southern part of israel. i stood and have seen 4200 katyusha rockets filed up behind the police station. america would never tolerate what the israelis have been asked not just to tolerate but to accept and give land away for. it is absurd, and we need to suggest to the world that they back off, let israel put hamas out of business once and for all, do whatever it takes, including a ground operation in gaza, and stop this nonsense because it's escalating out of control, and nobody wins this except terrorism. >> what the president has done, you know, before he went off to the fund-raisers is he wrote an op-ed. he

party. texas democrats also put out a statement blaming the texas republican party for the city of dallas losing out in that particular competition. this is what the texas democrats said, the choice of cleveland over dallas to host the convention, shows just how toxic texas republicans are. by choosing dallas, national republicans would have cen willy endorsed the texas republican platform and values, including reparative therapy for the lgbt community, repealing the 17th amendment that allows citizens to elect their own u.s. senators. texas republicans are out of step even with national republicans and out of step with the needs of texans today, the republican national committee confirmed it in this decision. that's not meowing it's more like crowing. but i'm not going to go caw. there, i just did. texas republican politics are too toxic for the national republican party. the texas politics are too toxic for the national republican party. and whether it falls that way or not on partisan lines, right now more than ever. texas politics do actually happen to be our national politics as a country.

last month members of a panel of the ruling liberal democratic party shelved the idea of regulating bit coin transactions saying its use is still limited in the country. >>> all right time to check the markets now. investors across the globe cheered on by the strong u.s. jobs data that we got on thursday but today some refrained from active buying. here's how major asian indexes ended out the day. a mixed picture following another record gain on wall street. u.s. companies added more jobs than expected in june. so investors in tokyo became a bit optimistic about the outlook for the u.s. economy. the nikkei average closed at a five month high finishes at 15,437. japanese exporters were given a boost by the weaker yen. in sidney the main index there seeing gains of .6 of 1%. 5524. that's at that one month high. the resources sector pushed up the index as copper and iron other prices rose. in seoul the kospi rose a high. shares dipped a bit lower. investors sold stocks on concerns about weak quarterly earnings. >>> chinese leaders have been putting the supports in place to reinforce their

. >> they want to domestically deport the children, so we are talking about a democratic party who says countless times that they will do what it takes to get immigration reform but until now we've gotten nothing. so we are holding the democratic party accountable. >> opponents of this message say people need to cross into this country legally. and the country needs to do more to protect the borders. but these activists say they want a more humanitarian approach. they believe the kids who crossed over will be in danger if they are sent back. pelosi's office did not give us a response. but these activist say they are hoping to get one from her and they say this is not going to be the only action you will see from them, that this is not just one protest, that this is a campaign. live in san francisco, amy hollyfield, abc 7 news. >> amy, thank you. >>> now a crisis in the middle east. there is concern about the rising number of palestinian death and loss of israeli lives. secretary of state john kerry is on his way to the middle east to do what he can to help negotiate an agreement. seven

mark knows this but they are leaving the democratic party. ung guys back into the party again. and hillary can appeal to them. but it's got to be kind after cat ballou i can do this. people want a fighter for jobs and selling books at 30 bucks a pop is not the way to get the regular people. it's a way to get the book buyers but not the same person will decide the election. the person decide the election probably doesn't have books in their house! they may not have newspapers! but they have a vote. that's the person you have to go for. >> chris matthews. >> and they want a job and they want a really good better job than they have and if she can promise that, and get to th infrastructure i sound like kennedy but that's what they want, the people. i think. >> chris matthews, thank you so much. we will be watching "hardball" at 7:00 eastern time. joy reed, thank you as well "the reed report" airs at 2:00 eastern time. >>> ahead what 3700 hours of new audiotape tell us about how nixon's presidency fell apart. >>> kaulgs from texas but on opposite s

she is overwelmingly the choice of the democratic party. e is going to get through whatever the primaries are and be the democratic nominee. >> people see that? >> she will have plenty of exposure. she was afterall, not only secretary of state. >> there's nothing like having a debate between two candidates at a primary. you know what a primary is? >> i read a lot about them. she is definitely going to be as articulate as anybody can be. >> if you were giving advice to hillary, would you advise her to be primaried or not to be primaried in. >> i would go straight for the nomination myself. you don't want to take any risk. >> exactly. >> what about you? >> it's not up to her, either. >> i stick to what i said before. i think it will help the erertz >>> this week on moyers and company. >> you can't look at the roberts court. workers rights, environmental progress. >> i think it's hard for anybody looking at this court objectivelyto come away not thinking that it's a court of an agenda. >> funding is provided by ann gumowitz, carnegie corporatio

which is of course the issue of immigration reform has always been an issue that has united the democratic partysier issue for them to run on against the republican party. they can say the republicans stone walled immigration reform. you've heard it all. what's interesting about all of this right now is that the democratic party is at a juncture where it is divided over what to do in this particular instance. and the president has a problem here with border state democrats, with progressive democrats, and he's got to figure out a way to thread this needle, as do republicans, by the way, who are talking about securing the border and cannot walk away from this. >> david, you advised four presidents, democratic presidents, republican presidents. if you were advising this one, would you tell him to go down there and see for himself what's going on? >> i'd tell him to get up to capitol hill at this moment. he missed his opportunity to go to the border. that was a terribly unfortunate -- he should have gone, but it is what it is. right now, he ought to be focusing like a laser on the question of getti