i want to bring in washington bureau chief john stanton. question to you is how much does boehner's sort of what i call jack in the box maneuver yesterday, how much does that hurt him within his own caucus? do you think that sort of gets brushed aside, or will there be a chill in the air? >> i think by and large most of them have seen this from him before. this is not a new thing for them. he sort of mocks them to their faces about this issue. so i don't think for a lot of his members this is going to have much of an impact on them. >> let me ask you about the the the future of john boehner's spe speakership. we know they are talking about the exper ration of his time holding the gavel. >> i think there's a chance. either there's the possibility h will get reelected and then get immigration through. but i think the fact he's not willing to sort of pull the trigger on the senate bill and bring it to the floor, or something to the floor on immigration is an indication he doesn't know yet whether or not he wants to stay in as speaker. so long

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joining us now is john stanton. he's washington bureau chief for buzz feed. to be here. >> tough on crime politics and war on drugs politics were so front page in the '80s and in the '90s. a lot of people thought that bill clinton might dial it back. he did no such thing. how did those -- did those politics survive into this generation of republican members of congress? >> for some of them, yes. i think some of the folks that are either older, just sort of age wise, or who fashion themselves after that sort of 1980s reagan-era kind of republican, they have sort of brought that along. i think most of the younger republicans and newer republicans in the house and the senate see this as a problem. you know, there are some that would say, well, that also coincided with the fact that there are now a lot of white people who are getting put in jail because of crystal meth or because of oxycontin and things like that. but there are some of these social factors that are causing this. but nevertheless, i think the parties are starting to come together on this notion tha

mary price, a counselor, and john stanton, buzz feed.com.esent sort of what i see as a fascinating and significant change in our politics. you're a conservative at the heritage foundation. and you're looking at the sentencing laws and saying, yeah, this is -- let's reform them. three strikes and you're out era might have been painting with too big of brush there. >> i was a former prosecutor in the justice department. drugs with bad. it's just really a question about whether they should be punished, but when it comes to mandatory sentences. it is my believe that the pendulum has swung too far. the bureau is 25% of the department's budget. it's projected to go to 30% in a couple years. federal prisons are 38% over capacity projected to go to 44% over capacity. that means less money for victim services. i think it's safe to say given tight budgetary times, we're not going to go on a building tour, so each one of the prison cells is valuable real estate. while i don't condone drug dealing, we have too many low level drug dealers. drug dealers a

joining us now at the table is our favorite tattooed politics wonk, john stanton, washington bureau chief at buzz feed. great to have you with us at the table. under any other circumstance, it seems like this trip would have a lot more attention but because of the crisis in ukraine and because there's just this general fatigue we all have with foreign policy this trip was not getting the attention and the excitement that it probably deseshz. you have folks in asia keep saying we get screwed, trips are cancel canceled. something seems to overshadow us. >> i think you're right although this trip i think is really aimed at the asian nations. i think for this administration they have not focused that much on asia and japan has been feeling very isolated but that's partially because their economy has been in decline and they've lost their position globally. our allies don't like we've paid attention to china. here domestically this is not aimed at us. this is vep for the governments and the populations in these countries where we have very longstanding ties and a lot of bruised feelings over t