democrat/republican thing. kay bailey hutchison, other republican women have agreed that these attacks on women's reproductive health is bad for the party. it's bad for america. let's look at where ryan takes us and where romney goes. cutting day care. what do women depend on? they depend on -- working women. cutting education. what are women depending on to equalize this? >> that's not true. >> of course it's true. mitt romney wants to decimate the department of education. paul ryan -- that's exactly where mitt romney's taking pit p that's going to disproportion e disproportionately affect women. >>> more from our round table coming up. we're also going to hear from my colleague brian williams who's going to talk about his exclusive interview with president obama this week to mark the one-year anniversary of the successful raid in the killing of osama bin laden. >>> later, general election preview. on a lighter note, "saturday night live" style. it's all coming up. >>> "meet the press" is sponsored by ge. imag

and a republican and democratic clothing people choose the genuine article every time that is they will take a republican before they'll take a phony democrat and i don't want any phony democratic candidates and this campaign harry truman's message to democrats prove prophetic in two thousand and ten when nearly half of the entire fifty four member blue dog caucus in the house of representatives was voted out of office. blue dogs are the ultra conservative democrats usually hailing from red states or as harry truman would call them republicans and democratic clothing talking republican code words like fiscal conservatism and small government now frankly some of them after act like republicans out of sheer political survival let's face it progressive like nancy pelosi can't get elected in the second district of oklahoma but a blue dog democrat again born or promises to act like a republican he can and the democratic party has always prided itself on inclusion and letting people of all sorts of political stripes into it that's not necessarily a bad thing in fact i t

a partisan budget either presented by the democrats or the republicans will not advance the process. i applaud the chairman for recognizes that. if we had the democratic budget, you had a republican budget, it's not going to advance the process. you saw what happened in the house of representatives. you have a partisan republican budget that the house has passed that's not going to pass the senate. it's not advancing the process of moving forward with a game plan for fy-14 and beyond. so i really wanted to applaud the chairman for his actions. i think it's the right way to move forward. i would be the first to acknowledge that it's a long shot, if we can get this done before the elections. but if we don't move in the chairman's direction, we have no shot. this at least gives us a chance to try to come together and do something that most people think we can't get done. i think the chairman has given us the best possible ability to accomplish those results. i applaud him for his work. >> i thank the senator and would now recognize senator cornyn for a statement. >> thank you, mr. chairm

every republican and democrat on the house judiciary committee said that he should be impeached. this is not something that should be lightly ilg anothered, period. i didn't know exactly what was going to happen but i guess the republican leaders in the house and senate got extremely concerned because you had elections scheduled for november. this was early august. and if there had been a trial vote in the house of representatives and then a trial in the senate would have come right up against the november elections, as it was, the republicans lost a huge number of seats and it was called the watergate class in november 1974. but it would have been far, far worse if nixon had stood trial and they had been -- during that period of time running up to the election. so i think there was a lot of pressure put on president nixon. i mean, i'm assuming that. i don't really know -- to resign. in any case, he knew that there was no hope. the impeachment process -- he was going to be removed from office. there was no question about that. there was no question in anybody's mind, even without

i repeat the house republicans did a budget and voted on it. senate and house democrats chastised them for the budget. senator toomey has a budget that balances in eight years that he's ready to vote on. here we are today without a voteable plan from the senate democrats. it's too bad. i'm ready to put in the work necessary to pass the budget. unfortunately, it doesn't look like we have the opportunity to do that work today. i hope we do in the near future. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you, senator. senator crepo is recognized for a statement. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. i want to say at the outset that i appreciate you bringing forward a proposal, a co comprehensive proposal, and seeking the to put into play a process that will help us to get where we need to get in the country. i appreciated the hundreds and hundredses of hours that you and i and the group of six, now eight, have put into trying to find the bipartisan pass to get guard to move the country into a fiscal position. we face a crisis today that is the biggest crisis we have faced. we really m

republican alternative. what are the divisions? where are the differences between democrats and republicans on this. >> there are serious dividing lines. they don't necessarily have to do with the meat of the bill which provides grants to local police departments to have domestic violence programs and for shelters and for women who have been abused. the democrats have proposed changes to the law and some of them the republicans do not agree with. one is to expand some of the protections provided in the law to dating partners for people who in gay relationships. that's obviously one of the huge dividing lines of american politics and republicans have problems with it. democrats have also proposed expanding a number of visas that will be provided to women who are undocumented immigrants who have come forward to tell law enforcement authorities about abuse they're suffering. there is visas provided for those folks because the idea is to try to encourage people to come forward and report the abuse without fear of being deported if they do so. right now the united states is at it

and specifically they have sued the republicans in the house of representatives. the democratspublicans are denying them the right to vote in the legislature. it's not just for benton harbor anymore, it's for the whole state. democrats have begun demanding role call votes to see whether republicans have this 2/3 majority they claim. they're demanding an actual count to see if they have all 73 votes that the republicans would need for these laws to go into immediate effect. this is the picture of the democrats demanding a vote like that last week. demanding it and not getting it. we asked the michigan democrats if they could provide us with an example of the way that republicans are running the house. saying that they've got a 2/3 majority when it seems impossible that they do. and they sent over this clip from last month. this is amazing. what's happening here, the context here is that republicans have just passed a measure making it harder to get a repeal on the ballot, to get a citizen's repeal on the ballot. michigan democrats want to repeal that emergency manager law, right

we fought on those terms and there were republicans to find every committee level use of democrats and republicans in every committee working together the key votes were never particularly partisan. it is almost dena letcher iced in terms of partisanship there were other differences that were not partisan differences. we have lost that over time, and what the epilogue tries to do is explain how and when that got lost. basically the republican party has continued to move to the right, and they have embraced a tighter partisan model that now the senate is trapped so that the street party votes become very commonplace and that's not the way the senate used to work but it has changed over time, and you will find that republican senators, republican senate leaders used to work very closely with democratic presidents but have stopped doing that, and that math said has created the atmosphere and the working senate. >> host: something we deal with everyday on any issue of significance some of notte significance we need 60 votes. there wasn't the case back then in most instances. >> guest: it w

is there any chance that the democrats made the republicans propose all of those pieces of legislation laura -- let's try this again. any chance that the democrats actually made the republicans pass all of this legislation that they proposed? >> there's no chance that the democrats made the republicans pass anything. i think that it's possible for republicans to take issue with the rhetoric, you know war on women. sure it's strong language they are not lining up women and shooting them. but short of doing that there has certainly been a sustained legislative attack on women's rights and women's health. the thousand laws that have been pass and just the rhetoric of the gop governors and senator, saying for instance, pennsylvania governor saying well, you know if we force women to have ultrasounds that they don't need, and put the ultrasound image in front of their face all they have to do is close their eyes. it's just a brushing off of women's issues especially health issues that is disconcerting. >> yeah it is chilly to hear talk like that. it looked like for a second there was going

and so in fact, and the 25 democrats and 24 republicans worked together with a federal government that is democratic to get the settlement done. now some people -- there are differing view about the settlement itself but the idea it's not possible to be nonpartisan -- i look better without it -- is at least that's an example. i will say the other piece is on the other end of the mortgage process in origination, we have a nationwide mortgage licensing system put together originally by my colleagues and myself and we were democrats and republicans and worked with hud and cfpb after the safe act was enacted to do that. there are examples of people working together across party lines in the united states. as an old states rightser, it's nice to see the states have taken the lead in this. >> what joe smith is saying hey, we've got republican -- 25 democrats and 24 republican ags who came together and came to an agreement on the settlement. why is it so difficult for us to have at the federal level this positive discourse to try to come up with solutions to address it? >> well, let's keep in

democrat. i'm not a republican. it was a tough decision. we know the evidence was not there as far as an ironclad case. a lot of it was circumstantial. i just know president obama when the time came for him to make a momentous occasion like that he took thea. >> i'm going to advice him on the daily basis of the united states of safety and security. >> one of the things that president obama made that he closed down guantanamo bay, is that -- >> we're going to mike their assure that they bring just tice through either transfers, to other countries, other areas. >> when? >> well, we've had dealings with congress. what we're try dog is make sure we do this responsibly. the president said he is going to close this down. h's going to continue to be determined to do that. we have to do it in a manner that does not put the safety of the people in jeopardy. we'll work with the congress, we'll continue to have ongoing discussions with them and i'm hoping certainly one day the people in guantanamo no one day not be there. >> you're going to -- >> we'l

democrat. i'm not a republican. >> that's why i asked. >> yes.nd what i know though is that president obama made the decision that, in fact, brought bin laden to justice. it was a tough decision. as we know, the evidence was not there as far as an ironclad case. a lot of it was circumstantial. i just know that president obama, when the time came for him to make a momentous decision like that, he took the action that did bring the man to justice. >> but should it have been in the political realm, do you think? >> i'm just going to be advising the president on a daily basis about what i think is in the best interest of the united states' safety and security. >> and, finally, one of the promises the president made before he came into office, that he would close down guantanamo bay prison. that has not happened. will it happen any time in the near future? >> we are determined to make sure that we're able to bring justice to those individuals in guantanamo through either transfers to other countries, other areas -- >> when? >> you know, we've had some

republicans are neat freaks versus democrat whose have sloppy. sed where the democrats are live and let live in terms of friendship, republicans, loyal to only a few whereas the democrats have friends from all walks of life. socially, republicans being more cautious, being more reserved, democrats are talkative and outgoing. first glance those seem to be well-defined stereotypes. you say psychologists believe they're grounded in reality. how so and why. >> well, we're starting to find that what we think of as ideology is often highly tied to personality traits, like some of the ones you were describing. increasingly psychologists, biologists are finding those personality traits are manifested early in life, children who are observed by psychologists playing at ages of 1, 2, 3, before the line of which liberalism or conservatives is available to them are manifesting personality traits that match up later with ideologies when interviewed as adults. increasingly, we've learned so much about genetics that we're seeing that that personality is often in

through both republican and democratic presidents. than a smaller slice of it. >> bret: good to have you on board. steve, you're always here. thanks. that's it for panel statement tuned to see the revolution of a campaign slogan. today is gonna be an important day for us. you ready? we wanna be our brother's keeper. what's number two we wanna do? bring it up to 90 decatherms. how bout ya, joe? let's go ahead and bring it online. attention on site, attention on site. now starting unit nine. some of the world's cleanest gas turbines are now powering some of america's biggest cities. siemens. answers. >> bret: breaking news now. tv reporting that north korea has launched that rocket. greg palkot is on the ground in pyongyang. north korea is saying that rocket in north korea has launched. we will follow up and you will see it at the top of "the fox report" in just a moment. finally tonight in 2008, then senator obama made yes we can a corner stone of his campaign messaging. this time around the obama campaign seems to be struggling to fin

democrats or republicans? >> democrats really want that seat back.h warren is new to the voters there. she -- she is still introducing herself. so she shot up essentially from zero to 35%. there's 26% of folks are still undecided so that's a long time to go there. >> this is an honor for democrats. not only in mitt romney backyard, but also in honor of ted kennedy. >> and it will be really interesting given the fact that health care is back on the table. but, all right. let's talk about 2016 really quickly. bill clinton sort of -- waulzing near the door for hilary. >> i think he was being a very supportive spouse -- >> she was also interviewed, though. did you hear on her on andrea mitchell? and she didn't -- i'm not thinking about that. i have no plans of doing that. but that doesn't mean never ever ever. >> there's no way to say no in a situation like that. >> she did say she was going to take a rest. >> the country needs her. >> after you get that rest done. then you want to look at other things. >> count me in. >> there is also andrew cuomo. but

by a three-one mmargrgin, they mcclean democrat. republicans have made this the core anti-democrat, , of thehe presidenential n nominatation of tt romney. he went after perry because he signed a lawhat entitled undocumented children to go to school a at the samame rate. he went after newt gingrich for saying that people wiwill have been here 25 years and worked and paid taxes ought to have a chchance. he has endorsedd the arizonana law. >> how big is the prproblem? the pew center says that as of march 2010, there arere 11.2 million authorized immigrants in the united states. is this -- unauthorized immimigrantsts in the unitestates. is this a demographphic problem political proble >> they have stepped up. what you have to understand abouout immration is t that ids a very complex problem. -- it is a very complex problem. you squeeze the borders in texas and california. also, farmers depend on immigrants to come and harvest their fields. a lot of states have passed strict laws, and state officers have said we did not know what we were voting for.

disenfranchise millions of mostly poor elderly and minority voters people who tend to vote for democrats republicans in alaska minnesota new hampshire ended in wisconsin tried to or did pass shoot first laws like the one that killed trayvon martin down in florida in addition several states as well as the republican controlled house of representatives have been pushing legislation to prevent the e.p.a. from regulating coal ash that toxic junk that spews out of coal power plants in america all of this is been happening together all of this in what looks like a concerted effort by republicans to push an extreme corporate agenda so what does all this legislation have in common what's the connection between anti public union laws voter id laws shoot first laws and the anti e.p.a. laws. i give you hit these laws were all written by or are at least carbon copies of legislation written by the same singular organization and that organization is alec corporations are writing our laws folks but alex not lobbying right there just a public charity right joining me now is megan carpentier executive editor with ro

we will support democrats and republicans. >> what is your budget? >> i have been around a long time and i'm smart enough not to do that. the press reported that in the last effort will spend more than $50 million. i don't know whether that is correct. i consider this a more important election. >> you had said earlier this week in talking about job growth that it needs to come from the private sector. you mentioned $2 trillion just sitting on the books. what has to be done for job creation to come from this massive amount of money that is sitting there? >> a couple of things -- there is great uncertainty in the business community as they are waiting to see what happens in the election. if you listen to what the administration has been saying, that what they will do on taxes and regulation and, in fact, some punitive action against individual sectors of the economy, then you want to wait and see what will happen. when you look at the question on health care which is a massive cost and hiring people here. when you look at dodd-frank, we got all this st

republicans have -- they lean democratic over republican. purple plants have made this -- republicans have made this the core, anti-immigrants, of the nomination of mitt romney. he attacked it perry, attacked newt gingrich for saying that people will have been here for 25 years and worked and paid taxes could be qualified to stay. he has endorsed the arizona law. >> how big is the problem? pew center says that as of march 2010, there are 11.2 million un as base authorized immigrants in the united states. -- un, priced immigrants in the united states. is this a demographic problem, political problem? >> they have stepped up enforcement. what you have to understand about immigration is that it is the complex problem. you squeeze the borders in texas and california, people come to arizona. also, farmers depend on immigrants to harvest their fields. a lot of states have passed a law is and it state officers say we did not know what we were voting for tr. >> farmers say they lost 1/2 to $40 million while food rotted on the ground. >> right. >> th

republicans joining with democrats and substantial numbers. so it wasn't going to be easy to overcome that, but when you had all the republicans then deciding to join democrats it was -- there was no hope that he could beat this. >> where were you the day he resigned? >> i was in washington. i was in my office. i can't exactly remember what was happening, but i remember we all ran to the television and watched his resignation and getting on the plane and the bravado. i mean it was sad, but it was also sad that he really did not acooj i don't think he ever really acknowledged what he'd done to the country and what he'd done that was wrong. >> tell us about the experience of questioning president ford about the pardon. >> well, as surprising as the resignation was, the ford pardon really came as a very sad surprise to me. and i was very upset by it because i thought that here we were on the house judiciary committee trying to establish that the rule of law was really the most important thing. and a president couldn't take the law into his own han

how would you grade the democratic house and the republican senate? >> it is hard to break the democratic house because they don't do a lot. that is because they made a strategy that with 23 democratic senators at risk in the election that they should not vote on a lot of things. it might be the same things. this is the third year they will not vote a budget. i will not break down because there is not a lot left to grade. in the republican house, you have two issues. they have passed 30 pieces of legislation that attempts to address economic issues. knowing it would be hard to get anything done in the democratic senate. at the same time, there have debatesme internet scencine within the house and ee progress should be made in resolving those points so that when we had the issue i described of the post-election excitement, they will work closely together. i will give both houses a strong vote of appreciation for what they did on the trade bills. and a number of other issues that were in the nation's interests. >> can you tell us about the chamber's invo

why is the price still reporting this as democrats versus republicans? because they are very, very confused and not really paying attention. they haven't recognized the increasing mobilization of the latino community. they're very distracted by democrats versus republicans. nobody is really paying attention to what's going on the court, so i read stuff that's completely not reflecting what's going on in court, both in the media and sometimes in the academy. and also you get a lot of political operatives really about democrats getting screwed or it's really about republicans and i don't think it's about any of that. and then of course at the end of era has outlived and is very vibrant and really helping us. so i'm not going agreed that it outlived its mobility, particularly because they think it very strong case. i showed you some pictures of what it's about. my son is 15 years old. he came at me today. he's going to vote. not before where 18. he will be voting in this decade and it's not just my own interest in capturing an undiluted vote. this interest t

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that same year, democrat claire unseated a republican incumbent senator. phatic supporter of the minimum wage ballot proposition and that helped her win. research showed that democrats in missouri were twice as likely to vote for her because of an initiative to increase the state's minimum wage that won easy approval in november with 76% of the vote. if you've liked having a democrat replace a republican senator from missouri these past six years, you can thank economic populism for that. you can thank minimum wage for being on the ballot in missouri. what's happened in missouri since that election? despite the overwhelming vote in favor of a minimum wage rise, that was the first pay raise in nine years in missouri. despite the huge votes in favor of the raise, missouri republicans have been trying over and over and over again to get rid of it. so far the republican efforts to get rid of it have not been successful. this year, the senator is up for re-election. it's been six years. at the same time, chances are that another minimum wage increase is going to

republicans, larry. >> do you know what the current vote tally is? waiting for six votes. six democratic votes, republican votes? where does it stand? >> we don't have the names of the six senators who have not yet voted, or i don't have them here. but it look like those six will not be enough to break the trend that we were expecting, larry. so i think we can predict with some confidence here that the buffett rule will be stopped dead in its tracks in the senate in the next couple of minutes, whenever these senators can get their way to the floor tonight. >> eamon javers, washington, d.c., thanks very much. all right. cnbc contributor jarrett bernstein, former head economist for vice president joe biden. we'll welcome senator john barrasso, republican from wyoming when mr. barrasso gets strapped in. you know, jartd, we've gone round and round on this and probably will again. all i'm going to say to you is when you cut through all the fog about the buffett tax, this is a backdoor way of raising the capital gains and dividends tax, namely stock market taxes, from 15% to 30% among the most

the scenarios i consider plausible going to have a republican house, very likely a republican senate because democrats are defending so many more senate seats than republicans are. if romney wins, it's difficult to see a world where republicans don't hold the house and taking back the senate. if that happens, given how much of their agenda is simply budget and tax issues, they can put the entire ryan budget into budget reconciliation. they can pass it on a party line vote in the senate with 51 republicans. the fact that democrats -- the fact they don't have a filibuster-proof majority wouldn't matter. that means in practical terms, not because of who he is or what he wants, much like when obama came in and had six democratic votes in the senate, he could do a lot more than a president coming in in a mixed situation. >> it's worth mentioning right now behind me in that building right now, house speaker john boehner is speaking on the house floor about the gop student loan interest. the bill would keep it at 3.4% and prevent it from doubling when the current rate expires on july. what democrats don't li

a 51 democrats, two independents who caucus with the democrats and 47 republicans. and there are 33 races this year around the country. the democrats are defending 21 seats -- jennifer duffy is in the cook report. nice to have you with us this morning. of those 33 seat, how many are competitive? >> caller: well, right now, we have seven democratic seats that we have in our column meaning they're too close to call. there's one seat, nebraska that we have in the likely republican meeting that we think democrats are not going to hold on to that seat. for republicans, they've got three seats in tulsa. we expect this to grow. host: yesterday on our "newsmakers" program, we interviewed the heads of the two party senate re-election campaigns committees. and asked each -- was asked what the odds of your party holding party after november. the democratic representative was definitive, we're going to keep power. the republicans say we have a good chance. based on the numbers you have right now, who's right? caller: you know what, i think that's probably republicans are right.

republican registered voters. not to independent voters, unlike the democratic primary. that maieans the more conservate factions of the party will be running for president. ron paul, might have a chance to pick up delegates that could go to romney. the whole profile of the republican party and activist base is more and more conservative in california. >> david? >> carla you said were you at the jelly belly factory with santorum earlier. he was there, and he was certainly counting his conservative bona fides when he was there. is that really resonating here in the golden state? do republicans here think that he is the conservative messiah or are they having doubts? >> the latest poll, and we tried to ask, david, santorum this question. latest poll, 20 points down from mitt romney. it's very clear romney does not have the passion of a lot of these republican voters. we saw it in talking to the people there who showed up at the jelly belly factory. we've seen it for months now. more and more romney has been defined and defined himself as a wealthy candidate. this week it ca

he was joined by congressman john klein republican of minnesota and chair of the education and workforce committee. >> back in 2007, a democrat controlled congress put in place a law that would double student loan interest rates this year. republicans and democrats on both sides of the aisle here on the capital have long agreed this was a problem that must be addressed. right now president's economic policies are leaving a recent college graduate 50% of them are either unemployed or underemployed. today i'm pleased to announce that on friday the house will vote on a bill to extend the current interest rate on federal student loans for one year. we will pay for this by taking money from one of the slush funds in the president's health care law. you know, this week the president is traveling the country on the taxpayer's dime, campaigning and trying to make a fight where there isn't one and never has been one on this issue of student loans. we can and will fix the problem without a bunch of campaign style theatrics. i know this issue well. it took me seven years to work my way through college and working every job i could get m

. >> we turn to the political controversy that has riled up democrats, republicans and women. it is the war of words that began when a high-profile democratic strategist criticized an nromney questioning her credibility as a working mother. tonight even president obama is defending mitt romney calling the comments ill-advised. >> president obama distanced himself from the statement against ann romney. >> there is no tougher job being a mom. when i think about what michelle has had to do, what i think about my own mom, a single mother raising me and my sister, that is work. >> it went on to say politician families are civilians and comments to not need to be directed at them. he and mitt romney will have more than enough to argue it out during the course of the campaign. hillary rosen criticized mitt romney for suggesting his wife is his connection to women voters. >> his wife has never actually worked a day in her life. she has never dealt with the kind of economic issues that a majority of the woman in this country is facing. >>ann romney refuted the notion it responded to whe

. >> have republicans been better in your view than democrats? >> many republicans have been better than most democrats on it, but one of the chapters we have in the book, and this is something that did not make a spread in some circles, there are a lot of people like to see republicans good, democrats bad, a straight partisan take. we have of course a chapter where we say that half the time republicans, many republicans have been, especially many of establishment republicans have been part of the problem rather than part of the solution. this is not a ship one party versus another. this is an issue of the philosophy of constitutional conservatism, adhering to the principles and requirements of the u.s. constitution. we believe the republican party can be a vehicle for the and we think they are champions of constitutional conservatism within the republican party, but the republican party itself is not the answer. it can just be a vehicle to help deliver that solution, if and only if we elect the right people spent and, in fact, ken klukowski you w

identify themselves as independents that's actually more than those who identify themselves as democrats or republicans what do you think that says about american politics really central question is for years social opposition has always been channeled back into the democratic party which has presented itself as the people's party right so you had huge protests for example against the iraq war in two thousand and three but then the leadership of those protests quickly put that movement behind first the john kerry campaign then finally the obama campaign. you had the occupy wall street protests an expression initial expression of enormous anger over social inequality the domination of big money over the government the imperviousness of the government to the needs of the population but again the leadership of these movements in one way or another channel that behind the democratic party made via the trade unions which. you know the argument being that somehow the democratic party is really a people's party but it has always been a capitalist party it is the second party of american capitalism and so it h

democrat on the committee of ways and means. unfortunately it was not support by one republican on that committee. americans and their taxpayer dollars should not be subsidizing the destruction of american jobs. let me state, democrats recognize we live in a global economy. we recognize many of our companies need to operate internationally to remain competitive and expand their markets and market share. but, americans should not have their hard earned tax dollars, $46 billion in this case, mr. speaker, taken away and used to subsidize this kind of business activity. democrats work hard while the majority -- could i have 15 additional seconds. >> up have 15 additional seconds. >> democrats work hard to the end practice of incentivizing. defeat this bill. it is immoral. we should not be spending u.s. tax dollars in this way and i yield back the balance of my time. >> the democratic representative joe crowley on the floor of the house. the house of representatives passing that figure $46 billion in tax cuts for most employers. however, democrats claiming that republicans are not paying for this tax cu