we're privileged to be joined by joe crowly who served as the vice chair of the democratic caucus and the house ways and means who has worked hard. congressman, thank you forgoing thank you for joining us. how confident are you about this this. >> i'm confident that it will happen. it has to happen. i said 11 years ago just before 9/11 that cicente fox was here, and anything could happen. it's not over until it's over. it's not done until it's done. but i do think that using immigration as the third rail of politics is over. my colleagues on the republican side using motions to--when they were the minority, using other means to use immigration as a third rail those days are over. >> john: because the g.o.p. has lost so many elections by alien alienating latino americans? >> i think they've lost the national elections because i think in part because that have. just because they're wrong on a lot of policies but especially as it pertains to immigration. when you look at the numbers 70% plus latinos 80% plus of asian americans voted for president obama. many would argue against the repub