. >> senator grassley? >> i would like to close, before we vote. and that would be i hope everybody listened to what senator schumer said. first of all, we're not repealing anything dealing with ireland. we're just putting parameters on it. there's no reason to not to welcome skilled workers from ireland as well fras aas from a country. the point being, what's the purpose of the legislation, particarly legal immigration part of it. it is to make sure that americans have workers that they had. the other thing is that senator schumer didn't answer my question why if it was od enough last time, it wouldn't be good enough this time because i thought we worked out a strong compromise. it had been brought up last year we wouldn't be dealing with this this year, at least as far as the united states senate is cornered. i'm going to withdraw the amendment. >> thank you. the amendment is withdrawn. i call up ley amendment number two. let me describe it. it would make important improvements to job creating eb-5 region

grassley grassley grassley grassley grassley grassley session session session session had to catch as catch had to catch session session session session lee lee en lee en lee. cornyn cornyn. and then half a dozen amendments. so let's get these done and then i will be glad to stay here later this evening and we can have whatever colloquies we want and with that up next is senator sessions. you were out of the room earlier and glad to have you back because senator hatch's not here again so we will go to senator sessions. >> the problem has not gotten better with countries that refuse to take back the of lawful alien and we all agree that is unacceptable. it needs to be fixed but for some reason years and years have gone by we have not extend. mr. chairman and a made a technical correction so i often said -- offer the second degree amendment. >> without objection the amendment before the committee. >> the secretary has the authority to discontinue granting pieces that the night or delay something that is ordered removed from the united states. but the thought is rarely, if ever used. som

please consider senator grassley. this amendment would replace the provision of the bill related to the special non immigrate piece of program and as currently drafted this special earmarked would allow most skilled workers to so there is also discretion for the secretary to waive crowns of inadmissibility. while the more prudent course of action on this provision is to strike it i am offering an amendment that would put parameters on this program. these are the same parameters that senator schumer and i agreed to last year. i want to repeat that for senator shivers benefit because he was not paying attention. [laughter] >> how do know that spirit visa the same parameters senator she ran and i agreed to last year for people watching not on this committee. >> i can hear you. >> he is a democrat i am the republican. here is what my amendment does. it would create a new visa classification for individuals from the republican -- republic of ireland to allow individuals to enter the united states after an employer files a

i'm --. >> i want to thank senator grassley for this amendment.e've tried to make this flexible in terms of high respect resemble risk in this increases our flexibility. i thank you and it's a good addition. >> you want to take up amendment number 24 now? >> for my colleagues -- >> just keep in mind you're the only thing that stands as between lunch. but she take all the time you want. >> and i will buy you lunch. >> i've heard that promise before. [laughter] >> mostly people in the democratic side of the committee, i'd like to point out my next amendment is being sued heard me try to accomplish on a lot of other bills that come before this committee when those programs involve grant programs coming out of the department of justice or any other department. >> at the senator would yield, he knows i supported his efforts on the traffic in the dense protection act. thank you. >> this amendment number 24 i hope demands accountability for taxpayer dollars authorized in the bill. the bill authorizes seven new grant programs but obviously hundreds of mil

the caucus has got the phrase "pulling a grassley" from senator grassley. we have candidates now that attempt to dukely cat are our -- when our -- duplicate what our senator does by going to the 99 counties in iowa within a year and that's something senator grassley has done for a very long time and that's wart of what has given him that reputation as someone who works for iowa. i have been thrilled to be chairman of the party with senator grassley as my senator. i can't can't tell you how much i've appreciated, from the time i got elected chairman to today and going forward, how egoer and happy he is to help anytime the republican party of iowa has asked and i don't think he gets thanked enough. so please join me in giving him applause for that. [applause] please join me in welcoming republican party of iowa finance chairman and united states senator charles grassley. [applause] >> thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you. well, thank you very much. i appreciate the opportunity of being where enthusi

senator grassley, you have five amendments.did you want to offer any of snows. >> i want to offer amendment number four, but before i do that i just would -- i think we ought to move ahead on amendments but i still had some questions on title one, and some along the line today i'd like to ask those questions but not right now. >> thank you. the ranking member knows i always yield to questions. >> your cooperation is well and i appreciate it, even though we might not ato be on everything but we do get -- we do move things along. now, let me be up front on this. this is a very controversial amendment but i want to say that it ought to not be controversial based upon the polling that has been done, saying that the massive amount of people want an immigration bill passed because the polling always had associated with it border security. the condition that the border be secure almost as a basis for doing anything. and also, i'd like to see my amendment as a truth in packaging amendment because i think that it has been the basis of m

senator grassley. we would be finished but senator grassley has amendments. you want me to read just one sentence and accept it? number itve you the will become controversial. this one may very well. take a we're voting for the even once, not on ones. >> this amendment would delay the implementation of the provision that provides for dual intend for student visa applicants until the student and exchange to visitors information system is updated. we have learned that time and again there are holes in the student visa program. i already talked about the 1993 world trade center attack as an example. the department of homeland security keeps track through a student in exchange visitors information system. but this system has problems. that is evidenced by the fact that the department is overhauling and updating the system. for years homeland security has targeted the creation of a new system provided program to fix the first program problem but has yet to announce any final implementation. according to immigration and customs enforcement, the agency past the prog

i appreciate senator grassley's amendment.it would help to tighten up the bill and increase the likelihood that an employee would find an american worker to find a job, taking them off unemployment and helping the economy. thank you. senator whitehouse. i am in a position which i am being performed this would be a dealbreaker to the deal. i frankly don't see how that could be the case, but i'm not privy to the understanding. i'm going to vote in support of the agreement that has been reached. i am going to vote no. i have an open mind to this. as we go to the floor, if this appears is not a dealbreaker, i think with this and the last amendment, it would make a lot of logical sense. so you will see me voting no, senator grassley, please view me as somebody who might be willing to work with you between now and the final vote on the floor. >> thank you. -- 60 seconds. referring to the group of eight, surely if we protect american workers, this whole agreement is not going to fall apart. you think it would be very american to prot

chairman, i thank senator grassley for his leadership. i believe he's touching on some very valuable points. i believe prudent would tell us to be careful as we go forward. i am not sure where this economy is heading, but most experts project that we're not creating the kind of jobs now and aren't likely to do so in the future that we've had had in the past. though it's a troubling situation. the congressional budget office colleagues in their february report over the next 10 years project that in the last five years of the 10-year budget window we would be creating 75,000 jobs in america per month. under the immigration bill here we'll be bringing in as immigrants, 1.2 million per year. that's about -- compared to 900,000 jobs being created each of those five years. we need to s mg think about. i just saw the latest unemployment statistics. unemployment -- those unemployed and seeking benefits rose 32,000 last week. over the last four weeks the numbers are up. we've had some improvement in it but it has not kept up, i would warn my colle

. >> senator grassley? >> i would like to close, before we vote. and that would be i hope everybody listened to what senator schumer said. first of all, we're not repealing anything dealing with ireland. we're just putting parameters on it. there's no reason to not to welcome skilled workers from ireland as well fras aas from a country. the point being, what's the purpose of the legislation, particularly legal immigration part of it. it is to make sure that americans have workers that they had. the other thing is that senator schumer didn't answer my question why if it was good enough last time, it wouldn't be good enough this time because i thought we worked out a strong compromise. it had been brought up last year we wouldn't be dealing with this this year, at least as far as the united states senate is cornered. i'm going to withdraw the amendment. >> thank you. the amendment is withdrawn. i call up leahy amendment number two. let me describe it. it would make important improvements to job creating eb-5

feinstein or coons and then senator grassley has several. so the first amendment i call up is leahy 3, mrw13332. describe it quickly. it enables immigrant victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, human trafficking, other violent crimes to obtain work authorization no later than 180 days after filing a petition or visa. normally right now it's taken about 18 months or more. the problem with taking too long is somebody's being abused, and they can't go out and get work, the abuser can say, okay, you have to stay here and take this abuse. you and your children are not going to be fed. and they exploit the financial dependents, the victim's way of controlling them. and, of course, the abuse continues. everybody we've talked with in law enforcement says this is an untenable position. and something should be done to make it different. now,ing the work authorization -- if you have a work authorization, you can work. if you don't, the woman being abused may have no money for housing or food, so she has the choice of do i live in a violent home,

we also adopted the grassley two amendment, the grassley five amendment, the cornyn six, the flick one amendment, -- flake one amendment and the flake two amendment in the grassley one amendment, and the grassley before amendment -- 24 amendment. those are just some to indicate that we had both the democratic and republican amendments. go ahead, senator sessions. >> i agree that this is not so much a partisan matter. it is a bill drafted by a bipartisan group and they will accept modest amendments that do not make much difference but they do not accept anything that deals with the integrity of the bill. there will not be a delay. certainly, you would not oppose the bill if we had a biometric entry/exit system in it. surely you would not delay the passage of the bill if we have it comply with her in law, and it gives the secretary -- with current law and it gives the secretary 10 years to get around to it. the airlines have opposed this for the last 20 years. that is why it has not happened. senator feinstein remembers the debate that we have over it. "usa today" has just written an art

the caucus has got the phrase, pulling a grassley from senator grassley. we have candidates now that attempt to duplicate what our senator does by going to the 99 counties in iowa within a year and that is something senator grassley has done for a very long time and that is part of what has given him that reputation as someone who works for iowa. i have been thrilled to be chairman of the party with senator grassley as my senator. i can't tell you how much i have appreciated from the time i got elected chairman to today and going forward how eager and happy he is to help anytime the republican party of iowa has asked and i don't think he gets thanked enough. so please join me in giving him an applause for that. [applause] please join me in welcoming republican party of iowa finance chairman and united states senator charles grassley. [applause] thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you. well, thank you very much. i appreciate the opportunity of being where enthusiasm is demonstrated in a quantifiable way by the large number of people

i thank senator grassley for his encouraging words on that, and i'll yield now to senator grassley that has an amendment. >> okay. and this is amendment number 27. yeah, 27. 2-7. >> the asylum -- >> yeah. our country has been very generous in giving asylum. about 30,000 individuals on average over, at least over the past decade. also the united states is becoming increasingly generous in granting asylum. the grant rate for asylum, about 56%. this is an increase of 11% in four, five years. increase of 9% if ten years -- 19% in ten years. the grant rate of the asylum office is also going up. the number of persons granted asylum has increased by 31% in just one year, the last year. our commitment to helping people who are persecuted around the world is, it's never going to waver. however, we have to be vigilant. the bill before us makes it easier for aliens to be granted asylum even including those who are denied asylum in the past. the bill would make it easier for those who wish to do us harm to exploit the system. we learned, for instance, about boston, immigrated to the united states b

senator grassley. >> yes. i have -- i have four questions legal to ask on this immigration provisions. and then later on, i'll have four or five questions i want to ask on the h-1 or on the w program. i t now, we're on the -- want the -- somebody on the group of eight to answer about four or five questions i have here. ok. first of all, a couple sentences i want to say about the purpose of my questions. there's a lot of talk about how this bill has earmarks or provisions for special interest groups, "the new york times" did a story on some of these provisions. for example, we see a provision in here for irnlede, south korea, canada -- ireland, south korea, canada. there are provisions we prefer to as "facebook carveout, higher education, health care organizations" also get special treatment. and the more i dig into some of this, the more i realize there's a story behind it. so i would like any of the members of the group of eight to elaborate on three or four points here. i'll start with section 4604. a sectio

i think senator senator grassley may have -- senator grassley is first. go ahead. yield senator graysly. -- grass. >> if senator durbin or senator new york here. i have several questions. i'm going ask one in regard to health care, and this title. there's a lot of discussion about how about bill would incentivize employers to hire newly legalized persons rather than americans -- i think the bill rightly prohibits legalized individual from accessing health credits to buy health insurance. along with this, comes the notion that employers would be able to skirt the penalty if they don't cover these people on their health insurance. one of the sponsors of the bill said that the issues being discussed among the group of eight. i would like to know what the discussions are taking place on this point. how will the bill -- so two questions. how will the bill ensure that those who are legalized don't get public benefits, but at the same time don't disincentivize employers to displace or give secondary preference to americans? and what changes is the group of eight contempla

thank you. >> i will now yield to senator grassley.i want to thank senator grassley who was helpful in getting a large number of republican amendments passed in this bill and i appreciate that and as i appreciate the number of republicans who asked me to be joining them on their amendments. >> first, closing remarks for senator sessions. >> any statements anyone wishes to place in the record. >> mr. chairman, tonight we bring to a close an open and transparent process on legislation to reform our broken immigration system. you surely kept a promise and i hope that promise will be maintained by leaders above and beyond chairman and ranking members when it gets to the floor of the united states senate. i appreciate the way that the process has gone and willingness of members to debate many amendments and discuss the provisions in the bill. it was a productive conversation focused on getting immigration reform right in the long-term. coming into the debate, i think i made my position very clear. i voted for amnesty for three million peopl

i would now yield to senator grassley. back again for senator grassley.during this committee's markup of the immigration reform bill, i am going to invoke the themes of the president outlined that day that he pledged to the american people that transparency and the rule of law will be touchstones of his presidency. atlanta as many questions throughout this process. i want to help the american people understand what is in this 860 page bill. i want to discuss the details and understand the thinking of the authors with regard to many provisions. i want to know how the bill does not repeat mistakes that we have made in the past. now want to know how will benefit generations for years to come, and i want to know how the bill preserves the rule of law. since we only do comprehensive immigration reform about once every 25 years or at least successfully sell, we have to get it right. as the authors of 744 hope, a bill must insure that the reform is successful so that we don't have to revisit this issue again . the bill before us has some of the same concepts of

let's bring in senator chuck grassley, republican from iowa.or. how about you? >> yeah, hypocritical. i raise these same questions with secretary treasurely lew before the finance committee. i'm not a member where they are going to go, but i asked the commerce committee to look into this for the reasons we looked at lew, mostly for the fact that if it's good for the goose, good for the gander, and seems to me the questions have to be raised. >> a lot of the viewers are truly exaser rated that it's okay if you're a democrat to have money stashed overseas and to have a great deal of money that you maybe inherit. that's okay if you're a democrat, but it's not okay if you're a republican, and you made the money yourself. somehow or other, there's a situation where we demonize people who have made money for america. >> yeah, yeah, well, first of all, we ought to be thankful that there's people that are investing, creating jobs because it takes two things to be productive in america, takes capital and it takes labor, and we ought to honor both capita

senator grassley. in ae trigger is important few ways. you want to make sure that before people flow in the transition to a permanent legal status that we, on our side, have tried to secure the border as much as possible because the big trade-off here is the practical solution to 11 million, a return to border security, employer verification, and a new system, this is the big trade-off. i know exactly what senator cornyn is trying to achieve here, a trigger that is a more objectively defined as 90% operation control, and we had a big debate about this among ourselves. we know where he is coming from and we're trying to make sure the trigger is such that you can substantially, completely, within reason, secure the border. the operational control the border metrics verses substantial completion of the plan, i think there's a difference. we had a debate about it. what got me feeling comfortable about the border security plan is that we are able to get the flexibility we never had before. defense idea does not make sense everywhere, so that's

ranking member grassley and members of the committee. thank you for the invitation to testify today on agriculture, on america's agriculture's need for immigration reform. as noted in your introduction, i'm chuck conner, president and ceo of the national council of farmer co-ops. but i'm also here as one. founding members of the agriculture workforce coalition or awc. the awc brings together nearly 70 agricultural organizations that represents the diverse needs of agricultural employers across the country. the awc came together because increasingly finding enough workers to pick crops and care for animals has become the number one priority for many of our members across the country in all regions of the country. i dare say for many producers this immigration legislation and this debate before us is more important to the survival of their operations than any other legislation pending before congress. we have all seen reports of crops left to rot in the fields because growers lack sufficient workers to bring in the harvest. it is estimated

this is chuck grassley. chuck grassley was the leader today with amendments. you can tell who's trying to kill the bill by how many amendments they add. chuck grassley was the leader with 77, jeff sessions in second getting silver with 49. it would postpone asylum claims and refugee status until a hearing on the boston bombings is submitted. there was also ted cruz who tried to blow up the cornerstone of the bill, which is a path to citizenship. that, i don't think was voted on today. we also have senator mike lee. i'd love to get your reaction to this. to exclude certain employment of domestic services to pro-hib is of unlawful employment on unauthorized aliens, saying we should have a black labor market in the following. domestic services performed by cooks, waiters, housekeepers, governesses, maids, valets, furnace men, caretakers, gardeners, footmen, grooms and chauffeurs of automobiles for family use. this was an actual amendment proposed to the bill to create a black market in labor for those named professions of services. what does that say to you that

grassley is they are good people. to ivory much.applause] -- thank you very much. , was in new york the other day driving down the road, and i came up to the federal reserve. this is an easy crowd. all right. are everywhere. the road is blocked and we are sitting there for hours. they said the federal reserve has been robbed. we said, really? and they said, yeah, they caught the thieves. they were perplexed. they did not know what to do with -$16 trillion. [applause] i know you have heard some bad things about open, care. your government just want to take care of you. they don't think you are smart enough to make these decisions. i am a physician. when you come in to see me, i put down a little diagnostic code. there was 18,000 of these. but under obama care, they're going to keep you healthier because now there will be 140,000 codes. including among this -- these codes will be 300 codes for injuries from animals. for injuries just from birds. nine new codes for injuries from the macaw. the macaw? all overd physicians the country --

this is chuck grassley.e was the leader today with amendments and you can tell who's trying to kill the bill by how many amendments they had. chuck grassley was the leader with 77. jeff sessions in second. getting the silver with 49. chuck grassley my favorite amendment, it would prohibit amendments until the hearing on the boston bombings was admitted. we also have mike lee, senator, and i'd love your reaction. to exclude employment of d mostic services from the prohibitions of employment of unauthorized aliens. saying we should have a black labor market in the following domestic service, services performed by cooks, butlers, waiters, butlers, maids valets, baby-sitters, caretakers, handymen, chauffeurs of automobile for family use. this was an amy that was proposed to the bill to create a black market in labor for those named professions or services. what does that say that this was considered by the committee? >> there's a lot of amendments, as you pointed out. i think what is happening is people are filt

but grassley said the triggers are too weak.wanted the government to demonstrate effective control of the border for six months, before considering anyone for legal status. texas republican john cornyn joined in. >> this is really a confidence- building measure, border security if it does not work as advertised, we would have failed in our responsibility, we will not have solved the problem. >> woodruff: opponents of that amendment said in reality, such strict additions to the measure would mean denying citizenship indefinitely. in the end, republicans lindsey graham of south carolina and jeff flake of arizona, both members of the gang of eight, voted with majority democrats to defeat the amendment, 12 to six. democrats did accept other changes. one calls for 90% of would-be border jumpers to be stopped along the entire mexican border, not just in high risk sectors. but bill supporters said some of the amendments clearly amount to poison pills, including a proposal allowing members of same-sex couples to sponsor foreign spouses

the top republican there is senator chuck grassley who didn't so much deride comey for his integrity be some concerns about comey's past history where he served as general counsel on a connecticut hedge fund. grassley said among other things it raised questions about his willingness, to get it right, build the case against some of his past colleagues, grassley said the president's handling of wall street in terms of criminal prosecutions has been abysmal to this point. so that is one of the things you'll likely hear if it is to be comey during the confirmation process. certainly none of the same language we heard when another former republican, chuck hagel, went through this confirmation process to become the head of the pentagon. >> peter alexander reporting from the white house this morning. peter, thank you, sir. appreciate it. >>> well, the first lady lets it fly with a new fund-raising motto and some hoopster lingo. after being introduced by newly out nba basketball star jason collins at a lbgt gala in new york city last night, michelle obama showed her love for the player and t

grassley goes on to say the agency needs to fix thisp♪ñ now.nistrative leave with pay that's my dream job. can you sit around and still get paid for doing nothing. i don't think that's going to fly obviously with the hill. look, you can't forget this is a bipartisan problem on the hill there are a lot of democrats upset about it too. she is, i think, going to to have to be sacrificed. it was very creative to go up there to the hill and say i didn't do anything wrong but say i'm not going to testify. i wonder if you can get away with that too. i guess we will find out. darrell issa said he wants to bring her back in view of that. seems strange on the one hand assert you did nothing wrong but say you won't answer any questions about it. >> bret: the question will be how fruitful that will be on the second go around. scandal on benghazi. a lot of people in this town talking like it's slowing down instead it's increasing this investigation. >> yes, it's expanding. darrell issa sent a letter to john kerry as you reported earlier on may 17th asking f

she is still on the payroll according to senator charles grassley she is refuse to go step down. grassley rights my understanding as acting irs commissioner asked for lerner's resignation and she refuse to do resign. she was put on administrative leave instead. some law americas say she shouldn't be getting any compensation at all. >> i would have suspended her without pay. we have to watch closely because what they tend to do is they transfer people around and change their titles. >> as you said she is still getting paid. lerner made a substantial living at the irs. according to data obtained from freedom of information act she earned more than 740,000 dollars over a 4 year period. lawmakers try her and exactly with a if any role she had after making the statement she took the 5th and testified before a house hearing giving no new information. both sides of the aisle say they are displeased. some say it's not really worth bringing her back. >> elizabeth prann sounds like a good deal you get paid to sit around and do nothing. >>> 37 minutes after the hour. coming up just when you

the bad senator chuck grassley during a monday senate debate on immigration reform the senior u.s. senator from iowa needed a little help from his colleagues to understand racial profiling after illinois senator dick durbin blasted grassley for posing an amendment that would allow federal officers to quote take into account an individual's country of origin and quote during immigration proceedings yeah i was senator responded by asking what this country of origin have to do with profiling. really senator grassley your thirty two year veteran of the senate and you don't know the answer to that question dick durbin eventually explain the connection to his colleagues but to his colleague but all in all this was just an embarrassing and frankly rather disturbing moment from the sun. and the very very ugly lez in solving in yesterday's world net daily the conservative pundit compared homosexuality to beastie ality in a comment titled went out an additional b n l g b t he wrote if lesbians male homosexuals bisexuals and transsexuals should have the right to marriage licenses as a few sta

there's back-and-forth with senator grassley, a republican from iowa.nd a member of the gang of eight on immigration reform, senator flake of arizona. [video clip] senator, i am amazed at the progress that is being made. just the california border alone, it is amazing to see how it has been toughened. that extends all along the way. i think the beauty of what has happened is not necessarily that it's all relies on the fence. it lies on backup, automated facilities, cameras, aerial surveillance. i don't think we are ever going to have a perfect situation as long as people can tunnel underground can swim rivers. but i hate to see the bill delayed when all this progress has been made already. >> could i react? first of all, i don't question the chairman -- or the senator from california's sincerity. and i hope what she says is accurate, but it seems to me that your argument makes it all the more easy just to have the bill say so. >> senator flake? lot ofally appreciate a these amendments put forward and i know the ranking minority member just want to make

don't feel bad for grassley. he still that 76 other amendments in the pipe lynn. patrick lay hey of vermont would extend the bill to include same sex couples. that's drawn all sorts of outrage from the right and today even democratic senator chuck schumer refused to commit to reporting it. he said: >> religious leaders from the southern baptist convention, national association of evangelicals said they might be forced to pull their support. senator michael rubio another member of the gang of eight said if the same sex bill passes, it will doom the entire bill. the conservative national review called national immigration reform rubio's follow folly. the american conservative union issued a statement saying: between that and the senate agreeing to get rid of the typos in the bill, i'd say we're seeing real progress. way to go, senators. joaning me now is michael tomasky, coming to us from washington d.c. thanks for being with us. >> thank you michael. hi. >> your latest column about marco rubio will he be able to withstand criticism from the right on this? >> it's a

grassley, his thing was let's shut down the border for six months, let's enforce it. six months then we can proceed to consider all theser issues. that was also shot down. if you can't say you will enforce the border for six months, we're supposed to think that over the next 10 years you're going to do it? oh, come on. that tells you all you need to know about the credibility thus far on the border enforcement aspect of this. >> bill: laura i ingraham. charles krauthammer on deck: moments away. >> bill: back of the book segment tonight. as we discussed in the talking points memo, the benghazi issue libya story is very important because there may be misconduct by the federal government at a high level. however, democrats, they don't want to know about it and joining us now from washington fox news political analyst charles krauthammer. you know, i'm trying to be fair on this. i'm trying to be fair on this story. i don't want to be perceived as somebody who is trying to get hillary clinton or get president obama. but the thing that really, really annoyed me was hicks wh

senator grassley has introduced a bill to reduce the number of judges on that court from 11 to 8.'s reversal. it's stunning. yet he says he's court packing. >> john: is this a case of our republican friends playing smart politics. it's not court packing but it is igniting the base. >> and chuck grassley said let's take a look at the work load. do we really need those three other judges? yes, it is smart and you want to slow it down. the republican strategists want to throw everything down. they don't want to have three nominees at once. and this court, they struck down and they burned obama. >> john: they do like slowing everything down as a strategy for your party. >> i do in this case. >> john: and leadership. >> it is in this case. how do you know they need all these judges. they're doing a bang-up judge. >> wow. >> john: you know, you better hope the democrats don't get a mojo for filibusters. if this happens can we see filibuster reform come from this? >> i doubt it because of harry reid. because there is just no--if you're going to do it, the momentum to do it is over. that'

grassley and hatch and cornyn and others.t of people don't feel that he has been straightforward with us. this is the first time that identifying one of core problems with this nomination. mr. perez is telling one story under oath but documentary evidence is telling another story about this st. paul deal. >> paul: do you think you should be confirmed? >> absolutely not. >> paul: do you think he will be confirmed? >> i am not making those predictions. [ laughter ] >> paul: one more break, our hits and misses of the week. ou? ♪ now you can give yourself a kick in the rear! v8 v-fusion plus energy. natural energy from green tea plus fruits and veggies. need a little kick? ooh! could've had a v8. in the juice aisle. ♪ right. but the most important feature of all is... the capital one purchase eraser. i can redeem the double miles i earned with my venture card to erase recent travel purchases. d with a few clicks, this mission never happened. uh, what's this button do? [ electricity zaps ] ♪ you requested backup? yes. yes i did. w

if i'm a senator i would say senator grassley, how many fingers am i holding up.he said five then i would say i'm glad you can actually count. this makes no sense whatsoever. i wrote about this, it ticked me off. this was a president i think is weak. i think he has played footsy far too long with republicans when it came to his nominations because you should not have somebody who is sitting here waiting 500 days to be confirmed. then we have this cute little game, well i'm going to allow the home state senators to recommend somebody. well you got some senators who have gone more than a thousand days without recommending anybody. here's what the president should do. sent a letter and say you have until the end of the month to send me a recommendation for this court or i'm going to pick somebody instead. and so he has to make this a major issue. on the republican president they always made judicial nominees a major issue. i'm sorry you've been president for one term. this is your second term you should be playing hard ball and you should tell senator harry reid look

grassley, his thing was let's shut down the border for six months, let's enforce it.fter six months then we can proceed to consider all theser issues. that was also shot down. if you can't say you will enforce the border for six months, we're supposed to think that over the next 10 years you're going to do it? oh, come on. that tells you all you need to know about the credibility thus far on the border enforcement aspect of this. >> bill: laura i ingraham. charles krauthammer on deck: moments away. with the new staples rewards program you get 5% back, on everything. everything. everything. everything. everything? [ all ] everything? everything. male announcer ] get free shipping and 5% back on everything your business needs. that was easy. male announcer ] get free shipping and 5% back are you still sleeping? just wanted to check and make sure that we were on schedule. the first technology of its kind... mom and dad, i have great news. is now providing answers families need. siemens. answers. >> bill: backk of the book segment tonight. as we discussed in the talking p

too much hollywood glitz, not enough exciting political figures like max baucus or chuck grassley. [laughter] think, to a certain extent, the criticism of the dinner has become as annoying as the dinner itself. it is one night a year. this is not a town that is saturated in glamour, shall we say. i can live with it. >> sarah palin call did a nerd prom. >> i guess maybe it is, but there sure are a lot of people at it. i decided to go because i had not been there for years. it was a mob scene. if he did not station yourself at the entrance to see the glamorous people, you did not see the glamorous people. >> how about the president's performance? >> i thought the president did well. >> he did better than well. >> i'm sorry, i guess he did better than well. i will return to my own observations now. i did that realized. i thought he did well. i will leave the opinion to the other experts. ownou are entitled to your opinion. >> what should i say, nina? >> they were complaining because did attend. who cares? -- did not attend. what difference does it make? the president was really funny.

grassley, his thing was let's shut down the border for six months, let's enforce it.onsider all theser issues. that was also shot down. if you can't say you will enforce the border for six months, we're supposed to think that over the next 10 years you're going to do it? oh, come on. that tells you all you need to know about the credibility thus far on the border enforcement aspect of this. >> bill: laura i ingraham. charles krauthammer on deck: moments away. ...so you say men are superior drivers? yeah? then how'd i get this... [ voice of dennis ] ...safe driving bonus check? every six months without an accident, allstate sends a check. silence. are you in good hands? red hot deal days are back. don't waste another minute. it's red hot deal days. get the droid razr m by motorola in white for free. everything droid does in a compact design. or the droid razr hd by motorola in white, with google voice search that understands you the first time. just $49.99. hurry in, sale ends may 12th. powerful devices. powerful network. verizon. >> bill: back of the book segment toni

here's what he said campaigning in iowa. >> i'm also with senator grassley and congressman king on thee were hoodwinked in '86 and promised security and it never came if they come towards me and they will make more security, there's a chance i could vote for the bill. am i worried a little bit about it? yes. i'm worried i might offend some people. i'm worried whether it works or not. if it doesn't work, the people who vote for it will catch blame for it. >> do you feel like the border security questions that rand paul has are going to be answered enough to get his vote? i hope so, he was very clear when he spoke to the u.s. hispanic chamber of commerce, about the need to finally address this issue and to achieve comprehensive immigration reform. when he spoke to a largely hispanic audience, he certainly seemed to lean in and i know that the border security issues are important to him and to a lot of us. we also recognize that a lot has been invested. $18 billion last year alone. more than all federal enforcement agencies combined. i think there will be some recognition to that. and in

you need to look at people, bellweatherwise like senator grassley, who critical, but open.d paul, who i think would have a lot of sway with the grass roots. if senator schumer could appeal to them and peel them off i think you could get a large majority in the senate and put speaker boehner on the spot whether he can move forward with a bill and pass something. >> woodruff: you have this real interesting division among republicans. how does that affect what happens? >> in fairness, it's not just republicans. pat leahy, president pro tem of the senate, from vermont, senior member of that body, has an amendment, and that amendment is that a gay person in this country, citizen, can bring to this country a partner from a foreign country just like a husband or wife is eligible to under existing law. that is not something it appeals to democrats in the sense of antidiscrimination and equity and justice. but it's probably a game wrecker for the republicans. >> woodruff: if it passes. >> it's hard for me to believe that marco rubio could support legislation that included that. so i

the caucus has got the phrase "pulling a grassley" from enator grassley.ve candidates now that attempt to duplicate what our senator does by going to the 99 counties in iowa within a year and that's something senator grassley has done for a very long time and that's wart of what has given him that reputation as someone who works for iowa. i have been thrilled to be chairman of the party with senator grassley as my senator. i can't tell you how much i've appreciated, from the time i got elected chairman to today and going forward, how eager and happy he is to help anytime the republican party of iowa has asked and i don't think he gets thanked enough. so please join me in giving him applause for that. [applause] please join me in welcoming republican party of iowa finance chairman and united states senator charles grassley. [applause] >> thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you. well, thank you very much. i appreciate the opportunity of eing where enthusiasm is demonstrated in a quantity fible way by